Tony Posted September 22, 2013 Report Share Posted September 22, 2013 Classic understeer due to excess speed and polar moment of inertia permitting the tyres grip limit to saturate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyelcomb Posted September 22, 2013 Report Share Posted September 22, 2013 That was an impressive crash, but surely it wasn't classic understeer - the driver braked too hard, locked the front wheels and never came off the brakes. The tyres never had a chance to actually demonstrate if they had grip or not. My interpretation of understeer would have been if we had seen the front wheels turn right, the car then continued straight on having way exceeded the tyre slip angle due to excess speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phipck Posted September 22, 2013 Report Share Posted September 22, 2013 I was thinking the same, if the driver had have been more moderate with braking, would it be possible that he would have made the corner, or at least had a much lesser bump? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted September 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2013 I did say it was doing in to fast. It would have had a better result if he came off the brakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parthiban Posted September 23, 2013 Report Share Posted September 23, 2013 Yep that was more of a classic brake lockup than understeer but what was he doing? It didn't look like he braked until he had passed the bit of road I assume he was meaning to go down and then realised "oh c*ap I'm heading towards a barrier"! Perhaps an argument with his co-driver about which way to go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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