TT RS driver pulls handbrake when brakes fail

Rroff · 25 Sep 2010 at 18:10

Leeum said:
Feel bad for the driver, but that could have been a whole lot worse.

You don't really plan to loose brakes like that - he probably panicked, can't blame him to be fair.

Opposite lock and handbrake aren't really the actions of someone panicing.

mjt · 25 Sep 2010 at 18:51

Berger said:
Should have just wall ridden the barrier at 100mph Gran Turismo style and come out of it with no damage and infront of the other cars at the other end of the corner!

Haha!

Infam0us · 25 Sep 2010 at 20:39

Is there a risk of the car rolling putting it into a sideways spin at those speeds? I genuinely want to know

Rroff · 25 Sep 2010 at 20:40

If you do it wrong or get unlucky yes, touching off any of the stuff sticking out of the ground like the tires could have potentially flipped it too.

Biggest risk of rolling tho would have been if he attempted the corner.

degen · 25 Sep 2010 at 20:47

After watching the video now it's been reposted then re-reading back over the 'I would have' comments I can't help but laugh, a lot.

Will Gill · 27 Sep 2010 at 12:07

'I would have' bought a better a car for the money

thepharcyde · 27 Sep 2010 at 13:07

Owners perspective

Posted: 3 minutes ago
Hi
I was the driver of the TT RS crash Brake failure and was asked to tell you about my brakes.
The brakes are the original brakes with Bagit Brake Pads (Ceramic) and Steeflex Brake Houses as well as Racing Brake Fluid and the Disks are also modified - sorry the expressions I'm using may not be correct but my mother tongue is german.

The problem was that I hat a mate (approx. 100 kilogramms heavy) in my car and so the breakes get much faster exhausted. There was absolutely no warning at any curve before that the brake gets weak!! Thats fact!!

I pulled the handbrake because I knew and it was after crash again confirmed by the manager of the race track, that the gravel only slows me down 50 km/h and so I would have crased into the tirewall (with steel poles inside) with approx. 170 km/h and the car would be completely damaged.

After my crash I could drive back to the pit and the damage costs approx. £ 6'000.-- because only the "plastic parts" and the left headlight was damaged. I don't know how that happened, but both ends of the exhaust were completely filled with dirt and grass.

I was really lucky not to turn over on the roof. In the futury, I will never take a mate on the track for fast laps again because I could't live with any on else beeing disabled because of me.

I removed this clip from my Youtube channel because I was tired to read all the "super smart" comments like ******* etc.

Matt82 · 27 Sep 2010 at 13:23

hmmmmm can you see a 100kg passenger having a massive effect on a car that most likely weighs in the region of 1600kg.

and then for it to go from ok to nothing, absolute zero response. quite scary really

thepharcyde · 27 Sep 2010 at 13:29

I love the fact that the driver is wearing a crash helmet and the passenger is not! I thought they would be compulsary?

Django x2 · 27 Sep 2010 at 15:29

degen said:
After watching the video now it's been reposted then re-reading back over the 'I would have' comments I can't help but laugh, a lot.

That's because those people are thick.

I have only been reading the comments from people who have said. "I would have...." as that is the correct grammar for such a sentence

Will Gill · 27 Sep 2010 at 16:03

I would have bought a better car for the money

degen · 27 Sep 2010 at 18:39

Lucero said:
I have only been reading the comments from people who have said. "I would have...." as that is the correct grammar for such a sentence

Realised after I posted just couldn't be bothered to edit it because quite frankly I don't really care