Wet road and too much of the fun pedal.

 

WOW....have to say that would be attributed to terrible driving. His lift off after a good amount of rotation sealed his fate. Not sure how active esp or traction control is on the new cars, but I did not see or hear any indications of TC kicking in. Could be turned off?

 

I was shocked at the relative low speed control was lost. Looks like maybe about 40MPH.

 

Cold Cup 2 tires in the wet probably contributed to lack of traction.

 

That looks like the classic move of disabling traction/stability control, flooring it, losing grip, and instead of being gentle on throttle and counter-steering, lifting. The lift transfers weight forward and back and comes around, since the heavy ends want to be in front. Even if they saved it, though, they could have sideswiped an adjacent car because a counter-steer to catch a slide costs some lateral movement.

 

More money than brains.

 

A couple of things:

• Wet/cold + Cup 2's
• Undulation in the road caused the car to hop/skip ever so slightly. Stiffer suspension+short wheelbase in above conditions with those tires.
• Too much throttle for both conditions and equipment above

Granted, car could have been saved with quick corrective inputs afterwards, it was too late after the lift off.

 

I can tell you for sure this was in China. I here right now and recognize the streets and buildings. Many of the drivers here have very little or no experience driving rear drive cars

 

I can tell you for sure this was in China

And the "Lotus NYO" on the rear gives it away.

 

Jeez that is scary. Looks wet but maybe the tires were below zero and traction control off.

 

The guy definitely didn't react fast enough, but that looked like a combo of wet roads and oil on the road to me.

 

I would not have posted the pre-crash part of the video. Too embarrassing.

 

TALENT

 

Let me guess, an "influencer" that doesn't know how to drive and figures they will make more from the "views" than the price of the car?

 

moral of the story is don't drive an automatic

 

CUP2+0skill=Mo RON
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