Yahoo Autos Porsche 911 GT3 Does A Mustang Impression
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A Porsche 911 GT3 is truly a wondrous street-legal track toy, but it’s no car for an amateur driver. That’s made plain in this footage of one crashing most gloriously at a track event, doing its best impression of a Ford Mustang, as the horrified crowd looks on.
Porsche 911 Turbo crashes while going almost 200 mph.
In the footage, which we’ve included, you see the GT3 lined up on the side of the circuit, which is wet, we assume from it raining not too long before. You can certainly race in the rain, but it requires altering your driving style, something rookies struggle to do.
On top of that, the GT3 is a wild beast. Even your average driver would struggle to keep a 911 Carrera reigned in when the revs climb, but this guy is wrangling something that’s obviously far beyond his capabilities.
And no, being able to afford the car isn’t the same as being competent with it.
Before the Porsche takes off, you can hear the driver revving that flat-six as it bounces off the limiter over and over. Everyone can have their opinion on that, but it seems to be an indication of his mentality and training.
Sure enough, once he’s given the signal to go, you can see and hear the tires are slipping like crazy on the wet track. But the driver just keeps laying on the throttle until the car pulls left. Then you hear the engine go almost silent, likely as the driver panics.
In a sick twist, the front end of the pricey racer smacks into a wall, crumpling it. The impact is so hard it spins the car 360 degrees. And just like that, the driver has incurred tens of thousands in repairs, if not more.
Pushing the envelope in your car, whether on the track or a public street, can make things go wrong in a hurry. If you lack training you don’t know how far to push or what to do when you lose control of the vehicle. This guy certainly had no idea.
People are claiming the event is in Costa Rica, which we can’t confirm or deny. It’s definitely in a country where Spanish is the spoken language, that’s for sure.
Images via iCarlos_/TikTok
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