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Driven RA many times. Competition cars and road cars do not mix. Dangerous and distracting. Ended this practice some years ago with Jzilla.

That was a nice ceramic job on the paint .. too bad it got ruined by the shunt

It's worrying that you think "cause unknown" as it's pretty clear that not only do you enter incorrectly worse you lift and while not super abruptly doing that put all the weight on the front, giving it grip and as you were turned to the right a bit the front end gripped and bingo. you go right. Very obvious after that.

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Trailing throttle oversteer.

You say you don’t know the reason for the crash, but according to the video and especially the sound, it looks like a classic lift off oversteer crash.

Almost looked like a toe link gave up. Very strange, hope the cars back in one piece now.

I've never raced a car in my life and I know why you wrecked. Stick to iRacing maybe.

Ouch! Was at the Petit Le Mans there a couple of weeks ago and won 2 hot laps in a Skip Barber School Gazoo Toyota Supra piloted by the day’s Pace car driver. What a cool outfit that is. Best birthday present (73) ever. I don’t think I would ever get those laps right with such a variety of undulations and corners in my Cayman S. Thanks for posting…I hope your beautiful car is up and running by now and you’ll have another go. D🇬🇧

100% rear toe link failure. Car was cruising, absolutely no way it would let go grip wise. I've pushed mine to the edge and over - it's very predictable.

It looks like you tried to correct a slight loss in traction by letting off the throttle and overcorrected inducing an off throttle oversteer. At least you didn't hit the concrete barrier like that S2000 did

This was a really great lap. Thank you for sharing. Are you in the same gear at the Esses on both laps? It's hard for me to know but seems like early in the downhill as you're moving right and accelerating, things are starting to escalate. Thanks again and well done :)

What you’re looking for is 3 seconds from the end of video…..

Drives like my Grandmother an crash!

Look as if he blew a rear tire.

What a bizarre crash... weird.

"cause of crash unknown", while way off the apex and suddenly lifting mid corner.

Whoa …tough break 😩 That was a nice pass earlier on that Cayman though.!!! 👍🏽

Thats crazy its like someone just kicked the rear end out from behind you.

What spring rates on the car? Seems very stiff and unforgiving

Lift oversteer. Not much else happening other than not commiting down the hill. Hope you and the car are alright mate. @eric have you tried a step looser rear swaybar if the car like to slide put on faster sweepers.

You may never respond as this video is 5 years old but you say this is your first crash in your 14 years of tracking your lotus, as someone who doesn’t do any track driving as in california its not easy to just go track a car, how do you avoid crashing for that long? Track experience? Not pushing the limits? I moved to texas and there are plenty more tracks here but Im worried about crashing since I have 0 track experience, I have driven my car past 100+ mph and driven down plenty of back roads at speeds my parents would scoff at but still in the back of my head Im too concerned about crashing, maybe a dumb fear but I don’t have loads of money so a crash would hurt my wallet :-( I feel like im more conservative on a real road where if they let me lose on a track I feel I would be mor likely to push the limits since there is no fear of cops and obviously no other people on the road (as in oncoming traffic).

where are you lookin mate...

Man that’s rough. Might have been better to keep on the throttle and just eat the next curb? Going wide as you’re entering the esses is just a recipe for disaster. I had a similar issue coming out of the esses going into turn 5 a couple of years ago. Came out of the esses wide, going into turn 5 at a bad, shallow angle. I was able to straighten up the steering wheel to even out the left/right load on the tires and back off the throttle early enough to miss the inside curbing. My run to turn 6 was ruined, of course, but no harm to the car.

Forza 3 got this place spot on!!😊❤️👍

How muh did the repair cost?

I think you tried to keep pace with the prototype and found yourself going through the esses much faster than you normally do. Not taking the proper line also helped, but I think the big culprit was running in the same group as much faster cars. You didn’t have any difficulty when you were driving slower. It offends me how many people crash at certain “HPDE” events. You should never spin, much less crash.

Why is everyone passing on the right? I thought you can only pass on the left during track days.

2 minute video for a 2 second crash

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Honestly, it looks like there was a mechanical failure of some sort. Maybe the left rear end link? The car looked fine, and you weren't really too far off line to where it would have mattered, and you didn't get off the throttle until the car was already gone. But right before it did fully let go, there was an unaccounted for bobble which looked like the rear was suddenly letting go. I didn't see a visual cue or hear anything you did wrong. It just bobbled and then looped. Did you ever figure out if anything mechanical happened?

it was probably the wake left by the racecar in front of you which destabilized your car. your car is light and the line you took would have been driving straight through a lot of air turbulence created by the car on front. something was just off enough to send you out of control

What kind of car is that baby blue car?

You owe me 2 minutes. Was more of a bump.

The track goes off camber there. You were wide and then wider, goodbye...

Damn MR setups must be a real hassle to drive. We all make mistakes and that’s okay! Hope you’re back to racing :)

Damn, hope ur wallet is alright

I blame the 44 tesla

Not quite as simple as lift off oversteer, the track drops away there which unweights the car which the driver can feel, in response he lifts off slightly which induces oversteer and that's it. If there was no lift off the car would probably have continued on it's way. As a foreigner I love that circuit from a distance, fast and multi challenging.

Great video . We're all so sorry that happened.

Was a nice lotus … definitely not his track car .. got excited when he saw that awesome proto type fly by :(

You can tell that this car was well cared for. The finish is glossy and has depth. This wasn't just a track car. It was/is a prize.🍻

Geez I can't tell what caused it (the loss of rear traction), unless the car is really twitchy or the traction on that part of the track was bad maybe. Your line didn't look that bad, I figure you ought to have been able to just point the car and let off the gas a bit. Weird. Did you ever figure out what caused the loss of traction?

Snap oversteer strikes again!

There’s allot of gradual factors here, slightly pointing away from the racing line and correcting it shifted the load from left to right too quickly for the grip of the tires? That’s what I can see from this video

Turning going down hill with foot of the gas , what could possibly go wrong.

without the distraction of the steering wheel and the hands, this vid shows how subtle things get magnified so quickly, at speed. touchy touchy

I like how we sat through 2min of the video when only the last 5sec is the crash

Did a rear toe link let go ? Very common in the 111 chassis cars

At 1:36 I wasn't expecting that noise to be coming from a car like that! I was thinking what muscle car is managing to keep up with this Lotus through the bends?