@@spicymiataguy9115 no he wasn't, it was only shown because of Schumacher's Ferrari FXX which only he owns. He was revealed as stig because of his car.
Every single one of his cars is ready to drive at all times (from what I've heard. Obviously something being worked on isn't, but he drives his cars instead of keeping them as pretty garage queens)
@@ihavewaited90daystochangem51 If you watch some of his interviews, he said he loves comedy and being a comedian, but that his first passion is cars, and making big bucks being an entertainer is what he wanted just so he could collect cars
i love hearing him saying "hit the brakes, seen the wall got off the brakes, no wall hit the brakes, seen the wall got off the brakes" such a simple explanation of what not many people realize is the right way to handle something
Joel Hollingsworth if you are on the breaks the car won’t turn as sharp so in order to steer to avoid the wall as much as possible he would get off the brakes if it was directly in front of him
@@joelhollingsworth1926 not only that, there is a principle of a tire having only 100% grip to be divided between acceleration braking and lateral forces. Single seaters drivers in particular f1 focus on straight line braking , releasing the brake then turning in if you try to turn with the brakes locked all you will do is go straight on, with your steering wheel cranked over. You are correct with the idea of breaking the symmetry of the spin to avoid the wall, but this technique allowed the breaking and turning moments to be more effective in their own right. I first learned this from the pages of the Grand Turismo 3 Ps2 Manual, Colin Mcrae did a write up explaining the 100% concept. It stuck hard when i read it as it was such a brilliantly simple but through explanation.
I’ll tell you what , Jay Leno had bawls of steel to be looking so cool stepping out of that car after a high speed over steer spin like that, he was hauling ass !
@@heeltoeautomotive4962 technically incorrect but correct in the same sense. It's possible for a car to understeer then, grip up really hard causing it to oversteer in the opposite direction (picture tank slappers or high siding a motorcycle) but as you said the spin out is technically caused from oversteer
Shay Butta Am I the only one didn't get the memo? Jay is the God of car community? You gotta understand that a lot of people have negative opinion on Jay.
Indeed now watching presenting his own Carrera GT he mentioned about this incident saying that in the car he got scared pretty hard but he did manage to control himself to react trying to save the car from a horrible crash against the wall but reacting in a slower way that's why the car was spinning 5 times before fully stopping looking like it was on ice only thing he damaged to that car were all the tires rubber on all 4 wheels that because he was speeding over 180 mph and coming from the curve-bank he fully lift his foot from the throttle that make the rear wheels accelerating faster and car spinning but he visualize in the spinning a safe path and he try to react to recover as much as he could (he also say that if track was wet or rain previously he would definitely crash the car would spin faster wheels could lock out and the car could aquaplane).. anyway in the end when he was laughing in the paddocks but in the car he did was having his pants fill with farts & poo until the car fully stop spinning, remember the car was still a prototype in testing faze not released to dealers for sales yet so yeah pretty expensive cars and the Porsche guys were al most hart attack when they saw him spinning in that curve at such high speed but they calm down quickly seeing Leno coming back safely he mentioned he could hear some saying.. 'dear Lord almighty that was so close'..
@@habodude0530 Jay is not a racing driver. He has no licensed experience in any Race Organisation. Being a skilled driver and car enthusiast does NOT make you successful on the track in a race car, period.
@@habodude0530 Oh okay. Hey man thanks for the response, I have a question for I am learning more about cars. What does it take to drive this car at its top speed without crashing?
Raditya Indera those Carrera GTs don’t really have a whole lot of downforce. For a road car they do, but compared to a race car they don’t. But they do have the straight line speed of a race car. So the you’re basically traveling at 200+ with a fraction of the downforce of a race car. A Cup car probably has more downforce than a Carrera GT.
@@heeltoeautomotive4962 Now days NASCAR cars have a lot of downforce (at least talking about a NASCAR car), and a lot of less HP (-350-300HP from the 900 they had, they are around 550hp)
Heel Toe Automotive Carrera GT actually has a great amount of downforce, as its basically made out of LMP carbon tub chassis with venturi tunnels and diffusers along the whole floor. Out of Zonda F, Ferrari Enzo and Koenniggsegg CCX it was the car with the fastest time on ‘Ring and by far highest lateral G’s - based mostly of its downforce. Its downforce is actually what it makes tricky to drive at high speed, because grip tends to break in a non-progressive manner, very race car alike. Which is mostly why you dont recover the car once it initiates oversteer induced spin.
I mean, everyone kinda knew the carrera gt was a death trap once it was released. A crazy fast supercar that revs to 9000 faster than you can say 'rev', that doesn't have stability or traction control... If you didn't respect the car, or overestimated your skill, you would crash.
@@IzajResGS Thats not really true. It all depends on how the revs increase relative to the throttle and time. If a cars revs increase linear, then no matter its power its "safe", assuming you aren't stupid. The problem is when an engine "jumps", as I call it. Whilst no car can even get rid of it completely, the gt was pretty bad. If you, even at a medium pace, linearly increased the throttle the car would increase at a medium rate then suddenly jump to max revs, causing the tires to spin. This is different to just losing traction and having the engine redline
I doubt Porsche would have made a car that was known to be a "death trap". The car was developed by Walter Rohrl so it's doubtful it would have been signed off if it had any flaws. No amount of electronic doodads will save you going at that speed. Jay said it was his fault and not the car.
You know a car is dangerous when: Walter Röhrl says "The first car in my life that I drive and I feel scared" A former manager at Porsche calling it "the most dangerous car in the world" Graham Rahal (IndyCar driver also an owner of a CGT) saying it needs respect Also even Stig spinning out with it
The car is so unforgiving on the limit that Porsche and Michelin went back to develop new tyres specifically for it nearly 10 years after it first launched. There are a few options for tyres but with replacement spec the car is vastly better than what it was in terms of stability on the limit of it's abilities.
The car is dangerous because the oversteer is basically an on/off switch. You go from what probably feels like planted and gripped up- to sliding at 190mph on pavement as if it were ice.
Yes. That and this car is design for flat symmetrical tracks and roads. Plus, if look at where he wiped out 1:27, he transitioned too quick from high to low path on the track at track wall turn 1.
Traction Control the Carrera GT has... what it does not have is a set of instructions on how to drive it fast without crashing.. it is all down to the driver.
Yeah but Jay did it on the track where it belongs, not on city streets. Big difference between the Fast & Furious idiots on the street & Paul wasn't driving at the time.
The car has 600hp+ and mid engine with little computer aid. You bound to spin if your used to front engine fwd and rwd. This platform will test your left foot braking skills and weight transfer.
I don't see why you have to give a poorly designed street car the "he's just not used to it" excuse. Several people with PLENTY of experience in cars like this or better have crashed or spun it. It's a poor design, you don't have to blindly protect your beloved brand with everything it does.
Ok yeah I thought the same, wow that high rpm capable torquey lightweight car has to be just nasty. The least little "skip" of tire contact at full throttle coming down the front stretch unsettles the car at 190 and you're done.
When you buy a car from a collector that has not driven the car for five years and tires are dry rotted from the inside, it will roll over, and you will die, very unnecessary loss of life of Paul Walker.
This car is a raw driving machine that might kill you if you mess up. Most people know that before they even get in it. Good for Porsche for making it soon these types of cars will be no more and we will have self driving battery operated disposal crap.
I've rather be alive and have to drive a slow "self-driving" car than to be dead because of a high-powered supercar lost grip and crashed into the nearest object at legal speed limits. I agree that people are aware of what they're doing by getting into these sorts of cars, however that doesn't make the risk any lower in the grand scheme of things. We're talking about a aluminium can with highly potent propulsion system in it crashing into the nearest object, you are dead the second you lose focus in this car, that is not a risk MOST people would actively take.
It was confirmed a while ago by the car community that the tires were mostly to blame as they were well expired, about 6 years old if I remember. Soft rubber, especially sport tires, will dry out over time and loose a lot of their grip.
No... Not this car, anyway. He would've have been hurt, but you don't put an F1 engine in a car and not beef up the structure. This is another one of Porsche's cars that is basically a street-legal racecar. Plus, he was on a closed course doing a record attempt in a factory-supported effort with full safety crew on staff. This car is the successor to the 911 GT1. If it could go airborne & do a full 360 in the air, then crash into a wall on landing and have the driver walk away with only bumps & bruises, I'm pretty sure a Carrera GT being deliberately used for a record attempt at Talladega (home of the "Big One") would be up to track-use safety standards.
I’m so happy Jay has survived all these years being a wealthy car enthusiast. There’s more than a few of us (myself included) that probably wouldn’t have made it to his age with the addiction to horsepower and a seemingly bottomless bank account lol.
@@Crimson_Strider bro, I'm an auto (VW/AUDI) mechanic by trade, amongst others, plus a motorbike guy. Maybe I should have used the term "aged tires, or dry rotted tires", but anyway, when it comes to high performance cars and bikes, old tires get hard, and don't grip properly. The literal root cause of the accident was a loss of grip due to a combination of speed and old tires. IMHO, mainly the tires. www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-xpm-2014-mar-26-la-me-ln-paul-walker-porsche-outdated-tires-crash-20140326-story.html%3f_amp=true here's one source. Google it dude..
@@Evergreen1400 bro, I'm an auto (VW/AUDI) mechanic by trade, amongst others, plus a motorbike guy. Maybe I should have used the term "aged tires, or dry rotted tires", but anyway, when it comes to high performance cars and bikes, old tires get hard, and don't grip properly. The literal root cause of the accident was a loss of grip due to a combination of speed and old tires. IMHO, mainly the tires. www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-xpm-2014-mar-26-la-me-ln-paul-walker-porsche-outdated-tires-crash-20140326-story.html%3f_amp=true here's one source. Google it dude..
Simple fact at speed in any car going 150+MPH you CANNOT let off the gas quickly and fully without consequences like this. Ask Jay he'll tell you that's what he did. Glad he survived and amazingly saved the car as well- the tires not so much.
Over the years I've taken apart a few Porsche engines. Because they have oil circulation problems. Under heavy load it only takes a few seconds of starvation at the crankshaft. And it'll spit a Rod through the oil pan. Causing all the oil, to saturate the rear wheels. That would be the explosion, you heard just before the accident. In both the Paul Walker incident. And the James Dean incident. Porsche has been aware of this for decades. But just like Henry Ford's Model T, running out of gas when it goes uphill... It's a problem that's never been completely solved. And it's not because, Porsche engineers, are inept. Because Porsche, also sells engines. In the industry we call this a... Marketing problem. Because it's not actually the engineers who built the cars. It's the marketing and advertising executives. and the purpose of marketing and advertising is, to circumnavigate your intelligence just long enough to extort money from it. What better way to extort money from your intelligence, then keep selling you a junk Porsche engine. But you can't totally blame the marketing and advertising executives, most people only believe in treating the symptoms. Not curing the problem. Just ask your health insurance companies. The pharmaceutical companies. The American Medical Association. And General Motors. Or, as their own employees have affectionately nicknamed them... The great mistake Corporation.
Lifting off the accelerator pedal while in a car revving that high can be lethal. Engine braking through the real wheels causing the car to spin, even if you are going straight. Gently easing off is what you should do. Jay has seen some tricky situations while driving, I just watched him rolling 3-4 times in another video 😁
everyone talks about this car being too raw and too hard to handle that only pros can drive(who also spin out)... what if it actually just sucks ass? and is poorly engineered? and porsche is just too proud to admit they messed up and made a widowmaker?
Its not a poorly engineered car, It's a road legal race car, race cars are super twitchy, and this didn't have electronic nannies like everything today
Revisiting this video, I was able to learn that he was doing 190 mls/hr (305 Kms/hr) when the the car went "crazy". It happens to the best. As he said while getting ready, don't go over your limits and avoid a Crash. And he did it.
Man the thing about cars without full traction control, you’re at the mercy of the car if you can’t control it, and sometimes you just can’t. It’s 100% up to the driver to straighten the car out before it spins but when you’re going that fast it can be a matter of milliseconds.
That's a really uneven track surface. Carrera has stiff suspension so maybe he used the throttle when the car was momentarily skipping over one of the joins in the track surface?
He spun it on current tires. The reason walker died is old..very old...like 10 year old tires......read the date on your tires...it's on all tires...its in 4 digit form. Old tires will hold...hold...hold...everything feels normal....then instant loss with no warning. Remember that and look at your sidewall and read the date.
The Porsche widow maker has no driving nannies, so don't bite more than you can chew as this Porsche does not glorify drivers by driving its self like modern cars.
When I saw the brake lights flashing, I tought: "This guy knows what he is doing." He just stepped on the brake when the car was going forward, not backward or sideways, and then he said it. Ice cold.
The issue with the Walker crash was the tires had expired. The GT tires need to be replaced every 2 years (I think that’s the interval) regardless of mileage. That is why they crashed.
Walker died because the Porsche GT is an unstable piece of shit. It slid at 80 mph and was unrecoverable from the skid and crashed into a concrete post. A well built car can be corrected when it loses grip. The tires may have been old, but there was no actual tire failure.
Mister G Thing is, the more you setup your car to go to the limit, the more unstable and edgy it becomes to drive. The Porsche Carrera GT just is a car that is - with the tech and components of 2003 - set up to be as fast as possible. Naturally this makes it a beast to drive, also thanks to the midengine layout. It‘s not crap, it‘s a car for racing drivers.
@@isimon. bullshit mate. Fastest cars are easy to drive, they are hard to extract the last ounce of performance but they are not snappy and uncontrollable, fastest setups are in pretty much all of the cases a bit understeery, not oversteery. Carrera GT is an unstable bullcrap, cool bullcrap but still a bullcrap.
Ir takes a lot of guts to drive like that. I watched another vídeo featuring Jay Leno driving a different Porsche doing 220 Kms I with I had the chance (or the money) and the skills to do it!
@@chiefdenis because the US is just getting around to enforcing the production dates on tires be observed when they're sold at dealer level for consumer use. But 7 years is a long time for a set of tires to be on the road, let alone on a high performance car of any kind. I've only seen one set of tires on a car go farther than that, and it was on a BMW 3 series convertible, the car was an '05 with 30k miles, the tires were original to the car (matching DOT numbers) but they were changed due to production date and had very little in the way of dry rot and tread depth was respectable less than 40% worn. But agreed, dry rot is the devil in the details......
@@heyrod59 also, the carrera gt wasn't driven much, it was mostly brought out for parades, which meant the tires saw too little action, some tires can go 7 yrs without dry rot if they're driven fairly frequently
abs issues man this car is just an engine and trans mounted with no computer help computers just there to put gas and air in the cylinders everything else is on u
@CaTzFX Carrera GT has ABS but nothing more advance than that like simple traction control on cheap cars. It was also built before IMU were mass produced cheap. It was just built in a crazy time period where you had modern power and very little control aids.
I think Jay Leno is Doug Demuro's dad
doug only wishes that
Your third eye has opened 😂😂
OMFG I thought the same thing hahahaha
Doug's a Clown, Jay is Not....
@Richard Ren And after that I'm gonna give him a doug score
Think the aerodynamics of his chin is what saved him.
This comment made me forcefully exhale through my nostrils
The aerodynamics fucked him, brakes saved him
jay leno
That's his airbag.
💀
The stig spun out a few times on Top Gear's review of the GT. so even the Stig had trouble controlling this car.
Tofu86 OC the sting was Michael Schumacher
@@spicymiataguy9115 no he wasn't, it was only shown because of Schumacher's Ferrari FXX which only he owns. He was revealed as stig because of his car.
It really is a boss off a car that you gotta learn to control
@@spicymiataguy9115 Lol, Ben Collins is the real Stig.
That's the thing even if you are a skilled driver and or a race car driver this Carrera GT seems to be unpredictable still.
I love how they used a CGT to go and check on jay’s CGT lmao
It’s rich people’s way of saying f*ck the rest of the population
Dragos Xtc it’s faster than running
Dragos Xtc nice to see that it sometimes fucks them though!
Bullshit envy like you obviously have does no one any good.
@@user-yc7zb4cj4x It doesn’t hit the house of people without a house.
I'm happy seeing a rich car collector actually running his shit to its potential, jay seems pretty cool
Every single one of his cars is ready to drive at all times (from what I've heard. Obviously something being worked on isn't, but he drives his cars instead of keeping them as pretty garage queens)
@@keysersoze7034
Isn't that kinda leno's claim to fame? The guy has arguably the most unique collection and he actually drives them.
@@ihavewaited90daystochangem51 If you watch some of his interviews, he said he loves comedy and being a comedian, but that his first passion is cars, and making big bucks being an entertainer is what he wanted just so he could collect cars
this wasn't jays Carrera, his one is silver
i love hearing him saying "hit the brakes, seen the wall got off the brakes, no wall hit the brakes, seen the wall got off the brakes" such a simple explanation of what not many people realize is the right way to handle something
Yeah, It sounds weird when you say it out loud..
Care to break down why it works? I'm trying to think it through myself
Joel Hollingsworth if you are on the breaks the car won’t turn as sharp so in order to steer to avoid the wall as much as possible he would get off the brakes if it was directly in front of him
@@reuben5274 ie he is assymetrically tightening the spin in an attempt to "bend" his trajectory away from the wall. Got it
@@joelhollingsworth1926 not only that, there is a principle of a tire having only 100% grip to be divided between acceleration braking and lateral forces.
Single seaters drivers in particular f1 focus on straight line braking , releasing the brake then turning in if you try to turn with the brakes locked all you will do is go straight on, with your steering wheel cranked over.
You are correct with the idea of breaking the symmetry of the spin to avoid the wall, but this technique allowed the breaking and turning moments to be more effective in their own right.
I first learned this from the pages of the Grand Turismo 3 Ps2 Manual, Colin Mcrae did a write up explaining the 100% concept. It stuck hard when i read it as it was such a brilliantly simple but through explanation.
I’ll tell you what , Jay Leno had bawls of steel to be looking so cool stepping out of that car after a high speed over steer spin like that, he was hauling ass !
All spins are caused by oversteer. There’s no such thing as an understeer induced spin.
@@heeltoeautomotive4962 technically incorrect but correct in the same sense. It's possible for a car to understeer then, grip up really hard causing it to oversteer in the opposite direction (picture tank slappers or high siding a motorcycle) but as you said the spin out is technically caused from oversteer
"It was alright"
Jacob Webb happened to me in a 2005 Legacy GT turbo AWD.. same way you described it..
Curious why "bawls", but spelled ass correct?
he was feet away from death ... crazy we wouldve lost jay to this beast to
Offtopz lol.... he didn’t even hit anything. “We would’ve lost jay” like he’s some god or something lol
Shay Butta Am I the only one didn't get the memo? Jay is the God of car community? You gotta understand that a lot of people have negative opinion on Jay.
I mean he is a pretty big figure in car culture, just him being a huge celebrity who actually loves and appreciates these cars helps with publicity
@Ben W what's negative about jay Leno.. hes just and old guy who loves cars 🤣
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The fact he didn't wreck is crazy, I imagine the relief of seeing him driving back was great
Indeed now watching presenting his own Carrera GT he mentioned about this incident saying that in the car he got scared pretty hard but he did manage to control himself to react trying to save the car from a horrible crash against the wall but reacting in a slower way that's why the car was spinning 5 times before fully stopping looking like it was on ice only thing he damaged to that car were all the tires rubber on all 4 wheels that because he was speeding over 180 mph and coming from the curve-bank he fully lift his foot from the throttle that make the rear wheels accelerating faster and car spinning but he visualize in the spinning a safe path and he try to react to recover as much as he could (he also say that if track was wet or rain previously he would definitely crash the car would spin faster wheels could lock out and the car could aquaplane).. anyway in the end when he was laughing in the paddocks but in the car he did was having his pants fill with farts & poo until the car fully stop spinning, remember the car was still a prototype in testing faze not released to dealers for sales yet so yeah pretty expensive cars and the Porsche guys were al most hart attack when they saw him spinning in that curve at such high speed but they calm down quickly seeing Leno coming back safely he mentioned he could hear some saying..
'dear Lord almighty that was so close'..
The amount of 'I don't have a clue what I'm talking about' in the comments is profound.
Most of the experts only have videos of FPS on their channels.
Welcome to RUclips
Mmmm too many idiots out there, a spin on a track doesn't mean a car is unsafe, hell Porches spin all the freaking time.
Mussh Wins mate you are rocking Honda Civic vids lol. Hardly the pinnacle of engineering excellence.
@@sdewey4152 how's that saying go...if you're in control not going fast enough lol
Here because Jay told me to watch this while he was talking about his CGT in Jay Leno’s Garage
Me too.
same haha I got this video recommended just after
Almost dies and gets out with a smile. Haha why we love you Jay!
Who's here after seeing Jay's video of the Carrera GT
yep
Yep
Yes. Beautiful car but I reckon I could not drive it and I'm no pussy.
I am.
@@Schmuly yep
Oh shit ! 😦 this car really ain’t to be played with. Monster of a car.
Dion Cordova yup, even racing drivers struggle😦
@@habodude0530 Jay is not a racing driver. He has no licensed experience in any Race Organisation. Being a skilled driver and car enthusiast does NOT make you successful on the track in a race car, period.
Justin Johnson I didn't mean Jay, I meant others like a rally car driver can't remember his name and Roger Rodas.
@@habodude0530 Oh okay. Hey man thanks for the response, I have a question for I am learning more about cars. What does it take to drive this car at its top speed without crashing?
Justin Johnson really don't know probably just hold it in a straight line.. hmm I don't know.
Man can drive
Knows how to brake u mean!
@@xBrabus76 Both, dude has all sorts of cars and certainly has muscle memory 😁
Its crazy to think that the car spins out at that speed on full aero downforce WEARING SLICKS. On any road legal tyres that would be, well RIP.
Raditya Indera those Carrera GTs don’t really have a whole lot of downforce. For a road car they do, but compared to a race car they don’t. But they do have the straight line speed of a race car. So the you’re basically traveling at 200+ with a fraction of the downforce of a race car. A Cup car probably has more downforce than a Carrera GT.
@@heeltoeautomotive4962 Now days NASCAR cars have a lot of downforce (at least talking about a NASCAR car), and a lot of less HP (-350-300HP from the 900 they had, they are around 550hp)
Facundo Gonzalez okay ?
@@ChrisSprenger. Pay attention next time, and you will understand why he commented that...
Heel Toe Automotive Carrera GT actually has a great amount of downforce, as its basically made out of LMP carbon tub chassis with venturi tunnels and diffusers along the whole floor.
Out of Zonda F, Ferrari Enzo and Koenniggsegg CCX it was the car with the fastest time on ‘Ring and by far highest lateral G’s - based mostly of its downforce.
Its downforce is actually what it makes tricky to drive at high speed, because grip tends to break in a non-progressive manner, very race car alike.
Which is mostly why you dont recover the car once it initiates oversteer induced spin.
I mean, everyone kinda knew the carrera gt was a death trap once it was released. A crazy fast supercar that revs to 9000 faster than you can say 'rev', that doesn't have stability or traction control...
If you didn't respect the car, or overestimated your skill, you would crash.
@@IzajResGS Thats not really true. It all depends on how the revs increase relative to the throttle and time. If a cars revs increase linear, then no matter its power its "safe", assuming you aren't stupid. The problem is when an engine "jumps", as I call it. Whilst no car can even get rid of it completely, the gt was pretty bad. If you, even at a medium pace, linearly increased the throttle the car would increase at a medium rate then suddenly jump to max revs, causing the tires to spin. This is different to just losing traction and having the engine redline
I doubt Porsche would have made a car that was known to be a "death trap". The car was developed by Walter Rohrl so it's doubtful it would have been signed off if it had any flaws. No amount of electronic doodads will save you going at that speed. Jay said it was his fault and not the car.
You know a car is dangerous when:
Walter Röhrl says "The first car in my life that I drive and I feel scared"
A former manager at Porsche calling it "the most dangerous car in the world"
Graham Rahal (IndyCar driver also an owner of a CGT) saying it needs respect
Also even Stig spinning out with it
The car is so unforgiving on the limit that Porsche and Michelin went back to develop new tyres specifically for it nearly 10 years after it first launched. There are a few options for tyres but with replacement spec the car is vastly better than what it was in terms of stability on the limit of it's abilities.
Great car
The car is dangerous because the oversteer is basically an on/off switch. You go from what probably feels like planted and gripped up- to sliding at 190mph on pavement as if it were ice.
Why is youtube randomly recommending me this now?
No, now
People don’t have enough respect for this car. It doesn’t have the electric nannies that we’re used to
Seriously, we're so used to the nannies being there everytime and saving our asses from stupidity
I like poop. Hybrid yolo
@@Nasonix2 hybrid drivetain? are u stupid? and never driven it but yeah sure, its like a miata lol. armchair general
@@Nasonix2 What the fuck are you talking about? You literally have no clue about what car this is do you?
"It doesn't have electric nannies" to make up for it's poor engineering.
“It was alright”
The coefficient of drag on his chin…. Basically an air brake
Leno got back after that spin in his good old Ford T-Model 🤙
Jay talks about this incident on his recent Carrera GT video!
The Stig couldn't handle the car either. Its a beast indeed!
Wandi Sithebe ikr if I could afford this I’d also hire someone skilled to teach me how to drive it correctly
Who else came here after Jay Lenos Garage video 👏😏
its amazing how it never gets captured with anything other than a potato looking in the other direction.
RIP Paul Walker, James Dean, Ryan Dunn and all the future Porsche owners who get taken too early
I remember this and he went back and pushed the car harder than before around the track he have balls for real
Jay Leno you almost died
Jay"that was exciting *smiles*
Nice save Jay!
Great car but has been deemed to be hard to control, even for experts. Glad Jay walked away fine, he handled it like a champ and was still smiling
Carrera Gt’s don’t Have traction control it depends how much experience a racer has to drive it without spinning out
Yes. That and this car is design for flat symmetrical tracks and roads. Plus, if look at where he wiped out 1:27, he transitioned too quick from high to low path on the track at track wall turn 1.
The car has traction control it doesn't have Stability control
Traction Control the Carrera GT has... what it does not have is a set of instructions on how to drive it fast without crashing.. it is all down to the driver.
jorgekontor I may be wrong here, but there are no cars that come with instructions how to drive fast tf lmaoo
@@pbenzdaillest agreed, specially 500 + horsepower cars
Yeah but Jay did it on the track where it belongs, not on city streets. Big difference between the Fast & Furious idiots on the street & Paul wasn't driving at the time.
Came on here to make exactly the same comment. 👍
Very impressive that Jay didn't just stab the brakes and ride it into the wall that way.
The car has 600hp+ and mid engine with little computer aid. You bound to spin if your used to front engine fwd and rwd.
This platform will test your left foot braking skills and weight transfer.
DkingE39 well the stig spun out a couple of times according to some other comments :P
Jay Leno owns some of the rarest supercars known to man dating back DECADES. He's used to supercars. This one is just made awfully.
@@DkingE39 LMP Derrived V10
I don't see why you have to give a poorly designed street car the "he's just not used to it" excuse. Several people with PLENTY of experience in cars like this or better have crashed or spun it. It's a poor design, you don't have to blindly protect your beloved brand with everything it does.
and manual transmission to top it all off.
"turn 3" pretty sure that's just coming out of the tri oval before turn 1
out of turn 4 too.
He was like a mile from turn 3 lol I was thinking the same thing. Definitely lost control coming out of the tri oval.
The tri-oval doesn't count as a turn. Each turn is two turns. Idk why but its just that way on ovals
Ok yeah I thought the same, wow that high rpm capable torquey lightweight car has to be just nasty. The least little "skip" of tire contact at full throttle coming down the front stretch unsettles the car at 190 and you're done.
@@jewwyjones9760 yeah it must really be a monster
Glad my boy didn't get hurt. This man is a part of my childhood. The best late show host ever, period.
Crazy guy!! Didnt keep it just below crashing.....looked exciting!!
Soo Jay releases a video with his Carrera GT talking about Paul and his crash - next recommendation in my feed...
When you are pushing a car to its limits you can expect this to happen
Hi RUclips recommendations
The demon attached to the 550 has now transferred to the Carrera gt
i'm here from the cgt video where mentioned it
This car seems to like trying killing people
I think the frame of this car can't handle all of its engine power, there's a flaw in this car
Total new found respect for Jay Leno.
The true widowmaker
Jay looked way younger back then! Wow these were good years :)
Ah, the Carrera GT, the Pitbull of cars.
Still the best sounding piece of art
If you're going to spin a car, this is the place, not a public road in an industrial park, a la Paul...
Twobarpsi Paul wasn’t driving.... a professional race car driver was
When you buy a car from a collector that has not driven the car for five years and tires are dry rotted from the inside, it will roll over, and you will die, very unnecessary loss of life of Paul Walker.
This car is a raw driving machine that might kill you if you mess up. Most people know that before they even get in it. Good for Porsche for making it soon these types of cars will be no more and we will have self driving battery operated disposal crap.
I've rather be alive and have to drive a slow "self-driving" car than to be dead because of a high-powered supercar lost grip and crashed into the nearest object at legal speed limits.
I agree that people are aware of what they're doing by getting into these sorts of cars, however that doesn't make the risk any lower in the grand scheme of things.
We're talking about a aluminium can with highly potent propulsion system in it crashing into the nearest object, you are dead the second you lose focus in this car, that is not a risk MOST people would actively take.
@@longnamedude3947 It's not meant for most people who can't even afford one it's meant for the hardcore purist
The'OG'Linux Gamer sorry buddy you lost me after I’d rather drive a slow self driven car.
The'OG'Linux Gamer I wouldn’t
It was confirmed a while ago by the car community that the tires were mostly to blame as they were well expired, about 6 years old if I remember. Soft rubber, especially sport tires, will dry out over time and loose a lot of their grip.
he is very lucky. you go into the wall in a car like that with no rollcage you are dead
No... Not this car, anyway. He would've have been hurt, but you don't put an F1 engine in a car and not beef up the structure. This is another one of Porsche's cars that is basically a street-legal racecar. Plus, he was on a closed course doing a record attempt in a factory-supported effort with full safety crew on staff. This car is the successor to the 911 GT1. If it could go airborne & do a full 360 in the air, then crash into a wall on landing and have the driver walk away with only bumps & bruises, I'm pretty sure a Carrera GT being deliberately used for a record attempt at Talladega (home of the "Big One") would be up to track-use safety standards.
@@msnovtue still no rollcage with that speed Leno could have seriously harm himself the cgt is coffin
New denim pants for mr Leno.
I’m so happy Jay has survived all these years being a wealthy car enthusiast. There’s more than a few of us (myself included) that probably wouldn’t have made it to his age with the addiction to horsepower and a seemingly bottomless bank account lol.
Hahaha ikr
It's still my favourite Porsche
Jay wasn't driving on old dry rotted tires either, hahaha
“Old rotted” tires” ? Haha you obviously don’t know how long it takes rubber to “rot”
My last set of tyres were 20 years old and I was doing over 150kmph on them. They get dry and crack before they rot.
I work with semi trucks with tires way pass due their life span they won't kill you. This car is just a death machine.
@@Crimson_Strider bro, I'm an auto (VW/AUDI) mechanic by trade, amongst others, plus a motorbike guy. Maybe I should have used the term "aged tires, or dry rotted tires", but anyway, when it comes to high performance cars and bikes, old tires get hard, and don't grip properly. The literal root cause of the accident was a loss of grip due to a combination of speed and old tires. IMHO, mainly the tires. www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-xpm-2014-mar-26-la-me-ln-paul-walker-porsche-outdated-tires-crash-20140326-story.html%3f_amp=true here's one source. Google it dude..
@@Evergreen1400 bro, I'm an auto (VW/AUDI) mechanic by trade, amongst others, plus a motorbike guy. Maybe I should have used the term "aged tires, or dry rotted tires", but anyway, when it comes to high performance cars and bikes, old tires get hard, and don't grip properly. The literal root cause of the accident was a loss of grip due to a combination of speed and old tires. IMHO, mainly the tires. www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-xpm-2014-mar-26-la-me-ln-paul-walker-porsche-outdated-tires-crash-20140326-story.html%3f_amp=true here's one source. Google it dude..
Simple fact at speed in any car going 150+MPH you CANNOT let off the gas quickly and fully without consequences like this. Ask Jay he'll tell you that's what he did. Glad he survived and amazingly saved the car as well- the tires not so much.
Paul walker looking down from heaven saying "damn wish Jay had been driving me"
RJ S damn you horrible for saying that tho lol
He wasn’t even driving it , he was in the passenger side
He's not using his TV persona voice.
What sort of click bait title is that?
"It was alright" It was alright? Lmao, gotta love how tough Jay man handles the situation.
There is a reason why they called this car the Killer Porsche.
Wonder why Porsche didn't redesign the car's platform?
Over the years I've taken apart a few Porsche engines. Because they have oil circulation problems. Under heavy load it only takes a few seconds of starvation at the crankshaft. And it'll spit a Rod through the oil pan. Causing all the oil, to saturate the rear wheels. That would be the explosion, you heard just before the accident. In both the Paul Walker incident. And the James Dean incident. Porsche has been aware of this for decades. But just like Henry Ford's Model T, running out of gas when it goes uphill... It's a problem that's never been completely solved. And it's not because, Porsche engineers, are inept. Because Porsche, also sells engines. In the industry we call this a... Marketing problem. Because it's not actually the engineers who built the cars. It's the marketing and advertising executives. and the purpose of marketing and advertising is, to circumnavigate your intelligence just long enough to extort money from it. What better way to extort money from your intelligence, then keep selling you a junk Porsche engine.
But you can't totally blame the marketing and advertising executives, most people only believe in treating the symptoms. Not curing the problem. Just ask your health insurance companies. The pharmaceutical companies. The American Medical Association. And General Motors.
Or, as their own employees have affectionately nicknamed them... The great mistake Corporation.
Paul didn’t spin out his brakes were cut and he was trying to corner
@@clintonepps3666 and that's exactly how it was..
Because he wasn't driving the car on that really unfortunate moment of the crash!
Lifting off the accelerator pedal while in a car revving that high can be lethal. Engine braking through the real wheels causing the car to spin, even if you are going straight. Gently easing off is what you should do. Jay has seen some tricky situations while driving, I just watched him rolling 3-4 times in another video 😁
the chad jay leno vs the virgin paul walker
Joe H yes true forgot about that
He got a warning from the race God's LMAO
Who’s here after watching Jays video on the Carrera GT?
I wonder how many racing suits he had to try on before he found one that could fit his balls.
everyone talks about this car being too raw and too hard to handle that only pros can drive(who also spin out)... what if it actually just sucks ass? and is poorly engineered? and porsche is just too proud to admit they messed up and made a widowmaker?
A car can be well engineered but can also be a widowmaker at the same time, 90s formula one cars immediately come to mind with both traits
I was thinking this, TechLurker.
Its not a poorly engineered car, It's a road legal race car, race cars are super twitchy, and this didn't have electronic nannies like everything today
It's unforgiving not unstable. Like a 427 Cobra or older Viper
@Matthew Anthony like all high powered midengined lightweight cars....
Revisiting this video, I was able to learn that he was doing 190 mls/hr (305 Kms/hr) when the the car went "crazy".
It happens to the best.
As he said while getting ready, don't go over your limits and avoid a Crash.
And he did it.
Man the thing about cars without full traction control, you’re at the mercy of the car if you can’t control it, and sometimes you just can’t. It’s 100% up to the driver to straighten the car out before it spins but when you’re going that fast it can be a matter of milliseconds.
Jaryd Jackson there’s no saving it going that fast if it starts to slip it’s slipping and your gonna have to recover
Then learn how to drive
How many years of racing experience do you have in what series?
Who else came here after Jay's own video of the Carrera GT?
I wonder if he applied the gas at the same time as hitting a mini bump, would’ve liked a full explanation of incident
That's a really uneven track surface. Carrera has stiff suspension so maybe he used the throttle when the car was momentarily skipping over one of the joins in the track surface?
He spun it on current tires. The reason walker died is old..very old...like 10 year old tires......read the date on your tires...it's on all tires...its in 4 digit form. Old tires will hold...hold...hold...everything feels normal....then instant loss with no warning. Remember that and look at your sidewall and read the date.
The Porsche widow maker has no driving nannies, so don't bite more than you can chew as this Porsche does not glorify drivers by driving its self like modern cars.
Rubbish, it's got nothing to do with driver skill as the car's history shows, it's all about a crap handling car.
After all these years,now am watching it
Who is here because he just finished talking about this on his most recent episode?
He has good car control to avoid the wall by being on and off the brakes.
When I saw the brake lights flashing, I tought:
"This guy knows what he is doing."
He just stepped on the brake when the car was going forward, not backward or sideways, and then he said it.
Ice cold.
Could you explain the maneuver for us clueless ones?
"It was exciting". Jay Leno is great.
The issue with the Walker crash was the tires had expired. The GT tires need to be replaced every 2 years (I think that’s the interval) regardless of mileage. That is why they crashed.
With any tyres the driver should always have mercy on them. Looking at this even full racing slicks can easily go wrong.
Walker died because the Porsche GT is an unstable piece of shit. It slid at 80 mph and was unrecoverable from the skid and crashed into a concrete post. A well built car can be corrected when it loses grip. The tires may have been old, but there was no actual tire failure.
Mister G Thing is, the more you setup your car to go to the limit, the more unstable and edgy it becomes to drive.
The Porsche Carrera GT just is a car that is - with the tech and components of 2003 - set up to be as fast as possible. Naturally this makes it a beast to drive, also thanks to the midengine layout.
It‘s not crap, it‘s a car for racing drivers.
@@isimon. bullshit mate. Fastest cars are easy to drive, they are hard to extract the last ounce of performance but they are not snappy and uncontrollable, fastest setups are in pretty much all of the cases a bit understeery, not oversteery. Carrera GT is an unstable bullcrap, cool bullcrap but still a bullcrap.
Mister G thats bullshit. They were going way to fast with a car THEY couldn’t control
Way to go Jay. Not a scratch on her.
Came here after Jay's review of his Carrera GT just to see him spin out.
Pronto Jay Leno
S🅱️INNALA!
*Spoiler Alert* Probably dozens of people have spun a Carrera GT and lived to tell about it. Just sayin'...
He can drive. New what to do. Mad props to Jay.
They don’t call the Porsche widow maker for nothing
Ir takes a lot of guts to drive like that.
I watched another vídeo featuring Jay Leno driving a different Porsche doing 220 Kms
I with I had the chance (or the money) and the skills to do it!
Jay Leno had good tires.
Paul Walker ran baldies.
Jay Leno ran on a track.
Paul Walker was on a public road.
Fundamental differences.
Walker didn't run baldies tho, they were just 7 years old, at that age one can expect some dry rot.
Bad tires, not bald
You forgot the most fundamental difference of them all... Paul Walker was not driving.
Roger Rodas was driving you ignorant child, wasn't running bald tires either. Also Jay Leno spun out on a track with perfect conditions
@@chiefdenis because the US is just getting around to enforcing the production dates on tires be observed when they're sold at dealer level for consumer use. But 7 years is a long time for a set of tires to be on the road, let alone on a high performance car of any kind. I've only seen one set of tires on a car go farther than that, and it was on a BMW 3 series convertible, the car was an '05 with 30k miles, the tires were original to the car (matching DOT numbers) but they were changed due to production date and had very little in the way of dry rot and tread depth was respectable less than 40% worn. But agreed, dry rot is the devil in the details......
@@heyrod59 also, the carrera gt wasn't driven much, it was mostly brought out for parades, which meant the tires saw too little action, some tires can go 7 yrs without dry rot if they're driven fairly frequently
An absolute legend.
The 04 05 Porsche Carrera GT is one of the most beautiful machines ever made, but a deathtrap.
I saw at least 4 pixels
bloody hell , IT LOOKS LIKE THE CAR DOES HAVE AN ABS ISSUE !
wonder if there is a complilation of Carrera GTs spinning out...
No stability control either ..its a widow maker
abs issues man this car is just an engine and trans mounted with no computer help computers just there to put gas and air in the cylinders everything else is on u
@CaTzFX Carrera GT has ABS but nothing more advance than that like simple traction control on cheap cars. It was also built before IMU were mass produced cheap. It was just built in a crazy time period where you had modern power and very little control aids.
This car is a pure analogue widow maker
There is no TC or anything on this car it’s like the Viper. All motor and frame no other electronic help you
Had to check this out after Jay's review of his Carrera GT