24 Hours of Le Mans 1999 | Peter Dumbreck's Shocking Mercedes flip!
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Watch Peter Dumbreck miraculously escape uninjured from a violent crash during the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans race when his No. 5 Mercedes-Benz CLR somersaulted into the woods at about 300 km/h (190 mph).
The crash was believed to be caused by an aerodynamic issue resulting in the front of the car rising up and then flipping without any external contact; Mark Webber had already suffered near identical crashes in the No. 4 car during the Thursday night practice and the Saturday morning Warm-up. The remaining No. 6 car was retired immediately, and the team withdrew from all other planned entries in endurance racing and the American Le Mans Series.
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RUclips, thanks for this unexpected recommendation.
5 years later.....
This only hearted comment, and it 5 years too late
The same happend to me
Hey yall im famous in a comment down below this one 😎😎😎
Damn! Me too
"Your free trial of downforce has ended"
😂
@@eugenelistlovestruth4547 that's just how it is nowadays🙄
Up force
😂😂😂
hahahaha thats gold right there
Le Mans International Airport
LOL
Terrain Pull Down Terrain Pull Down
And we have lift off
yoooo flyingg doooooo
Mercedes Power
"This awful, awful accident. This is an awful accident."
"Let's look at it again"
sure why not, usually the best tool to get insight and peace of mind.. and same with this clip.. it was the replay that gave him the info that the car landed the right side up and thereby some peace of mind.
I like most, am fed up with people that stand on their tongue to find things they can be offended by and usually on other people's behalf and trying to parenting other people to their narrowminded perspective.
@@JAKOB1977 relax my dude, no need to take a funny comment seriously on a monday morning
"a terrible day for canada, and therefore the world"
I love how he goes here we go and it takes off
@@PrivateerJimmy "that's kinda your oppinion man"
*This guy could calmly narrate the end of the world*
British commentator...
Let's look at it again
yeah he seems more suited for nature documentary, not that that's bad
@@boomshine7 😂
"and now the winged devils are swooping over the town AND A LITTLE GIRL HAS BEEN SCOOPED UP AND DROPPED FROM A GREAT HEIGHT!! Lets take a look at that in the slow motion replay...well that looked like quite a severe impact. Certainly a heck of a splat"
btw Peter Dumbreck managed to not only survive this crash but stepped out of the wreck uninjured, for those who wonder.
pEf Alien Oh thank God. When I first seen it, i thought "OH! at least landed wheels-down(more or less).. perhaps majority of G-force was distributed into the frame" But then seeing the aerial view of the wreck; I was horrified. What an amazingly lucky crash! Thank goodness he didn't land on the roof.
Thanks for sharing! That design SO needed more aerodynamic down-force in it's front bumper
glytchd dead
pEf Alien it really doesnt surprise me he survived. The impact wasnt even as close as horrible per say he ran strait into a barrier. And all those cars have cages so
Bet his underpants were not uninjured!
Incepting But an impact straight up the spine is the killer. We survive best with impacts to chest or back.
1980: I bet in the future we will have flying cars.
1999: ... well.
LOL
Good one
ROFL
Lars Albert close enough
2018: YEET!!!!!
Engineer: "Okay Peter to pass the Toyota you need a flying lap."
Peter Dumbrek: *Literally flys.*
Enginner: "For god sake Peter."
That cameraman surely got the biggest salary that he ever had after getting that angle. Props to him
For doing his job, you mean
always some gremlins on here to tell people how much they're wrong for no reason smdh
For almost die for the public:yes
Well that's after getting his pay docked for not filming it happen to mark Webber on the warmup lap
Fixed camera like all the others. Angle is decided by the position of the camera tower/ mounts so the whole circuit is covered. Camera operator just pans with the action. It’s not special, brilliant camerawork.
*downforce has left the chat*
Wing physics joined the chat
there was so much down force it went negative
Aerofoil : Le me introduce myself
*DAS has entered the chat*
negative pitch angle has left the chat.
"They can't believe it's happened again"
Excuse me, AGAIN?!
This was the third time it happened to Mercedes. First time was during practice, second time his teammate Mark Webber flipped in the warm up laps before the race, and third is here.
Nate Garbasz So we can conclude two things:
1. They did nothing to fix the problem;
2. They did something, but it was absolutely ineffective...
@@Berchol I believe the issue only manifested when the car was in the slipstream of another car. In all three incidents they were behind some one. There are videos about the crashes and why they happened.
@Billie Eyelash I wasn't sure who was driving the first time but Mark had a lot of bad crashes in his career.
Nate Garbasz the same mark webber that drove for red bull?
"Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys"
😂😂
Did he survive?
😐
SHUT THE FUCK UP
@@unichn 😐
2020: in the future there will be flying cars!
1999: there already is...
Bruh lol
Mercedes, always above the competition
Nice
😂😂
XD
always
Literally and business wise
“Where we’re goin, we don’t need roads.” - AMG Mercedes
Brilliant😂
*Back to the future theme starts playing*
He had to go to the future. Such a shame the hover didn’t start.
And that is why Doc Brown was committed to an insane asylum in Biff's alternate future...he was head of Merc's design team.
Back-flip to the future
Perfect example why aero is so important. Still unbelievable, that a car is able to do that
More like why pitch sensitivity is important, it wasn't the aerodynamics which were at fault.
That CLR flew from Le Mans, Monza, lapped the whole Nurburgring circuit and back to Le Mans in just seconds.
"OH MY GOD THAT'S HORRIFIC let's look at that again"
The show must go on
xDDDD
"Oh no! Anyway"
@@pietrovilla15 same energy
And, let's make that one my screen saver!
1950s - "in the future we will have flying cars"
1999 - flying car
1955 le mans was SO cool bro!
You should check it out!
@@thestig2350 Cool is not exactly the word I would use to describe the most fatal motorsport accident in history, but sure
@@alexkrstulovic6054 how can a fatal accident be more fatal than another fatal accident? Like, both resulted in death, was one guy deader than the other? 😂
@@XpVersusVista Because that accident killed like 80 spectators too...
1950: we are going to have flying cars in the future
1999: welp...
1955: Alpha stage tested successfully!
@@1997LotusEsprit Bruh 💀
Here watching this again after seeing a similar crash in the Gran Turismo movie.
Jann’s real life crash is on RUclips also.
Imagine being in the Toyota and being under pressure from the Merc, and then you look in the rear view and see that lol
Or you just look away for a sec and suddenly he's gone
you look into the rear view mirror and he's gone and you look ahead and he does a double back flip which he lands then pulls away
When you look into the rear view mirror then realize you don't have a rear window
Keichi tsuntsun (probably): haha you can't pressure meee
IAmAStegosaurus imagine being dumbreck's teammate in the identical CLR only a few seconds back and seeing the same car you're driving suddenly take off right in front of you!
That time, Toyota TS020 was driving by Kenichi Tsuchiya.
and he is always laughing😂
m.ruclips.net/video/K21s_GffLVY/видео.html
Red bull Racing : *He is the chosen one*
@Dxrkie_Plxyz right bro
Mark Webber did it better, and was ultimately chosen :D
@@nishitsinghbirman1923 there is another. (Looks at Porsche)
Well played
*Red Bull gives you WINGS!!!*
Also, it's really LSD and you're hallucinating, because you actually have no wings.
Not the first time a Mercedes has gone over the barrier at Le Mans
Si entendí
Any one coming here after watching Gran Turismo? 😅😅
Yes lmao
also the Ferrari GT/Toyota LMP crash
yes
Yes
"Well, we didn't win Le Mans, but we did win the Red Bull air race."
lmao
Congrats on the win
I lol'd.
Yep, because Mark Webber, who had the same happen to him twice at Le Mans, went to F1 in Minardi, then Jaguar, then Williams, and then went back to Red Bull (what Jaguar became), and had a crash with Heikki Kovalainen in the 2010 European Grand Prix, resulting in an incredibly similar stunt to his two at Le Mans.
I still cannot believe, there was so few (relatively) fatal accidents without the halo@@KanarisTM
Porsche behind him be like:
"Yo wtf!"
@Arihant Arya ok nerd
@Arihant Arya r/im14andthisisscientific
@Arihant Arya same with me. But i am not nerding around typing shit.
@Arihant Arya you don't know anything about reddit, do you?
@Arihant Arya you're a fucking normie you have to admit it.
"He's just entered the straight and said he's flying!"
"Told you that car was fast".
Merc didn’t want to know about it when Webber flipped.
Incredible that neither driver wasn’t killed?
Imagine hitting the pedestrian bridge airborne at 300?
they just didnt believe webber they thought he was just makking stuff up because of the shock
"It's a bird!"
"It's a plane!"
"No, it's a 1999 Mercedes-Benz CLR.....again"
Alright, time to switch to plan *H*
That was really creative
...again.
CLK GTR, not CLR🤦♂️
It's a CLK GTR you dumbo
MERCEDES
The only manufacturer with sponsors on the underside of their cars.
This comment is going places.
@@heisenburg8608
Thank you! Lol
@Leo Maunsell
💪👍
Reminds me of a boxer I know, Julius Francis, who once fought Mike Tyson during his comeback in the early 00s. The Daily Mirror paid him £20k to advertise on the bottom of his boots
Then and Richard Hammond.
I just love how his name can be pronounced like “dumb wreck”.
oh yeah... british irony is ready beforehand... it is actually ontological
Glad I'm not alone at realizing this XD. Peter Dumbreck has just got a dumb way of getting wrecked XD
Hilarious :D One of the best comments I've ever read on youtube. lol
“Oh my god! Oh my god, and the Mercedes has taken off” how tf did he say it so nonchalantly 🤣
“You’re a wizard, Mercedes.”
“I’m.. a what?”
“You’re a wizard”
*proceeds to fly away*
Earrape Harry Potter theme
Lmao
Looool
*Harry potter theme song plays on*
Dumbreckdore
I now get why the mercedes badge is a propeller !
BMW badge is a propeller.
@@mindkiller76 imbecile...
Oleksandr M neither are propellers, the Benz badge is a three pointed star, with each point being their work with land, air and sea vehicles respectively.
The BMW badge simply represents the Bavarian flag, the resemblance to a propeller is unintentional.
@@mwmmatt1 r/woooooooosh
@@mwmmatt1 shut the fuck up
Mercedes: you know what, i'm done being a car, i wanna be a plane now. **flies away**
And we never saw Mercedes at Le Mans mans ever again...
People 70 years ago: “In the future, we’ll have flying cars”
Not sure that’s what they had in mind but hey it counts
They're called light aircraft
downforce be like: I'm out.
lol
They a little confused, but he got the spirit
are you the real Max?
The germans and their habit of sending Mercedes powered things over french airspace
Mercedes CLR: I sexually identify as a Heinkel He 219
@@manictiger Germans : Alright, time to switch to plan *H*
French power ! 💪🏻
Too soon?
Clearly, since nowhere near enough likes for your comment.
I can quit youtube now. Ive seen the best comment.
0:16 Toyota: .___.
Other brand : "lets create a useful aerodynamics body kit, to prevent the drivers flying"
Mercedes : *"lets build a battleship"*
Mercedes was ahead of it's time in designing flying cars back in 1999.
Amazon Echo flying cars have been around since 1930's
The Moon of your referring to chitty chatty bing bang 💥 it was half boat
Curi0u50ne lol wut?
There should be harry potter music in this
Ali Ahmed ha ha lmao ha ha ha savage godlike lol ha ha :D
Mercedes manger: "tell me about the car"
Engineer: "well, it can accelerate fast, drive fast and do a backflip"
- "do what?"
- "oh, I'm sorry, I meant double backflip"
Manager: "ah alright, but last time we checked I thought it could hit a triple back flip?"
In the meantime, "Trust me, I'm an engineer" was playing in background
@@il-ma.le. basically backflip-able car is an innovation, that could have been patented, /s
it was triple
- Double you say? Make that a triple, and we're good to go!
You just see the Mercedes begging to lift off the track and the announcer just says “OH MY GOD!….” I died of laughter when I saw this live back in the 90’s.
The calm commentary is by far the more entertaining part of the video
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@@AGLIBABY Such a shit song lol. Don't be sharing that shit.
xD "AMG Airlines" 😂😂😂
Human:we can do backflip
Mercedes:hold my beer
The announcer is great. Healthy respect for what was happening, but did a great job with the details. 10/10
Me: what a horrible accident
Commentator: The mechanics can't believe it happened again.
Me: WTF? Again?!!
There was a design flaw in the CLR's that caused air to get under them at certain points of the track. Mercedes ended up totally withdrawing from the race after this one.
@@SAVikingSA didn't it happened a lot earlier when they killed 86 people and Mercedes withdrawal themselves for 20 years.
@@jacobunofficial1146 That incident involved crashing into another car, no downforce involved there.
@@Daschickenify all I'm saying is ...
Mercedes, gives you wings ...
It happened three times that weekend
Mercedes checked their aerodynamics, and now competes in Formula 1.
i believe this video is going to blow up with the new gran turismo movie
I love how they're like "God dammit not again"
That was the third time a CLR went airborne that weekend. It happened to one car twice resulting in heavy damage which would keep it out of the race and after the car in the video crashed, Mercedes pulled the third CLR out of the race and they pulled out of motorsport altogether after that weekend.
They didn't pull out of motorsport completely after that, they were still an engine supplier in F1 at that time and racing the DTM as well. I think you're confusing it with the 1955 Le Mans disaster, which also involved Mercedes, and resulted in many spectators being killed. Mercedes pulled out of motorsport for many years after Le Mans '55.
@@AdamantJHS they did pull out of Le Mans after this though and have not since returned.
@@matthewthomas2546 Pulling out of motorsports and pulling out of Le Mans is not the same thing.
@@farzana6676 yes, I know. I was just clarifying the confusion.
"the crash was believed to have happened due to an aerodynamic design flaw"
No, really? I just thought they installed the ejector seat in the wrong location.
Ejecto seato cuz was installed incorrectly
My Honda did something similar to this and it turned out to be the air conditioning.
Front car played some role for accident too
Or he just pushed the A button too early
But why would he use an ejector seat in the middle of a race
When an automobile decides “I wanna be an airplane, WEEEEEEEEE”
Bro took "i believe i can fly" to a next level💀💀
bro is not funny💀
Was he disqualified for entering an airplane into an automobile race?
Willian Barboza 👆
Hahaha, hahaha you re lol man!!!
Should have been but nope, he got the DQ for leaving the track during the race. . .
A marshal should go into the field and black flag him!?!!!!
Willian Barboza
Idk🤣😂
But I bet he got good use of his frequent flyer miles!!
😂🤣💀
Peter Dumbreck gets his pilot license within 2 seconds
😂
im not sure that´s also funny for him
Mark Webber flew twice
Dumb Reck
Ah, this one. It was actually amazing that I only discovered a video of this accident when I first read the autobiography of Mark Webber back in 2019, I think. I've seen quite a number of accidents in F1, rally, etc., but somehow had missed this one.
1900s: We will have flying cars in the future!!!!
1999: am I a joke to you?
It’s so fascinating how this massive car hover in the air like a feather, just wow!
Physics
You think a car like that is massive?
It's actually very small
Guys the pitch and aerodynamic are to blame lol, literally this car didn’t have enough downforce.
Only need too be going about 120mph for a small aircraft too lift off. So when a light weight car with a flat bottom like this picks up the draft the wrong way it takes off..
"TO INFINITY, AND LE MANS!!"
Which one?
This is underrated.
This needs more votes
Underrated! So funny to pronounce in your head and see Buzz LY saying it while being on the remote controlled buggy :)
Badness!!
Toooo underrated!
Plot twist: the driver in the car behind casted "wingardium Leviosa"
Person: **Trying to drive**
Downforce: *Ight imma head out*
I swear I saw you on another video
Runner : "I can do backflip!!"
Mercedes : hold my downforce
Nice one
but the downforce didn't hold the Mercedea
[;' r/woooshh
Dumbreck: i wonder what's this button for....
Dumb Wreck
It wasn’t his fault though it was something wrong with the aero design
@@_aragornyesyes_7171 😂😂😂you are an idiot 😂😂
Costa Melcea why im a an idiot?
@@_aragornyesyes_7171 that was Just a joke
1939 : We will have flying cars in the future.
1999 : Say no more.
With the wind tunnels and knowledge of aerodynamics that we had by the late 90’s this was reprehensible.
Not unless yoy simulate elevation changes and drafting as well
Damn, Rocket League’s getting more realistic with every update
This car just did a handspring in the air holy crap
Dude this is real life, not rocket league
He attepted a Musty flick.
@@imcontemptwithlife4155 ...have you not seen the Rocket League graphics update? Read the channel name, it's a rocket league reference. Some zoomers really just don't understand the 'leauge. Sad life, man.
@@donoman9183 ur actually dumb if u think this is rocket league, it’s real life, a man was driving that car
*"They can't believe it's happened again"*
Wait hol up
@@thundercookie738 the car took off twice before this one. The massive spoiler caused the front end to lift, which completely removed all downforce and sent the car flying. Keep in mind the car only weighs exactly 1000KGs as well.
@@velvetrosang4684 thank you for explaining. I wasn't sure if it was a repeat accident or not.
@@thundercookie738 In this clip it is explained very well: ruclips.net/video/lL4gMpZolsU/видео.html
@@K1ngLemur thank you for the clip. Still watching it.
My guy really said look at THE EARTH thrown up there...🤣 love British commentary, it’s so real.
I love how the commentator is so chill about a car flying up in the air 😭
He tried to OVERtake the Toyota.
Ok, I'm out.
That joke ... you genius !
amazing xD
911gp it would have been an illegal overtake. All 4 wheels were off the track.
Nice observation of the rules :DD
from above
The driver Dumbreck walked away from the crash unhurt.
Thanks.
Kevin herenow good to know....thanks bruh
What about his pants?
Tim Beck if it weren't for his giant balls the car would have flown alot higher. His pants remain untouched.
The car landed more or less flat on a soft(ish) surface and remained basically intact. His harness would have kept him steady as the car flailed around.
If the car had crashed nose first into the track it might have been a very different outcome.
I love how his voice is so calm😂
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"officer, was i going too fast?"
"no, you were not flying fast enough"
Luftwaffe's -Mercedes- Messerschmidt CLK-Class taking off in 1944, colorized.
Messerschmitt 😉
It's a CLR, not a CLK GTR
@@R4M_Tommy Yeah your right
Still funny if you know what Messerschmidt is.
@McPlayer8t Fun fact: Messerschmitt* also produced cars
"Mercedes had aimed high but the car had aimed somewhat higher"
When you slam the launch control button but it launches you into earth's orbit
"You know, that crazy dirt racing they're doing down in baja looks cool I'm gonna give that a shot"
1955. Let’s pull out and never do this again
1980. Dang still flying
1999. Welcome to Mercedes international airport
2020: Nah, just fly anyway
2030: Boeing Mercedes 767
*Mercedes Airlines
"Pull out"
Thank you for flying mercedes airlines
0:07 "V1....rotate..."
Broadcaster no you cannot go NASCAR driver
Lol
He forgot to set flaps to 0
V2
United States of Embarrassment pilot talk
In the Mercedes garage: they can’t believe it’s happened again.
Idk why but I laughed when I heard this.
Imagine you’re just driving all fine all the sudden you’re doing a triple backflip 180.
As bad as it may seem, but that landing couldn't have been any better I don't think...landing flat on the ground backwards with the seat supporting the driver's weight and especially the helmet. I'm not surprised he walked away from that.
Yes, that's exactly right. Of all the angles for a car to hit the ground, tail first, wheels down, is the easiest on the driver. Another thing, I'm guessing the aerodynamic drag from the car's bottom heading straight into the airstream for a moment when it first lifted off the ground probably cut 20 MPH off the speed.
Apparently when the marshals got to him. He was sitting on a tree stump with a phone in hand. Probably telling those back in the pits he was ok. He was also breathalyse as Le Mans 24hrs takes place on public roads.
He was very lucky indeed, the car hit a tree on landing that punched clean through the chassis, but went down the gap between the driver's seat and the fuel tank bulkhead, missing Dumbreck by a few inches. Evidently it was not his day to die.
@Dean Leckie You are probably right. How much do you guess?
Apart from the brown underpants.
When downforce abandons you
ferrarigirl666
*UPFORCE*
*they put the wrong wing on the rear*
@@edgiestofcars it was the front of the car which caused it.
@@enen7188 chain bear f1
explained it well.
@@lazarmilenkovic6772 except for the fact that he left out the regulations which ultimately fixed it. Wish he added that too.
Uma das imagens mais marcantes dos últimos anos no automobilismo
From an aerodynamics point of view, that crash serves as an excellent illustration of the incredibly thin margin between downforce and lift. Luckily, the Mercedes driver was all okay!
"They can't believe it's happenned again."
I love the again there
@Pain timing is everything 😆😆😆
Yeah happened 3 times actually haha
The tesla roadster is not the first car in space.
Sadly the Mercedes didn't enter orbit :(
It never was.
Bahahahaha. The Mercedes went far closer to space than the Tesla ever will.
@SlavPlaysGames hahaha funny I laughed at your comment cuz its FUNY
20 years later, it's still my best flip
flipclip ;)
Commentator is so calm :)
Mercedes: "Sometimes my genius, it destroys gravity."
Lol I’m watching Clarkson rn
Oh yeah yeah
Yup
@@TheStandardIsTheStandard *oh god not again-*
Car: *_*fricking takes off and flips over_**
Commentator: (calmly) oh my god
Newby Ton British commentators for ya
yeah that's british commentators
They’re used to flipping cars, they have the Reliant
@@Raviolication 😂😂😂
@@moizj.3675 I got the impression it was added later. Usually done when they don't want to pay commentators for the entire race (which is not being broadcast) but a highlights show . Its a relatively common practice.
That's why is so popular collectors item, so aerodynamic it can fly 😂
Yes I remember seeing this accident on a zapping show on French TV in 1999,I was nearly 19.
Impressive accident
- When the german VTEC kicks in -
Only some wings added and Mercedes Airlines are born
GTEC
@@ZeithammerOG We already have one, it's why he's flying
The GTEC kicked in brooo
More like DTEC (Deutschland VTEC).
Must have been a bizarre crash to experience. One moment you're watching the track, and the next you're flying through the air in weird directions without having crashed into anything.
There was an interview with Peter where he said the only parts he remembered was going down the straight and suddenly ending up in a forest. He doesn't actually remember going airbourne.
@Dacia Sandero guys after moving and moving, he actually said "and you want it to stop and then the car is stopped"
1985: in a future we will have flying cars
1999: 0:07
No one is gonna believe you when you tell them “I was racing and the car in front of me just flew away”
The Porsche radiong in for the boxes be like: "dude the Mercedes in front of me just took off"
@@GunsNGames1 the car yeeted itself
Guns N' Games that Mercedes just fucks off
considering not even mercedes believed its own driver when he told them the same thing happened to him before the race, yeah
“Houston, we may have a problem.”
“Yeah? What’s that?”
“We have liftoff.”
-"A Mercedes brand automobile has just left the orbit and is coming right at us."
-"Again?"