Here's An LMP1 Car Back-Flipping Just After Eau Rouge
The Eau Rouge/Raidillon complex at Spa-Francorchamps (Eau Rouge is the kink at the bottom, Raidillon is the steep uphill bit) is one of motorsport’s scariest corner pairings. If something goes wrong here, it’s probably going to be a big one, and it’s definitely not somewhere you’d want to have a Mercedes CLR-style back-flip.
That’s what happened to Matevos Isaakyan at last weekend’s 6 Hours of Spa though - after straying into the runoff area, the front-end of his SMP Racing BR1 lifted, triggering a terrifying airborne moment. TV cameras hmissed the incident, but this scary fan-shot footage has since emerged on YouTube.
Fortunately, Isaakyan escaped injury. The race was won by Fernando Alonso meanwhile, on his World Endurance Championship debut.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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How can tv cameras miss something at eau rouge ? 🤔
Wait Alonso won…. Oh it’s WEC. Not F1.
Nearly 20 years of progress and they still haven’t figured it out…
I see they’ve taken a lesson from AMG from about 20 years ago
Nothing about Fittipaldi’s crash on the same spot a week ago? This may be more spectacular but Fittipaldi’s really shows the progress in racecar safety (though he got badly injured)
Flux capacitor didnt engage fully..
Webber can do this better
time for another LMP1 tribute car.
Alonso wins on his debut, goddamn that guy is good.
And this also goes to show how safe these cars are now. Must have been a pretty bumpy landing.
He did the Webber flip!!!!