This guy has had countless wrecks during hes time in racing career and F1, and been unharmed like every time. Then someone like Allan Simonsen crashes quite, well does not look too bad and dies.. quite weird.
allans crash did look minor on TV . but the speed tricks you on the screen (looks slower) and the fact he hit a tree spot on... what is the worst part of it i think is those trees still stand there. WHY ?!?! nobody knows
the following year they put more safety barriers in that part of the track. you can no longer run off the track like simonsen did, and hit a tree, all you will hit is a safety barrier which is made to absorb impacts
That was the moment Mercedes should have stopped racing and withdrew from Le Mans 99. They choose to continue and almost had a fatality thanks to a design default that meant they couldn't follow other cars over crests of the hills at Le Mans that year. Not Mercedes finest hour that day.
I'll say, that was my second le mans car in Gran Turismo. My first was the Mazda 787B. Both cars were fast and hard to drive with me still being a newer player at the time
Strange how this backflip-for-no-reason issue was only a problem for German prototypes from the late '90s (3 from Mercedes at Le Mans in 1999, then 1 from the Porsche 911 GT1 at Petit Le Mans in 1998, and 1 from the BMW V12 LMR in the same race in 2000).
Thats beacause they are so aero advanced.however they only calculate aero in normal condition in aero tunel wich doesnt simulate bumps,crests etc, fatal mistake when designed these cars but they made mea-culpa and retire the cars
I know this is an ancient comment but it wasn't just the Germans. Plenty of cars have had blowovers. A Nissan GTP at Limerock for instance. Heck, that Nissan GTR at Nurburgring a couple years ago. An old Shadow canam car blew over in a vintage race not long ago.
Clearly they were trying to minimise down force for maximum top speeds around the fast Le Mans circuit and they just didn’t leave enough margin for safety.
"If you're gonna race cars, you're gonna crash cars" Mark Webber. I loved when Clarkson asked him in that interview, "would you be pressing the brake pedal?" And Mark replies "oh the brake lights would probably still be on." 😂😂😂 Man's a class act.
Saturday morning warmup started with "Surprise! Mercedes sur le toit!" over the PA system at Le Mans. No TV video from that flip, so spectators at the track did not know what happened until that local newspaper came out with the photos.
On June 11, 1955, the world's most famous auto race descended into tragedy. The driver of one of the leading cars in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, racing at 240 km/h, braked too late to avoid a competitor. His car flew into the air and disintegrated in the grandstands. The accident left 82 people dead, and over 120 injured
James Psomiadis That is correct, but it also means lots and lots of turbulence as the air tries to fill in the low pressure gap behind the first car immediately. It is not a vacuum behind the first car of course!
Must've had incorrect use of the word. But still, it's peculiar for this to have happened three times on the same car. It has something to do with the extensive redesign; it is much lower than the previous model
and Mercedes refused ti believe the car flipped both times, laying blame on Webber himself until the 3rd time was caught on camera. By then, the relationship was already damaged.
It happens right at 2:13 - You car hear a car but it doesn't enter the cameras view. You can also see all the marshalls running over to the right side.
That doesn't make sense. You agree that F1 is half team half driver, but yet you say a world champion can't be compared with other drivers ? You need a good car to have the opportunity to become world champ in the first place. And comparing drivers is generally rather difficult anyway.
What the hell are you talking about? Webber never drove for Mercedes F1, if you talking about the Le Mans team, how come Webbers 'own bad driving' lead to the same thing happening to Christophe Bouchet Mercedes CLS as well?
Because they thought Mark was lying to cover his own mistake. They didn't believe him when he told them what happened, and there was no footage to back him up.
Interesting that, although the Dodge Viper was mentioned as being faster than the Porsche 911s, there is no mention that the Viper didn't have the same capacity engine as the Porsche. The Porsche are running real, proper engines of 3.8 litres, and the Vipers were fitted with 8.0 litre TRUCK engines. From 1966 the Americans have just not been able to build a proper engine that can race on equal terms with European engines. They cheated with Galaxie and Falcon, Impala, all with 6 or 7.0 litre engines, racing against up to 2.0 litre European cars. Yet still getting beaten by 1.6 litre Ford Lotus Cortinas, proper cars.
@Zeggawong There are no footage of the flips at all, this video angle missed it and there wasn't nothing during practice (although I am certained it would have been filmed) I know Christophe Bouchet's Mercedes got an onboard camera but I don't know about Mark Webber's car.
First : it is not before Indianpolis, but at the end of the Hunaudieres straight ! In 1955 Levegh was sent airborne because Mike Hawthorn make a bad mistake in front of its pit (and never admit it)
Peter Dumbreck dealt with the same issue with his car later on that year also, which that clip I’ve seen on the show Most Shocking when they were showing that on truTV all the time. That one went airborne out of nowhere and crashed outside of the track.
Don Rudolph ... it happened 3 times, once in quali, once in the warm up before the race and then again in the race itself. First two incidents happened to Mark Webber, one in the race was Peter Dumbreck.
@TheAirsoftmadman They can if they are set up for it. None of the current F1 tracks allow for the car to be set up to go that fast in a straight line however. I believe if you look up Honda F1 and Bonneville, they did max out an F1 car, but that was set up for straight line speed only. It had no rear wing and a lot of other mods were done.
U get luck early like alonso, then u get respect, u get better drives, u have less pressure because u have proven urself etc.. Webber hasnt had such luck by going into a good team.. to me webber and alonso are the same.. just alonso's luck by going to renault has shaped him differently
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He should have a pilots license after all the flips he's had, poor guy it must be heart wrenching when you go over.
Ironicly he does have a flying licence
Fr
Hahah yes
Hello man life 9yrs was just it
He said he was higher than the trees. He saw the top of the trees under him 😮
I see Mark has gotten plenty of practice flying around. No wonder he landed his Red Bull car safely in Valencia.
Some say his favorite airline pilot is Mark Webber
lolol, i can't believe no one commented yet. lolol some say thar he has no understanding of clouds and is puzzled by stairs.
"And his name is the STIG!!!!!!" Clarkson, Jeremy Clarkson
Because your a dipshit
1999 Le Mans race. 1999 pole position. 2010 Racing in Valencia.
2:13 You can see the marshals reacting to the crash before the TV crew caught on.
This guy has had countless wrecks during hes time in racing career and F1, and been unharmed like every time. Then someone like Allan Simonsen crashes quite, well does not look too bad and dies.. quite weird.
Its called bad luck.
allans crash did look minor on TV . but the speed tricks you on the screen (looks slower) and the fact he hit a tree spot on... what is the worst part of it i think is those trees still stand there. WHY ?!?! nobody knows
trees are made to last
the following year they put more safety barriers in that part of the track. you can no longer run off the track like simonsen did, and hit a tree, all you will hit is a safety barrier which is made to absorb impacts
Jesper K.N.E He hit a tree? How did he lie back on track?
them australians....love being upside down, i guess.
That pun
James Motacki That's a good one :D
James Motacki OMG Thats amazing😂😂😂
James Motacki we do
G’day mate 🙃🙃🙃🙃
That was the moment Mercedes should have stopped racing and withdrew from Le Mans 99. They choose to continue and almost had a fatality thanks to a design default that meant they couldn't follow other cars over crests of the hills at Le Mans that year. Not Mercedes finest hour that day.
And they have history of aerodynamics failures!
When?
*cough* germany's revenge *cough*
All GT-one fake road legal cars went airborne at some point (not at Le Mans). Even the BMW LMR V12 did.
@@ernestogasulla7763 Mercedes Shill
Mark Webber, the best airplane pilot we've ever seen in Le Mans !
He did a backflip in formula 1 aswell 😂
Le Mans.
1955.
This Mark Webber guy seems really good, I believe he could be in Formula 1 some day
god that GT-One is so beautiful
Totally agree
It is truly a thing of beauty, I like the livery on Gran Turismo 2 slightly more but the car itself is just wow.
and lost just for technical issues. 1000% wpildve won it
i heard keiichi tsuchiya then the memories of this race came flooding back.
i was so surprised when i heard his name
True
It's called aero dynamics Mercedes, look into it... thank God they worked that out before they entered F1.
I watched the toyota gt1 and started crying, I loved that car I loved to drive it in gran turismo 2,
I'll say, that was my second le mans car in Gran Turismo. My first was the Mazda 787B. Both cars were fast and hard to drive with me still being a newer player at the time
That was a great one too, what about the nissan R390 gt1, do you remember it? Man I loved that car
That was a fun car. Although my favorite car was the Toyota 7
Sad but no r390 in 1999. I hope there can be GTOne, R390, CLK GTRLM, V12LMR, 911GT1, Mclaren in that race.
Carlitox b
Engineers: trying to improve the cars aerodynamics and make it as grippy as possible
Mark webber somehow:
Strange how this backflip-for-no-reason issue was only a problem for German prototypes from the late '90s (3 from Mercedes at Le Mans in 1999, then 1 from the Porsche 911 GT1 at Petit Le Mans in 1998, and 1 from the BMW V12 LMR in the same race in 2000).
Thats beacause they are so aero advanced.however they only calculate aero in normal condition in aero tunel wich doesnt simulate bumps,crests etc, fatal mistake when designed these cars but they made mea-culpa and retire the cars
I know this is an ancient comment but it wasn't just the Germans. Plenty of cars have had blowovers. A Nissan GTP at Limerock for instance. Heck, that Nissan GTR at Nurburgring a couple years ago. An old Shadow canam car blew over in a vintage race not long ago.
@@keiththestones7951 3 mercedes cars. One in qualification, one in the warm up and one during the race. Two times Webber, one time Dumbreck.
Clearly they were trying to minimise down force for maximum top speeds around the fast Le Mans circuit and they just didn’t leave enough margin for safety.
Trying to balance the front and rear down force can be tricky at differing speeds, they were playing around with flat floors too at the time!
Mark Webber was 2nd in the f1 race yesterday ! hes awesome
Know retired
@@rvven3608 yeah he retired a long time ago my friend
Just won the Monacco Grand Prix ... now that is something special. Top bloke. Well done lad!!
Bro took "i believe i can fly" to a next level 💀💀
lol "it's Mark Webber again"
this guy loves hard crash, upside down doesn't he?
@@ЕгорЦыба no he didn't flip a car the year before. It was just a few days before, in qualifying
He’s from Australia he feels more at home
Grosjean's fault
Ur 4 years too early for the meme
This joke was ahead of its time
Ericsson's fault😂
I'd say grosjean's ghost would haunt you...but then he escaped from hell. #denied
This aged.... strangely?
He flies through the air with the greatest of ease....
Mark Webber still racing in the LeMans Series since that crash in 99
I wasn't expecting that mention of Tsuchiya! The drift king himself.
0:41 Tshuchiya aka Drift King was there!!!
Easter eggs.
@@007KIMITANO Not easter eggs, *great drivers*
@@nismoog9251 definitely 💯
He and co-pilots were 2nd overall, 1st in class as well
The legendary Keiichi Tsuchiya was in this race, dang I forgot this!
"If you're gonna race cars, you're gonna crash cars" Mark Webber.
I loved when Clarkson asked him in that interview, "would you be pressing the brake pedal?" And Mark replies "oh the brake lights would probably still be on." 😂😂😂
Man's a class act.
Mark Webber is such a good driver he can flip 3 cars.
that toyota is just stunningly beautiful
young Mark
Saturday morning warmup started with "Surprise! Mercedes sur le toit!" over the PA system at Le Mans. No TV video from that flip, so spectators at the track did not know what happened until that local newspaper came out with the photos.
On June 11, 1955, the world's most famous auto race descended into tragedy. The driver of one of the leading cars in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, racing at 240 km/h, braked too late to avoid a competitor. His car flew into the air and disintegrated in the grandstands. The accident left 82 people dead, and over 120 injured
He is Australian, he deals with death threatening events every day. A little flip is nothing to him. Mercedes hired the perfect person for the job.
There will never be footage of this accident or even part of it thanks to one cameraman who had his head up his ass.
You could see the stewards running before they showed the wreck.
"It's the Mark Webber car, again."
Mercedes has felt so cursed that it has never returned to Le Mans since.
I hope this wont happen him next year in Porsche 919
Red Bull does give you wings
Yea, I like Webber. I think if he could've gotten a good ride he'd win in F1
12 years later, was close to winning the title in 2010 and has multiple victories and podiums.
God bless u.....Its a pain goin thru a long video waiting for what the video s actually all about.
2:59 so it had already flipped over twice and you still decide to race it with peter dumbreck
Does anyone know if there's footage of Mark's car flipping, either of the times? I've seen the other car go over, not Webbers.
no wonder he's always upside down, webber is australian
That Viper in 2nd is an amazing car, I remember when I used to see that at Silverstone
Hard to believe that the Web was only 6 years old.
This is going to haunt him this coming season in the Porsche! lmao
Nah. If he can survive the trauma of being Red Bull's lab rat in favour of a spoiled kid, this will be smooth sailing.
this will never happen again, noticed the holes above the tires in all the LMPGT cars??? that is to prevent this from happening...
It's unusual, slipstreaming usually blocks out turbulent air.
Uuh.. Aren't you right in the turbulent air when you're slipstreaming? Isn't that what slipstreaming means?
No, slipstreaming means less air is hitting your car because there's one in front of you that's blocking it out
James Psomiadis That is correct, but it also means lots and lots of turbulence as the air tries to fill in the low pressure gap behind the first car immediately. It is not a vacuum behind the first car of course!
James Psomiadis no slipstreaming does block laminar air but does provide turbulent air.
Must've had incorrect use of the word. But still, it's peculiar for this to have happened three times on the same car. It has something to do with the extensive redesign; it is much lower than the previous model
In Assetto Corsa this car drives just fine. Never had any problems. And I drive the classic 60's Le Mans circuit. 😁
I hope to see Webber back at Le Mans in 2014. Hopefully the Porsche doesn't flip like the CLR.
This video was uploaded one month before I was born
Correction, GT-2. . . though Oreca did run GT-1 for a year or two and met with little success.
and Mercedes refused ti believe the car flipped both times, laying blame on Webber himself until the 3rd time was caught on camera. By then, the relationship was already damaged.
Mark Webber is the #1 driver in the world now....no doubt about it.....he even lapped Schumi in Hungary....
You know it's time to move to F1 when your le mans car flips not once, but twice!
..and his car also flipped 4 years before this comment in f1
6:30 norbert haug with his mustache :)
At 2:15 some of the marshalls start running because the CLR is flipping at this moment
He is australian. They are upside down. He just wanted to feel like at home
If you look at a globe you will see Australia is more sideways.
It happens right at 2:13 - You car hear a car but it doesn't enter the cameras view. You can also see all the marshalls running over to the right side.
I wish there was footage of the crash
2:30
That doesn't make sense. You agree that F1 is half team half driver, but yet you say a world champion can't be compared with other drivers ? You need a good car to have the opportunity to become world champ in the first place. And comparing drivers is generally rather difficult anyway.
What the hell are you talking about? Webber never drove for Mercedes F1, if you talking about the Le Mans team, how come Webbers 'own bad driving' lead to the same thing happening to Christophe Bouchet Mercedes CLS as well?
Imagine a CLR without roof...
Webber = Winner at last!!! Never knew about this, great upload. Thanks ;-)
Not at Le Mans mind you, best he could manage was P2 in 2015
If this had already happened twice, why the hell didnt Mercedes pull their cars before Dumbreck's shunt. Terrible management.
Because they thought Mark was lying to cover his own mistake. They didn't believe him when he told them what happened, and there was no footage to back him up.
@@walover165 wow, didn't believe the driver. Definitely not any justification! Didn't know about that.
Webber's qualifying flip....The team didn't believe him that the car flipped....bcoz it wasn't recorded
They did not believe him about this crash, either. Only when Dumbreck's was caught on camera.
It wasn't Mark webber. Driver was Elon Musk on the way to Mars
Webber, flip master !
I was heart broken when this happened, bad times
Interesting that, although the Dodge Viper was mentioned as being faster than the Porsche 911s, there is no mention that the Viper didn't have the same capacity engine as the Porsche. The Porsche are running real, proper engines of 3.8 litres, and the Vipers were fitted with 8.0 litre TRUCK engines. From 1966 the Americans have just not been able to build a proper engine that can race on equal terms with European engines. They cheated with Galaxie and Falcon, Impala, all with 6 or 7.0 litre engines, racing against up to 2.0 litre European cars. Yet still getting beaten by 1.6 litre Ford Lotus Cortinas, proper cars.
Hate how people see this as the CLK GTR, that was a great car! and this not so...
favourite flip racer
He Flipped again In 2010,Valencia,What a Poor luck...
@Zeggawong There are no footage of the flips at all, this video angle missed it and there wasn't nothing during practice (although I am certained it would have been filmed)
I know Christophe Bouchet's Mercedes got an onboard camera but I don't know about Mark Webber's car.
2:10 Have you noticed that some of the corner marshalls are running over to help Mark Webber?
Good to see that Mark is silencing all of his critics! Yay Marky!!!!!
First : it is not before Indianpolis, but at the end of the Hunaudieres straight !
In 1955 Levegh was sent airborne because Mike Hawthorn make a bad mistake in front of its pit (and never admit it)
The car had a bad setup which made it prone to flip
747’s must have bad setups, too …
Peter Dumbreck dealt with the same issue with his car later on that year also, which that clip I’ve seen on the show Most Shocking when they were showing that on truTV all the time. That one went airborne out of nowhere and crashed outside of the track.
Is that the same crest that that Mercedes went flying over a few years later?
THIS is the year the mercedes' flew over the fence
Don Rudolph same day and yes
Don Rudolph ... it happened 3 times, once in quali, once in the warm up before the race and then again in the race itself. First two incidents happened to Mark Webber, one in the race was Peter Dumbreck.
It appears that the crash happened near a Karate Dojo. Lots of black belts came to help out.
@TheAirsoftmadman They can if they are set up for it. None of the current F1 tracks allow for the car to be set up to go that fast in a straight line however. I believe if you look up Honda F1 and Bonneville, they did max out an F1 car, but that was set up for straight line speed only. It had no rear wing and a lot of other mods were done.
U get luck early like alonso, then u get respect, u get better drives, u have less pressure because u have proven urself etc.. Webber hasnt had such luck by going into a good team.. to me webber and alonso are the same.. just alonso's luck by going to renault has shaped him differently
This has not aged well...
Why doesn't mark just get a pilot's licence?
Completely different layout!
To make things even, he crashed most of his F1 cars too.
Love those panoz cars.
Mark Webber loves to fly in Le Mans with Air Mercedes !
Deja Vu for Mark. He must have wings :D
@TheRandomVids101 Well Webber thinks so....because the moment he lapped Schumi he said to the radio 'That felt good!'
Young Mark in a flying Merc
Here's a question.
Did that crash constitute oversteer or understeer?
Maybe uppy-overy-steer.
Man was made for that seat at redbull
2:35 you will thank me later
Thanks
A frying Mercedes.........
Keiichi tshuchiya drove in le mans??? *gasp*
I was shocked too. but i think i saw a documentary on it. He did well too and his co driver messed it up
He drove to 8th place @Le Man in a Honda NSX in 1995, outstanding achievement in the famous 80s supercar!
if in doubt drift it out 6 times.
if in doubt drift it out You can view the car at Toyota Mega Web in a the cafe in Odaiba, Tokyo
+if in doubt drift it out He drove for the Toyota factory team. They would have won Le Mans if not for a tire blowout
absolutely shocking
I come from a land down under....
He was born to fly
Yes, and then he flipped an F1 car. And now he's coming back to sports cars, for Porsche, in LMP1 class. Want to bet he'll flip another one?
*cough* broken leg *cough*
not much of an excuse for his previous win drowt, but he's certainly bringing it back now...
around 4:24 - nice big set of Canon EF L-series lenses!
What we need is a few more Marshalls on track doing nothing