Possible ABS Failure Leads To Flying Seat Ibiza At The Nurburgring

This Ibiza driver suffered a massive lock-up on the Nordschleife, leading to painful Amrco contact

Updated: 10 Oct 2024

What we have here is a Nurburgring crash that’s a little more unusual than the power oversteer-induced Corvette smash we saw last week. It’s strange because as the little Seat comes into the frame, it looks as though it should make the corner.

Regardless, the driver slams on the brakes - perhaps out of panic - and for whatever reason, the ABS doesn’t function. Maybe it was a failure, or it could have been somehow disabled, but the end result is the same - the car stops turning and goes straight on, right into the Armco barrier. Ouch.

Thankfully, the occupants - unlike the two people in the Corvette crash - quickly get themselves out of harm’s way.

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.

Comments

I read that as “Porsche ABS Failure Leads to Flying Seat (like what you sit on) at the Nurburgring”

Technically correct

Why was he driving a Seat on the nurburgring

because he can?

Cupra disagrees

because he have the guts to do so. i would love to see you driving there ;)

Why’s there so many downvotes?? 😂

what happened to cadence braking?

Most people don’t know about it. But worse, lots of younger car people expect the safety devices like ASM/ABS/STM to save them, so don’t bother learning about things like threshold braking.

Cadence braking has always been a terrible idea and that anyone ever thought it was a good idea is mindboggeling.

I took a pill at ibiza

Underrated comment

*in

There has been a lot of post about the Nurburgring recently.

James May is not amused

ABS cannot be disabled in this seat(6J before facelift) ..I have the same, the ESP on the other hand can be disabled

Could have taken out the fuse maybe?

tries right foot braking once

Don’t you mean left foot braking?

ejecto SEATo CUZ!

You know why? Because all these people think they are super-heroes by turning-off traction control. If they had the traction control on, this could easily be saved by the computer.