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

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.

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SirJamjaxIsGoingAgain-PeaceOutChaps

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

09/05/2018 - 10:05 |
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Technically correct

09/05/2018 - 10:15 |
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Thewierdkidfjjrjd

Why was he driving a Seat on the nurburgring

09/05/2018 - 10:20 |
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because he can?

09/05/2018 - 12:52 |
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Cupra disagrees

09/05/2018 - 14:09 |
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because he have the guts to do so. i would love to see you driving there ;)

09/05/2018 - 16:28 |
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Why’s there so many downvotes?? 😂

09/05/2018 - 18:31 |
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Anonymous

what happened to cadence braking?

09/05/2018 - 10:41 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

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.

09/05/2018 - 22:15 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

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

09/06/2018 - 11:30 |
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Anonymous

I took a pill at ibiza

09/05/2018 - 10:52 |
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Tomislav Celić

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Underrated comment

09/05/2018 - 14:09 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

*in

09/06/2018 - 03:36 |
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Jeremy S.

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

09/05/2018 - 11:02 |
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James May is not amused

09/06/2018 - 11:12 |
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Anonymous

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

09/05/2018 - 12:24 |
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UnknownCat13

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Could have taken out the fuse maybe?

09/05/2018 - 12:27 |
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TNTNINJA3

tries right foot braking once

09/05/2018 - 12:27 |
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Don’t you mean left foot braking?

09/05/2018 - 13:47 |
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CannedRex24

ejecto SEATo CUZ!

09/05/2018 - 14:40 |
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White Comet

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.

09/05/2018 - 16:31 |
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Traction Control has nothing to do with this incident. ABS was not functioning

09/06/2018 - 08:03 |
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675LT_ftw

Is it a bird? is it a plane? No.. it’s a small Spanish hatchback

09/05/2018 - 18:31 |
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