One must always remember that the Nurburgring is the strictest teacher a driver can have - making it through in one piece will seriously boost your skill and yet your slightest mistake will be mercilessly punished.
A Porsche 911 GT3 PDK drivers recently learned this the (almost) hard way, with the man going through a near-crash Green Hell experience at triple-digit speed.
The piece of footage below shows the GT division machine heading into Flugplatz, with the driver deciding to leave the final part of the deceleration process for the corner entry.
This upset the balance of the Zuffenhausen machine, with the rear end stepping out. The following moments saw the guy behind the steering wheel wrestling the pendulum effect of the 911's rear-engined layout - sure, with German engineers moving the flat-six closer to the middle of the car for the 991 generation, but this is still present.
Somebody who hasn't studied the engine-behind-the-rear-axle concept might not understand the driver's swift left-to-right struggle and this is why we've added a second video below. Shot from outside the car, this shows a somewhat similar incident involving a 997 GT3 RS that took place back in March.
Returning to our GT3, the car finally finds its grip, with the driver continuing his hot lap as if nothing had happened. And if the setup seen might seem familiar, it's probably because we've shown you a piece of footage captured from inside the Porscha before.
We're talking about the Porsche 911 GT3 RS PDK vs. 911 GT3 PDK Nordschleife battle we showed you late last month. This only comes to show that, even when talking about a driver who knows his car and is also familiar with the tricks of the Ring, the risk of an accident is never tiny. What does this mean? That, when lapping the infamous German track, you should add enough time to your car's official Ring time (at least at first) and stay 101% alert for every second of it.
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