Photo: Heisler Jeremy on C8 Corvette Owners (And Friends)
Let’s face it; we all made a poor driving decision at some point. Curbed wheels, backing up into a fence, not paying attention to the blind spot when changing lanes, you name it; there’s a lot that can go wrong in real-world driving scenarios.
The owner of this C8 Corvette, however, appears to have experienced the understeer-y nature of the mid-engine platform. Posted on social media by ‘Vette enthusiast Heisler Jeremy, the pictures don’t tell the whole story. Considering that no crash information has been made public, photos are all we got right now.
As you can tell, the driver must have carried too much speed into a corner bending away from the right turning lane. Excessive velocity, debris on the asphalt, and hitting the brakes hard is the perfect recipe to lock the brakes and understeer, and this backstory appears to be backed by the man who posted the pics as well.
Randy Pobst of Motor Trend is the kind of guy who certainly knows how to extract a car’s maximum potential. But Randy had also complained about mid-corner understeer in a comparison test with the C7 GS with General Motors engineers on the site. Nevertheless, mid-engine cars like the C8 can be made to corner as you’d expected them to do with trail braking. Altering the wheel alignment with a tweak to the front caster and decreasing the tire pressure is another logical solution.
Having covered the technicalities of the eighth-gen platform, the pictures also suggest that nobody was hurt in the accident and the damage sustained by the ‘Vette is merely cosmetical. A new bumper, a little bit of front-end garnish, and probably a new radiator should be all that this car needs to get back to its former glory.
Switching from a front-engine design that exhibits snap oversteer to the mid-engine Corvette may be a totally different experience for some people, and this gets us to track days. The Spring Mountain Motor Resort and Country Club as well as the NCM Motorsports Park offer hand-on practice on the circuit, and as opposed to public roads, a track is a much safer environment for driving errors.
As you can tell, the driver must have carried too much speed into a corner bending away from the right turning lane. Excessive velocity, debris on the asphalt, and hitting the brakes hard is the perfect recipe to lock the brakes and understeer, and this backstory appears to be backed by the man who posted the pics as well.
Randy Pobst of Motor Trend is the kind of guy who certainly knows how to extract a car’s maximum potential. But Randy had also complained about mid-corner understeer in a comparison test with the C7 GS with General Motors engineers on the site. Nevertheless, mid-engine cars like the C8 can be made to corner as you’d expected them to do with trail braking. Altering the wheel alignment with a tweak to the front caster and decreasing the tire pressure is another logical solution.
Having covered the technicalities of the eighth-gen platform, the pictures also suggest that nobody was hurt in the accident and the damage sustained by the ‘Vette is merely cosmetical. A new bumper, a little bit of front-end garnish, and probably a new radiator should be all that this car needs to get back to its former glory.
Switching from a front-engine design that exhibits snap oversteer to the mid-engine Corvette may be a totally different experience for some people, and this gets us to track days. The Spring Mountain Motor Resort and Country Club as well as the NCM Motorsports Park offer hand-on practice on the circuit, and as opposed to public roads, a track is a much safer environment for driving errors.
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