Fiat 500 Abarth Has Rollover Crash during Autocross Event

So, how did the pocket rocked end up touching the road with its roof instead of its wheels? Well, it seems we're dealing with a combination between its height-to-base ratio and a set of overly grippy tires.

As you'll be able to notice in the piece of footage at the bottom of the page, it all started when the driver noticed the machine was only relying on two wheels. She did the right thing, namely countersteering in the direction where the car was leaning.

Alas, the little Abarth ended up tipping on the other side and eventually rolled over - the clip documenting the shenanigan, which was recorded using the dash cam on the hot hatch, shows the whole thing and, even from behind the screen, this can be a pretty scarry experience.

The adventure took place last fall, at the Muffin Racing Snake River Region SCCA, with the driver taking to YouTube to share her adventure with the world (we must thank Redditor MrMistah for bringing this to our attention).

When asked for further details, she provided some in a YT comment: "This was a '13 Fiat 500 Abarth. Cause was too much stiffness, fresh semi-sticky tires, and exiting an element late over iffy pavementÿ,"

We've talked about the said ration of hot hatches before. And while these compact velocity tools don't show their limits often, things go terribly wrong then they do. For one thing, there are certain Nurburgring corners that have a thing for putting go-fast compacts on their roofs, with the most famous bend of the sort being Schwedenkreuz.