The Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 makes an excellent rally car, as the vehicle’s intelligent four-wheel drive system allows the driver to virtually play with the axles in order to make the most out of the 2.0-liter turbocharged unit. However, the vehicle’s Active Yaw Control, as well as its other smart features, can only fight the laws of physics up to a point - beyond this, the crash zone is entered.
This is exactly what happens in the adjacent videos, which show an extreme crash that recently took place in Hungary, during the Rally Orfu. A white Evo enters a left-hand corner carrying way too much speed, the vehicle understeers wide, the driver fails to correct this (it might have helped a little) and the car slides off the road in a ditch, goes airborn, has another contact with the ground (damn, this is where the rear wing was destoryed) and then lands on the side of the road.
In his quest to bring you the most impressive automotive creations, Andrei relies on learning as a superpower. There's quite a bit of room in the garage that is this aficionado's heart, so factory-condition classics and widebody contraptions with turbos poking through the hood can peacefully coexist. Full profile
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