Total Brakes Failure Forces Sebring Racer to Stop All the Way Out in the Street

This guy lapping the famous Sebring track in Florida wasn't probably too keen on either of the two, but it just so happened that the brakes of his Chevrolet Camaro SS couldn't help him anymore as he was coming down the Big Bend and approaching a right-hand turn. You could hear the poor discs and pads squeak a few turns back, but our driver chose to ignore that and kept going, hard as ever.

His saving grace was that they didn't give in completely at full speed, so he was able to shave off most of what he was doing on that long straight. Even so, shortly after leaving the course, he was presented with the choice of going left, and out of the circuit's premises, or right, and back on track. He surely would have preferred the latter, but the angle of the turn was too steep, so he went left.

He made good use of a patch of grass reducing his speed even further, even though it almost made him spin. The man was clearly very concentrated, as not even a curse word can be heard. In fact, there's an eerie silence made even more strange by the fact that there's a closed (and chained) metal gate quickly approaching. He goes through, proving the countless movies that showed similar scenes didn't lie to us one bit about how easy it is to break them open.

He's now on public roads, however, so he needs to be careful. He dodges a truck and then takes another left-hand turn heading towards the parking lot of the Chateay Elan Hotel and Conference Center. There's a bit of phone or radio chatter where he tells somebody what happened, and he probably gets instructions on where he should go next, because he exits the park and heads over to a different nearby location. At this time, though, he seems to be in complete control of the car, so the video ends and we're left to imagine the happy ending. Well, he'll still have to pay for that gate and the front of his car, but it could have been a lot worse.