Horror Movie: Dodge Viper Loses Its Brakes While Going Full Bore on a Road CourseBy Brian Lohnes Posted 01/28/10
We'd list brake failure as the top thing on our list of horrifying automotive possibilities. This video is the perfect example of how a multitude of things can stack up on you in a perfect storm of awful. Take a big horsepower Dodge Viper that is hauling ass down a straightaway and send it into a very hard left hand turn with no brakes. The result is stunning.
We think that this driver is at a school of some sort as there is a passenger who appears to have a helmet wired to communicate with the driver. He makes a feeble attempt at grabbing the gearshift or the hand brake at one point, but the big Viper just bulldozes it way off the track at an extremely high rate of speed and hurdles toward a wall. The impact is beyond huge and the in-car shot makes us pucker every time we see it.
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Written by Remy-Z
Jan 29 2010
Damn, that was a hard hit. Not surprised if the fronts locked, however...
Written by revolutionary
Jan 29 2010
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Written by IRONHEAD
Jan 29 2010
must of lost the rears..
cause hitt'n the brakes with no front would bring the rear around and not plow..
a wide turn with locking up the e brake would've at least lessened the carnage..
if that was a schools car.. the airbag should've been turned off..
oh well... ebay one viber cheap
Written by zombie289
Jan 28 2010
[i][b]OUCH!!!![/b][/i] Dont Vipers have pretty good brakes??? Wonder what caused the failure??
Written by JRoberts Jan 28 2010
OUCH!! Air bag worked. I wonder what the damage looks like. If I had been that instructor I think I would have had to consider a change of underwear after that excursion off of the track.
Written by FANTASY FACTORY Jan 28 2010
that'll buff out.
Written by BangShift Forum Admin Jan 28 2010
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Damn, that was a hard hit. Not surprised if the fronts locked, however...
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does the viber have abs(don't know)
and another question.. when an abs equipt car losses a half of the braking system .. does the abs fight you as you try to control the car..
like if you lost the fronts and needed to turn (tight) and wanted to look up the rears to help it around..
would it fight you for traction that you don't want???
I think it does.. and is the reason more cars/trucks end up on their roof..
as you go into a correction to miss a car on the hyway(lets say) and you hammer the brakes to slide the rear ,but instead the abs goes looking for traction and over you go..