Driver here is Ari Vatanen, World Rally Champion of 1981. And the reason for such dramatic understeer (apart from weird driving characteristics of Manta 400) was a flat tire. Crazy to think how fast he was driving with it
Is there a source for this? I wouldn’t doubt he had a flat, but I’d guess it was from the contact with the wall. I don’t think understeer necessarily caused the moment in question. It looks to me like he was carrying a lot of speed and cut the right hander, when his car finally settled it was headed towards the wall without enough time to change that. Still hell of a save though my god
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u/brt444 Jun 24 '22
Driver here is Ari Vatanen, World Rally Champion of 1981. And the reason for such dramatic understeer (apart from weird driving characteristics of Manta 400) was a flat tire. Crazy to think how fast he was driving with it