They always say in racing: If you aren't crashing---your not going fast enough.

That's when you're going in front first....he slid in from the rear. You still want to control the car when possible.

@@Sahadi420 look at the wheel at 0:22, yeh doesn’t matter where ya hit it

@@penapvp2230 the exact same thing happens when you're drifting. LOL Yet, you don't see drifters arms breaking when they grab the wheel. The "arm break" happens when the front wheel actually hits something solid, and it forces the wheel that way, and you're not ready for it.

I agree. If he's opened his wheel to straight and committed to going two wheels off, he'd have had a better chance of saving it.

no such thing as over engineering!

@@WillemV82 I loved it, don't get me wrong :) I immediately had to think at "Bad obsession Motorsports"

​@@beratsbuilds I'm definitely not that bad! :D

@@WillemV82 how is your MX-5 doing after that crash? Hope that you could keep on racing after that

@@beratsbuilds It was the last race of the 2016 season, so repaired it over the winter, but then in 2017 i was involved in a much worse crash. Have a look for "Big Crash/Roll Castle Combe, TARC, 2017". I did start rebuilding in 2017, but made very slow progress partly due to life and doing other things. Now I'm building a new car now for 2021, but Covid restrictions and time to work on the car mean I wont be ready until the summer.

+SJW Motorsport 46 Yes, that's a corner that really teases you into going in too fast and then you end up swapping ends. Definitely a case for discretion rather than valour, a little slower in, a lot faster out...

You gotta be kidding. A well setup MX-5 has tons of grip and no tendency to oversteer unless deliberately called for.

Flammen. yes mate! rookie mistake!! i learnt a lot from that crash.

Willem, why do you think the accident happened?

@@blackettphotography im not him, but its because he ran wide out onto the grass curbing and instead of feeding out the wheel and straightening the car he kept the same steering angle, lost traction, and never snapped back to grip. If he would have opened the steering out instead if trying to fight hard back on track he might have stayed in one piece.

PERFECT DRIFT it's a Mazda mx5

Calzonii09 It's a 1.8 and at this point is was NA. pretty much standard. right now (and in my 2016 vids) it's been modified to run on ITBs and has oversized high compression pistons, oversized valves and aggressive racing cams. it's just under 200bhp now.

Lol!! no, I was thanking him or pulling over! I'd been following him for half a lap or so. of course it also meant I wasn't concentrating on the corner coming up.....

Nicholas Gough its an awful angle i know! you'll be pleased to know it's been relocated now!!!

Hands off and eyes closed!!! Haven't crashed at Combe luckily! Came close a couple of times at Quarry but the car isn't fast enough to get really upset! Tower is a corner that's really tricky in the wet, two other mx5 went into that wall when I was there on the 21st of March! I managed to stay on the black stuff though, obviously wasn't pushing hard enough!

Willem Verhaak Lucky not to crash at Quarry! There is an onboard video of someone crashing on a Track Day at Quarry in the wet (I think) in a Mazda MX-5. On April 1st I nearly crashed my RenaultSport Clio just after Tower as I was concentrating on the Toyota MR2 in front and didn't realise until the last second that it was off the circuit and not moving! Like 'Ah! THERE's the chicane!' So, I went through Bobbies chicane MUCH quicker than I usually would whilst coping with Toyota MR2 engine oil all over the track! How the car stayed pointing the right way was just 100% pure luck as I admit that I lost control of it, simple as. Needless to say I headed straight into the pits to calm my nerves! I've not had a problem with Quarry corner but last time I was at Combe was on April 20th with my just bought piece of shit Subaru WRX (bloody thing is all out of gears and ideas at 120 mph, well disappointed with it!) and this bloody low flying Hercules transport plane absolutely shit me up as it literally overtook me as I was right on the apex of Quarry! I didn't hear it but I saw the shadow and thought something was about to broadside me! It's on someone else's KZbin video 'Castle Combe Track Day 20/04/15 Peugeot 306 Gti-6.' I get overtaken at 1:56 by this Peugeot in my slow-ass Subaru and then the Hercules can be seen later in the video at around 7:54 I think. That well shit me up!