Crashes at the Nurburgring during public sessions are all too common. The sheer scale of the 12.9-mile track and the fact that many of the corners look deceptively similar means it takes quite some time to really learn it.
But if are going to stack your car at the Nurburgring, you probably want to be able to tell your friends how you were running flat through the Foxhole when a noob veered into your path causing you to make a heroic save that was only ruined by a defective tire delaminating sending you into the barriers.
Rather that than have to tell anyone that you’d barely entered the track before your clumsy throttle application and glacial steering reactions saw you hit the guard rails head on, which is what happened to one Mercedes C-class driver recently.
The accident was captured by YouTuber and Nurburgring obsessive Misha Charoudin who was heading out onto the track on a public Touristenfahrten session from the entrance half way along the main straight.
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As Charoudin navigates his way through the cones leading from the gate and on to the straight we see what appears to be an AMG C63 two cars ahead stomp on the gas as it clears the final set of cones ready to smash a new PB.
But instead, the Mercedes smashes into the barriers on the right hand side, having turned through 90 degrees the moment the tires spin up on the damp road surface. There’s no audio, but Charoudin’s raised hand shows his disbelief, and quite possibly his relief that he didn’t encounter the driver halfway round the track. We get no indication of how badly damaged the Mercedes was, but the shunt looks very minor. You can bet the driver’s ego was fairly seriously damaged though.
Charoudin is no stranger to on-track accidents. Earlier this summer he was a passenger in a Cayman 718 GTS that spun at 150 mph (240 km/h) when the driver panicked and lifted off the throttle while turning, totaling the rented Porsche.
H/T to Car Throttle