1999 - Le Mans - Aftermath of Mark Webber's warm-up accident

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15 жыл бұрын

During Thursday's qualifying session, Mark Webber's #4 Mercedes-Benz CLR went off in a big way and flipped at high speed at the fast approach towards Indianapolis and the driver was taken away by ambulance. But later on he was fine to carry on with his weekend at Le Mans.
Well the good news is that the #4 Mercedes has been rebuilt over night, so has Mark Webber and they were reunited in time for the morning warm up.
Now the bad news...the #4 Mercedes is back on its roof ! Yes,it is true believe it or not.It looks as if precisely the same thing happened as last time, same car. same driver, and much the same circumstances. Mark Webber must have wished he stayed in bed this morning or maybe let Jean-Mar Gounon or Marcel Tiemann take the car out. Mercedes will have a spot of bother convincing us media lot that the car didnt wind up on its roof this time! This was on Webbers out lap. We wonder what the team are thinking at the moment but both other cars are still out there and the other team drivers must be just a mite apprehensive dont you think ?
Not wishing to be too tabloid about this bit of local difficulty but Mercedes did have another spot of bother here in 1955. So is it just the #4 car that is spooked or quite incredibly unlucky?
Eventually at 11.30am on race-day, Mark Webber went home - he's had enough. Webber went airborne again with the car this time flipping end over end after cresting the Mulsanne 'bosse' (again the wake of other cars), landed on its roof, and slid all the way to the Mulsanne corner escape road. Again the 21-year old driver escaped with bruising from his harness.

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@sdewey4152 9 жыл бұрын

He should have a pilots license after all the flips he's had, poor guy it must be heart wrenching when you go over.

@Thibouu Жыл бұрын

Ironicly he does have a flying licence

@Shootout_23 10 ай бұрын

@GT_Nikita 8 ай бұрын

Hahah yes

@KamilPietrasik-bw9jx 5 ай бұрын

Hello man life 9yrs was just it

@BMK500 8 жыл бұрын

Some say his favorite airline pilot is Mark Webber

@thunderheads4103 7 жыл бұрын

lolol, i can't believe no one commented yet. lolol some say thar he has no understanding of clouds and is puzzled by stairs.

@brandonwalker4502 7 жыл бұрын

"And his name is the STIG!!!!!!" Clarkson, Jeremy Clarkson

@grantkelly1356 3 жыл бұрын

Because your a dipshit

@elifkara2168 3 жыл бұрын

1999 Le Mans race. 1999 pole position. 2010 Racing in Valencia.

@TestECull 14 жыл бұрын

I see Mark has gotten plenty of practice flying around. No wonder he landed his Red Bull car safely in Valencia.

@allamericandude15 10 жыл бұрын

2:13 You can see the marshals reacting to the crash before the TV crew caught on.

@nabzduterrier2736 6 жыл бұрын

Mark Webber, the best airplane pilot we've ever seen in Le Mans !

@lewismachin20 Жыл бұрын

He did a backflip in formula 1 aswell 😂

@damarfadlan9251 11 ай бұрын

@@lewismachin20 MULTI BACKFLIP 21.

@therandompersonn 6 ай бұрын

Le Mans. 1955.

@BillehBobJoe 10 жыл бұрын

god that GT-One is so beautiful

@Dannyboyyoung 9 жыл бұрын

Totally agree

@sdewey4152 9 жыл бұрын

It is truly a thing of beauty, I like the livery on Gran Turismo 2 slightly more but the car itself is just wow.

@sunjidasultana4648 Жыл бұрын

and lost just for technical issues. 1000% wpildve won it

@marksapollo 7 жыл бұрын

It's called aero dynamics Mercedes, look into it... thank God they worked that out before they entered F1.

@TheTripol 8 жыл бұрын

This guy has had countless wrecks during hes time in racing career and F1, and been unharmed like every time. Then someone like Allan Simonsen crashes quite, well does not look too bad and dies.. quite weird.

@Trust-me-I-am-a-dentist 7 жыл бұрын

Its called bad luck.

@jesperk.n.e758 7 жыл бұрын

allans crash did look minor on TV . but the speed tricks you on the screen (looks slower) and the fact he hit a tree spot on... what is the worst part of it i think is those trees still stand there. WHY ?!?! nobody knows

@RorysIrishTour 7 жыл бұрын

trees are made to last

@84viper 7 жыл бұрын

the following year they put more safety barriers in that part of the track. you can no longer run off the track like simonsen did, and hit a tree, all you will hit is a safety barrier which is made to absorb impacts

@Minx5892 6 жыл бұрын

Jesper K.N.E He hit a tree? How did he lie back on track?

@Hachiae 7 жыл бұрын

i heard keiichi tsuchiya then the memories of this race came flooding back.

@clawsss 3 жыл бұрын

i was so surprised when i heard his name

@rogue5360 Жыл бұрын

True

@PAINTA1022 10 жыл бұрын

them australians....love being upside down, i guess.

@NeatoUnused 9 жыл бұрын

That pun

@nfdids 9 жыл бұрын

James Motacki That's a good one :D

@because1375 7 жыл бұрын

James Motacki OMG Thats amazing😂😂😂

@narelleanderson1351 6 жыл бұрын

James Motacki we do

@DeanandLisa1803 6 жыл бұрын

G’day mate 🙃🙃🙃🙃

@chubbz5150ify 8 жыл бұрын

That was the moment Mercedes should have stopped racing and withdrew from Le Mans 99. They choose to continue and almost had a fatality thanks to a design default that meant they couldn't follow other cars over crests of the hills at Le Mans that year. Not Mercedes finest hour that day.

@ubbgn 6 жыл бұрын

And they have history of aerodynamics failures!

@Mazotheman 6 жыл бұрын

When?

@divdex2 6 жыл бұрын

*cough* germany's revenge *cough*

@ernestogasulla7763 4 жыл бұрын

All GT-one fake road legal cars went airborne at some point (not at Le Mans). Even the BMW LMR V12 did.

@lucastekkan 4 жыл бұрын

@@ernestogasulla7763 Mercedes Shill

@carlitoxb110 8 жыл бұрын

I watched the toyota gt1 and started crying, I loved that car I loved to drive it in gran turismo 2,

@chrischarizard4067 8 жыл бұрын

I'll say, that was my second le mans car in Gran Turismo. My first was the Mazda 787B. Both cars were fast and hard to drive with me still being a newer player at the time

@carlitoxb110 8 жыл бұрын

That was a great one too, what about the nissan R390 gt1, do you remember it? Man I loved that car

@chrischarizard4067 8 жыл бұрын

That was a fun car. Although my favorite car was the Toyota 7

@weesky2000 7 жыл бұрын

Sad but no r390 in 1999. I hope there can be GTOne, R390, CLK GTRLM, V12LMR, 911GT1, Mclaren in that race.

@mrgrassux 7 жыл бұрын

Carlitox b

@rogmackay 14 жыл бұрын

Just won the Monacco Grand Prix ... now that is something special. Top bloke. Well done lad!!

@rattusnorvegicus4380 5 жыл бұрын

He flies through the air with the greatest of ease....

@acidangelster 13 жыл бұрын

God bless u.....Its a pain goin thru a long video waiting for what the video s actually all about.

@apexkilla 11 ай бұрын

There will never be footage of this accident or even part of it thanks to one cameraman who had his head up his ass.

@jackylaxx 14 жыл бұрын

Mark Webber was 2nd in the f1 race yesterday ! hes awesome

@rvven3608 2 жыл бұрын

Know retired

@leafster8244 Жыл бұрын

@@rvven3608 yeah he retired a long time ago my friend

@EnsarZyberajAlbanian 3 ай бұрын

Bro took "i believe i can fly" to a next level 💀💀

@shongo9804 2 жыл бұрын

Engineers: trying to improve the cars aerodynamics and make it as grippy as possible Mark webber somehow:

@ChristopherWoods Жыл бұрын

The legendary Keiichi Tsuchiya was in this race, dang I forgot this!

@claudedotS 10 жыл бұрын

0:41 Tshuchiya aka Drift King was there!!!

@007KIMITANO 5 жыл бұрын

Easter eggs.

@nismoog9251 3 жыл бұрын

@@007KIMITANO Not easter eggs, *great drivers*

@007KIMITANO 3 жыл бұрын

@@nismoog9251 definitely 💯

@dlanistheman 3 жыл бұрын

He and co-pilots were 2nd overall, 1st in class as well

@nidaimenoR31 10 жыл бұрын

young Mark

@Iunio92 11 жыл бұрын

that toyota is just stunningly beautiful

@PassiveSmoking 10 жыл бұрын

Grosjean's fault

@samuelthornton9179 5 жыл бұрын

Ur 4 years too early for the meme

@amllsoup9732 4 жыл бұрын

This joke was ahead of its time

@leewat9068 4 жыл бұрын

Ericsson's fault😂

@godsmackssa 3 жыл бұрын

I'd say grosjean's ghost would haunt you...but then he escaped from hell. #denied

@lanceclement4087 3 жыл бұрын

This aged.... strangely?

@thaihoangcfc 7 жыл бұрын

lol "it's Mark Webber again" this guy loves hard crash, upside down doesn't he?

@leftboot83 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-dt8fi1ee7b no he didn't flip a car the year before. It was just a few days before, in qualifying

@captainjamestkirk5350 2 жыл бұрын

He’s from Australia he feels more at home

@DAH210774 15 жыл бұрын

Webber = Winner at last!!! Never knew about this, great upload. Thanks ;-)

@SiVlog1989 3 жыл бұрын

Not at Le Mans mind you, best he could manage was P2 in 2015

@Startrooper5555 6 жыл бұрын

Mark Webber is such a good driver he can flip 3 cars.

@TheDatpussy 10 жыл бұрын

Man the le man cars then look so much better than the ones now ugh I just wish I could of seen a race

@craazyonyou 14 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know if there's footage of Mark's car flipping, either of the times? I've seen the other car go over, not Webbers.

@KrolKaz 5 жыл бұрын

I was heart broken when this happened, bad times

@484berkshire 10 жыл бұрын

Strange how this backflip-for-no-reason issue was only a problem for German prototypes from the late '90s (3 from Mercedes at Le Mans in 1999, then 1 from the Porsche 911 GT1 at Petit Le Mans in 1998, and 1 from the BMW V12 LMR in the same race in 2000).

@magicalcernat7633 9 жыл бұрын

Thats beacause they are so aero advanced.however they only calculate aero in normal condition in aero tunel wich doesnt simulate bumps,crests etc, fatal mistake when designed these cars but they made mea-culpa and retire the cars

@wingracer1614 3 жыл бұрын

I know this is an ancient comment but it wasn't just the Germans. Plenty of cars have had blowovers. A Nissan GTP at Limerock for instance. Heck, that Nissan GTR at Nurburgring a couple years ago. An old Shadow canam car blew over in a vintage race not long ago.

@bowelrupture 2 жыл бұрын

@@keiththestones7951 3 mercedes cars. One in qualification, one in the warm up and one during the race. Two times Webber, one time Dumbreck.

@Squashed8Ball 11 ай бұрын

Clearly they were trying to minimise down force for maximum top speeds around the fast Le Mans circuit and they just didn’t leave enough margin for safety.

@Yukanhayt-Mhenow 11 ай бұрын

Trying to balance the front and rear down force can be tricky at differing speeds, they were playing around with flat floors too at the time!

@malikdigger4544 5 жыл бұрын

Mark Webber still racing in the LeMans Series since that crash in 99

@BishopCR7 14 жыл бұрын

That Viper in 2nd is an amazing car, I remember when I used to see that at Silverstone

@SparksX18 5 жыл бұрын

absolutely shocking

@lemanslegend 13 жыл бұрын

@Zeggawong There are no footage of the flips at all, this video angle missed it and there wasn't nothing during practice (although I am certained it would have been filmed) I know Christophe Bouchet's Mercedes got an onboard camera but I don't know about Mark Webber's car.

@mclarenf1gtr99 Жыл бұрын

He is Australian, he deals with death threatening events every day. A little flip is nothing to him. Mercedes hired the perfect person for the job.

@subie2831 Жыл бұрын

And that's how he got Red Bull seat in F1

@srdr89 10 жыл бұрын

6:30 norbert haug with his mustache :)

@mattg432 4 ай бұрын

Saturday morning warmup started with "Surprise! Mercedes sur le toit!" over the PA system at Le Mans. No TV video from that flip, so spectators at the track did not know what happened until that local newspaper came out with the photos.

@Zoomer30 7 жыл бұрын

You could see the stewards running before they showed the wreck.

@SiMKWii 11 жыл бұрын

Webber, flip master !

@SirOliverNorwell Жыл бұрын

In Assetto Corsa this car drives just fine. Never had any problems. And I drive the classic 60's Le Mans circuit. 😁

@Martinec1998 10 жыл бұрын

I hope this wont happen him next year in Porsche 919

@94kenDOLL 10 жыл бұрын

2:30

@eduardovaldez3390 2 жыл бұрын

favourite flip racer

@Stuuriaan 10 жыл бұрын

Lol I rewound to 3:59 a million times XD can't get enough of it hahaha

@markdinkel9006 6 жыл бұрын

bloody heck !

@scfog90 14 жыл бұрын

Deja Vu for Mark. He must have wings :D

@damarfadlan9251 11 ай бұрын

I miss those 1999 Le Mans Race Cars from Gran Turismo 2, especially TOYOTA GT-ONE 1999 from Maki Nishikino and the Viper GTS-R TEAM ORECA LMGT2 from Honoka Kousaka.

@sultanabran1 12 жыл бұрын

@TheAirsoftmadman They can if they are set up for it. None of the current F1 tracks allow for the car to be set up to go that fast in a straight line however. I believe if you look up Honda F1 and Bonneville, they did max out an F1 car, but that was set up for straight line speed only. It had no rear wing and a lot of other mods were done.

@Themayseffect 10 жыл бұрын

This is going to haunt him this coming season in the Porsche! lmao

@TheDanzomanzo 10 жыл бұрын

Nah. If he can survive the trauma of being Red Bull's lab rat in favour of a spoiled kid, this will be smooth sailing.

@DobermannPharaoh 10 жыл бұрын

this will never happen again, noticed the holes above the tires in all the LMPGT cars??? that is to prevent this from happening...

@kevinharker1840 7 ай бұрын

Flipping heck!

@YodaOnDMT 11 жыл бұрын

Here's a question. Did that crash constitute oversteer or understeer? Maybe uppy-overy-steer.

@A7V2 11 жыл бұрын

I hope to see Webber back at Le Mans in 2014. Hopefully the Porsche doesn't flip like the CLR.

@sherrysetliff2502 5 жыл бұрын

Love those panoz cars.

@vezonn8010 3 ай бұрын

This Mark Webber guy seems really good, I believe he could be in Formula 1 some day

@mohammednadasen-karim2055 Ай бұрын

Red Bull does give you wings

@Novafro 12 жыл бұрын

Correction, GT-2. . . though Oreca did run GT-1 for a year or two and met with little success.

@Slashbag69 13 жыл бұрын

This just proves that Mark Webber had wings before Red Bull.

@pollemar 7 жыл бұрын

Young Mark in a flying Merc

@bo2web 5 жыл бұрын

Mark Webber loves to fly in Le Mans with Air Mercedes !

@chandikaliyanawaduge 14 жыл бұрын

Mark Webber is the #1 driver in the world now....no doubt about it.....he even lapped Schumi in Hungary....

@oiytff 6 жыл бұрын

Imagine a CLR without roof...

@MRHDOfficial 12 жыл бұрын

Yes it is

@Zoomer30 6 жыл бұрын

Hard to believe that the Web was only 6 years old.

@tiki2188 15 жыл бұрын

Yea, I like Webber. I think if he could've gotten a good ride he'd win in F1

@AmazingFlyingSquid 2 жыл бұрын

12 years later, was close to winning the title in 2010 and has multiple victories and podiums.

@blainy-o93 12 жыл бұрын

@Zeggawong No but there's one of Peter Dumbreck's crash which is pretty much the same, just at a different part of the track.

@chandikaliyanawaduge 13 жыл бұрын

@TheRandomVids101 Well Webber thinks so....because the moment he lapped Schumi he said to the radio 'That felt good!'

@dautolover Жыл бұрын

"It's the Mark Webber car, again." Mercedes has felt so cursed that it has never returned to Le Mans since.

@lkyksb3 13 жыл бұрын

2:10 Have you noticed that some of the corner marshalls are running over to help Mark Webber?

@Ragsc 11 жыл бұрын

It happens right at 2:13 - You car hear a car but it doesn't enter the cameras view. You can also see all the marshalls running over to the right side.

@lksellin 6 ай бұрын

I wish there was footage of the crash

@diaboles 13 жыл бұрын

@DINOSFM1994 not to mention the same thing happend to Peter Dumbreck later on [same car design] the car itself was to airo

@diaboles 13 жыл бұрын

@DINOSFM1994 the car itself Fliped as it came over the hill how is that his wrongdoing?

@puddywoody 14 жыл бұрын

Good to see that Mark is silencing all of his critics! Yay Marky!!!!!

@Zeggawong 13 жыл бұрын

Are any of webbers flips at Le Mans actually on film? I can't find them.

@highwireman2012 2 жыл бұрын

No. There's photos but oddly he managed it in areas of the track not shown by cameras, both times, weirdly enough.

@dannywafc2005 11 жыл бұрын

top gear brought me here : )

@alexander1485 14 жыл бұрын

@MrFerrari4ever1 well, its not his fault the CLR-LM went up in the air...

@VR38DETTMAN 10 жыл бұрын

To gear got me here! Lol

@muhammadbayuajimunggaran 2 жыл бұрын

He was born to fly

@ghignosa 14 жыл бұрын

@blacklyche there's a lot of great drivers that hasn't (already) won a championship..and it's pretty clear that in the last two years he demonstrated to be a big driver..

@beboiee 13 жыл бұрын

that toyota was really beautiful.

@frm3714 7 жыл бұрын

How did that happen?

@undercover227 13 жыл бұрын

OMG THE GT ONE

@yop911 12 жыл бұрын

is that a toyota GT-one at the start?

@brown9708 7 жыл бұрын

Australian down under

@colincampbell3837 2 жыл бұрын

Man was made for that seat at redbull

@manohanged Жыл бұрын

This video was uploaded one month before I was born

@koujirou_672 5 жыл бұрын

Woh…

@HandlesSuck123 10 жыл бұрын

Damn, he has to be the most un-luckiest driver ever.

@alexanderfoelkel8316 6 жыл бұрын

Besides them who died in a crash you mean...?

@m4yday86 2 жыл бұрын

Wait, Keichi Tsuchia was in this race?

@don312000 10 жыл бұрын

Is that the same crest that that Mercedes went flying over a few years later?

@Iunio92 9 жыл бұрын

THIS is the year the mercedes' flew over the fence

@ssss66312 6 жыл бұрын

Don Rudolph same day and yes

@chrisnewcastle61 6 жыл бұрын

Don Rudolph ... it happened 3 times, once in quali, once in the warm up before the race and then again in the race itself. First two incidents happened to Mark Webber, one in the race was Peter Dumbreck.

@Austerers 11 жыл бұрын

Top Gear!

@SEEMAX-2012 11 ай бұрын

nice

@mkaczynski4 12 жыл бұрын

Is this the same place where Davidson crashes this year?

@Notirez 15 жыл бұрын

*cough* broken leg *cough* not much of an excuse for his previous win drowt, but he's certainly bringing it back now...

@2uneek 13 жыл бұрын

latest webber backflip wasnt long ago at all haha. One in F1 2010 Valencia

@eduds6 13 жыл бұрын

He Flipped again In 2010,Valencia,What a Poor luck...

@marcoriva2710 Жыл бұрын

no wonder he's always upside down, webber is australian

@Evokyr 10 жыл бұрын

Hate how people see this as the CLK GTR, that was a great car! and this not so...

@minardips05 11 жыл бұрын

What the hell are you talking about? Webber never drove for Mercedes F1, if you talking about the Le Mans team, how come Webbers 'own bad driving' lead to the same thing happening to Christophe Bouchet Mercedes CLS as well?