Left foot braking - Jann Mardenborough - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

I thought this video was interesting in that its from British F3 and 24HR LeMans driver Jann Mardenborough. Jann as someone of you might know learned to "drive" on a PlayStation and up until 2 years ago had no serious racing experience. He won the GT Academy gaming contest by Sony (against nearly 100K entrants) and within a year he was finishing 6th in the real British GT championship. A season in highly competitive British F3 followed and last year he was in GP3 for Redbull finishing in the top 10 overall. He also claimed a podium in LMP2 at his first crack at LeMans. kids.... here is some left foot action in actual racing. For all you Fernando Alonso/JPM fans, apparently heel and toe in Spanish is called "punta y taco". Check out the passing at the start of the clip.

time to get the xbox out...

Did you see his off at the ring.... But yeah boy can drive!

Jann Mardenborough is the driver that recently had his car go air born at Nurburgring killing a spectator.

^ better view. Those Nissan engineers and N-ring track directors will be sitting in court soon.

Yeah, terrible deal. From the video I posted I couldn't really tell what went wrong. Seeing the video you posted, looks like Nissan had an aero issue. I see cars ramp that spot, but I've never seen one go air born like that car did and he didn't seem to be going any faster then the other cars.

Yeah, Nissan really should have known better. Aero "blow-overs" are a know problem with flat-bottom race cars. There was a series of them in Prototype/Le Mans racing several years ago. Air gets under the nose on a rise, and over it goes.

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They had something wrong. The car was lifting going up a hill and long before the crest of the hill, which is really odd. You can see it at 9 sec into the video.

It doesn't take much, There may be a bump/hump we can't see.

This is the spot where it happened. There is a lot of down force at the point in which his car started lifting, you can see this driver's body pulled down into the seat until he reaches the crest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=g30-ddQKGBc#t=115

Well, here is some interesting discussion: What The Hell Is Going On At The Nürburgring?

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As I suspected, aero issue, Nissan had too much rear down force. Robb Holland is a bit off the mark saying "When going over the crest at Flugplatz, the front end got light and the car went vertical, crashed into the barriers". The car was lifting way before the crest.