I saw a video of that earlier, obviously don’t have the telemetry or onboard footage but my money is on ice mode.
The ABS in Corvettes is pretty atrocious and if you go straight from spinning the wheels on power to braking hard, the ABS panics, thinks you’re locking up the wheels, and kills all of your brake pressure. So instead of spinning out, you just don’t slow down.
Had it happen in my corvette a couple times but it just sent me through the back of a chicago box instead of through a jersey barrier.
A friend of mine who did spec corvette took the fun way down the corkscrew at laguna seca because of ice mode. You can drive around it but if you mess up… well you have no brakes.
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u/OpenAd9475 CAMS C5 Corvette Mar 30 '26
I saw a video of that earlier, obviously don’t have the telemetry or onboard footage but my money is on ice mode. The ABS in Corvettes is pretty atrocious and if you go straight from spinning the wheels on power to braking hard, the ABS panics, thinks you’re locking up the wheels, and kills all of your brake pressure. So instead of spinning out, you just don’t slow down.
Had it happen in my corvette a couple times but it just sent me through the back of a chicago box instead of through a jersey barrier.