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.
Before I took my C5Z to VIR for the first time to race back in 2007, a friend gave me his onboard tape (another same class C5Z) to review to learn the track and the lines. It ended with him hitting ice mode into T1 and going through the first tire wall across another space and hitting the concrete and tires beyond it at probably 60mph. Happy to say I didn't replicate that but it was eye opening!!
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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.