They’re tilting the car as to test if it can sustain 1.7 lateral G without rolling. This is part of passing tech if Formula SAE competitions in which the car is competing. The car should never be able to roll on the tilt table, see how they didn’t secure the strap right – and that combined with a tilt higher than it should have been caused the car to roll.
Pity too, a I recall the team had to do a fair amount of work to get the car race ready again, and missed some of the events.
Doing the wrong thing? Isn’t the hydraulic lift doing what it’s designed to do? I don’t see any way that it could do anything but what it did. The strap could have been stronger, though.
I was a member of this team a couple years ago, (and designed a number of the things on this car)… I just want to point out that is was in no way the fault of the team that built the car (UC Davis). The table was tilted MUCH farther than it should of been either by an equipment malfunction or an error on the part of tech inspectors
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..did he win?..
The car’s number is 53. Like Herbie’s. Of course he won!
He won a great big trophy!
Then they flipped it.
And then they all laughed and had a flippin great time! No… probably not.
No, there was to much pressure.
The pressure must have been too great.
..are we talkin’ Herbie or Flipper here..i got lost..
We’re talking about Beavers. And the great dams.
In a team like this… Of course!
I love how they just keep doing the wrong thing until they finally manage to throw the car over.
you mean flipping an expensive vehicle wasn’t a good thing?
I’m not that green.
What a poor machine. . .
The C’tan are rageous!
Yeah, the whole thing seemed to happen in slow motion, yet nobody tried to stop it until it was too late.
They’re tilting the car as to test if it can sustain 1.7 lateral G without rolling. This is part of passing tech if Formula SAE competitions in which the car is competing. The car should never be able to roll on the tilt table, see how they didn’t secure the strap right – and that combined with a tilt higher than it should have been caused the car to roll.
Pity too, a I recall the team had to do a fair amount of work to get the car race ready again, and missed some of the events.
..sooo, 1.7G is vertical?..i did not know that..
As the OP said, “combined with a tilt higher than it should have been”
Never seen the race car wall of death?
..never yet..but i’m open to an invite to observe..
Doing the wrong thing? Isn’t the hydraulic lift doing what it’s designed to do? I don’t see any way that it could do anything but what it did. The strap could have been stronger, though.
or simply been attached. That would have gone a long way towards preventing this rollover.
CAPTAIN HINDSIGHT>>> AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!!!!
They should have called Captain FORESIGHT.
that teva add is way too annoying.. im out FB.
Why did they even do that? anyone any idea? Just curious.
well, on my point of view… someone was drunk
..y’know how it goes, Ana..once you start, it’s hard to stop..
So that’s what happens when a mad scientist wants to flip off a car.
I was a member of this team a couple years ago, (and designed a number of the things on this car)… I just want to point out that is was in no way the fault of the team that built the car (UC Davis). The table was tilted MUCH farther than it should of been either by an equipment malfunction or an error on the part of tech inspectors
Oh yeah? Is that a fact?
Fact
Now if some one TIGHTENED the strap…perhaps that expensive car, wouldn’t be coming outta his check
I always find myself laughing at the slow-motion sound effects rather than the video itself.
Why did they 90° the car anyways?
..i submit the answer to most any imponderable question in the history of humanity: Because It’s There..
Slowest race crash ever.
That’ll buff out…
Heads I win; Tails you lose.
..driver’s head on concrete = lose..
Poor Sam Barrel…
WTF were they doing??? WTF were they thinking??
Qualtest new (Skydrol) High Flow Test Stand for Phosphate Ester hydraulic fluid can achieve flows exceeding 127 gpm & pressures up to 2,000 psig. Fluid temperatures can range from – 30 ºC to 85 ºC.
Hydraulic Pressure Testing, The Ultimate Hydraulic pump is what I’ve been reading.
like buddy was gonna be able to hold that car on the ramp by himself. douche