Sitting in the hot seat of the Chevy Corvette, one may be tempted to nail the throttle at every possible opportunity. However, unleashing all that V8 power and torque isn’t always a good idea, as the driver of this particular Corvette quickly learned in the following brief video.
Recently making the rounds on social media, the video shows an orange Chevy Corvette merging onto the freeway. The video is shot from the dash cam of a following motorist, giving us a prime-time view of what not to do when wheeling a high-powered sports car.
In the video, we see a busy multi-lane highway filled with traffic. Passenger cars and semi-trucks roll past as cars in the right-most lane start to merge. We see the orange Chevy Corvette tailgating a white crossover, obviously eager to speed up.
The Chevy Corvette driver decides to signal, moving aggressively into an adjacent lane over some solid white lines. It looks as though the driver decides to nail the throttle as they move over, however, the rear tires lose traction and the rear end of the Corvette starts to pitch to the left. The driver tries to counter steer, but it’s too little too late, and the sports car careens to the right, directly into the concrete barrier, clipping the white crossover in the process.
Unfortunately, the drama is far from over. As the Chevy Corvette rebounds off the concrete barrier, it swings back into oncoming traffic, colliding with the rear wheels of a nearby semi truck. The front end is crumpled into a tangled mess of metal as the heavy truck blasts across the front end of the Corvette, sending the sports car back towards the barriers.
The Corvette driver finally manages to get the car onto the right side of the road, but the damage is already done. Check out the full video right here:
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It felt like I was watching a Mustang video.
Too much car, not enough driver.
Suspend the fool’s license for a few years and hammer him with fines. Luckily nobody was seriously hurt or killed.
Lmao that what being stupid does. Serves him right.
Yea part of the more money than brains club that’s for sure
It doesn’t take much money to drive a 10-19 year old car.
Good comment son, but you know my point
Must be nice to be in a tax bracket that believes that.
Bought a 2013 base Corvette in Oct 2012. Took it to Next Level Performance in Orlando. Geoff Scarupa installed headers,Vortech supercharger plus other performance items. It went from 400rwhp to 580rwhp. Geoff told me when I picked it up “Take it easy, be careful for a couple weeks until you have a feel for it, it’s not the car you brought me”. So true. I never had a problem because I respected what I had and what it could do. It was wicked.
I had a C4 that I got Doug Rippie to customize. It went from 300 hp to 500 hp via bore, stroke, AFR heads and a Vortech supercharger. Traction control (which I never disabled) would kick in in 1st, 2nd and 3rd just by pressing the pedal. I also had a roll cage installed ‘just in case’. The feeling was comparable to my ZX11 Ninja. I never lost control of that car.
This Idiot doesn’t know his car. 600 plus he shouldn’t be unleashed in traffic.
People don’t realize it takes a lot of thinking and understanding to fast car. There’s so much things to take into account, more importantly, pay attention to your tires, defects, air, and temperature.
Too much car for an unskilled driver.
Some guys never seem to master driving a car with lots of torque. He should have merged on the freeway been patient and then break away. He should be driving a minivan.
That’s what happens when you turn off traction control.
Traction control is only useful at lower speeds.
Daddy had a nice car. Hopefully Daddy carried a lot of insurance.
Y do pl make comments about it being daddies car? a 20 something year old can buy a hi end car~ We do work g o to college and make good money ~ not all have dads money & a 20 year old car ain’t $hit 😂by the way what makes u think it’s not an old man driving the car or a Women? 🙄
How do you know who owned this car? Go away if you cant comment properly.
Was out on test drive. Naw don’t want this one!!
Too much money not enough brains dude !!!
I don’t see how the driver lost control driving basically in a straight line. Extremely poor driving skills. It just affirms everyone can’t drive, especially a Corvette. Oh well
Another idiot with more money than sense and zero brains!
His next Vett should be a Chevett.
I guy in front of me in a Corvette did the same thing a while back. He lost it but didn’t hit anything. Just lucky.
Totaled the repairs cost more than the car.
No question, it’s junk.
Way too much credit given for “the driver finally manages to get the car onto the right side of the road,” He didn’t manage $hit. The 18-wheeler put it there.
Apeman
Merging across the white lines was likely his downfall. A lot of debris accumulates in there (in addition to the slick paint of the lines themselves)and probably played a part in his loss of traction.
Stupid should hurt!
Those big white lines are there for a reason they’re not there to drive over!, the tires grabbed them and he lost control!
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
Once again just validates my long held observations. That being, there is no correlation between intelligence and the ability to a mass wealth.
They put butter on those double white lines every night for jerks like this. Karma Baby!
I would guess he had summer tires, was on a wet surface and it was cold out. I have a C6 and it is squirrely under those conditions.
Bad endings can happen very quickly.
As a Corvette owner, it always pains me to see something like this. Not because a decent car is now junk, or the driver (and passenger?) may be hurt, but because it hides the FACT that most Vette drivers are like me: rarely more than 5 mph over the limit, signal every turn and lane change, courteous, following at a respectful distance, etc. I do this because every Corvette driver is already a marked man, or woman, because of his choice of vehicle, so why take a chance? Tickets are expensive, and lives are precious. Drivers like this simply make the rest of us look bad. And other drivers automatically lump me in with this guy, by association. The same reason why I hate seeing (some) sport bike riders flouting every rule in the book. I ride like I drive, albeit even more carefully for obvious reasons. Give the guy credit for signaling, yes, but the rest of his performance was embarrassing. I do hope he emerged unscathed.
Just goes to show, maybe they have a fast car, does NOT mean they are fast, rofl.
“Here, hold my beer” the driver was heard to say just prior to the crash.
Everyone thinks it’s too much car for the driver. The issue is, this driver probably would have done the same thing in any motorized vehicle and had the accident or worse killed himself and possibly others!
He definitely didn’t pay attention to the road surface but I still question what happened to traction control.
This is b.s. ! I wanted to see the crash with the corvette. Instead of letting me just click on it and watch, yiu give me this crsp for byutv and I did NOT ask ti see that.
You were impatient. There are at least two links to videos in the article. The last one leads to the Corvette wreck.
I have to admit: I was confused too when I first followed the link.
I’m not surprised by this person driving without patience as he doesn’t know what he doing !?? As he should of slow down before merge into another lane and not have a second thought !???? What his problem “in a hurray think a she big shot loose his cool ran into the barriers and then back in the lane towards the big truck out of control to damages his Corvette car 🚗 sure look great honey !!! I don’t want to drive with you of no common sense of your driving skills ! Go back to driving classes ☺️
Some of these cars today can flat out get down the road . And just because you got the money to buy it doesn’t necessarily mean u know how to drive it !
Just plain stupid.
Such a fool to put others at risk like that
True. But only the skin is fiberglass…
Well, he can probably see his car insurance double in price now.
A Corvette has to much power and broke traction. You lose control, AWD is needed to control the power. My Porsche is controllable because of AWD.
It’s a basic Corvette. Not too hard to control for even an average driver.
He doesn’t need to lose his license for years. He needs more experience with the car. He isn’t driving a Kia no mo. Lol. If you applied the same amount of force to the gas pedal in a Corvette as you did with a Kia you’d get a totally different result. Glad everyone is safe. Close call with that totally accidental riquiche under that semi. Scary as hell. Sidenote: If you wanna get in wrecks, remember there’s definitely a lot of driving sports and activities with vehicles that let you do that. Really, remember it, because as a woman born in 1981, I’m 42, I didn’t think about how I could ram things and crush them with a monster truck when I grew up so I want to make sure and say it someplace before it’s too late. Lots of driving fun in the world, and also remember not to get into trouble too badly because if you go to prison your driving love will be taken and sometimes that’s the most important thing to someone so it might safeguard them more than anything or anyone else that threatens loss.
Dumbass
Stupid is as stupid does
Liberals can’t drive
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He was trying to do hyper pit on a trailer truck
Instead of 0-60 in 4 seconds (my guesstimate give or take) he went from 60-0 in the same (estimated) time.
There’s a saying I like to paraphrase. “There’s no substitute for CI’s (Cubic Inches)”
By the same token, “There is also no substitute for IQ’s (Intelligence Quotients) or for that matter CS (Common Sense!)
“Hello Geico? Ummm, I’ve got a strange story about this new claim…”
Not defending the guy at all buuuuut, Everyone is quick to judge and say he can’t drive, but did anyone take in to consideration that the dude panicked the minuet he seen that big ass truck 2, I repeat 2 lanes over, and jerked the wheel the other way, which caused the spin out.
I don’t feel sorry for the driver.
As a female who has owned sports cars most of her life- was in Automotive sales, Director of Finance and Accessory Manager for a GM Dealership-
It is so cool to cruise- most often when you nail it you lose!
Check that testosterone when you get behind the wheel of a fast car unless your test driving.
Those painted white lines are slipperier than the asphalt. He probably lost traction when he crossed them while flooring it. While driving fast, You need to be aware and respect them when in turns or wet conditions. Especially on a motorcycle.
That doesn’t look like a “skill” problem. The vehicle wasn’t properly maintained. That backend popped out like the rear tires were completely bald.
Maybe he learned his lesson. Going to cost a lot and his insurance is going up.
Got just what he deserved, tried to jump in the traffic flow, without any room.
Fast cars are great as a mechanic for several years and a car enthusiast there’s times and places to unleash the beast inside in crowded traffic and venues unless controlled are not the place to do it use your head first labito last and all will end well and everyone will have a good day and you can still impress safely
The only way it could have been better is if it had been some purebred blue ribbon jack— in a charger or challenger.
High performance car with low performance driver is always dangerous combo!!
Another day another moron
I can image his pants need to be changed that was crazy just happy that no one got hurt .
Glad nobody got hurt but I see these rocket go carts and they never get into it, rarely do you see a vette romp on it. Come on!! Give us a show!!!
When did he get on it, Didn’t hear anything??
My point exactly. He wasn’t in that thing nearly enough for that to happen if the vehicle had been properly maintained. He’s pushing maybe 4k rpms at the most when the backend jumps out. That car should be perfectly stable for what it’s been asked to do.
I drove a modded 2010 Camaro SS for nearly a decade. He should have been able to keep that thing true with his index finger.
I’m still betting it’s bad tires. That’s exactly how I ditched my firebird when I was a kid. Dropped a gear to try and merge on to a ground level freeway and one tire lost traction. Some lessons are learned the hard way.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Stupid is as stupid does!
That’s the problem with supercar power and Daewoo handling
He should have been playing more attention to the road conditions because if you look at the road we’re he got into it was like a brun out pit of course the tires are going to brake lose that’s when you find out what kind of drive you are I’ve had similar situations like that happen to me but see I can drive and I just walked her sideways write around the car beside me I’m sure he was pissed but no one got hurt
What do you mean, “nailed it”? He never had it.
And Dodge guys say Corvettes can’t compare in power. Let’s be clear it’s not a muscle car it’s a 3200lb sports car with a lot of muscle
Ban low performance drivers, not high performance cars.