Impressive driving in the wet

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CbblebONpg

Anan1

The guy's giving out yards about the ESP, reckons it'd be much more 'elegant' with just ABS.:)

I thought the ESP was switchable on a E39 though? It certainly doesn't look like he has ESP on, maybe the switch only turns it down, as opposed to off altogether?

fletch

Wow that is astonishing! :eek:

That driver is seriously brave!

Owen

Ho-ly-sh*t :eek:

darkskol

Impressive driving there wow

peasant

impressive driving alright ...but shyte roadholding

RobAMerc

What car control !
Seriously good stuff I particularly like the way he kept the power slide around the double apex'd right hander.

I am a bit shocked at how tail happy it was on the entrance to bends though, he seemed to fighting oversteer on the entry - mean the back had lost grip without him provoking it!

(probably not the fastest way round the track either !)

MercMad

Yeah that was fun trip, though you can see he is deliberately trying to flick the tail out instead of taking the quicker line, he's having fun no doubt !

It give a good insight as to how progressive the E39 chassis is !

I think as on most cars you can swith off the ESP/ASC/TC or whatever but there is still some intefference from the electronics. I dont see the usual orange exclamation mark lit up on the dah though !

jayok

Reminds me of Grand Turismo on the Playstation!

Lord Nikon

On my E39, non M5, poverty spec, you can switch ESP on and off comfortably. It does wonders for your neck muscles when he gains grip coming out of the fish tail.

Thats driver is crazy though, must be someones else car

JHMEG

Surely the grip can't be that bad, and he's doing that deliberately? Maybe he's drifting?

(Is the passenger eating a mac donalds, or what's that noise)