A note for the kids: Study hard, and you, too, might make history someday. After all, backflipping a car is the sort of thing that takes all sorts of knowledge, namely in physics and engineering.
MINI and its stunt driver Guerlain Chicherit have done the impossible: executing the perfect “unassisted” backflip.
Using a heavily modified MINI Cooper Countryman, Chicherit, a French rally driver and avid skier, completed the stunt recently at a resort in Tignes, France.
The stunt qualifies for the unassisted certification because the ramp used by Chicherit was static ….
…. For his take-off, Chicherit used a static ramp similar to those used by skiers. With the ideal ramp breakover angle in place, the 34-year-old needed only two other things to record a successful attempt: an extremely light touch with the accelerator and a MINI with a suitably buoyant suspension setup.
Assisted backflips? Those have been done before.
But this? Well, sure, it’s just a publicity stunt, but one must admit it’s pretty cool.
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