An act of desperation, but it works
The Scandinavian flick is steering briefly to the left and then immediately to the right (or vice versa) to unbalance the car and start a drift. Rally drivers use this maneuver to tackle hairpin turns sideways. It also proves to be an effective way to bring your car to a stop when normal braking is no longer useful. If you have enough run out. In this clip from a little while back you can see how the driver of a Mustang GT500 on the Hockenheimring saves his car with the flick and a tug on the handbrake.
The driver himself says: ‘Absolutely too much confidence in my own skills and the capabilities of my car caused the brakes to boil over. I made the decision to pull the handbrake to hopefully slide into the wall. Fortunately that never happened.’ So the idea was to go sideways into the wall more slowly, rather than frontally and at full speed. The risky move eventually saved his car. A set of new tires is in order.
Rescue by Scandinavian flick after brake failure
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