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Typical Mercedes quality  |
Nevermind that Sauber Mercedes Dominated FIA Group C for a few years before the FIA had to make rules changes to limit their domination...Oh yeah, they had a pretty good driver named Michael Schumacher back then too... 
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Isn't that the car that got a little breeze under it, then proceeded to lift off the tarmac and do like 3 back-flips enroute to the trees off the side of the straight? |
BTW, sorry, but it's me we're talking about here.
The car that did the flip that's most famous was an early CLK-GTR (check the dual oval headlamps, as opposed to the streamlined projectors of the Sauber Group C car)
Thats it in the film clip above, on the Mulsanne straight . Note that Mercedes CLK-GTR's did this twice, and neither time were they in a slipstream that would give them an excuse, just got light and up and over they went.
The Evolution model of the Porsche GT1, however, resolved a similar issue with the Porsche GT1's. An early GT1 did the same thing on a smaller Eurpean road course, on a long straight behind a Toyota, if memory serves; he got int he slipstream, negating all his front downforce, and then got light over a rise......he went vertical and then slammed back down forwards, spinning into a wall after breaking the car in half....
Scary stuff.