--- title: "Watch a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Car Roll 10 Times in Massive Nurburgring Crash" description: "This video shows a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Car roll a solid ten times in a horrific crash at one of the fastest sections of the 'Ring last weekend." date: "2018-09-10" modified: "2018-09-10" authors: - name: "Kyle Cheromcha" job_title: "Editor-in-Chief" link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha" url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/23479/watch-a-porsche-911-gt3-cup-car-roll-10-times-in-massive-nurburgring-crash" categories: - "News" - "News by Brand" - "Porsche News" - "Racing" - "Watch This" tags: - "911" - "Coupe" - "Crash" - "Cup Car" - "Nurburgring" - "porsche" - "Supercar" --- # Watch a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Car Roll 10 Times in Massive Nurburgring Crash ![]() *\www.thedrive.com\* Head to the Nurburgring on any given day, and there's about an equal chance of seeing either a [manufacturer testing a camouflaged prototype]() or someone learning firsthand that it's [one of the most dangerous racetracks around.]() This video falls into the latter category, showing a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Car roll a solid ten times in a horrific crash at one of the fastest sections of the 'Ring last weekend. Amazingly, the driver walked away without a scratch. If you're not fabulously wealthy, a big fan of endurance racing, or a regular old P-car obsessive, you may not know that Porsche [sells a turnkey racer in the 911 GT3 Cup Car]() that anyone with enough dough can buy and enter in one of its regional Porsche Carrera Cup race series. The latest version sports a 485-horsepower, free-breathing 4.0-liter flat-six engine connected to a six-speed sequential manual transmission. The rest of the car has been race-ified with full suspension, interior, and safety overhauls. https://youtube.com/embed/5qAtkf2jAZc That last part proved especially important for driver John Shoffner during the VLN Endurance Championship festivities at the Nurburgring last weekend. Running in the Carrera Cup Class of the famous event [for J2 Racing,]() Shoffner came flying down the straight leading up to the dangerous Flugplatz section of the track and lost control [as he tried to overtake]() a slower car. The video picks up as he oversteers into the inside curb, clips his front wheel on a patch of grass, a rolls a full ten times along the crash barrier until the 911 comes to a crunching halt. That looks really bad, but in a testament to the car's overall safety, Shoffner himself popped into the comments section of the YouTube video to let everyone know that he walked away totally uninjured, apart from a massive headrush from all that spinning. The Flugplatz section of the Nurburgring is especially dangerous because there's a small hill following a fast straight right before the first curve, and cars have been known to catch flight or lose enough grip to spin out. In 2015, [a Nissan GT-R flew off the track]() at that spot during another VLN race and landed in a crowd of spectators, killing one fan and injuring several more. ## Author Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world. ### Author social links [Bluesky]() [Instagram]() [LinkedIn]()