When I was about 19 years old, I had just finished swapping a built 440 into my formerly 318 powered Charger. Also went from 2.76 open gears to 3.23 Sure Grip. You can tell where this is going... One night I was showing off at a stoplight. Hammered the throttle, boiled off the tires for about 500 feet before the rear end got out from under me. I ended up spinning that car around 180 degrees before smacking it into a curb. If there had been oncoming tragic, it could have been much much worse. All it really did to the car is bust a tire off the rim and bend the lower control arm bore of the K-frame. The body came out intact. After that I was much more reserved with the thrortle. For the most part I was a straight arrow growing up. Very responsible which is why I think my folks let me invest in all that horsepower. Looking back on that story, I can't believe they let me without stronger considerations. I could have and almost did kill myself. Unfoutunatly, Z06 guy didn't get that second chance.

The insurance companies in the early 70s didn't just decide to 'attack' muscle cars out of thin air. All of us have stories similar to these.

Doubt it's the rear gear. I have a '18 Mustang GT...rear gear is 3:31. Most of the guys in that link were hammering stuff coming out of corners....that'll get ya loose every time! I know the OP Vette was on the straight......he just hit it too hard and got out performed.

"All of us have stories similar to these."

HOO BOY do i ever...........
not once or twice or three times, way more than that............but ALWAYS when i was the only traffic to contend with.
i have said from the beginning of the "new" muscle, if it was way back then, i would more than likely not be here.
to do stupid "stuff" when the lanes are full is just pure idiocy.......

Good point! We street raced very often way back when. BUT, we always went way out of town and usually of an evening. We were concerned both for the cops and for casual traffic. We sure as heck didn't rip 'em full throttle around town. That brought too much attention.

That is one weird wreck. The fact that he took off hard while in the middle of traffic is weird, the fact that the car took a hard left is weird and the fact that the car exploded on impact is weird. I've seen a bunch of wrecks over the years but I've never seen an explosion like that. I've seen hard wrecks at the race track but the cars just bounce and scrape. Indy cars will explode on impact but I've never seen a street car do it. Almost looks like that car had been taken apart and put back together with aluminum rivets or something. Like a stunt car for a movie. Wonder what in the heck the driver of the Vette was thinking about when he pulled that stunt?

Granted this was a long time ago, but my grandfather witnessed a wreck where a Corvette launched off of a road down a hill. It landed on all fours and the body exploded on impact. He described it as a fiberglass jigsaw puzzle.

I’ve seen the aftermath of a few serious Vette wrecks, and the bodies shattered similarly.

Plastic Fantastic!

That stretch of road is not too far from me. The speed limit is 45 in both directions, which they seldom do. A direct hit is 90+ at impact. The people in the F150 were lucky to be alive.

A bad decision at the wrong time and place unfortunately cost him his life. Thankfully no one else was killed by his bad decision.
It amazes me what I see in everyday life with you tube being around.

Maybe we are all jumping to conclusions.

It might be such a thing the Vette driver had a medical issue, like a sudden fatal heart attack (its been happening a lot lately). He may have been dead before the car accelerated and changed lanes. If his body was as messed up as most of us would expect after a crash like that, they may never be able to tell, even if they looked past the obvious and into the real reason he died.

An uptick in Myocarditis perhaps?

The driver was 36 years old so a medical issue is rather unlikely. An Autopsy would have been performed because it was a violent death and the authorities would want to know if alcohol, drugs, or medical issues played a role. And today's MEs are very good at what they do, even under difficult circumstances.

The way he mashed the go pedal, I doubt he would accomplish what he did if it were a heart attack or stroke. Either way he has unfortunately become a stat.

It’s hard to tell from the video, but I think it is a C7 Z06. My buddy has one. It has 650hp/650 ft lbs. He took me for a ride and it is insanely fast. He didn’t turn off the traction control and it still burns the tires and tries to go sideways from a 40 mph roll like you wouldn’t believe. If the guy in that video turned off the traction control completely, that could be the cause. Even Randy Pobst said he didn’t like driving those cars with all of the nannies turned off.

I refuse to even watch the video.......................

All it shows it the car shooting across 3 lanes of traffic, jumping a center median, and exploding on impact with the truck, taken from a dash cam on a vehicle going the same direction he was going originally.