Many years ago I rolled my car multiple times on a mountain road but apparently escaped with nothing more than a few bruises and a sore neck. Some 12 years later I experienced a sudden sharp neck pain and went for an x-ray, and imagine my surprise when the doctor asked me "Did you know you've broken your neck?". He went on to explain it was an old injury, but the broken verterbra had developed some sharp spurs around the fracture line which must have touched a nerve somewhere. And the only possible cause must have been that crash. Anyway, the moral of the story is that if you experience neck pain after any impact - automotive or otherwise - get your neck checked, because it may be nothing, but it could equally be something that will come back to trouble you later. Best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery.

Totally understand that you won´t do instruction laps anymore. It takes trust in strangers and once it is lost it is hard to regain. Glad to hear you came out okay out of these crashes and respect to Porsche for building such safe cars. Btw your instruction videos really helped to understand the Track and, even if its only in Sim racing, improved my laps significantly. Thanks for being open and honest as always!

Misha, get an MRI to rule shit out. Everything's minor until it isn't. Take care and take your time.

Thanks for explaining these situations with examples and model cars! It's an eye-opener for me what to do and especially what not to do!

Glad that you are alright! Accidents, especially the high speed ones, can be very dangerous to a human's body

Hey Misha, I drove with you in the polo and m2 on Saturday (august 7th) and I hope you did not feel uncomfortable driving with me. It was an absolutely amazing experience and I really appreciate the instruction you gave me. I also respect your decision to stop and have always admired your courage to instruct a complete stranger having no knowledge of their driving prowess. I couldn’t agree more with your sim racing comment and definitely feel like my time in the sim was invaluable for my knowledge of both the track some of the finer dynamics of driving fast. I wish you a fast and painless recovery and look forward to seeing more content on your channel

There is a point where you have to draw the line and say enough is enough and put an end to the extra risk. I think I can speak for your older audience in saying that we support you in this all the way

My deepest respect to release this footage and story.

I love how the first country that came to your mind regarding fixing the car cheap way was Poland :D Good to see that we're well known for that

Very best wishes, Misha. By a strange coincidence, seeing you on track once or twice recently, really desiring a broader role for you. Thank you for your cheerfulness and honestyas you take this new step forward. And always stepping forward to help others . . . like us!

Misha: my neck hurts, I had 2 high speed accidents in 2 days as a passenger Doctor: 🤷🏻‍♂️

Trusting your life in the hands of strangers no matter how experienced they are is incredibly brave, once you lose that trust there is no gaining it back.

I only found your channel recently but I subbed immediately after the first few videos. Best Nürburgring related channel to me - wishing you a speedy recovery and hoping to see more of your amazing Vlogs! Massive Respect from Sri Lanka!

Hi Misha, thanks for explaining everything in such detail. Wishing you a good recovery with your neck!

I can understand you very well here!👌 In fact, I was wondering when this decision was going to come. You get my full support! Don’t forget that you have helped a huge amount of people instructing them and you can be proud of the achievements in your instructor career!🤟

Glad that both you and the driver(s) are okay Misha, thanks for sharing this stories and explaining everything with such detail, with you I feel like I have a personal driving instructor from home and I'm sure you are making a lot of people drive safer, smoother and faster. Massive hug from Spain

Too bad, a lap with you was on my bucketlist! I totally understand the reasoning of course. I admire you for even getting in the second cayman so short after the first cayman crash.

Thankfully both you and the drivers are OK in both instances! Thank you for the direction you took in the explanation of each case, the lead follow instruction is the preferred method. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for sharing the details, very interesting stuff especially for someone like me with no track experience. Glad everyone walked away, shame about your neck, hope it heals soon for you!

Thanks for sharing that and really happy everyone walked away. Some good lessons in this video.

Thank you for sharing Misha, the insight was very valuable. Take good care of yourself, health is always the most important.

Get well soon Misha! THanks for your openness/honesty.

Sorry to hear about that but I’m glad you’re okay because that’s all that matters! Safety is always important!

Thanks for sharing your experience, it will definitely save lives, glad you’re okay, I thoroughly enjoy your content

thanks for this kind of detailed explanation how, where and when accidents can happen. straight up front, no bullshit talking from driver or passenger perspective, u dont see that often around the track or on public road! thanks, really REALLY appreciate it! listened very closely. keep it up!

What a guy. Perfect explanation, on the consequences, and not discrediting the drivers. I have massive respect to anyone prepared to instruct a total stranger without knowing their ability. Time is a good healer Misha.......

thank you for this kind of videos explaining everything! take care and i wish you a speedy recovery!

Hey mate, your guidance on a lap is amazing! I really appreciated having you as my instructor for my couple of laps in the M4 in March 2020. In my opinion too many people don't have great feel for a car and how it reacts and also think they need to do their laps "competitively"! I had years of Kart racing and track driving experience prior to my laps at the Nürburgring but I still understood that I am a novice, especially around this track, People need to enjoy their laps more (7/10ths) and not over-reach. Keep lapping and enjoy it!

Glad everyone was okay in the end. Thank you for the explination of lift off overstear. I have heard the term before but didn't quite understand it. One more thing I've learned from you to keep me safe whenever I'm able to make it to the Ring.

Happy to see you smiling and talking about minor injuries. Your decision is totally normal and understandable. Thanks for your transparency and I hope to see you soon

Alle respect voor je beslissing, Misha. Veel beterschap gewenst!

Thank you. I was not aware of these occurences previously and this video is a solid, technical explanation, coupled with excellent driving knowledge from your advanced Nürburgring experience. Take care and hope all will be much better for you very soon and especially for season 2022. Greetings!

Your explanation is so cool! I now understand the lifting accidents now. Thank Misha and I am very happy you are ok.

Amazingly, the autofocus on the camera did wonders during the explanations with the model car! Very well explained, thank you!

So much to learn in this video, thank you Misha, enormous respect and hope your neck will be fine soon.

Glad to hear your well. Lift oversteer has been dangerous and around for ever. My hillclimb mini in 1985 was dangerous if you lifted. It takes years to be able to keep the throttle planted when you heads screaming lift !! Must be hard to evaluate a stranger's experience on first meeting. Keep up the great videos.

This was a great tutorial, Misha. I'm very glad you're ok

Holy F... twice in the same scenario in such a short time. I'm trying to teach myself to drive an older 911 at the moment on nice flat boring tracks, and the temptation to lift when things are not going as expected is VERY hard to resist... I'm very very glad you're mostly well and able to talk to us about this! I was very concerned when your recent vid mentioned a high speed accident. Feel awful for everyone involved and hope all are mostly well.

Misha, you're so well spoken and articulate. Great content. Be well bro!

Thanks Misha for the video! Get well soon. The lift-off oversteer in high speed corner is a haunting experience that affects future judgement ...

I´m so Glad you´re ok! These accidents have been really nasty. I remember we had such a "unsettled" moment at Schwedenkreuz together in the Yaris ... luckily with no consequences. Knowing that coaching on the passengerseat can be so dangerous - who will take over for you? Or will APEX change it´s 1. lap instructor policy?

Thank you Misha very honest and informative 👏 good to see you safe and well...👍

I've spun my GT4 at 235 km/h (GPS) at Sochi with walls all around and came away with nothing but a bent rear toe link and a bunch of cosmetic bits to replace (talk about good fortune) after impacting a tecpro barrier having scrubbed off most of the speed 90 degrees sideways. Morale of that story was that at the very least a GT4 needs a proper alignment and aftermarket rear toe links to calm down the rear a bit. You wouldn't expect a car with a big wing on the back (and a tendency to understeer in slower corners) to snap sideways at 200+ after hitting a small bump off throttle (ESP / Please Save Me = ON) but it can and it will do so out of the box as you lose toe-in on the rebound stroke. Obviously: don't lift in the middle of a corner but sometimes a braking zone is in a corner. The Manthey setup includes adjustable rear links and much more toe-in and I'd expect it to be a lot friendlier to driver errors. The GTS should have been fine though so that was definitely 100% on the driver.

Very well explained! Good to hear that your OK!

Thank you for the video Misha! It was really useful. Unfortunately I am going to the Ring pretty soon to have my first lap ever and it would have been nice having you there. Hope you get back soon :)

Glad that you're alright and doing fine now . Take a good rest and take care . Lastly, thanks for the advices !

Thanks Misha for this video. I lifted on my Gti at 170kph and nearly lost control . I’m lucky I didn’t have to learn it the hard way

Misha, great explanation. Sorry you are banged up. As someone planning on coming to Apex I would want you to drive and am not interested in driving. My skill level would put us at risk due to things like lift and oversteer. A wise man once said "A man has got to know his limitations." Dirty Harry.

So good to see, that others know too, to grab the seatbelt when preparing for impact. A senior rally driver took me for ride when I was around 6 -first, he asked if my seatbelt was tight - I told him no, it's just right. Then he pulled the straps even more, and told me, it needs to be a bit tight. Then he saw me grab the rollcage to have something to hold onto, and showed me to grab the seatbelt. In my opinion, the best is at shoulder height. These two are the best safety advices that I've ever gotten.

Your comment about Robert respecting your decision indicates the strength of this relationship. Both you and Robert are men of high integrity. I have no doubt that together you'll continue to build something great.

Great explanations. I will always remember our slow laps in the 218 in pouring rain, great fun! 🤩

I finally understood lift-off oversteer, thank you. Respect for you decision, very much understandable.

Great job, getting in as an instructor is always a scary thing, especially when you only have a few minutes to ascertain the drivers expeience and ability. It’s tough for me here at Sebring, Homestead and Daytona, I can’t even begin to imagine how it would be on the world’s longest and most technically challenging racetrack. Crashes are things we all hope to avoid, but most of us know are only a matter of time. We need to continue to acknowledge and support our safety professionals and the safety tech out there that helps keep these incidents financial in nature vs worse and we need to continue to applaud people link Misha who post their mistakes online (I know Mischa wasn’t driving, but still he sets a good example by sharing ) so others can learn.

Absolutely the right decision to make. Glad you're okay, but you still hands down have the best instructing technique that I've experienced. What you should think about is teaching people how to instruct!

Very informative. Keep up the good work.

Massive respect to all of you guys doing instructing laps with total strangers, even with people I know just riding along on the passenger seat I am absolutely an awful passenger, I could not do what you guys do. Glad noone got seriously hurt from either of these crashes.

Great video, epic model collection by the way 👍 Love the videos and content

Great explanations and very sensible discussions. Anyone who ever drove a 205 GTI fast knows the horrors of lift off oversteer. I remember one rally where we had lift off oversteer and shot so far into a field we were almost in another country :)

Hi Misha, I remember our GTI situation in Kesselchen very well 😁 I couldn't imagine sitting next to an inexperienced driver in such a situation. With you, I had no worries at all. Although it's sad for many people but totally understandable that you'll stop instructing for now. I hope your neck will recover soon. I still owe you the dry lap. 🙂

thank you Misha for this this personal vlog

My respect for your this decision. Do what is good for you , was a saying of older whise people. So well done and you are doing so many things for the Ring, Apex or all the people in the region. Thanks for sharing .👍

Very informative video! I learned a lot about driving dynamics, especially with weight under load. Would love to see more educational videos like this from the office. I'm very glad that you and your peers are ok!

I was thinking of going to the ring next year and its sad to hear you wont be instructing anymore, but your physical and mental safety is more important than instructing, have been hit a few times in regular traffic myself and those expirences definantly stay rent free in your head. But thanks for the video, it made me more aware of liftoff oversteer, which i will definantly be thinking about and avoiding if i can get to the ring next year.

Having to deal with so many different people with a such a gulf in ability and skill set must be so difficult and you really are putting your life in their hands, I’ve only instructed a hand full of laps and they made me feel very uneasy. Fully support your choice to stop dude.

Absolute respect for your reaction

I wish you a very good rest, Misha! I, along with the other fans are glad that you were okay after that crash. anyways, you can rest now.

Full respect for making this decision Misha. I know how you feel sort off. I had a few crashes that weren’t my fault when I raced then a big one a few years later after that it just wasn’t enjoyable for me worrying about getting hit and not on the race. I’m gutted at the same time though best thing I’ve ever done was doing a lap with you tried so hard to get back last year and this year to do some more with you. You’ll have to take me for a lap instead I’m sure it’ll be even more enjoyable. Great vid as always.🐶

I've crashed my friend's rally car on a practice rally course we have here a couple weeks ago... It happens and I felt like shit afterward, even though damages were minimal. It's a terrible thing and it was my own fault. I wish it were my own car... But we figured things out. He'll crash my own rally car as soon as possible :) We'll be square then!

Always cool and ok to say "enough" or "no". My first lap, I hit the same spot going fast and luckily I instinctually slowly lifted the accelerator and corrected my angle, then breaked. Lesson learned.

Glad you're OK(ish). Even without the crash video this still makes for interesting content. Thanks for sharing! Maybe we can book Pancake for instructions around the Nürburgring doggy trails?

Great explanation Misha! Out of curiosity, did the cars have the stability management turned on or off?

Yeaa, Misha..Take A Break..You Need That..🙌🏽 Glad That You Are Fine..🙏🏽

I am glad to hear you and the driver in both crashes were able to walk away without injuries requiring immediate medical treatment. I agree, you certainly have both Porsche and the superb team that maintains the Nürburgring crash barriers and track to thank (along with no small amount of luck whether you believe in it or not) for your lack of negative outcome. Another great thanks must be given to Robert for being understanding regarding your instincts going forward as an in-car instructor. Cheers, and rubber-side down FTW!

Evening Misha glad you and the other drivers where ok apart from the whiplash. I completely understand what you’re saying about not doing instruction lap etc. I know myself what it’s like to be involved in a serious accident. And either finding it hard to get back into a car and or who is driving it. Hopefully through time you’ll be able to take instructor laps again. Thanks for the lift off understeer explanation and where the incidents happened on the ring.

I’ve got some back issues and a few years ago had a couple of rear impact crashes and I can totally sympathise with the discomfort your in and also the hesitance for getting back in a car. Mine were on normal public roads and both times I was in a stationary car and the speeds involved were very low but still the impact had an effect so I can only imagine the discomfort your in your self. Take it easy and rest and next time you get in a car just make sure you have wrapped your self in loads of bubble wrap and cotton wool just in case.

It was an aspiration of mine to come to the Ring from Australia and do instructions with you. I know it must have been a hard call to make but I totally understand the decision. Take care and hope to still see you around the ring one day :)

I don't know how you did instruction laps on such a high speed track, balls of steal.

happy you are ok, take your time. This is not easy for ones mind and body. plus all the other stuff, a big hug to you comrade.

Sorry to hear that you've been injured, hope you feel better quickly, but yeah I get it about instruction laps, will still be watching what you do around the track, best wishes big fella, Rj in Oz

You and Robert do such a great job with explaining everything and driver coaching. If I ever come back to Germany and the Norschleife I would love to go on track with you. I have not been their since 2005 so the track is probably far different and my memory of the layout is probably off. I love Laguna Seca, Willow Springs, and Vegas Speedway. I have never driven a F1 track sadly and that's what I would love.

I completely understand you, get well soon. I've been in a serious car accident as well, and for me I had to use my willpower to start driving more again, especially on highways so I would get comfortable doing it. Now it's no problem anymore.

Thanks for sharing. I realise that this science is when you are on the edge of adhesion as opposed to slower speeds. Even depressing the clutch in older model cars can change the attitude of a car when done in the wrong place at the wrong time. Glad you're okay. Don't let this change the animal in you to explore the limits!!!!! Cheers mate.

Great Vid, Thanks

Being FWD driver for almost whole life, I've learned how to counter understeer with liftoff oversteer, I can only imagine how bad it is in RWD

Get well soon. As a retired performance instructor for Porsche for many years, i was often asked if i wished we had “dual controls” like learner instructors have. I always said no as they only have a brake override, and I would need a throttle to prevent ‘lift off oversteer’. This comment was usually followed by an explanation of driving dynamics similar to yours. Great video, very informative and i support your decision to take a break from general instruction.

Man nurgburgring is the toughest track for someone that never track their cars before. Even in sim racing I don't make beginners jump into that track because its too long to remember and getting into a right flow on their first try. I'm glad your alive now man, be safe out there!

I totally understand your stand on driver instructor people these days. I've made a similar decision a few years back. I've found that these new cars are sooooo much faster and I don't want to be in the passenger seat when something may go wrong. I think the best option in driver instruction is the lead follow. It's the safest for both individuals. Cheers! 👍 👍 👍

An instructor I knew, also a great racing driver, died while instructing. You have to have a lot of faith in this new person to the track, and luck to meet a responsible driver. Rest in Peace Sean Edwards.

I totaled a s2000 doing 127mph, flipped, rolled, slid etc… thankfully only walked away with seatbelt rash. But I had like a ptsd type of felling when driving for prolly about a year or two after the accident.. speeding, cornering etc, it just made me uncomfortable and anxious or nervous.. that was many years ago. But took a bit of time to get back to normal..understand your decision and support whatever it is you decide to do. Love the videos 🤜🏻🤛🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Thanks so much for your explanation, happened to me last week on a public road on wet. To this day I didn't understand it as I thought that FWD cars especially family van can't slide like this. Thankfully I somehow managed to just tap the guardrail and only scratch a plastic fender. To this day I thank for my experience I gained on the sim over 5 years of using it. The knowledge of the car behaviour in this situation was like a gift from heaven. Could have ended in a ditch with my passenger. In the end we laugh it off and got home safely, in the end that's all that matters. Stay safe out there guys.

As I mentioned on insta, glad you are ok, and thanks for doing this video! Very instructive. On a different note, I was trying to figure out the books on your shelf. I saw Skib barber’s going faster, which I have. Could also make out “how to drive”, then “24:16” and “2 jaguars prototypes”

I learned myself vehicle handeling with my first car. A Fiat Cinquecento 900cc. Small and cheap car with great handeling. Learned lift off oversteer, handbreak turning, controlling skids. The tires where gone in only 4000km. But made me learn how to react instinctively when a car reacts one way or another. And each 3 years I take a course with a driving school on a skidpad. Just to keep the basics on a good level. And the more km/miles you do with a car the more you will learn how it will react when things do not go as planned!

Good/helpful info - thanks!

Thank you for your videos - they have provided me much entertainment and enjoyment. But, it was reflecting on your comments and have a perspective from the drivers seat. Many years ago I made an instructor "scared" and I carry his response with me to this day. Decades later i drive my "local" track with the respect of my peers (unfortunately, not for a few years now) and I know the blind apex, changes in tarmac and how to handle no brakes into a fast corner on the circuit and what to do when my slicks are down to the canvas (ie, stop) or going sideways (180 degrees) in the wet at 170km (not nice, and just seeing how wet it was). A few hundred laps - no, I don't drive the limit, but those concrete walls are unforgiving as other know. What you do, getting into a car with someone you don't know - that is scary. Take care.

Get well dude, also agree on the sim time. Driving in the sim I have learned so much that has transferred to reality and there's an odd position of knowing how a car will react and what to do in any situation without ever having actually experienced it in reality.

Great explanation, I remember even now some 25 years later when I was doing my advance driver training with BMW, I just remember these words from my instructor, don’t lift off don’t life off.. 3 words that have stayed with me!

Gute Entscheidung Misha, es ist deine Gesundheit und Du musst dich wohlfühlen. Auch wenn ich gerne dieses Jahr mit Dir gefahren wäre, vll. Können wir das ja nächstes Jahr nachholen. Du bist eine ehrliche Haut, bleib wie du bist und vor allem Gesund 😊

Safety first! Glad your here to tell the stories!

Glad you never had a really bad outcome, always thought you were a brave man hopping in with an unknown driver to instruct.

Cool vid as ever misha glad your ok mate 🙌🙌🙌🙌👍