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Look at how tiny that ramp is compared to some of the larger ramps we have seen over the years. This is just kid’s stuff compared to professional stunt work, and yet it serves as a compelling demonstration of the forces at work on a car when it makes a jump. After hitting the ramp, the car immediately starts tilting forward, and if it were higher in the air it might have done a complete flip. It comes down at too sharp an angle, grinds its nose into the pavement, and skids to a stop after falling onto its back wheels, hard. All of this occurs off of a ramp that is only a few inches off the ground at a relatively slow speed, so look at what happens when we ramp that up a bit. (Ha. Ramp … ramp … you see what I did there?)

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