Sebring International Raceway is known for its treacherous track surfaces, as well as being a reasonably challenging layout. During a race, there is a chance that components on the car can fail, and for Tristan Herbert, the driver of this Trans Am Series Camaro, it was the brakes.

The hairpin is one of the trickiest turns on the circuit, where drivers carry great amounts of speed down the straight leading up to it, and brake hard before the initial turn-in. In the video we see Herbert’s yellow Camaro charging for the hairpin, and while he’s not shaving off any speed approaching the turn, he did his best to keep the car out of the wall. After missing the turn knowing he wasn’t going to stop anytime soon, Herbert maneuvered the car around the turn of the track’s runoff area, and smashed through a gate, bringing him out onto a main road surrounding the track.

Still with no brakes, Herbert immediately drove up a curb into the grass to avoid an oncoming car, and then almost hits a pickup truck when coasting into the entrance of the Chateau Elan Hotel and Conference Center, which neighbors Sebring International Raceway. Herbert coasts the car around the hotel’s parking lot for a quick minute until he can find a way back to the racetrack, and lucky for him, there were not that many other cars in the parking lot.

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Once Herbert found the exit, he drove back out onto the main road, still with no brakes, and made his way to the entrance of the racetrack, where he drove in and found an access road leading back to where he’s supposed to be. Talk about a wild and unexpected ride! Thankfully nobody was injured in the whole ordeal, and it looks like the car will be alright too. We’re sure Herbert will be back out on track in no time at all.