The Porsche 996 GT2 has a nasty reputation and this video demonstrates just why a sensible driver in a GT2 ought to wear brown pants when they go hillclimbing. We’ve recently shown how capable this guy is on the Nurburgring, but even those skills can’t prevent him from getting into a situation which would give the most bravest man a few gray hairs.

“Even monkeys fall from trees,” Keiichi Tsuchiya once said. To prevent his Porsche from climbing one of the trees standing beside this narrow course, this man has to act quickly when his GT2 decides to break loose at high speed. With very little space to manage the Porsche’s pendulous backside, he counters violently and deftly; engaging the windshield wipers in the process. You know it’s serious when you’ve got the wipers going.

Nevermind that steering angle, those flying windshield wipers are the real harbingers of doom.

After the rear shimmies and darts from one lane to the other, he somehow collects the slide and straightens it with inches on either side. As his co-driver relaxes his grip on the door handle and tries to get his heart back in rhythm, our man gathers himself, takes a deep breath, and gets after it again. Within seconds, he’s correcting big slides even though the reaper was within arm’s reach moments earlier.

Most drivers might hang up their helmet there, but our man isn’t fazed in the slightest. After all, he’s already lost a few seconds with that big tank-slapper, and he’s not going to let that hinder his progress.