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Ever see a car do a back flip? Watch this

By W.J. Hennigan
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There are a variety of ways that companies can stir up attention.

Some employ a daredevil to jump from 24 miles above the Earth. Some hire a supermodel to swap saliva with an archetypal nerd during the Super Bowl. Still others, like Mini, have a driver back-flip a car amid snow-covered mountain ranges.

In a stunt that the company calls the first automotively propelled back flip “to execute a perfect landing,” race car driver Guerlain Chicherit took to the winter sports resort of Tignes in his native France on a specially prepared track.

Watch below as Chicherit, 34, barrels up a static ramp, back-flips the car and lands on a fresh bed of snow.

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“He also did it ‘unassisted’ -- in other words, without the aid of a special ramp with moving elements to boost the car’s rotational movement,” the company said.

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W.J. Hennigan

W.J. Hennigan covered the Pentagon and national security issues from Washington, D.C., before leaving the Los Angeles Times bureau in November 2017. While there, he reported on war, counter-terrorism, and the lives of American service members from more than two dozen countries and previously covered the aerospace and defense industry from Los Angeles. Hennigan earned awards from the National Press Club, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, and was a contributor to the Los Angeles Times coverage of the terror attacks in San Bernardino that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2016.

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