Help me understand these "crash" videos?

Vipers are notoriously difficult to control, I remember perusing a Viper forum and they had a sticky thread essentially about how to drive a Viper without crashing it if you're a new owner. The torque is so intense and instant and they are not heavy cars, plus super wide tires and stiff suspension you just barely have any time at all to react when it gets away from you. Still my top dream car though, it's like you see in old Westerns where there's the wild horse throwing everyone off and is just a pain to break... it would definitely take a lot of practice but to "master" one would be incredibly satisfying.

I think the main issue with all this going-sideways-crashing overall is that modern cars have good traction and stiff rear suspension compared to our old stuff which leaves very little time to react and get the car going the right way. Rear leaf springs are pretty forgiving, they're generally softer than coil-sprung cars and they have a "natural" feature when there is weight transfer to one side or the other it tends to "steer" the wheel on the side the car is leaning towards to the other direction. It's like built-in rear steering that adds stability and helps keep the car from spinning out if it loses traction. It's actually outlined in my 1970 Plymouth FSM, super interesting.

And of course combine all that with stupid people who think they're much better drivers than they are and/or don't have the experience driving a high-powered car. It doesn't have much to do with age either, plenty of old farts with inflated egos do the same dumb **** in their new Corvette they just bought with their retirement money and it's the first proper fast car they've owned.

Imagine for instance an A-body with super stock springs and stiff rear shocks, 500+ HP and low-profile rear tires that don't have any sidewall flex like a traditional fat, soft drag tire on 15" steel rim, that's the closest analogy I can think of. And even that would probably still be easier to keep straight than a 500-HP BMW 3-series or similar modern performance car.