quote:When you are airborne the wheels speed up to higher than your ground speed. You land with the full weight of the buggy, (plus inertia) on those drive wheels. So the buggy either instantaneously speeds up, (unlikely) pulls a massive wheel stand, (unlikely at 100 mph) or breaks traction & spins the wheels, (unlikely with that instantaneous traction). Or simply breaks something within the drive train. The first component under massive load is the CV, then the axle, then the transmission.
Obviously this is not a great concern with the Pantera.
From Open Road racers' experiences, when one Pantera got "major air" over a large bump and the driver doesn't get out of the gas in time, the shock load on landing twists or breaks the $2200 ZF input shaft in a stock drivetrain. The u-joints and halfshafts survived just fine. On another racer's car that hit a humpbacked bridge at 150mph, the front lower frame rails completely cracked off their welded connection to the main body. Only an aftermarket stiffening system in front kept this one from being a feature on the 6 o'clock news. Jumping a Pantera is unhealthy to your bank account and maybe your body!