First time wide open.

[Excaliber]

One way you COULD flip a Cobra on level asphalt is having very sticky tires (slicks maybe, up to temp and offering terrific traction). Perhaps drag racing slicks may also apply...

Anyway, you get the car almost exactly sideways, because you did a great job of not over correcting the spin. Now instead of sliding sidesways, the outside tires bite, they dig in, dynamic forces then roll the car over. This might not be a violent roll over, more like a gentle roll over. This will most likely occur at relatively low speed, as higher speeds would tend to induce a full blown slide. UNTIL just the right amount of lower speed is reached, at which the time the tire bite induces the roll over.

Of course, leaving the pavement and getting in the dirt, duplicates the same scenario and might well increase the tire bite problem.

I am reminded of a rear tire blow out I had on a motorcycle at about 80 mph. I was surprised that I was able to control the bike at that speed. It took TWO lanes to do it, but I was staying up. Until I got down to about 30 mph, THATS when I almost dumped it. It was much harder to control at the lower speeds.