Most likely, Tom, it was not the engine torque that caused the crash. Rather, the plane stalled. You throttled up, but you did not wait for the air speed to increase before you climbed and turned. The wing stalled, the plane snap rolled into the ground.

Airplanes that have high power-to-weight ratio and low wing loading, like many aerobatics, can fly even when the wing is stalled, but just about any war bird will do the same thing your Corsair did.

Live and learn.

Sandy T
(been there, done that more than once)