Ferrari F50 crashes in Northampton

[DeltaTango]

Not sure if repost but just noticed this;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2804901/Ra...

Far from ideal.

[JDMDrifter]

Watch this!

[castex]

Decidedly sub-optimal.

[EskimoArapaho]

There's only so much "a dab of oppo" can do. Or diesel spillage. Or avoiding two dogs tied together. Or aliens.

Most noteworthy thing is how dull the F50 looks in silver.

[rhinochopig]

Poor old Rowan must hate it when someone crashes an expensive car. His oops moment ALWAYS gets dragged up.

[SebastienClement]

No mention of the value of the lamp post then?

[ZOLLAR]

I like how the witness just so happened to be an expert on F50 driving techniques

Seamus O'Brien from Leicester said:

It looked like a test drive gone wrong and they had clearly come around the roundabout to head towards Silverstone and applied too much power.They're very unforgiving to drive and despite the very dry weather conditions, the driver clearly gave it too much welly and spun the car into the lamppost.

[Shilvers]

lol, from the article:

.....The car has two doors and two seats......

Journalism at its best!!!

[tfin]

Shilvers said:

lol, from the article:

.....The car has two doors and two seats......

Journalism at its best!!!

we've also been informed from a reliable source that the car, is in fact, a car.

[Munter]

tfin said:

Shilvers said:

lol, from the article:

.....The car has two doors and two seats......

Journalism at its best!!!

we've also been informed from a reliable source that the car, is in fact, a car.

Looks like it might be more like 90% of a car.

[vtecyo]

At least it wasn't a red one.

[robinessex]

Lost of fasinating information I'm glad I know now:-


THE FERRARI F50: BUILT FOR SPEED

The Ferrari F50 is one of 349 of the cars ever made

It has a top speed of 202mph

The car can go from 0-60mph in 3.6 seconds

It has a 4.7-litre V12 engine

Horsepower is 520bhp.

The car is estimated to be worth £850,000

It was introduced in 1995

The car has two doors and two seats

Has a removable hard top

The last F50 was produced in Italy in July 1997

And some complete bks:-

Mr Bean actor Rowan Atkinson last year received a £1m insurance payout to cover repairs after he badly damaged his McLaren F1 supercar in 2011, breaking his shoulder in the crash.

Atkinson lost control of the 240mph car, thought to be worth more than £3million, in August 2011.

After veering off a slippery section of the A605 near Peterborough, it hit a tree and BURST INTO FLAMES

[ADM06]

http://youtu.be/ydsQwt0ZswY

[J4CKO]

ZOLLAR said:

I like how the witness just so happened to be an expert on F50 driving techniques

Seamus O'Brien from Leicester said:

It looked like a test drive gone wrong and they had clearly come around the roundabout to head towards Silverstone and applied too much power.They're very unforgiving to drive and despite the very dry weather conditions, the driver clearly gave it too much welly and spun the car into the lamppost.

I think he is probably right to be fair, like myself he probably has extensive experience of the F50, through building the big Lego technic one and Forza motorstport on the XBox

[Dave Hedgehog]

rhinochopig said:

Poor old Rowan must hate it when someone crashes an expensive car. His oops moment ALWAYS gets dragged up.

where can i buy an F1 for 3 million, i will take 5

[Yiliterate]

"The lamppost and the car were damaged, but there were no injuries."

Nice to see the Police spokesman got the priority ordering sorted then...

[Nickyboy]

Good chance its the same one i photographed a few years ago in the Supercars thread, i spotted it only a few miles from Silverstone where the chap worked, cant be many silver ones in the country.