Koenigsegg Agera R Nurburgring crash

Koenigsegg Agera R Nurburgring crash

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saxy

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258 posts

123 months

Sunday 14th September 2014
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http://www.gtspirit.com/2014/09/10/koenigsegg-ager...

I'm surprised there hasn't been a ton of chatter about this. I think it's the first time Koenigsegg have actually tried to put their cars and numbers to a real test on track since the old CCX on Top Gear.

I've always believed that the Agera R has TOO much power and torque to be a track monster, more for a drag or top speed car. It will be all over the place on the track, and it would take thousands of hours of testing (Pagani had driven their Huayra some 1 million KM in testing on road and track) by the best engineers, and drivers to get even 5 tenths out of it. And any mistake would be near fatal. If they had the goods, they would have done what Pagani had done, put a decent laptime at the Ring and brag, and I've long suspected that the extra HP wasn't going to translate to equally impressive laptimes (I mean, come on, zero lap times in the past 6-7 years?)

Unfortunately, it's ended pretty badly. Hope driver and passenger are ok

Tom73

190 posts

168 months

Sunday 14th September 2014
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The driver and the passenger was out testing the One:1 the next day so they're ok. The car is also said to be repairable. You can see the One:1 making the P1 look slow in this gif

http://gfycat.com/ExhaustedFatIndianrockpython

And here's one where the Agera R was making P1 look slow

http://gfycat.com/ThriftySelfishArachnid

(note: all the footage of the P1 is from their failed record attempt and the LaFerrari is a XX proto wearing slicks)


As far as the crash goes the driver came in too quick into Hohenrain following Tiergarten and Dottinger Hohe(where they can reach speeds of +400 km/h) and overshot his braking point. I don't think there's any driver in the world that can anticipate what it's like nailing those corners at the impossible speeds we're dealing with so lets give him a pass.

thegreenhell

15,110 posts

218 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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This isn't the first crash for a Koenigsegg on the Ring. Marc Basseng crashed heavily in a CCX during the Black Falcon group test there in 2008.

TWareham

116 posts

206 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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I was at the factory last week saw the car without the body panels on and it looks in excellent shape, should take very little to get it back on the road and testing again soon.

As the other Tom mentioned the driver was back out the following day in the One:1.

Lots of people crash at the ring and not half of them are driving something as powerful as a Koenigsegg! The car is performing well and I look forward to seeing the end results.