Top Gear Crashes Diablo
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TCruise

Original Poster:

659 posts

108 months

Tuesday 16th June 2020
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Whilst filming Top Gear a rather beautiful Diablo has been run off the road into a ditch by Paddy McGuiness.

He is fine and the Off looks entirely like driver error.

I really feel for the Owner.

I bet he wasn't told who was going to be driving it. Paddy clearly cannot drive well, and Top Gear giving him that car in wet conditions is bad decision making on their part.

Hope it is fully restored.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/great...

Yetski

670 posts

180 months

Wednesday 17th June 2020
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All the pictures/video I've seen the road is damp, mildly moist even, but according to McGuiness
'I finally got to drive one of my fantasy childhood cars, the Lamborghini Diablo, but it turns out 30-year-old supercars don't like torrential rain, who'd have thought.'
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the tribester

2,767 posts

103 months

Wednesday 17th June 2020
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I'm not surprised you didn't already see this thread
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

supersport

4,478 posts

244 months

Wednesday 17th June 2020
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I love that road, probably my favourite, almost did it at the weekend.




sparta6

3,829 posts

117 months

Wednesday 17th June 2020
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Gameshow host out of his depth.
Shocker !

MarkM3Evoplus

852 posts

217 months

Wednesday 17th June 2020
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Stopped watching Top Gear mainly because he was one of the hosts....he irritates the hell out of me

Ferruccio

1,859 posts

136 months

Wednesday 17th June 2020
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They initially approached me to use my Diablo.
The producer was very open and honest about what they’d do and the concerns of the other two owners eg re standing starts.
I was concerned about the track use. They offered to buy new tyres.
My kids were very keen on me letting them do it, for obvious reasons, but they now see that I made the right call.
I didn’t expect the problem to be driving in a straight line!

carspath

904 posts

194 months

Wednesday 17th June 2020
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Good call Ferruccio.

A lesson there

VV different to the Beaulieu team back in 2001 when they wanted some video footage of a moving Countach .
They were in a camera car five metres ahead , leaning out of the open tailgate with a movie camera running .
We were driving at no more than 20 mph , but they called a halt after less than a minute because THEY were worried that stones flicked up by the camera car might hit the Countach .

I hadn’t noticed anything , but they didn’t feel comfortable.

That,s what I call respecting old and rare machinery , and in turn , my respect for them grew exponentially.

After that I was happy to leave the car with them for a year for their 2002-2003 Supercar Exhibition .
They looked after that car so carefully ..... amazing tales therein .