Goodwood today

[salesaelonline]

Someone never got to good wood today this morning

FIREFIGHTERS had to release a man and his passenger from a burnt out McLaren 570s after it crashed into a garage near Heywood earlier this morning.

The bright orange sports car, which is worth £145,000, crashed into the house and a telegraph pole on the Cradock Tractors Site on the A350 at around 6am this morning (July 2).

Three fire crews tackled the blaze, shored up the house using the heavy rescue unit and the two involved in the crash were treated for minor injuries.

next year lads

[salesaelonline]

http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/resources/images/6...

[numtumfutunch]

salesaelonline said:

http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/resources/images/6...

Wow - I expected to see a pic of a bent McL, not that!

[Tit For Tat]

Why do these knobbers confuse the size of their wallet with the size of their talent?

I seriously think there should be a compulsory advanced driving test to drive say all cars over 500 BHP.

[SteveC72]

I'm not really sure just exactly what I was going to see inside this thread.

Maybe a bit of showing off from the OP?

[TooMany2cvs]

numtumfutunch said:

salesaelonline said:

http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/resources/images/6...

Wow - I expected to see a pic of a bent McL, not that!

I think it's safe to say that's a write-off.

[ukaskew]

2 minutes from my house, that's a straight road! The actual car is quite a way off road to, I'm guessing at was 'pressing on'.

[Cupramax]

ukaskew said:

2 minutes from my house, that's a straight road!

i'm guessing the words "watch" and "this" may have been involved.

oh, and thread title failing to deliver

[ecsrobin]

How do we know he was travelling to Goodwood?

[sahajesh]

ecsrobin said:

How do we know he was travelling to Goodwood?

Either creative licence from the OP or deep within the wreckage, there was a Sunday FoS ticket.

I know which I believe.

[fatboy18]

I helped pull a bent Mclaren out of a ditch a couple of years ago with half a tree stuck through it on the way back from Goodwood.


Think it belonged to a Hedge Fund Manager

[v8250]

fatboy18 said:

Think it belonged to a Hedge Fund Manager

I see what you did there...very good

[Saleen836]

ukaskew said:

2 minutes from my house, that's a straight road! The actual car is quite a way off road to, I'm guessing at was 'pressing on'.

Road was still closed when I went to Trowbridge around 2.30 this afternoon.

The FB comments are interesting with one or two saying "he might not have been speeding, he could have swerved to avoid a deer!"

[ukaskew]

Saleen836 said:

Road was still closed when I went to Trowbridge around 2.30 this afternoon.

The FB comments are interesting with one or two saying "he might not have been speeding, he could have swerved to avoid a deer!"

I have hit a deer in pretty much that exact spot before. £500 damage to the wife's car, the deer wasn't too healthy after either.

[Rich_W]

numtumfutunch said:

salesaelonline said:

http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/resources/images/6...

Wow - I expected to see a pic of a bent McL, not that!

fking hell!

Granted its obviously been a big one, but I'm staggered to see it completely burnt out like that!

Is that normal for a mainly CF car? Does it just burn far more intensely?

[fatboy18]

Rich_W said:

numtumfutunch said:

salesaelonline said:

http://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/resources/images/6...

Wow - I expected to see a pic of a bent McL, not that!

fking hell!

Granted its obviously been a big one, but I'm staggered to see it completely burnt out like that!

Is that normal for a mainly CF car? Does it just burn far more intensely?

Aluminium chassis would burn intensely.

[Saleen836]

ukaskew said:

Saleen836 said:

Road was still closed when I went to Trowbridge around 2.30 this afternoon.

The FB comments are interesting with one or two saying "he might not have been speeding, he could have swerved to avoid a deer!"

I have hit a deer in pretty much that exact spot before. £500 damage to the wife's car, the deer wasn't too healthy after either.

And I guess you were travelling at the speed limit or you would have also ended up in the house

[Mr2Mike]

fatboy18 said:

Aluminium chassis would burn intensely.

Very unlikely. It could certainly melt but big lumps of aluminium don't really burn, you need to have it in a fine powder form to burn if (e.g. like aluminium in thermite).

[Bahnstormer]

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