Mclaren F1 in big accident

[Wolands Advocate]

shoestring7 said:

Life Saab Itch said:

The Cobra was the original car to be nicknamed "The Widow-maker".

Plenty of 'bikes had had the nickname before though.

The term probably started with some half-arsed, over-engined, almost-unflyable aircraft didn't int?

SS7

Certainly the 300SL Gullwing was known in its day as a widowmaker and it's an older car than the Cobra. Like as not though, it probably also wasn't the first to earn the title as SS7 suggests.

Hope Bean and F1 both recover well.

[STiG911]

Hope both are back on the road soon.

[pagani1]

It appears repairable so will not appear at Douglas Valley Breakers who do get some interesting wrecks.I am sure that McLaren will repair it if only for the PR value as to the car's strength and integrity of build.

[thinfourth2]

Well known celebrity in car crash

Can you just imagine how many no win no fee phone calls he is going to get

[Frik]

Craigyp79 said:

Glad to hear he's escaped relatively unscathed, Mclaren F1's may be rare, but there's only one Rowan Atkinson.

My thoughts entirely.

[hurstg01]

It looks like it could be worse than Flemke's damage - thats taken nearly a year at Mclaren [albeit with a few enhancements] unless he wants to takeit back to Lanzante's

[Mini1275]

Good to hear he's relatively okay .

I'm sure McLaren will be able to fix it.

[Soovy]

Craigyp79 said:

Glad to hear he's escaped relatively unscathed, Mclaren F1's may be rare, but there's only one Rowan Atkinson.

100% this.

[shoestring7]

Wolands Advocate said:

shoestring7 said:

Life Saab Itch said:

The Cobra was the original car to be nicknamed "The Widow-maker".

Plenty of 'bikes had had the nickname before though.

The term probably started with some half-arsed, over-engined, almost-unflyable aircraft didn't int?

SS7

Certainly the 300SL Gullwing was known in its day as a widowmaker and it's an older car than the Cobra. Like as not though, it probably also wasn't the first to earn the title as SS7 suggests.

Hope Bean and F1 both recover well.

10 seconds on wikipedia reveals:

"The Martin B-26 Marauder was a World War II twin-engine medium bomber built by the Glenn L. Martin Company. ........ After entering service with the U.S. Army, the aircraft received the reputation of a "Widowmaker " due to the early models' high rate of accidents during takeoff and landings."

SS7

[MrQuick]

pb said:

DanielJames said:

PedoBear said:

Is that your photo? It's famous

http://jalopnik.com/5827931/mr-bean-lucky-to-be-al...

Nope not mine, found it on CCUK

I'm the one who put up that photo in the comments on Jalopnik, figured it might help and end some of the silly rumors.

They were running the photo on the main article but have taken it off, the writer of the article, Matt, is just waiting on permission from the guy who took the photo in order to run it again.

[gcpeters]

so who was the passenger? i read a well known motoring celeb?

GP

[ali_kat]

Soovy said:

Craigyp79 said:

Glad to hear he's escaped relatively unscathed, Mclaren F1's may be rare, but there's only one Rowan Atkinson.

100% this.

[Fat Albert]

shoestring7 said:

Life Saab Itch said:

The Cobra was the original car to be nicknamed "The Widow-maker".

Plenty of 'bikes had had the nickname before though.

The term probably started with some half-arsed, over-engined, almost-unflyable aircraft didn't int?

SS7

The Lockheed F104 Starfighter ("Missile with a man in it") had that Monicker when in Luftwaffe service, mainly because they took a high-level interceptor with a high wing loading and tried to use it for Low-level ops, with the expected result....

Prior to that I think it was used for some of the '30s racing aircraft like the Gee bee and Hughes which were all engine and no manners.

Glad Rowan is OK, and the car doesn't look to bad, was a bit worried initially as there are two F1s in Northants and I wasn't sure which one it was when it was first reported

[FaineantFreddy]

Firstly, I hope Rowan is OK and his F1 will be back on the road soon. He's a very experienced driver and racer so although this may have 'rattled' him, I'm sure he'll get over it as we all do after an 'off'...

But it would be nice to establish some facts because as usual, the media do the best they can to sensationalise anything involving a celebrity, especially if a nice car is involved.

Here's how I see it right now:

Car spun several times - not verified
Car hit a tree - not verified
Car hit a lamp post - not verified (seems like it may have come to rest against a traffic sign)
Car caught fire - not verified, might have been steam
"Left hand door had been cut away" - looks like it's just open, going by the photo
Rowan broke his shoulder - seems like he didn't
"Rowan cheats death" - perhaps a little overstated

Every story like this seems to suffer from sensationalist reporting, exaggeration, poor research, factually incorrect observations, unsubstantiated statements from "witnesses" or "onlookers" and pure speculation until a few days, weeks or years later the truth finally emerges but by that time nobody is interested or cares.

Such is the state of 'news reporting' these days

[monthefish]

FaineantFreddy said:

Every story like this seems to suffer from sensationalist reporting, exaggeration, poor research, factually incorrect observations, unsubstantiated statements from "witnesses" or "onlookers" and pure speculation until a few days, weeks or years later the truth finally emerges but by that time nobody is interested or cares.

Such is the state of 'news reporting' these days

[Dave80s]

"As a side note, and of no importance at all, but it may pop up when your on millionaire, Liam from Prodigy brought the guys house,now for sale at 6.5 million if anybody fancies it."

And Liam has an F1 (maybe 2 I heard)...and a PH account

[epom]

this story is bothering me all morning... get well soon Rowan... and the Big Mac too !! right must do some work...

[minicab]

FaineantFreddy said:

Such is the state of 'news reporting' these days

Sad isn't it... it's no longer news, it's little more than over-hyped fantasy dreampt up by a coffee fuelled city dwellers under pressure to bash out a story without giving any consideration to the genuine facts, or it seems compassion to those involved.

[MrQuick]

FaineantFreddy said:

Firstly, I hope Rowan is OK and his F1 will be back on the road soon. He's a very experienced driver and racer so although this may have 'rattled' him, I'm sure he'll get over it as we all do after an 'off'...

But it would be nice to establish some facts because as usual, the media do the best they can to sensationalise anything involving a celebrity, especially if a nice car is involved.

Here's how I see it right now:

Car spun several times - not verified
Car hit a tree - not verified
Car hit a lamp post - not verified (seems like it may have come to rest against a traffic sign)
Car caught fire - not verified, might have been steam
"Left hand door had been cut away" - looks like it's just open, going by the photo
Rowan broke his shoulder - seems like he didn't
"Rowan cheats death" - perhaps a little overstated

Every story like this seems to suffer from sensationalist reporting, exaggeration, poor research, factually incorrect observations, unsubstantiated statements from "witnesses" or "onlookers" and pure speculation until a few days, weeks or years later the truth finally emerges but by that time nobody is interested or cares.

Such is the state of 'news reporting' these days

Tabloids go on anything and this is exacerbated by the fact that they use Twitter as a news source now days.

Twitter moves fast, but there is no way to make sure what you are reading is true. The amount of crap that was being spewed on Twitter after the crash was amazing and all that 'information' was used to write the articles. Twitter is just making sensationalisation much worse.

[Frik]

minicab said:

FaineantFreddy said:

Such is the state of 'news reporting' these days

Sad isn't it... it's no longer news, it's little more than over-hyped fantasy dreampt up by a coffee fuelled city dwellers under pressure to bash out a story without giving any consideration to the genuine facts, or it seems compassion to those involved.

These days?