Pagani Zonda S wrecked during a test drive in SCOTLAND

[Matra et Alpine]

and NO, it wisnae me :)

The Pagani Zonda S supercar that was wrecked during a test drive after it spun out on a narrow country lane and hit a telegraph pole

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/24/article-0-08D966E6000005DC-724_468x380_popup.jpg

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1260267/300-000-repair-driver-wrecks-supercar-test-drive-thank-goodness-insured.html#ixzz0j7ywWN57 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1260267/300-000-repair-driver-wrecks-supercar-test-drive-thank-goodness-insured.html#ixzz0j7ywWN57)

[aiasib]

...Obligatory:

'That'll buff right out'.


ps: cool sig matra :P

[Niko_Fx]

Damn.. :(

[Ferrer]

That must've hurt. And not physically...

[VOGUE_MAN]

Being that this happened on a test drive I wonder if the driver was the one buying, and if so did he feel at all compelled to buy the vehicle as he'd crashed it? That's how my friend ended up with his car but in that instance it was a Fiat.

[NSXType-R]

Wow! People in Scotland still use the telegraph?

:D

[baddabang]

Something tells me that their insurance premiums just tripled.

[jediali]

I am going to check but I heard this story on the radio and heard something about Jackie Stewart and the biggest insurance claim on record (£300k). I think I was confused about the JS bit but the £300k bit is good.

For the record I hate the body shops in Aberdeen, they all treat customers cars like crap bar one and have insane costs. Not that this wont go back to Italy.

Pretty sure I know where it happened. I will go and see if I can find some carbon fibre bits in the ditch.

Also I cannot imagine Aberdeenshire being the best place to road test this car. The roads are narrow, pot-hole ridden, full of tractors and their mud.

[TheScrutineer]

:D I had to chuckle when I read this one in the news.

It kind of reminds me of something that happened here locally. This Indian dude has an ex-Niki Lauda Lamborghini Countach. Some guy who just got out of prison lost his documents on the train to get a new job, and got in a drunken rage and through a park bench at the Lambo! The car had to go back to Italy to get nearly £10,000 worth of repairs. :D

[aiasib]

:D I had to chuckle when I read this one in the news.

It kind of reminds me of something that happened here locally. This Indian dude has an ex-Niki Lauda Lamborghini Countach. Some guy who just got out of prison lost his documents on the train to get a new job, and got in a drunken rage and through a park bench at the Lambo! The car had to go back to Italy to get nearly £10,000 worth of repairs. :D

I guess you could say that car was [takes off sunglasses]....benched.

YYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHH

[TheScrutineer]

I guess you could say that car was [takes off sunglasses]....benched.

YYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHH

I heard it wooden-'t start after that :D

[Matra et Alpine]

"oh dear" :( "Telegraph poles" is what we still call them as that#'s what they were first used for round the world.
Aberdeenshire has the second highest collection of millionaires in Britain ! ( Queen being one of them :) )
Cold tyres, cold roads and a desire to "test it" ... idiot :)
I put off a test drive in a lowly Evora till it warmed up and have now delayed the second day test drive as it's gone cold again. ONLY an idiot would think to test drive a car and give it ANY welly !! AND I mean any, mud and the poor salt we had to use this year means our roads are like ice rinks when damp.

ah well lesson learned, sadly the UK insurance companies "spread their liabilities", so in fact ALL drivers in the UK are in part paying for this idiots lack of brains in next years premiums.

Would love to know which road it was, driven most of the good ones up their on rallies and tours :)

Finally, no dispresepct, but Aberdonians are also one of the worst drivers on the planet. ( or were ) Mostly farmers sons driving tractors from the age of 10 who get loose on the roads in souped up Corsas ( was Escort Mexico and RS2000s in my day :) ). Faster than they can cope when anything goes wrong.

( DUCKS, awaiting the barrage :) )

[4wheelsonline]

Oh my a beautiful car being wrecked. That's a sad news...It happens during test drive? That's bad. :(

[RacingManiac]

F1 Champ Jackie Stewart Behind Wheel Of $449K Supercar Crash? - jackie stewart - Jalopnik (http://jalopnik.com/5501776/f1-champ-jackie-stewart-behind-wheel-of-449k-supercar-crash)

[Matra et Alpine]

IF it's true then proof that 71 year old drivers should be restrained .... even if they WERE once F1 champions :)

I have my suspicions that all that's happening now is the struggle for journos to know ANY Scots living professional driver other than Jackie :(

Me ? I think the "professional driver" was clearly the STIG !!

[Matra et Alpine]

So lets end the nonsense NOW ...



SIR Jackie Stewart today denied being at the wheel of a £500,000 supercar which crashed into a telegraph pole near Aberdeen.

[NSXType-R]

"oh dear" :( "Telegraph poles" is what we still call them as that#'s what they were first used for round the world.
Aberdeenshire has the second highest collection of millionaires in Britain ! ( Queen being one of them :) )
Cold tyres, cold roads and a desire to "test it" ... idiot :)
I put off a test drive in a lowly Evora till it warmed up and have now delayed the second day test drive as it's gone cold again. ONLY an idiot would think to test drive a car and give it ANY welly !! AND I mean any, mud and the poor salt we had to use this year means our roads are like ice rinks when damp.

ah well lesson learned, sadly the UK insurance companies "spread their liabilities", so in fact ALL drivers in the UK are in part paying for this idiots lack of brains in next years premiums.

Would love to know which road it was, driven most of the good ones up their on rallies and tours :)

Finally, no dispresepct, but Aberdonians are also one of the worst drivers on the planet. ( or were ) Mostly farmers sons driving tractors from the age of 10 who get loose on the roads in souped up Corsas ( was Escort Mexico and RS2000s in my day :) ). Faster than they can cope when anything goes wrong.

( DUCKS, awaiting the barrage :) )

Haha, just kidding.

By the way, if it really was Jackie Stewart, that's really embarrassing.

[RacingManiac]

So lets end the nonsense NOW ...

chalk it up to the scoreboard for the UK press accuracy...lol

[Matra et Alpine]

As the first headline I saw that named JYS had the price in DOLLARS then I think perchance it may not have been a local journo :) Put it down ot internet speculation ??

Anyways, UK journo .....
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=330403&stc=1&d=1269537162

[jediali]

Would love to know which road it was, driven most of the good ones up their on rallies and tours :)

very Approx. N 57°24’16.50” W 02°07’50.90”


Aberdonians are also one of the worst drivers on the planet.

I am a pants driver but more importantly only been in Aberdeen for 7 years. More of a Perthshire person.

[Matra et Alpine]

aha so could this be the offending "telegraph pole" ?
( Which look as if they may be power poles, chalk another win for British journalism quality ? :) )

N 57°24’16.50” W 02°07’50.90” - Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=N+57%C2%B024%E2%80%9916.50%E2%80%9D+W+02%C2%B007 %E2%80%9950.90%E2%80%9D&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=47.033113,101.337891&ie=UTF8&ll=57.404294,-2.130318&spn=0,359.98763&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=57.404525,-2.130774&panoid=EC2aLkGvmSB3zTMC8ksL2Q&cbp=12,192.5,,0,12.49)


aha the plot thickens .... is that a Lamboirghini tractor parked in the farm ? Maybe they wre to blame :)

[Kitdy]

Finally, no dispresepct, but Aberdonians are also one of the worst drivers on the planet. ( or were ) Mostly farmers sons driving tractors from the age of 10 who get loose on the roads in souped up Corsas ( was Escort Mexico and RS2000s in my day :) ). Faster than they can cope when anything goes wrong.

I was nearly run over in Aberdeen.

[LeonOfTheDead]

The accident actually happened last August, around the 20th.

The car is in Italy at the factory for repairing, shouldn't be updated to F/Cinque as it previously happened with another car due to an insurance thing. It could even have been already fixed, as it's there since a while.
I saw some better images, and the left side was heavily damaged, the rear wheel and everything attached to it were teared apart up to the gearbox, and some barbed wires found their way towards the engine bay.
The F car from HK looked much worse.

Should be chassis #76046 btw, the penultimate S 7.3 car.

[Equinox]

Thanks for the info Leon. I'd imagine the car is fixed by now.

[cowboy14]

oH ......so Sad

[FastDriver]

this reminds me of when they wrecked the Ferrari Enzo on the movie "Redline" and that was an indie film, so bad for them haha!

[thebrochureman]

Yes such a shame, i hate it when great car get crashed, but don't we all.