Looks like it went into the hedge backwards: someone has just had their introduction to oversteer.
The photos show a swing in the garden, quite near the car. Just as well there were apparently no kids in the cars path when it went hedge-trimming
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"It's pictured lying battered in a hedge - all £330,000 of it. "
That is one hell of an expensive hedge.
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 05/06/2008 at 13:41
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Humph. Off a straightish road in a 30MPH limit in good conditions, through a hedge, into a play area. Quite a level of incompetence, by the look.
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If there hadn't been bits of hedge in the way we could have seen the full number plate and then found out online whether it was taxed or not.
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It's a foreign one (German). M GT 1946, as in the picture in the Daily Telegraph, The Sun, That Dreadful Rag, The Mirror, and a rake of others.
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>>..we could have seen the full number plate and then found out online whether it was taxed or not.
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It had a German reg. Several daily papers have a photo.
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Lewis Hamilton is on record as saying that his old man thinks he's a better driver than Lewis. This is obviously the beginning of his attempt to prove it. But I would guess Lewis has stuffed many cars even more expensive than that one, so poor Anthony has his work cut out catching up.
Might the Porsche be registered to Mercedes Benz or one of its senior cadres? No doubt we will be told. And is it possible that such a vehicle might be be a difficult handful for an ordinary experienced driver? I wouldn't have thought so.
Edited by Lud on 05/06/2008 at 15:36
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I hope he has a good hedge fund to pay for the repairs...
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I bet Lewis could pay for any damages out of his pocket money.
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snipoquoteIt had a German reg. Several daily papers have a photo.
Yup Munich registration so one assumes not a works car as that'd been an S for Stutgart.
Pretty sure the Mclaren
Dodgy jounalisim in the Telegraph as well, since when have cars had tires in the UK & the sensationalist drivel about JC was not needed either.
The CGT has effectively an F1 clutch made of Carbon (same as it's brakes) & it has a reputation of being vicious. I suspect he'd stalled it a couple of times pulling away, then given it a boot full to get it away & lost control.
550BHP & a shedloads of torque from the V10 meant that even at low speed probably in first gear, the hedge & kerb won't have stopped it so the speed could have been relatively low, but hey don't let the facts get in the way!
Obviously his skills as an F1 father don't translate to his own driving ability!
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 05/06/2008 at 22:08
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mmm, big skid marks. And the grass don't look too good neither!
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Oops just realised CGT is 610BHP should have known that given my position.
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Can't see Mercedes being too happy - why is the father of one of their F1 Drivers, and one who is very prominent with his son at races wearing his Mclaren-Mercedes gear, driving a Porsche?
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