A very good reason to stick with one engine…
big oops!
According to Lotus—which offered more detail to the Goodwood Road & Racing website—the driver turned off traction control, which sent all 1,257 pound-feet of torque to the wheels in an instant. In the first few feet, the rear wheels were spinning at 170 miles per hour and the front tires were moving at 150 mph. The driver attempted to save the car from spinning by lifting off the throttle, but the balance of the car shifted, which sent it headlong into the hay barrels.
Instant torque combined with all that tire speed and no traction or rev limiter was a recipe for disaster. The entire incident lasted about 1.5 seconds from start to finish. Thankfully, the driver (who remains unnamed) walked away unharmed.
“Following a formal evaluation by both Goodwood and Lotus, asymmetric grip caused by overcorrection during rapid acceleration at the start line was determined to be the cause,” Lotus told us in a statement earlier this week. “The driver was unharmed in the incident and there was minimal damage to the car.”
“there was minimal damage to the car.”…Yea, that’ll rub right out…
of course he turned off traction control, how else are you going to do a burnout?
They didn’t practise beforehand??!
Talk about dumb! You are there solely to market your GBP2.3M supercar & send it into the straw bales, how embarrassing 