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scootz - 5/8/11 at 06:38 AM

Oh dear... Rowan has binned his McLaren F1!

franky - 5/8/11 at 06:44 AM

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Originally posted by scootz
Oh dear... Rowan has binned his McLaren F1!


Its not the first time, he once parked it under a metro!

Liam - 5/8/11 at 06:45 AM

Again??

Over confident from his Top Gear performance?

flak monkey - 5/8/11 at 06:57 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-14414889

Liam - 5/8/11 at 07:00 AM

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Originally posted by flak monkey
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-14414889


Oooh! Ouch! Sounds like he's written it off this time

balidey - 5/8/11 at 07:07 AM

Just up the road from me. Anyone want me to drive over there and see if there are any 'bits' of F1 laying about?

ReMan - 5/8/11 at 07:10 AM

"I'd like you to call me Knob"!

mookaloid - 5/8/11 at 07:23 AM

ah Well, I guess he will just have to out and buy another - ho hum

balidey - 5/8/11 at 07:26 AM

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Paramedics at the scene said his face was hideously disfigured, luckily for him though his only injury was to his shoulder

eddie99 - 5/8/11 at 07:43 AM

Poor car!

James - 5/8/11 at 08:04 AM

Have lusted after one of these since I first saw it on 'Bugs' back in 1994!

With only 67* built there's no call to go taking risks by actually driving them!!! ;-)

*road cars


Really hope it's repairable, but a fire doesn't sound good does it!

I've seen it (when in for a service) in the flesh along with Gordon Murray's (bearing gone in diff) and Phil Collins' manager's (crashed into the back of a tractor!) when the F1 servicing was briefly done at the main Mclaren factory. Goddamn they're lovely cars!

pewe - 5/8/11 at 08:38 AM

James, I thought they sent out a couple of blokes in a van to service them?
Met one crew years ago in Knightsbridge just after they'd serviced a customer's car.
In the days of mobile comms being in it's infancy they were down-loading data back to Woking for that car and analysing the performance etc.
They told of one customer in Germany who's F1 was plugged in and they thought it had a major problem in that the speedo was reading max quite frequently.
On contacting the customer he said " Of courze it will - that's why I bought it".
Transpires he was a banker, lived in somewhere like Frankfurt but worked in Bonn (something like 150 miles) so bought the F1 as a means of high speed commuting - how the other halv live!
Cheers, Pewe

mangogrooveworkshop - 5/8/11 at 08:53 AM

quote:
Originally posted by pewe
James, I thought they sent out a couple of blokes in a van to service them?
Met one crew years ago in Knightsbridge just after they'd serviced a customer's car.
In the days of mobile comms being in it's infancy they were down-loading data back to Woking for that car and analysing the performance etc.
They told of one customer in Germany who's F1 was plugged in and they thought it had a major problem in that the speedo was reading max quite frequently.
On contacting the customer he said " Of courze it will - that's why I bought it".
Transpires he was a banker, lived in somewhere like Frankfurt but worked in Bonn (something like 150 miles) so bought the F1 as a means of high speed commuting - how the other halv live!
Cheers, Pewe

That's the auto ban system in the north. Having had a locostbuilder drive me across Germany in his big works Audi
at some very high speeds I can say it's quite an experience.
He does some high speeds everyday and he admits traffic is an issue even if it's traveling at 70 in the same direction

Humbug - 5/8/11 at 09:23 AM

My son heard "Rowan Atkinson has been in a car accident" on the TV and thought he might have fallen out of an armchair off the top of a Mini

blakep82 - 5/8/11 at 09:37 AM

imagine he crashed into a blue reliant 3 wheeler lol

PAUL FISHER - 5/8/11 at 10:23 AM

The usual exaggeration from the media, looks like he just spun off the road into a hedge to me



http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3734958/Rowan-Atkinson-in-miracle-escape-from-car-crash.html

pmc_3 - 5/8/11 at 03:06 PM

Shame if it does get written off as he actually uses the car, on topgear he said he'd covered 35k miles or so in it!

David Jenkins - 5/8/11 at 03:34 PM

I wonder if he lost it in the wet - there was some appalling weather over East Anglia yesterday... torrential rain & thunderstorms.

Doctor Derek Doctors - 5/8/11 at 03:39 PM

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Originally posted by pmc_3
Shame if it does get written off as he actually uses the car, on topgear he said he'd covered 35k miles or so in it!


There is no way a >£500,000 car is going to get 'written off' is there, even if nearly every single part was replaced it would still cost less than a replacement F1

blakep82 - 5/8/11 at 03:47 PM

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Originally posted by Doctor Derek Doctors
quote:
Originally posted by pmc_3
Shame if it does get written off as he actually uses the car, on topgear he said he'd covered 35k miles or so in it!


There is no way a >£500,000 car is going to get 'written off' is there, even if nearly every single part was replaced it would still cost less than a replacement F1


aren't they more like £1m to £1.4m?!

edit: ah i see what you mean now, ANY car worth over £500k

[Edited on 5/8/11 by blakep82]

afj - 5/8/11 at 04:46 PM

I work for a local recovery company but we didnt collect the car the other local company got it, any ive had 10+ phone calls from the sun, the star and itv and bbc trying to find out about what happened. All day ive been saying nothing but towards the end of the day i felt like bullshiting them and telling them we found all of mr beans porno and drugs in car. But then i realised they would be dumb enough to actualy print it

JoelP - 5/8/11 at 09:04 PM

that would have been funny, but probably not worth your job

steve m - 5/8/11 at 09:18 PM

Of course, all of this "accident" has nothing to do with the new film, Johnny english, only anounced yesterday

Oh must be my suspicious mind

slingshot2000 - 5/8/11 at 09:18 PM

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Originally posted by franky
quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Oh dear... Rowan has binned his McLaren F1!


Its not the first time, he once parked it under a metro!


Yes, he hit a Metro at a tee-junction in High Etherly, just outside of Bishop Auckland. The figures quoted at the time were

£150 to replace and paint drivers side front wing on Metro
£100,000 to repair damage to F1, whoops

matt_gsxr - 5/8/11 at 10:11 PM

I think I saw him in it once my reaction was "Brown F1, what a shame"

matt_gsxr - 5/8/11 at 10:11 PM

I think I saw him in it once my reaction was "Brown F1, what a shame"

PAUL FISHER - 5/8/11 at 11:52 PM

Here's the result of his last crash



[Edited on 19/05/04 by PAUL FISHER]

Ninehigh - 6/8/11 at 12:02 AM

quote:
Originally posted by afj
I work for a local recovery company but we didnt collect the car the other local company got it, any ive had 10+ phone calls from the sun, the star and itv and bbc trying to find out about what happened. All day ive been saying nothing but towards the end of the day i felt like bullshiting them and telling them we found all of mr beans porno and drugs in car. But then i realised they would be dumb enough to actualy print it



Seeing as they would be dumb enough to print it tell them he crashed because his producer called him to say that Johnny English is too racist and he'll have to be Johnny British.

Let me know if they print it so I can send them a polite letter calling them a bunch of f***ing retards for printing obvious BS

eddie99 - 6/8/11 at 06:22 AM

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Originally posted by steve m
Of course, all of this "accident" has nothing to do with the new film, Johnny english, only anounced yesterday

Oh must be my suspicious mind


Johnny English 2 was announced months ago btw, even the trailer has been in cinemas over a month.....