Ferrari Enzo destroyed in Southern California
 

I'm sure that I was looking at an Enzo wreckage on the news this morning. The driver apparently lost control of it and crashed it. His condition is unknown. I'll update the report later.

too bad for the Enzo, I hope the driver is ok :(

http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/9...ose10uf.th.jpg http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/4...ose30mi.th.jpg http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/7...ose49sb.th.jpg http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/6...tla11cb.th.jpg

NO!! :shock:

That looks really bad! Hope nothing serious happened to the driver!

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_052110615.html

The driver only suffers minor injury due to the airbag.

Ouch! The ending wasn't as bad as I feared when I saw the pics though. The back of the car and engine are ripped clean off. A Porsche CGT with more or less the same damage in the Netherlands recently killed one or both occupants (can't remember exactly). Shame about the car!

EDIT: I found it. Perhaps it has been posted before. Link
The woman who drove it, drove it for a test drive someone offered her. She was severely injured. The passenger only suffered minor injuries.

ouch, luckly he survived and didnt injured anyone else...

the Ferrari gods were watching over that poor driver...

so... 'may have been' ??? such published speculation ought to wait til the investigation is complete.... just because it can doesnt mean it did.

thankfully the driver is fine... the CF tub remained quite intact this time... which is definately good for the driver

^I agree, that is some irresponsible reporting. @ 200mph, the damage will definitely be more severe :fist:

Too bad for the car, but i'm glad the driver was alright - i would probably not bother to ring up my insurance company, as your premium is very likely to go through the roof!


I reckon this is a feature built into all of the mid-engined CF-tub cars - ensuring the passenger cell remains intact whilst ditching the (potentially explosive) engine/fuel area :bah:

Could well be. It would also absorb energy from the crash, like with F1 cars.

Yeas - something like that, as the rear detaches - quite clever in fact, but a PITA to repair, i'm sure :P

i have a feeling that its not that the rear detaches, as much as it absorbs a lot of kinetic energy as it shatters (mabey like an F1's nose/side pods)

seems the wheels arent stock, they look like chromed ones. specially in the last pic

So ... any takers on betting it was this bloke ;)

http://www.motorworld.net/forum/showthread.php?t=36441

http://img427.imageshack.us/img427/9...zo017xm.th.jpg http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/4...zo022up.th.jpg http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2...zo035xs.th.jpg http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/4...zo043ew.th.jpg http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/4...zo056th.th.jpg

:P

naah his wheels seem stock

more pics:
http://img345.imageshack.us/img345/6...cal54rd.th.jpg http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/3...cal66yv.th.jpg http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/3...cal72vt.th.jpg

^Pretty good raw material for a coffee table :mrgreen:

What's the count by now ?? 397 (counting the special 400th one as well) ??

Thats what I was going to say when I saw the picture of the truck hauling the cars' remains.

Damn...look how long the trail of debris is in that last picture... :|

I read that lowrider "article" and I'm glad I haven't had dinner yet.... :puke:
It's like a gay adolescent with terribly low self-esteem wrote it. The only interest he has in cars is whether they make for good posing. It's sickening!

Do we know how old the pic with Tara Reid is? ;)

Looking down the road where they came from, you think the car got light coming over that bump accelerating, the backend got skittish, and overseteered backing into the bank? (possibly explaining the ripped off rear end and the pile of dirt in the road)

http://www.jabbasworld.net/photopost...nzocal72vt.jpg

At that point the driver would just be along for the ride.

Hell even my slow ass car gets light when accelerating over a rise in the road like that - so for the Enzo it should be nothing to egt some air under the backend... ;)

In short - fast cars can and do bite - driver beware...


p.s. anyone else angry that the car is trashed ona straight road... and not in the woods having spun out around a 40mph hairpin? ;)

Freaking hollywood posers :P

the wheels are definately NOT stock... look at any pics of the wheels in the ultimate topic

thats insane that the engine was that far from the cabin. diff. don't call ferrari :lol:

i agree with RC about the bump, its too damn straight for something else happening....

if im not wrong this is the enzo tht crashed, the black one is for the wife...
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/7...nzos0xg.th.jpg

Supposedly he has 2 Enzos? Maybe only one now?

Wouldn't expect anything but a straight road in a country that gave us the 'Vette :P

Seems that (excessive) speed was obviously a factor in his excursion into the rough - i'm sure it was a case of the car "biting" and not because he was reaching for his phone that he had dropped under his seat.

[EDIT]

It was a UK registered car that was written off

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/6...24554wb.th.jpg

Another video news report here...

Apparantly this Enzo had a 16-valve V8 that weighs 1500lbs :roll:

AMAZING! Is there a way to download this video to my laptop? :shock:

Taken from http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...home-headlines

So a 120mph street race? And the driver fled?

Apparently the car was owned by Chris Meek (a keen car collector in the UK) at some stage - don't know whether he still own(s/ed) it :bah:

the guy hit the pole first
there is a pic of it

consider how fast he was traveling,, the car's safety seems top notch

i know that car...there is a guy in l.a. with 2 enzo.. both with euro plate.. a red one , and a black one with tubi exhaust,, own by teh same guy

"Erikssen told them the driver of the car fled on foot"
"We get some speed violations, but nothing over 70 mph"

He's so full of shit :fist:

Damn Swede, he shoulda stuck to the straight freeways and not the PCH.

The PCH is relatively straight.

i just saw this on the news... on tv, with more shots... and what they said wa that one guy flew out of the window and the other one left the scene without injuries... and that they were probably goin over 200mph and bla bla bla...
pretty impressive crash though.. i mean the pasangers are ok!!

True, but it is relatively narrow and twisty in some places.

a piece of it is already for sale on e-bay. check out the comments at the bottom they're hilarious :lol:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=8040875409

The registered owner (the passenger in the crash) is a 44 year old swedish national (Stefan Erikssen ) but the gy in those pics looks much younger!

BTW there's sth. fishy here:
1. Erikssen had a blood-alcohol level of .09, which is above the legal limit...
2. The passenger had blood on his mouth; and both airbags on the car deployed, but only the driver's side airbag had blood on it, not the passenger side...

do you still buy the story of the fled driver?

A downloadable video of the Enzo crash at Pacific Coast Highway.

http://s8.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2T...K3NTV9OW2BA4AJ

(left click the link)

I wonder who this Swede is btw. Haven't heard of him before.

Well - this is supposedly the most "inside" inside info you're gonna get... a member on the Z06 Forum posted this yesterday - he hasn't been a BSer up till now, so may be true..


He hasn't confirmed the rumour that the chap was engaged in a race against his own SLR McLaren Mercedes.

One would assume he would have seen the SLR as well.

An F60 Enzo? Once again someone uses that reference, no wonder I am confused! :roll:

Well - an eye witness says "no SLR around at the time"...

This Erikson

its not usual to have a quali time that much slower then race pace... especially for endurance racing... perhaps quali was under wet conditions?

According to swedish newspaper he's some sort of businessman. Also a german (the driver) is supposed to have fled the scene after the crash follwoing the race with the SLR. Speed was 192km/h. I have more faith in RC:s buddies at the vette forum.

Nice digging RC 8)

Seems to make sense that he drove a car thats from the UK - Macari is a well known character in the supercar trade and also on the Gumball Rally.

http://www.joemacari.com

Macari also sold an Enzo fairly recently iirc - he had had it ons tock for a while - maybe this was it :bah:

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_052110615.html

(not sure if it's the same video...but it's the same wreck on PCH):

Ahh...good old Dietrich again...I think he's the same guy that is responsible for all the stolen vehicles which are then reported to insurance, by Ricers. That and the recent plethera of arsoned SUVs after the gas prices went up in the US.

Damn it Dietrich...why the ENZO??? :cry: WHYYYYY??

Weird...loosing control of an Enzo at 120mph? That driver must have really been incompetent. This car should be totally stable at that speed, like driving any normal car at 50 mph.

Next: Things to smile about:

1) Another person that has more money than brains doesn't get to have his Enzo anymore, and he's out whatever he paid for it. :lol:

2) Driving recklessly like this should always be punished severely as it is irresponsible, dangerous, reckless, and dipslays a lack of concern for the safety for other motorists. He got what he deserved.

3) The Mercedes won in the end.

Actually any car cresting a brow and getting light will be a handful - especially a car without wings for aero that relies on underbody venturi style aerodynamics.. after all, the downforce only exists of the car is close to the ground not when it gets light over a crest.

This is an example of Formula 1 technology that doesn't work in the real world.. which is why the Enzo sucks around the Nurburgring.. ;)

Unlike the CGT that DOES have wing aero effects for this type of event.. ;)

Plus one for the ricer-style rear wing :P hehe

Supposedly a race car driver, so maybe it just wasn't his day ;)