Photo: S.Baldauf/SB-Medien
One of Murphy's Laws states that “If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something,” and it suits one of Bentley's recent announcements perfectly.
Yesterday, the Crewe luxury carmaker proudly announced that the all-new 2020 Flying Spur has just entered production, with 200 people being enrolled to handcraft the super sedan through 84 different assembly stages.
Right about the same time and only 600 miles away or so, a banged-up pre-production Bentley Flying Spur was facing the wrong way on the Nurburgring Nordschleife, just moments after its driver had lost control and crashed during heavy rain.
Our spy photographers were nearby when the crash happened, right at the beginning of the Dottinger Hohe section of the track, but only managed to capture the aftermath.
Apparently, the out-of-control car smashed into the left barrier of the track twice after coming in too hot for the rainy conditions out of the Galgenkopf section of the Nurburgring.
Thankfully, apart from a bruised ego, both test drivers inside the car escaped injury-free, but the hand-built body of the Flying Spur looks like it has seen better days.
Keep in mind that the banged-up test car is one of no less than 142 prototypes and pre-production models that Bentley has used to develop the new Flying Spur, covering over one million miles (1.62 million kilometers).
Powered by a 6.0-liter, twin-turbocharged W12, the luxury sedan is no slouch, so Nordschleife testing is usually done at rather high speeds.
Since the model has already entered production, we can safely assume that all the gremlins and glitches encountered during testing have been fixed, so this accident shouldn't be a setback for the car's development.
It just looks like you can't break the laws of physics even if you have all-wheel-drive, all-wheel-steering and a three-chamber air spring suspensions system with a 48V electric anti-roll system. Heavy rain on the Nurburgring will always prevail.
Right about the same time and only 600 miles away or so, a banged-up pre-production Bentley Flying Spur was facing the wrong way on the Nurburgring Nordschleife, just moments after its driver had lost control and crashed during heavy rain.
Our spy photographers were nearby when the crash happened, right at the beginning of the Dottinger Hohe section of the track, but only managed to capture the aftermath.
Apparently, the out-of-control car smashed into the left barrier of the track twice after coming in too hot for the rainy conditions out of the Galgenkopf section of the Nurburgring.
Thankfully, apart from a bruised ego, both test drivers inside the car escaped injury-free, but the hand-built body of the Flying Spur looks like it has seen better days.
Keep in mind that the banged-up test car is one of no less than 142 prototypes and pre-production models that Bentley has used to develop the new Flying Spur, covering over one million miles (1.62 million kilometers).
Powered by a 6.0-liter, twin-turbocharged W12, the luxury sedan is no slouch, so Nordschleife testing is usually done at rather high speeds.
Since the model has already entered production, we can safely assume that all the gremlins and glitches encountered during testing have been fixed, so this accident shouldn't be a setback for the car's development.
It just looks like you can't break the laws of physics even if you have all-wheel-drive, all-wheel-steering and a three-chamber air spring suspensions system with a 48V electric anti-roll system. Heavy rain on the Nurburgring will always prevail.
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