Many Nurburgring crashes involve novices who don't match their pace to their car and Green Hell knowledge. However, the accident we're here to showcase isn't one of them. The Ford Focus RS crash we have here is a different affair, one that involves a more subtle mistake.
We can see the driver of the second-gen Focus RS hooning the machine on the Green Hell, pushing the limits of front-wheel-drive grip. However, at a certain point during the recorded lap, a Porsche 911 GT3 RS passes the hot hatch.
The driver of the Ford puts on quite a fight, managing to stay close to the Neunelfer, which is obviously in a totally different league.
Alas, as the two head into a bend, the Focus RS decides to go for light braking, with this helping the car in its quest to keep up with the Porscha.
Well, the hot hatch simply carried too much speed into the corner and we can notice the driver switching between off-throttle oversteer and understeer - regardless of these details, inertia pushed the Ford Focus RS wide, with the car eventually hitting the barrier on the side of the track.
Fortunately, the impact wasn't the serious kind, even though the in-car camera doesn't allow us to asses the damage. However, the driver delivered a brief report in the YouTube description of the video (French language).
And it seems that the damage involved the hood, headlight, front bumper, doors, side mirror and even the rear bumper.
Then again, the aficionado acknowledges that these are the rules of the Green Hell game. So if you decide to push things to the absolute limit, a crash is always a possibility.
And we're glad to find out that the 305 horsepower toy will receive the servicing attention required to return to the road/track.
In his quest to bring you the most impressive automotive creations, Andrei relies on learning as a superpower. There's quite a bit of room in the garage that is this aficionado's heart, so factory-condition classics and widebody contraptions with turbos poking through the hood can peacefully coexist. Full profile
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