It looks like one of the race teams involved with touring car racing in Mexicocaught a bit of bad luck recently. Actually, it's a lot of bad luck and some incompetence.
A brand new race car which was being crane-lifted yesterday fell off its platform from a three-story height in what we can only describe as the worst planned operation of this kind we've ever seen.
It's amazing just how many things could have stopped this accident from happening: straps for the wheels, ties, putting on the brakes, putting the car in gear, lifting the flaps at the end of the platform and car stopping blocks.
From our understanding this incident happened yesterday in Maxico and the car is part of the Mexican Touring Car Championship 2014 standings. We're no experts in Spanish, but basically what the people in the video are saying is "could you imagine that falling?". Moments later, the Leon Cupra does exactly that and what follows is a few minutes of people screaming and yelling, trying to place the blame.
It might also be worth nothing that all the technology on this race car is at the front, making it extremely nose-heavy. Had this been a rear-wheel drive BMW 1 Series M Coupe, things could have been a bit more balanced.
This particular race car belongs to Telcel S.A., a cellphone company. Wonder if they've been told what's happened to their Cupra?
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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