Nowadays you can’t simply get yourself a Ferrari and allow it to sprinkle its Prancing Horse magic all over you. Oh no. If you’re not having the whole thing caught on camera, it’s worthless, or at least this is what many supercar drivers think. In this quest for social media love, many overlook the dangers of being a car spotter / cameraman. The clip below comes to show what can happen when the camera guy is on track to meet his four-wheeled subject... by accident.
The clip shows us a Ferrari F430 Spider, the 16M limited edition, whose driver decides to make the leap of cool and do a burnout. He initiates the manoeuvre without letting the cameraman know. The easiest way to convince a Prancing Horse such as this one to burn rubber is to start baking donuts, so this is what follows.
Alas, the car’s trajectory, controlled by a man who is holding one of his arms raised, with a cigarette between his fingers, sort of included the camera guy’s position. The man filming makes a step backwards in the last moment, so the car passes at wet underwear distance from him.
The final shot was composed using footage from a bystander’s mobile phone, so you can see just how close the shenanigan was to turning into an official accident investigation. We can clearly label this under "first world near crash".
Fortunately, nobody got injured in the incident, as the video below shows. Not even the driver’s ego...
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
Would you like AUTOEVOLUTION to send you notifications?
Google News