Quote from Chris Atkinson, from the WRC website

Atkinson visited the service area today and explained what happened.

“The car just didn’t turn,” he said. “It’s normally a flat left corner, so I went flat and turned - but the car didn’t. There was ice under the mud and we couldn’t see it. We touched a bank at 160kph and the car rolled - a lot. The first impact bounced the car off the ground and the data showed we were in the air for one and a half or two seconds. It landed quite hard and I was knocked out. Then it rolled about six more times and we stopped 150 - 180 metres from the where it started. I can’t remember much about it but I know it was big - my biggest by a long way.”

“My shoulder is a bit stiff and I’m a bit bruised in places but apart from that I feel okay. I’m going home tonight to have a rest,” he added.


I'm just glad both are ok, the roll cage saves the day again

 

all the bouncing,reminds me of kangaroo's

 

Press restart and try again you could go well faster than that lol

 

Does anybody have a picture of the wreck? It looked quite raped on eurosport...

 

it did look a mega crash, i was 2 far away from the crash to get photos, just lights spinning into the trees. crazy glad they are ok

 

Very lucky to walk away imho

 

"the roll cage saves the day again"

Physically yes - My hat goes off to those clever ENGINEERS that design these items in the first place. ---> from an engineer

 

For Sale:

A MY08 shell, few scratches, low mileage.