VIDEO: Nick Heidfeld breaks BMW Sauber F1 car while showing off
Not that BMW's Sauber F1 car has anything more than three letters in common with cars that bear the propeller logo on public streets, but who's going to argue with the opportunity to lay down the tools early? Hotshoe Nick Heidfeld recently treated a crowd of laborer's at BMW's Munich factory to the spectacle of a big-dollar race car being treated like a hand-me-down Reliant, complete with a body-damaging finale. The shriek of a high-strung F1 racer while it slides around doing lurid donuts is a thing to behold, but the smile quickly fades when the front splitter gets tangled up in the curbing and ripped off the nose. Whoops. Video after the jump - Thanks for the tip, Ovidiu![Source: YouTube via Zercustoms]
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Doug 5:27PM (5/06/2008)
Oh that's beautiful. I wonder if the nose/wing assy is now on ebay?
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Franz 5:23PM (5/06/2008)
This video is so old. This event was on the 23rd of April.
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mock 9:01AM (5/07/2008)
I was about to say the same thing.
BAMF 12:49PM (5/07/2008)
Who cares?
Wally 5:26PM (5/06/2008)
What beautiful music that is.
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John Johnson 5:30PM (5/06/2008)
That part gets replaced in like 20 seconds :P.
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H4MM3R 5:36PM (5/06/2008)
It gets removed in ONE Second.
Matt Keller 5:38PM (5/06/2008)
Good thing engadget isn't like this. Or else I'd only be reading about the Eee PC right now.
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Brian 6:00PM (5/06/2008)
And 5 weeks later you'd be deluged with a flurry of "EeePC clone" posts as the editors discover new ultraportables with childlike glee.
smokin' 6:01PM (5/06/2008)
To hell with doing donuts in a parking lot. Send Nick back to the 'Ring and turn him loose. We need a new ultimate track record to ooh and aah over.
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f3rg 6:07PM (5/06/2008)
The video may be "old" but that F1 shriek never gets old.
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Philthy 6:31PM (5/06/2008)
It's so frustrating continuously seeing tardy reporting and less-than-perfect standards of professional journalism on a... oh that's right, it's a blog. A free one. And I haven't seen this before, so I'm quite happy to have Autoblog throw people stuck in last month like me a line every now and again.
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MikeofLA 7:11PM (5/06/2008)
AMEN to that! Thank you Autoblog for being free, consistently up to date, and having something fresh every hour or so. I forgive you for occassionally missing the boat on something as nonconsequential, all be it interesting as this. I LOVE the Auto Industry!
John Bruning 10:58PM (5/09/2008)
With all those people standing around, tt is a miracle he didn't kill anyone.
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steve 8:03PM (5/06/2008)
thats what happens when the brakes dont heat up and you try and stop
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inteller 10:57PM (5/06/2008)
I have a package of FAIL here for one Mr Nick Heidfeld.
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Tom Winch 2:37AM (5/07/2008)
Here's a better video of Graham Rahal doing donuts in the BMW F1 car at CES in Las Vegas a few months back.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sCmHMkqACus
It's a much better video and he doesn't hit anything!
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MachinaDC5 6:08AM (5/07/2008)
I'm sure it'll be nothing to fix an inexpensive car like that.
XD
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Pdexter 8:23AM (5/07/2008)
Must have been a bit embarrassing to fast Nick.
I have seen Toyotas F1 doing some donuts here in Finland 1-2 years ago and as i have attented to couple of F1 races already it has to be said that burning your tires with F1 car just dosent make justice to it compared to see these machines race. Thought still a experience to hear those F1 engines.
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multilexus 10:08AM (5/07/2008)
Nothing to be embarrassed about. I bet it'll buff right out.