A Koenigsegg One:1 Has Been Smashed To Pieces At The Nurburgring
With Koenigsegg’s One:1 spotted hammering around the Nurburgring earlier this year, speculation naturally suggested the Swedish hypercar company was after the Nordschleife lap record for street legal cars. It now looks like we might be waiting a little longer for that record to be stolen, as on Monday, Koenigsegg suffered a big setback in the form of this horrific-looking crash.
In a statement, the company confirmed that despite the severity of the crash (take a look at the state of the car and the Armco, and you’ll get a sense of the impact), the driver escaped serious injury. “The driver was taken to hospital as per standard procedures in such situations and was released the same afternoon,” Koenigsegg said, going on to say: “This incident is confirmation of just how difficult it is to drive at this level on the world’s ultimate proving ground. Obviously we are dismayed with this development but pleased that our safety systems worked as designed to protect our driver.”
Koenigsegg also confirmed that a record attempt was indeed on the cards, saying: “Koenigsegg has participated in Industry Pool testing for a week in each of the last two months, working primarily on vehicle setups both for ongoing vehicle development and for an attempt at a Nurburgring lap record at some time in the future.”
So, what exactly went wrong? If you take a look at the tarmac on this particular part of the track - located in the Adenauer Forst area - and you’ll see a pair of skid marks leading right up to the crash site. This could indicate an ABS issue. After contacting Koenigsegg about the crash, a company spokesperson confirmed that we’ll need to wait a while before the cause is determined: “We will say more when we know more….We need to get the car back to Angelholm [Koenigsegg’s HQ] and look at the data.”
What we do know is the car will be rebuilt, so we should hopefully see the One:1 back out on the Nordschleife soon.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
So the record is still up for grabs?
There can be only one!
Is this a customer car? So there is only one of these left roadworthy??
A Koenigsegg One:1 has had one crash into one brarrier of one corner of the one and only Green Hell . After this one crash, there is one Koenigsegg One:1 less in the world
The engine though…
Who the hell does that man!!!!!!!
If u dont know how to drive,, learn in a Prius,,,,,,,,,,,pls don’t learn driving in a koeniggsegg one
I’m impressed that that thing can be rebuilt after that
This is so sad.. But from an engineering point of view.. looking at the damages, its only deformed where it was hit, no ripping along the body and cracks are only where it was hit, tells us a bit about the amount of research going into these cars, making them light but this extremely strong. Good decision repairing this icon of extreme supercar history. And yes, it is an icon, milestone.
To be honest when i first saw the picture and how mangled the car was i was more worried about the driver. Impressive safety systems without a doubt. Good job koenigseggegefeg