Update: This Could Well Be The Slowest Rally Crash Ever
Robert Kubica was tackling SS3 of Rallye Monte Carlo when his Ford Fiesta RS WRC slid off road in tricky, icy conditions, hitting a tree at such a low speed it looked like the crash was filmed in slow-motion...
Yep, not a good start to the first rally of the 2016 season for ex-F1 driver Kubica. He was competing in the first of Friday’s six stages when the crash took place and he is expected to be out for the rest of the day. The footage above was quickly uploaded to YouTube by a fan and a few pictures of the scene and damage also surfaced on Twitter:
Update:
Kubica’s crashed car was then given a helpful hit from Elfyn Evans.
Comments
Hahah (;
Once again, something wrong with CT algorythm https://www.carthrottle.com/post/wm633bk/
why are the ct staff so unproffessional
Come on, downvotes for discussing the algorythm?
You’re no CT staff, you shall not get home page… That’s the algorythm for you :D
Poland apologizes ;)
“Controller Disconnected - Press any button to continue”
Pressing ANY button that’s not the power button on a disconnected controller isn’t gonna do a thing.
We should make a website like ‘www.hasmaldonadocrashedtoday.com’ for Kubica as well..
It’s a shame that www.haskubicacrashedtoday.com would probably work quite well
I fell like Kubica is the Maldonado of Rally, everytime i watch him he crashes into something
he really is ;) should have stayed in F1 (he wasn’t crashing there), could have been a great carreer, but no, he had to go rally-crashing and ruin everything for himself
I feel like people should try to show a bit more respect. Rally is probably the most difficult of all motorsports, the concentration needed is just ridiculous and just a tiny mistake can give you a DNF.
Unlike modern f1, there’s no huge run-offs in rally.
Kubica is a very fast driver ! He just doesn’t know where his limits are. Thats his problem. And that is why he is crashing so often.
This time the crash wasn’t his fault.
You can hear that he is breaking late what is a hint that wasn’t “ice” noted in the pacenotes. The Teams have ice spys, crews that check the conditions in the Road before the start of a stage.
So my guess is, that the ice crew failed here and thought it would ne a grippier sort of ice.
Kubica is at it again. I swear I may have only seen less than a handful of rally events he hasn’t crashed in
HAHA did you guys see that guy with the weird hat running after the car!?! I just geeked too much over that….
That just tells you how few the grip really is there…