Try Not To Cry As A Ford RS200 Eats Some Hay Bales

So many cars have navigated the famous Goodwood hillclimb unscathed over the years, but occasionally it can go badly wrong – that was the case for this Ford RS200 Evo 2 run this year

Jack Leslie

29 Jun 2017

Driving a classic, iconic car up the Goodwood hillclimb at the Festival of Speed must be a deeply exciting but equally terrifying experience. If it goes wrong, chances are it’ll not only be spectacular but also quite expensive.

That doesn’t stop most drivers from heroically going full pelt and wowing the crowds, but sometimes that can lead to crashes. It didn’t even take a day for someone to shunt at the 2017 FOS, with rallycross legend Pat Doran crashing a 1986 Ford RS200 Evo 2 rally car.

He got it wrong on the entry to Molecomb corner, looked to have corrected it, but then drifted into the barriers. Doran was OK, and even bowed to the crowds, but the same couldn’t be said for the car.

Lie down, try not to cry…

Comments

Damn it looks like the hay bales ate the RS200

Here you have it…

the first picture looks like he threw up

It’ll be fine, it’s a rally car, it can take a hit.

Nooooooooooooooooo

Watching this had me like

It’s a good thing rally cars are built to be repairable, hopefully some serious with can get this one back pretty soon.

No! NOOO! Poor thing :(

The impact was almost as painful as the commentator saying “Ford RS2000”

His one modified for rallycross is named the ‘RS2000’ - in respect to it being a lot more powerful/faster - I’m not sure which he brought so it may be correct.

If the hay bales wouldn’t have been there, it would have been a Initial D approved deja vu doriftoo! But unfortunately no such luck.

If the hay bales haven’t been there, there would have been quite a few spectators mowed over in the past. If the options are A) totalling the car beyond reconition into a wall or B) running over a person, always choose option A. Always.