Whoops-si-daisy, someone obviously wasn't playing much attention!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1024255/Thankfully-like-father-like-son-Lewis-Hamiltons-dad-crashes-330k-supercar-hedge.html

What an idiot..

Shoulda been in a big cadillac with chrome wheels...

Wow.....
Way to ruin a great car...with a hedge..
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Imagine being the kids playing in the garden. Git swinging away n that, then boom, Carrera GT flyinh through your garden. Would be mental.

Clearly not as good as his son then. But seem's to share his driving spirit, which is good. Should probably stick to the sllllightly slower stuff though.

Imagine being the kids playing in the garden. Git swinging away n that, then boom, Carrera GT flyinh through your garden. Would be mental.

Clearly not as good as his son then. But seem's to share his driving spirit, which is good. Should probably stick to the sllllightly slower stuff though.

I would be traumatized if I was playing in my backyard and a Carrere GT came flying towards me and ruined my backyard...

For me it would be one of those situations like, "eh ?" and then I'd be like, "mt word, this is immense".

Hell, how many other people could say I had Anthony Hamilton fly through my garden backwards in a Porsche ? I would deffinitely try to nick a little bit of that Porsche as well.

Imagine being the kids playing in the garden. Git swinging away n that, then boom, Carrera GT flyinh through your garden. Would be mental.


if i ever have a house on the side of a road that might be any fun at all to drive on, i'm putting up a concrete barrier fence

Oh no, hes ruined that beautiful hedge! :(

Oh and the cars a little dented.

Did make me laugh this, how exactly did he loose it on a straight road?? Bet Lewis laughed when he got a call from his dad saying he had crashed a Carrera GT!

At least the car isn't totaled. Why would you let your dad drive a CGT? And why would his dad try to drive fast in a car that's not his?

On a certain blog of autos I was reading, they were speculating it was Lewis' car because of German plates, and apparently they have those in Swissland.

That would only make the story funnier really, proper Father/Son reversal of roles there.

Lewis:"No more driving the Mercedes for 3 weeks !!!"

Ant:"But whhhhhhhy ?"

Lewis:"Did you see the Porsche ?"

great stuff.

^No, they have Swiss plates in Switzerland.

Its a shame about the car, and Anthony was probably driving like an idiot to have managed to slide the car that far. Its a good thing the road didn't have a raised foot path, that wouldn't have ended well.

^No, they have Swiss plates in Switzerland.

Its a shame about the car, and Anthony was probably driving like an idiot to have managed to slide the car that far. Its a good thing the road didn't have a raised foot path, that wouldn't have ended well.

Well, you know, I always thought the GT could do without the lip spoiler :D

News article from F1-live.com:

McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton's father has crashed a borrowed sports car into a children's playground, according to reports.

The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph said 47-year-old Hamilton, who also manages his son's Formula One career, apologised for the damage after he lost control just 200 metres from his home in Hertfordshire.

A witness told another newspaper, The Mirror: "He started revving the car really hard and wheel-spinned off. He had the roof down and looked at me before he put his foot down. He roared off and 50 yards down the road lost it on the corner."

The $600,000 silver Porsche Carrera GT, which ploughed through a hedge aside the 30mph country road, was photographed with significant damage after police arrived.

"This is my first crash in almost 30 years and it had to happen in someone else's car," Anthony Hamilton said. "Thankfully the only thing hurt was the car, and a bush fence - for which I am extremely sorry."

So, from the witness account, Mr. Hamilton got a bit jolly in the Carrera GT, and lost it on a bend. Could have been worse, I guess, had their been a much more solid fence there.

No offence to anyone, but who wouldn't rev up a Carrera GT given the chance?

Damn it hurts to see a Carrera GT like that, and I'm not even bullshitting!
Had it been a Murcielago or a King Eggs, I'd just link Hamilton Sr. a justgotowned.com with his name on it. But there's something strangely human about a Carrera GT that makes you want to storm to the scene and perform mouth to mouth resuscitation on it!

Thanks for the info Cheeky.

It's a pity crashing this car.

**** happens sometimes... :D

The cost of the repairs will surely put a dent in his pocket.

P.s. How do I post pics because when I click in the insert image button it brings me a window asking for the website I found the pic on.

The damage is tiny, jut a new taillight cluster & bumper and polish it up & its as good as new.

I call car like that street jewelery as the end up wrecked on the streets so they decorate them.

The damage is tiny, jut a new taillight cluster & bumper and polish it up & its as good as new.

I call car like that street jewelery as the end up wrecked on the streets so they decorate them.

Polish it up? Its probably done some mechanical damage and no doubt just the taillights cost loads.

On a certain blog of autos I was reading, they were speculating it was Lewis' car because of German plates, and apparently they have those in Swissland.

That would only make the story funnier really, proper Father/Son reversal of roles there.

Lewis:"No more driving the Mercedes for 3 weeks !!!"

Ant:"But whhhhhhhy ?"

Lewis:"Did you see the Porsche ?"

great stuff.

I think they were saying it was unlikely to be Lewis's car, because they have Swiss plates in Switzerland rather than German ones (as Lambo or Holden was saying). Although, I understand what you were thinking. I thought the same as you did at first.

The cost of the repairs will surely put a dent in his pocket.

P.s. How do I post pics because when I click in the insert image button it brings me a window asking for the website I found the pic on.

What I usually do is copy the image URL and post it into imageshack or some similar package and the use the [IMG/] picture [IMG] tags to post the picture. The other option is just to enter the details of the picture straight into the box.

I am probably not being very clear here, but I am not brilliant with computers myself. You basically need the image URL, that you get by going to properties, after right-clicking the image.

Have a few attempts and you should work it out eventually, I did.

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I nearly posted this topic up, but couldn't be bothered.

I think some of you are being too hard on Mr Hamilton. He did have a thirty-years no claims bonus before this 'incident' and it is very easy to just touch the grass and lose the car from there on. If anyone thinks a Porsche Carrera GT would be easy to drive, you are living in cloud-cuckoo-land.

Had someone crashed their CGT through my front garden...it would've become my CGT...and a big sign reading GTFO my garden n00bs.

/sigh, why do Porsche let these people drive cars like this? They should at least have a reaction test or something, like 'press the start button within 0.1 seconds of the light coming up or the car won't start at all'.

**** happens indeed. This car is not a simple car to drive .

Driving at 205km/h is already hard enough. Yea, imagine 205mph which is about 330km/h.
I guess Lewis is lecturing his dad about driving now. Well, he should be.

I saw this in the paper. What an idiot, he must have been going well over the 30mph speed limit to do that, and a childrens playground? He was incredibly lucky. And if there there were trees there, he might not even be here to tell the story.

Oh well, like father, like son.

I think they were saying it was unlikely to be Lewis's car, because they have Swiss plates in Switzerland rather than German ones (as Lambo or Holden was saying). Although, I understand what you were thinking. I thought the same as you did at first.
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I nearly posted this topic up, but couldn't be bothered.

I think some of you are being too hard on Mr Hamilton. He did have a thirty-years no claims bonus before this 'incident' and it is very easy to just touch the grass and lose the car from there on. If anyone thinks a Porsche Carrera GT would be easy to drive, you are living in cloud-cuckoo-land.

To be honest I was just relaying what they had said on the website. I didn't think it would actually be Hammy's car, because, basically if he is going to get his picture taken in a car, I'm sure Mercedes will make damn sure it ain't gona be a Porsche.



Even though it was a silly accident, a lot of people tend to get very high and mighty on this website. Damn right he had a crash, and it was very much his fault, but a lot of you seem to talk like you would've completely handled the situation perfectly. I mean who am I to criticise, I'm sure most of the younger generation who like to post on here would have totally drifted all the way round the car, straight on to a track where it's safe to drive at that speed.

[quote=What I usually do is copy the image URL and post it into imageshack or some similar package and the use the [IMG/] picture [IMG] tags to post the picture. The other option is just to enter the details of the picture straight into the box.

I am probably not being very clear here, but I am not brilliant with computers myself. You basically need the image URL, that you get by going to properties, after right-clicking the image.

Have a few attempts and you should work it out eventually, I did.quote]

Thanks I got.