Video: Eight supercar crash at the Nurburgring

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXTXGY1sUeA

A large crash at the Nurburgring at the weekend that involved eight supercars, is reported to have cost around €150,000 and now we have some footage.

The footage in question shows the drivers approach to the crash, which happend at the weekend, but admittedly it's a tad long. Skip to 9.45 in the video and you’ll catch what you need to see.

It wasn’t quite clear as to what happened in the crash with various reports coming from a variety of sources. The driver in this video arrived on the scene of the first crash just in time to record the second collision. Now it has finally been made clear what happened in the second crash.

Japolnik reports: At 9:55: Approaching the 'ring's Kesselchen section, the camera car reaches the infamous construction zone. A Porsche 944 goes into the grass to avoid a stopped Renault Mégane.

At 10:00: The camera car passes the badly damaged Porsche 911 Carrera RSR, and then pauses, before manoeuvring around the original dust-up between the Vauxhalls and the E92 BMW.

At 10:25: If you look toward the top right-hand corner, you can see the second collision, which occurs when the ring taxi — unable to stop in time for the slowing BMW E36 and Corvette, takes out the E36 and turns the 'Vette 90 degrees.

The reaction of the driver sums up the situation. You don’t have to be French to understand what putain and merde means when said repeatedly. For the best view make sure to watch the clip in full screen from 10.30.