$2.3 million hypercar WRECKED in display event crash

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$2.3 million hypercar WRECKED in display event crash

The incident occured at the famous festival on Thursday

Simmey Hannifin Donaldson

Saturday 13 July 2024 17:00

A multi-million-pound car crashed just seconds into its attempt at the famous Goodwood Festival of Speed hill climb on Thursday.

The annual motorsport event is taking place this week following the conclusion of last weekend's British Grand Prix and is spread across four days at the Goodwood Estate in Chichester.

Proceedings got underway on Thursday, with the festival set to continue through until Sunday and feature six Formula 1 teams

One iconic part of the Goodwood event is the 'hill climb', which sees a variety of different cars and motorbikes take on a 1.16-mile hill, with a shootout at the end of the weekend to see who can do it the fastest.

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$2.3 million crash at Goodwood Festival of Speed

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The statement read: "Evija X is a one-off track version of our electric hypercar, Evija; one of the most powerful production cars in the world. The Evija X took part in a hill run at Goodwood Festival of Speed on Thursday, 11th July, where it was involved in an incident at the start line,"

"Following a formal evaluation by both Goodwood and Lotus, asymmetric grip caused by overcorrection during rapid acceleration at the start line was determined to be the cause. Driver was unharmed in the incident and there was minimal damage to the car."

Lotus also confirmed that could the track special be repaired, they would have three more days to make runs up the hill in the car.