Thursday, February 18, 2010
Lightning repair at the Nurburgring
Mönchengladbach - A spectacular car, a spectacular accident - and an even more spectacular "resurrection"!
Just a day after two men were raced on a test drive in Moenchengladbach with a prototype of the super sports car Veritas RS III "against a lantern (Sunday Express reported), he could - as planned - will be presented to an astonished audience. In a flash, the car repair factory "had Vermot" their streaker restored.
Those who had seen the accident, the repair would have thought impossible. "On the 300,000 euros was expensive prototypes developed a substantial property damage," said a police spokesman. "The exact financial impact of the accident could not be quantified."
It had everything looked after quite a big bust for the carefully planned presentation of the 600-horsepower race cars in Mönchengladbach gourmet restaurant "Sea Rose". For a preview, in which "many guests" (as the police spokesman) were allowed to test drive the dream car that had two men (43 and 55 years) seem to underestimate the power of the sports car that accelerates in 3.2 seconds from zero to 100. Possibly alcohol was involved.
Shortly before midnight, the test drivers were running on the Schürenweg the curb, had knocked down a lantern and had fled with the "Veritas". The police found little later. "We have the damaged car in the afternoon in the factory in County Gelsdorf placed at the Nurburgring," said company spokesman Dr. Volker Schulz. "Most of the damage was what one would call a normal car" body damage ". The chassis of the "Veritas," but is made of carbon fiber parts, which have been completely replaced. "
After an exhausting night shift for the "Vermot-mechanic managed the impossible: Just in time for the presentation of the sports car back in Moenchengladbach was!