Citroën World Rally Team driver Mikko Hirvonen and co-driver Jarmo Lehtinen have walked away without injury following a high-speed crash on Thursday. The pair were testing their Citroën DS3 WRC racecar in Tuscany, Italy, as part of their preparation for the upcoming Rally New Zealand.
A Citroën team member explained: “Mikko rolled a lot of times, the accident was high-speed. The most important thing is that Mikko and Jarmo are both OK. They are back at the hotel tonight. The test is finished.”
Amazingly, the crash has been dramatically captured on video (see below), where the person filming was just metres away when Hirvonen left the road causing his car to rollover a number of times.
[Source: Eurosport]
7 replies on “Mikko Hirvonen unhurt after spectacular crash”
The people filming seem remarkably calm, considering they have just escaped death by a couple of metres. I bet they are Finnish
Blimey that was close!
It’s almost as though they knew he would crash there, I mean they tracked him on camera for 5 k’s then right in front of them he crashes WTF? Maybe he was waving at the and lost it.
Reminds me of this, haha… *language warning*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MleuPXWotcI
Thanks for the reminder of that truly classic clip Liam!
wow!! That was really close!! and they were very very calm since they did almost die!
‘The test is finished’? Obviously they need to reduce understeer no?