Tuesday, March 27, 2007

I hope they didn't invoke the "you break it, you buy it" rule...

Sorry. I seem to be on a sports car/YouTube kick today.

Eddie Griffin, a comedian known for such classic films as Undercover Brother and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalo totaled a Ferrari Enzo while practicing for a charity race to promote his new film Redline, sort of a knockoff of The Fast and the Furious, but with much more exotic cars. As only 400 of these Ferraris were ever produced, they're as rare as the R2-D2 mailboxes we're all hunting around for, and are worth $1.5 million a piece.

Commenting about his recent crash: "Undercover Brother's good at karate and all the rest of that, but the brother can't drive."

Here's a video of the whole event. I'd understand if the owner stayed home in bed today to mourn the loss of his prized possession. That looked like it hurt:



Then again, it doesn't look quite as bad as this wreck last year in Malibu:



Just goes to show you that those disclaimers on TV about using professional drivers aren't as much hogwash as you think. That, or there's some other Enzo owners out there trying to boost up the worth of their own cars.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Look, I have never driven anything even close to that caliber but I do know that you never brake through a turn! You brake before the turn and accelerate through it.

I am baffled that they would let him drive a car like that and not give him some sort of training beforehand.