Rowan Atkinson crashes McLaren Supercar & is hospitalised..

[weltweit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-14414889

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The Blackadder star is believed to have suffered a minor shoulder injury when the car he was driving hit a tree and lamppost and caught fire.
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[5t3IIa]

He didn't seem quite as unbearable as assumed on Top Gear.

It's weird how you can go 'god, genius!' about someone (Blackadder) and 'omg I actually hate you' (Bean) simultaneously innit

 

[Kanda]

Poor Mclaren F1

Gorgeous car:

 

[Greebo]

Hard to tell who will be in more pain this morning - Rowan Atkinson or the insurer.

 

[moose]

Div.

 

[skyscraper101]

I thought he drove a mini?

 

[Greebo]

Usually he does, I think the McLaren was on loan?

 

[Kanda]

Nah, he loves his cars.

Wiki:

With an estimated wealth of £100 million, Atkinson is able to indulge his passion for cars that began with driving his mother's Morris Minor around the family farm. He has written for the British magazines Car, Octane, Evo, and "SuperClassics", a short-lived UK magazine, in which he reviewed the McLaren F1 in 1995.
Atkinson holds a category C+E (formerly 'Class 1') lorry driving licence, gained in 1981, because lorries held a fascination for him, and to ensure employment as a young actor. He has also used this skill when filming comedy material.
A lover of and participant in car racing, he appeared as racing driver Henry Birkin in the television play Full Throttle in 1995. In 1991, he starred in the self-penned The Driven Man, a series of sketches featuring Atkinson driving around London trying to solve his car-fetish, and discussing it with taxi drivers, policemen, used-car salesmen and psychotherapists.[22]
Atkinson has raced in other cars, including a Renault 5 GT Turbo for two seasons for its one make series. He owns a McLaren F1, which was involved in an accident in Cabus, near Garstang, Lancashire with an Austin Metro.[23] He also owns a Honda NSX. Other cars he owns include an Audi A8,[24] and a Honda Civic Hybrid.[25]
The Conservative Party politician Alan Clark, himself a devotee of classic motor cars, recorded in his published Diaries this chance meeting with a man he later realised was Atkinson while driving through Oxfordshire in May 1984: "Just after leaving the motorway at Thame I noticed a dark red DBS V8 Aston Martin on the slip road with the bonnet up, a man unhappily bending over it. I told Jane to pull in and walked back. A DV8 in trouble is always good for a gloat." Clark writes that he gave Atkinson a lift in his Rolls Royce to the nearest telephone box, but was disappointed in his bland reaction to being recognised, noting that: "he didn't sparkle, was rather disappointing and chétif."[26]
One car Atkinson has said he will not own is a Porsche: "I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. Somehow, the typical Porsche people—and I wish them no ill—are not, I feel, my kind of people. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one."[27][28]
He appeared in Episode 4, Season 17 of Top Gear as the "Star in a reasonably priced car" section, where he drove the Kia Cee'd on the test track in 1"42.2, knocking off John Bishop (1"42.8) to become new leader of the board.

 

[skyscraper101]

Have they never seen Mr Bean? He was probably trying to drive it while sitting on an armchair tied to the roof.

 

[machine cat]

Have they never seen Mr Bean? He was probably trying to drive it while sitting on an armchair tied to the roof.

Or brushing his teeth.

 

[Greebo]

The poor bloke will be having to take that type of joke for at least the next week. I've heard of life imitating art (and vice versa) but this is ridiculous.

 

[T & P]

I know Blackadder was popular, but £100m wealth? Fucksocks!

 

[weltweit]

I know Blackadder was popular, but £100m wealth? Fucksocks!

I think Mr Bean went international .. probably made him loads..

 

[moose]

So he's crashed it twice, then, looking at the Wiki article. Clearly can't handle it. Maybe he should become a Porsche Person, god knows he's as annoying.

 

[roctrevezel]

Mr Bean, in a Mclaren, was bound to end in tears.

 

[Santino]

Serves him right for being racist.

 

[Bungle73]

Serves him right for being racist.

Explain?

 

[Santino]

When he called that bloke the n-word.

 

[Bungle73]

When he called that bloke the n-word.

What "bloke", and in what context?

 

[gentlegreen]

"he didn't sparkle, was rather disappointing and chétif."

puny, scrawny
meagre, paltry

apparently ...

 

[Santino]

Marcel Desailly.

 

[Kanda]

Marcel Desailly.

lol!!!

 

[Santino]

There's nothing so funny as an off-the-cuff joke that needs to be laboriously explained to people.

 

[Gingerman]

I think Mr Bean went international .. probably made him loads..

Mr.Bean is one of those creations which translates well abroad,fuck all dialogue but lots of slapstick

 

[Will2403]

it's not aged well has it that car. he should get the new lambo, 2nd best car after the bugatti imo.

 

[geminisnake]

Poor car. Mr Atkinson is an arrogant prick ime and I've met a good number of people who agree.

 

[weltweit]

I wonder if the police would have anything to say.

After all cars don't just crash themselves.

 

[weltweit]

But does his penchant for fast times mean that he may have been at fault yesterday? A neighbor, who didn't want to be named, told the Daily Mail that, "the way he drives I've nearly collided with him a few times. When he's in that car he's an absolute idiot."

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/05/rowan-atkinson-tvs-mr-bean-crashes-million-dollar-f1-supercar/


There don't seem to be any pics of the car online. Shame.

 

[roctrevezel]

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/05/rowan-atkinson-tvs-mr-bean-crashes-million-dollar-f1-supercar/


There don't seem to be any pics of the car online. Shame.

Yes there is:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-14414889

 

[weltweit]

Yes there is:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-14414889

Purple ..... ?? Que

I didn't know Atkinson was a German!!