The Rimac Nevera is the quickest-accelerating manufacturing automobile ever launched and regardless of it having virtually 2,000 hp, the CTO of 1 automaker thought it will be a good suggestion to try to drift one. It wasn’t a good suggestion.

Earlier this week, we introduced you a clip that includes Nico Rosberg and Mate Rimac driving the ex-Formulation 1 champion’s recently-delivered Rimac Nevera. The 2 had a really fascinating chat in regards to the Nevera and the automotive trade as a complete with Mate himself spilling the beans on how a Nevera prototype was totaled.

“There was a CTO of 1 massive, massive automobile firm – one of many greatest automobile corporations on this planet,” that tried to float the Nevera on a racetrack, Mate Rimac explains. This CTO requested if he may change the automobile into its Drift mode and regardless of the Rimac crew urging them to get used to the automobile first, he insisted and put the automobile into Drift mode.

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“First nook, he loses the automobile, rolls into poles and takes three poles out,” Mate reveals. As if that wasn’t unhealthy sufficient, the third pole that the Nevera hit broke in two, abandoning a big metal spike jutting out from the bottom. Mate says that the hypercar got here to relaxation on this spike and that it pierced the battery pack.

Fortuitously, the battery pack didn’t catch hearth and the unnamed CTO was not injured within the crash.

Given what number of automobile producers Rimac is at the moment or has beforehand labored with previously, it’s exhausting to know simply which automaker Mate is referring to. His clarification that it was the CTO of one of many “greatest automobile corporations on this planet” suggests it could have been somebody from the Volkswagen Group or maybe from Hyundai that owns a stake within the Croatian automaker.