Jaguar F-Type crashed at Jaguar Simola Hillclimb

Driving schools across the world strive to teach their students methods of fighting negative reactions and replacing these with proper performance driving rules. Nonetheless, what do you do when a driver pushes his car hard and then fails to show any reaction at all?

This is what seems to have happened with the Jaguar F-Type in the adjacent video, which was flipped over during a South African hillclimb event. To set things straight form the beginning, we have to explain we are dealing with a Jaguar F-Type V6 S here, similar to the one we drove last year.

What we can tell you is that this is one tail-happy feline. This shows in the beginning of the clip, where the F-Type exits a left-hander sliding to the point where the right rear side ends up stepping outside the road. The sportscar was being pushed hard during the Jaguar Simola Hillclimb event in Knysna.

The driver does appear to correct the oversteering tendencies of the F-Type, but this is where the logical part of the story ends. From this point on, the wheels of the sports car appear to be kept in a straight position, as if the driver would’ve done absolutely nothing with the steering wheel.

The car obviously continues to go straight and ends up... climbing the landscape on the other side of the road. At first we thought we could’ve been dealing with a case of plow-through understeer, but this wasn’t so. The driver actually failed to do anything with the wheel once the car recovered from the slide.

The F-Type flipped over multiple times, eventually landing back on its wheels. In this violent process, the car also lost a wheel. As it appears, the passive safety aura of the car worked pretty well, as we can see the driver exiting the vehicle after the accident.