This is the moment a luxury McLaren supercar burns to a small pile of ash on an Italian mountain road.
The McLaren sports car caught fire on the Pordoi mountain pass in the Italian Dolomites. The video was posted on the Instagram page of the Pordoi Hotel where the incident took place.
A hotel worker told Newsflash: “They were a group of Finns. There must have been 10 people with 5 beautiful cars.”
The driver of the McLaren, a car estimated at around EUR 170,000 (GBP 145,779), drove through the Pordoi pass, a complex mountain road with hairpin bends, when the incident took place.
According to reports, the road was tough on the sports car’s motor. The hotel worker said: “The car was right below our hotel when it started smoking. The driver calmly got out as the car slowly started to catch on fire.”
The driver, shaken by the unexpected occurrence, went into the hotel to seek help and ask for a fire extinguisher.
The hotel worker explained: “By this time, the car was already half-burned so the fire extinguisher could do very little. This is why we called the fire brigade and the police to block the road because many people were passing by even though the car was literally on fire.”
During the blaze, the car’s airbags started to pop from the heat, creating a lot of sparks.
The hotel worker told Newsflash that firefighters and the police responded quickly to the incident. Firefighters were able to extinguish the blazing car in about 15 minutes, but the vehicle was already burned to a crisp.
The hotel then used its own bulldozer, used to clear snow in the winter, to remove the burned remains of the luxury vehicle off the road.
McLaren Automotive (formerly known as McLaren Cars) is a British car manufacturer based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking in England. The company’s main products are luxury supercars, which are produced in-house in designated production facilities.
