I’d like a bigger area shot, and more of them to be sure, but to me it certainly looks like the car
has gone in backwards as evidenced by the direction the dirt has flicked onto the car. It has also rotated from where it came to rest, as the yaw marks indicate. *note, now that I have looked at the link that Craig supplied, I see that I was correct *

To the untrained eye it doesn’t look like a lot of damage, but I’d be surprised if he hasn’t managed to misalign the rear of the car. Have to look underneath to be sure, but to me thats not looking like just a broken tailight and cracked bumper.

And you do not – I repeat, do not – do that kind of damage at 60 kph. Hey – who even drives that sort of car at those speeds ! Clearly he has been taking that slight bend in the road way too fast, and has lost the back end.

As regards to the Veyron driver, what a laugh. I would’ve thought that the fine would have been a bit dearer though? Not like the guy couldn’t have afforded it.
You make a very good point Ollie – why didn’t he just wait to Goodwood to put the car through it’s paces? Just goes to show that dollars can’t buy you sense.

So, judging by the tyre marks in the grass, he was heading away from the photographers position (towards the house) and managed to spin through 180, as shown with the far right tyre tracks. The rear of the car must have hit the hedge as it spun and that is where the damage to back of the Porsche happened. Given that there is no kerb on the road, it would have been relatively easily for the car to skid off, but he would had to have been going at least 40-60mph for this to have happened. And even then…? Although I would suggest that the majority of the spin happened on the muddy verge rather than on the tarmac. Stupid by all accounts.

http://wot.motortrend.com/6249850/miscellaneous/happy-fathers-day-hamiltons-dad-wrecks-carrera-gt/index.html

I read somewhere that Lewis Hamilton was loaned a Porsche of some description (sorry, their model numbering system is beyond my logic) to drive after the Monaco Grand Prix. I know that Porsche had a relationship with McLaren, but I’m not so sure Mercedes would be entirely happy with all the media attention the Hamilton’s are getting with their road cars at the moment.

Edit: Just had a thought: Maybe McLaren don’t trust either Hamilton with an SLR just yet?

a couple of things i’ve read suggested he’d just left his home when this happened… and at speed too.

pretty hard to lose control of a car that close to ones house i’d say. of all the roads i drive, the one outside my window is the one i know most intimately.

the supercar was racing a Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano and both cars reached excessive speeds of around 130mph

I guess the Veyron was toying with the Ferrari since it could have quite easily left it for dust.

Anthony Hamilton was just 200 metres from his home in Tewin, Hertfordshire, when he lost control of the £330,000 vehicle and ploughed across a grass verge, leaving deep tire tracks, before crashing through a hedge.

Emphasis mine to highlight my possible error in previous comment.

@Telegraph: For the love of all the dictionaries in the all the lands, when in England, “tire” means to feel tired/drowsy/sleepy. The round black things found on each corner of a Porsche Carrera are called tyres.

the car’s pointing into a field… where’s the road? if he went in backwards (as the damaged light would suggest), how’d he manage a 180 using only the inertia of a 30mph accident?