Watch A Professional Rally Driver Roll His Car On The First Corner

You could still see the starting line behind him.

This is Kris Meeke, the first British (he’s from Northern Ireland) driver to get a WRC win in almost 13 years. He’s fast, he’s good.

But he’s also a little unpredictable sometimes, as you can see here. He rolled his all-wheel drive Citroën DS3 on the very first turn of Rally Poland. Technically, the rally hadn’t even properly started yet. This was on the pre-race shakedown!

Meeke summarized the roll nicely, stating, “what the fuck happened there?”

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