YouTuber Crashes Brand-new 2020 Toyota Supra on Track
Supra was being steadily developed into a competitive time attack machine when tragedy struck.
There are few automotive-related tragedies that are more upsetting than wrecking a beloved car at a track day. One second you’re flying high on adrenaline and the next you’re staring at the broken, dented remains of a shattered dream. Unfortunately for YouTuber Jackie Ding, that’s exactly what happened on a recent sunny weekend. And the car that was wrecked wasn’t just an old track beater. No, it was a beautiful example of a brand-new Toyota Supra that Ding has steadily been modifying into a competitive time attack machine. He’s also not a noob, with his channel showing him behind the wheel of everything from the Supra pictured here to a BMW M3 and even a single seater F4 car.
“We’ve made some changes to the car,” says Ding in the intro. “The biggest one is new tires. They’re Yokohama Advan AO62s. 265/40 18s, which is a very tall tire.” From there the video cuts to Ding behind the wheel for a hot lap. Though the text at the corner of the screen says its “Session 2… still not pushing” it seems that something goes wrong as the Supra is entering one of corners on the track. The car goes wide, catches the outside front wheel, slides across a narrow expanse of grass and bounces hard off the tire wall.
The next shot is a visibly distraught Ding standing in front of the mangled Supra. While it appears he escaped injury, his female companion was not so lucky and is nursing a facial injury. “Dude, what do you expect me say here,” says Ding to the cameraman. “I mean look at it, just look at it. I binned it! I’m very pissed off.” A closeup of the interior gives additional insight into why he’s so upset. Not only is the front and entire left side of the exterior trashed, but the impact was enough to set off what looks like every interior airbag.
Once the sad Supra is towed back to the pits, Ding puts things into perspective for the viewers, while completely owning responsibility for the incident. “Mechanically it seems to be fine. It is what it is. It’s not even a full, max-attack day. Misjudged it and ran wide. I feel like I put the outside, left front on the grass and it sucked the whole thing in. It was that stupid. Mistake on my part. It was my fault, my mistake.” One thing Ding is not doing though is giving up on the Supra project, which has had only ten episodes covering it so far. “This is a major, major setback. But we can’t give up now.”
The obviously upsetting incident also offers insight into tracking a new car like the Supra. Ding narrates in the video that the accident was strong enough for the car’s emergency notification system to engage and call the local police. Who showed up at the track to make sure he was OK. This video also proves one thing for sure. While track days are certainly far safer than street racing, there is still a risk of harming yourself or your vehicle when things go awry.