SLR + Qatar = ka-BOOOM!

At one point in my life I worked with three guys who all worked in The Middle East for American oil companies.

They were about as different individuals as you could get in America: One was jogger/partier, the other was a Rush Limbaugh/angry whit guy sort, and the third was about as flamboyant a queen as I’ve ever seen, and they all agreed, strenuously, about one thing:

Seemingly no one in The Middle East drives like they care about life and limb, theirs or anyone else’s.

I thought about those three guys and their take on driving in Saudi and The Emirates et al when I saw the picture above.

That, believe it or not, is what remains of a Mercedes McLaren SLR when you get it unstuck at “say hello to Allah speeds”. An SLR is a very very capable car, which, to my mind, is good since there’s so few of them, and they’re so expensive. This is a Bill Gate’s level of wealth sort of ride, so it’s not all that surprising that a bunch of them would end up in the capital storage capital of the world.

So, you get one of those grand concordances: way too much disposable cash + too young/inexperienced a driver + a driving environment where there is a cavalier attitude towards safety = pieces.

“The massive debris field scattered across the Qatari desert suggests the car was traveling at very high speed, rendering any amount of carbon-fiber protection useless.”

Gee, ya think?!

Kul-wahad … More photos post jump & thanks to Los Jalops for the original post.

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