Hyundai’s biggest headline at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed may be the new Ioniq5 N, but the brand also brought last year’s Ioniq6-based RN22e concept to showcase on the Goodwood Hillclimb. Unfortunately, that car’s first demonstration run of the weekend has already gone south. The RN22e barreled into the climb’s hay bale barriers Thursday morning.
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Afortunadamente no hubo heridos tras el accidente del Hyundai RN22e que ocurrió este jueves en Goodwood. pic.twitter.com/P8eEyZQHS0
— FASTmag (@Fastmagmx) July 13, 2023
Today marks the opening day of this year’s Festival of Speed, which means that, for the first time this year, drivers are making their way up the event’s short hill climb course on untimed demonstration runs. The RN22e had just started one of these runs when the car somehow missed a corner, soaring off into the barrier at just about the highest possible speed for a crash on the Goodwood Hillclimb. The hit instantly turns the bales of hay being used as barriers into a cloud of dried grass and dust, but the bales are enough to stop the car before it could hit anything outside of the track area.
Because the sole camera recording the corner is zoomed in for a detail shot on the RN22e as it approached the turn, it is unclear how exactly the driver missed the corner. No matter the reason, the car failed to significantly slow before what was essentially a head-on collision with those hay bales. The Goodwood live stream showed that the RN22e’s driver and a passenger were both eventually able to leave the car under their own power and the day’s session eventually resumed, but the car itself has seen better days.
Keyword: Hyundai Ioniq6 RN22e Concept Crashes, Destroys Hay Bales at Goodwood