{"id":146686,"date":"2026-08-16T06:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/146686\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T06:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:58:13","slug":"ford-mustang-v8-supercar-shunts-during-red-bull-showrun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/146686\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Mustang V8 Supercar shunts during Red Bull Showrun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1206\" height=\"804\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_1139-copy.jpg\" class=\"sc-hero-img\" alt=\"Ford Supercar shunts during Red Bull Showrun\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe moment a Triple Eight Ford Mustang crashed at the Red Bull Showrun in Riga, Latvia.<\/p>\n<p>Fan footage has emerged from the showcase event where the #888 car ploughed into a water-filled plastic barrier and drove away without significant damage.<\/p>\n<p>Who was driving at that moment is not abundantly clear, <a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/supercars-news-red-bull-ford-triple-eight-european-tour-will-brown-jamie-whincup-scott-pye\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">though Will Brown\u2019s co-driver Scott Pye had been tasked with driving the V8 for the demonstration event.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ford Mustang is in the midst of an overseas tour, joining several Red Bull-affiliated events.<\/p>\n<p>The Supercar appeared at the latest meeting alongside a Red Bull RB7 and World Rally Championship cars from Audi and Ford, as well as several Red Bull-backed, drift-spec BMWs.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the second incident for the Triple Eight Ford Mustang after Arvid Lindblad clipped a DTM car during the Goodwood Festival of Speed.<\/p>\n<p>The Riga, Latvia event was the fourth event in the European tour after visits to the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix, Goodwood Festival of Speed, and Red Bull Drift Masters Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The moment a Triple Eight Ford Mustang crashed at the Red Bull Showrun in Riga, Latvia. Fan footage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[91],"tags":[169,168,60196],"class_list":["post-146686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-riga","tag-latvia","tag-riga","tag-slot1"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117103893489261318","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}