Collector Behind Supercar Showdown Crashed Porsche 918 Into A Crowd Days Later

Last Friday, a British production team posted a video documenting the first time the big three hypercars—the McLaren P1, the Ferrari LaFerrari and the Porsche 918 Spyder—have been independently compared on a track. In the car world, this is a big deal. At the beginning of said video, a man by the name of Paul Bailey, 55, talks about lending his $3 million dollar-plus trio of machines in the name of science.

But at the time the video was released, Bailey was recovering from a serious head injury in a Maltese hospital—and one of the cars in question had already gained some Internet infamy.

On Sunday, Oct. 4, Bailey and his $900,000 Porsche 918 Spyder lost control during a demonstration run at the Malta motor show—held to raise funds for L-Istrina, a charity fund-raiser. The car crashed through a temporary barrier and into the crowd, injuring at least 26 people, along with Bailey himself. The British millionaire, who made his fortune in the telecommunication business, is thought to be the first person in the world to own all three hypercars. His white Porsche, now literally coated in blood, was the very one used to conduct the definitive showdown a few weeks earlier—sporting the license plate, “POR 918S.”

Here’s the video from the hypercar shootout, filmed Sept. 18: