Spotting celebrities at a Formula One grand prix is nothing new. The glitzy racing series in often exotic locales attracts the rich and famous like proverbial flies to honey.

The cameras rarely turn to the celebs present for race commentary, but then Rowan Atkinson is no ordinary celebrity. He’s a celebrity who drives a McLaren F1, gets Rolls-Royce to lend him their sixteen-cylinder prototype and tops the Top Gear “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car” leaderboard.

Mr. Bean himself was in attendance for this past weekend’s inaugural Indian Grand Prix, where Ferrari‘s Felipe Massa and McLaren‘s Lewis Hamilton got at it again with disastrous consequences. The look on Atkinson’s famously expressive face said it all. Follow the jump to watch the clip.

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Rowan Atkinson reacts to Massa/Hamilton crash in India originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It looks like the man behind Mr. Bean and Blackadder has had another off in his McLaren F1. British comedian Rowan Atkinson reportedly spun his seven-figure supercar as he was traveling down the A605 near Peterborough in the UK. No other vehicles were involved in the incident. While the actor suffered no worse than a shoulder injury, the F1 restyled itself thanks to a lamp post subsequent fire. Atkinson was reportedly able to extract himself from the vehicle and stood waiting for emergency personnel to arrive before being transported to a local hospital. He’s expected to be released today.

Atkinson purchased the McLaren in 1997 and managed to damage the vehicle just two years later in a low-speed collision with a Rover Metro. Something tells us this latest shunt is going to take more than a little polishing to clean up, but we suspect it’ll get resurrected all the same. Make no mistake – Atkinson isn’t a stranger to high-horsepower machinery, and the man apparently knows his way around a vehicle. He recently posted the fastest lap time of the Top Gear UK’s ‘Star in a Reasonably Priced Car’ segment.

Rowan Atkinson crashes his McLaren F1… again originally appeared on Autoblog 5.0 on Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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