Video: 2JZ Corolla Takes Violent Barrel-Rolling Flip In Puerto Rico

The Salinas Speedway in Puerto Rico has seen more than its fair share of devastating crashes in recent years, including an incident in 2013 that tragically claimed the life of a bystander. With a lot of really fast, short wheelbase cars calling the country home and an exciting, never-lift approach to racing, things get interesting — if not completely out-of-hand — there quite frequently. And at an event at Salinas on January 31st, things definitely went amiss.

That night, the 2JZ-powered Toyota Corolla known as “Little Jowin”, owned by Edwin Gomera El Cano, was completely destroyed in what was without a doubt one of the most vicious rollover crashes we’ve seen in quite a while. Prior to the crash, the silver rocketship can be seen making what is otherwise a relatively clean pass, before taking a very abrupt turn beyond half-track right into the opposing lane. Taking immediate action to avoid contact with the car in the other lane, the driver corrects back into the left lane, setting off a chain of events that ends with the car into the wall and violently turning end-over-end more times than we can count before finally coming to rest.

Merely says prior to the crash, the Little Jowin team had reset their personal bests with a lap of 6.64-seconds at 210 mph, with a 4.31 to the eighth-mile. Fortunately, Gomera El Cano and his team have already vowed to return with either a repaired race car or a new piece entirely.