The F1 safety car is usually meant to restore order after drivers wipe out, but it was on the other end of that at Monza on Thursday ... when it spun out and crashed during test laps.
The wild moment happened ahead of the Italian Grand Prix ... when the Aston Martin was zooming around the track to make sure everything was good to go for the weekend's festivities.
At one point in the test run, driver Bernd Maylander was cruising at a high speed when he appeared to lose control of his vehicle at the famous Alboreto curve.