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[Doctor Gollum]

Dunno wtf he was doing but that was a real crap piece of driving. He is well over to the left on the entrance to the left hander, tries to turn in too late and possibly brakes at the same time. Almost like he wasn't concentrating until he realised he was about to fall off the edge of the road. Most strange. 

Yes, actually, you're right. He was going quick enough that positioning into the bend would have been important, yet he didn't seem to make any attempt to get it right. Positioning himself over to the left meant he had to turn in sharply rather than "maximum constant radius" and the back end of the car had other ideas.

EDIT: Of course, he could have been blathering into a camera at the time.

Don't forget it was an electric car not a petrol one torque delivery is very different and the car won't respond the same way to throttle/brake inputs, especially at the limit...

Drop an empty Sprinter into second as you turn left off a damp roundabout at speed and see how much control you actually have...

In that clip he's obviously given it a bootful out of the previous hairpin and has braked and lifted off too quickly as he turned in... Backing off rather than completely lifting off has compounded the regenerative braking forces and the inevitable happened.

The second he dabbed the brakes as he turned in, he became a passenger.

In one episode of Top Gear Richard Hammond modestly described himself as 'a driving God'

An in the same episode Clarkson concluded he was a sex God...

Don't believe everything you watch on the telly, especially when it proclaims to be fact

[Kevin Wood]

Don't forget it was an electric car not a petrol one torque delivery is very different and the car won't respond the same way to throttle/brake inputs, especially at the limit...

Drop an empty Sprinter into second as you turn left off a damp roundabout at speed and see how much control you actually have...

In that clip he's obviously given it a bootful out of the previous hairpin and has braked and lifted off too quickly as he turned in... Backing off rather than completely lifting off has compounded the regenerative braking forces and the inevitable happened.

The second he dabbed the brakes as he turned in, he became a passenger.

Petrol or electric makes no odds. His line into the second corner was completely wrong. As you say, he hooned it out of the previous corner but with no anticipation of what would come next. Exactly why race tracks throw the odd chicane at a driver to make things interesting.

He was already destined to crash some time before he turned in, IMHO.