Wreck

A wreck is when a vehicle crashes into something at high speed and becomes disabled for a few seconds. In Asphalt 8: Airborne, ~30.2 % of the Career Mode events discourage wrecking, in the form of a bonus star for either: Knockdowns without Wreck (in 40 of the 318 Career Mode races) or No Wrecks (in 56 Career Mode races). In some cases, landing on a certain part of the track can wreck the player's vehicle, even if they did not crash into something. Also, a glitch may cause the player's vehicle to wreck randomly. Finally, even after the race, the player's vehicle (now controlled by AI) may occasionally wreck.

The player can wreck other racers by performing a Knockdown on them.

Types of Wrecks

 * Wreck : the most common type of wreck. This type of wreck is seen throughout the entire Asphalt series.
 * Knockdown : only available in multiplayer; this occurs when the player is knocked down by another player.
 * Disqualified : when the player becomes disqualified after wrecked.
 * Eliminated : when the player becomes eliminated at last place.
 * Infection Overload : available only in the Infected mode of Asphalt 8. This occurs when the player has been infected for too long, and later becomes cured.

Other Languages
Wreck is written differently in the following languages:
 * French: Destruction
 * Spanish: Accidente
 * German: Totalschaden
 * Italian: Incidente
 * Brazilian Portuguese: Destruído
 * Russian: Авария avariya
 * Indonesian: Rusak
 * Japanese: クラッシュ (kurasshu, CRASH)
 * Chinese: 损坏 (Traditional: 損壞) sǔn huài
 * Korean: 파손 pason
 * Turkish: Enkaz
 * Arabic: دمار damār
 * Thai: พังยับเยิน pang yáp yern

Trivia

 * There is a glitch, dubbed the "skid glitch", where the player's vehicle suddenly skids out of control and wrecks by crashing into a wall. This occurs most frequently on tracks like Nevada, Tokyo, and Venice.
 * While it can occur to any vehicle in the game, it tends to occur the most frequently with vehicles that have a handling stat of more than 1.300 Gs (e.g. Ferrari 308 GTS).