By no means once more? That was not on Richard Hammond’s thoughts when he noticed the chance to leap behind the wheel of Rimac’s newest and biggest electrical supercar. Regardless of being concerned in a life-threatening accident in June 2017 with the notorious Idea One, The Hamster bought again on the horse. Really, 1,877 horses. In a brand new video for Drivetribe – which he co-founded with Jeremy Clarkson and James Might – will get behind the wheel of Croatia’s quickest automobile ever.
The Nevera in query is #10 out of a complete of 150 automobiles and sitting within the passenger seat is Rimac’s chief engineer and check driver. Given what occurred the final time Hammond drove a Rimac, it is an comprehensible precautionary measure to verify The Grand Tour co-host is not concerned in one other nasty accident. Predictably, it appears as if the English journalist was a bit hesitant to drive off, however he finally constructed up the braveness to get going.
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Hammond is brutally sincere within the video, taking full accountability as soon as once more for what occurred six years in the past whereas The Grand Tour crew was filming in Hemberg, Switzerland: “I’ve by no means tried to dodge the blame for the crash. I’ve at all times fessed up. It was me. My excuse is it was so crazily, addictively quick, and so drivable and exploitable.” He admits he saved going even after crossing the end line on the Swiss hill climb:
“No quantity of pc wizardry and technical genius can defy physics, or extra particularly gravity when some lead-footed Muppet throws it off a Swiss mountain.”
Lest we overlook Hammond had already been concerned in one other horrible accident. Whereas filming for a High Gear episode within the UK on the former RAF Elvington airbase in September 2006, he was injured after crashing a jet-powered Vampire Dragster doing 319 mph (513 km/h).
The dragster crash was proven throughout season 9, episode 1, which initially aired on BBC on January 28, 2007. As for the Rimac accident, the footage was included within the first episode of the second collection of The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime on December 8, 2017.