Lewis Hamilton has simply proven that the INEOS Grenadier can actually take a… bow. As a result of he didn’t spare the off-roader on or off the street. INEOS proprietor and Mercedes-AMG Petronas sponsor Jim Ratcliffe was his co-driver.
Sir Lewis Hamilton and Sir Jim Ratcliffe took the lately launched INEOS Grenadier for a pleasure experience. So what occurs when a seven-time F1 World Champion will get his fingers on a automobile designed for the nice wild? He does a hand-brake flip, that’s what occurs!
“Shocking for a System 1 driver!”, Ratcliffe says.
Lewis merely ignores the “Hazard. Deep water” indicator. He asks his co-driver if it truly is deep. “I feel you’ll have to shut your window,” he recommends.
The second of fact comes and Jim Ratcliffe expects to listen to Lewis Hamilton’s sincere opinion. “It undoubtedly felt James Bond-like,” he concludes. He’d go for some further lights on the roof and meatier tires. “Massively shocked by how a lot grip there’s, the traction.”
“It was designed to be good off street. However we didn’t realize it was going to be nearly as good as it’s on the street,” the proprietor of the model explains. It’s not the Defender that he initially needed to construct. But it surely’s most likely the subsequent neatest thing. “I can truthfully say I don’t suppose that anyone has pushed it like Lewis did immediately.”
The very best half is that the automobile and the occupants left the off-road course in a single piece. Regardless of the bangs, booms, and ka-booms that they heard from beneath.
The video was filmed on closed roads. So don’t try to copy this on public roads. Apart from, you’re no seven-time world champion both.
The manufacturing of the INEOS Grenadier 4X4 kicked off in summer season. It rolls off the meeting line within the former sensible facility in France, with a metal ladder chassis, beam axles long-travel progressive-rate coil spring suspension, and BMW engines. The British producer builds the Grenadier as an almighty off-roader, able to battle the Mercedes-Benz G-Class and its inspiration: the Land Rover Defender.
VIDEO: