Here's The Moment Richard Hammond Lost Control Of A Rimac Concept One
Richard Hammond has thankfully escaped serious injury after being involved in a huge crash while driving a Rimac Concept One on Saturday.
He was taking part in the Hemberg Hill Climb in Switzerland, and a video showing the moment he lost control of the electric hypercar has since emerged.
It looks like the 47-year-old was carrying quite some speed toward a tight bend, before losing the back end under braking. The footage cuts just as the Rimac hits a barrier.
The Grand Tour released a statement confirming that Hammond had been airlifted to hospital following the crash, and had suffered a fractured knee, with no other injuries reported.
The statement said that he was “concious and talking, and climbed out of the car himself before the vehicle burst into flames”.
Speaking about the accident on Twitter, Hammond’s fellow Grand Tour presenter Jeremy Clarkson called it “the biggest crash I’ve ever seen,” adding, “thankfully, Richard seems to be mostly OK.”
Rimac has released a statement about the incident, saying:
Rimac Automobili can confirm that the Concept_One, tested by the crew of The Grand Tour against two other supercars in Switzerland this week, was involved in an accident. The filming in Switzerland was ongoing from June 5th and involved various tests – including a hill climb race on June 10th.
Following the accident, the driver – Richard Hammond - was assessed at a local hospital. The Grand Tour team assures he has not suffered any severe injuries.
The Croatian electric supercar builder repeated The Grand Tour’s statement, before signing off with “Rimac Automobili wishes Richard a quick recovery.”
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
Its so awesome to know that Richard Hammond is secretly a Volvo with his strength inside.
His teeth are really just a bunch of White Volvo C30s.
So he is made out of Volvotanium?
He is Volvorine
When a comment has more upvotes than the post itself
Death: “Richard, you already got a second chance, it’s time now!”
Hammond:”No!”
May:”Great News!”
Thank god that Hammond is okay. Hope you will fully recover :)
Same here, that guy is awesome
Its a horrible crash and I’m glad Hammond is okay but….how much for the wheels?
Funny fact: Someone crashed a Buggati Veyron and sold 4 crushed wheels for 20k each. A company turned those wheels into watches. They made 20 of them. And each one was sold for 50k.
Soo uhm yeah
So does that mean he’s not coming on then?
Dang beat me to the joke.
“Well James, he’s hit a barrier and now his car has burst into flames, so no.”
Comment of the week
Not like this joke was already made in the other news post about this
Why isn’t this on top?
If only Paul Walker had this kind of luck…… starts crying
He probably woud be lucky, if he was on a race track with all safaty gear, and not on the streets, with a quite powerful Porsche using 10 years old tires.
He really charged that corner. Good the Hamster is okay.
The Hamster lives!!! Thank god he is okay.
Definitely going too fast, but possibly a locking brake issue as well?
Probably heat ruined the wiring in breaks. Or torque vectoring fail for the same reason. But probably just hamster going in too fast. Not his style tho
Looks like old school “no abs style”
Maybe throttle “stuck”? (However drive-by-wire pedals can get stuck)
Well, I guess the trio are cursed. Mazda Furai on Top Gear, Rimac Concept One on Grand Tour…
Also a zenovo st1 was caught on fire on topgear.
RIP Furai. Your utter gloriousness will sorely be missed.
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