richard hammond crash

Housey said:
You don't know much if anything about motorsport do you? There are perhaps 200 drivers on the planet who could call themselves professional racing drivers, who get paid to race and who only drive race cars as a job. They tend to be good but there are plenty of racers out there who don't get paid to race who are very quick, quick enough to compete with many if not all the professional race drivers, and have normal day jobs. No one can just go race, before they do they need a licence. That isn't hard to get frankly, but it does cost money, involve a track test and written exam. Then to race anything proper you need to get stamps to move up from the National B level and that comes with experience and lack of issues along the way.

The championship I raced in for example had 3 of Autosport Drivers of the Year one year (there are 10 in total each year), can't recall which year, but none of the 3 were professional. They were just enjoying it and had other jobs. Now Hammond isn't actually that good at racing I support that point, Clarkson is quicker (or was) and May is the slowest (or was). Pace comes with experience first and then the final bit depends on your talent level, but 90% comes from getting lots of experience. Hammond has that, but on this one he seems to have got it wrong, carrying too much speed into a bend, realising too late and binning it.

I would not focus on 'professional' as the ultimate expression of pace, that is my point. He isn't a professional race driver as you rightly say, but being a professional is down to many things not just pace and pace is there in MANY more non professional races I promise you.
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Absolutely correct there are certainly quick and talented drivers out there who arent professional. I'm not disputing that.
 
I recall watching this from Top Gear Season 8 and thinking "one day he's going to really hurt himself":


Of course things really went wrong in season 9.

His "I may have overcooked it a bit" line would equally apply to this crash.
 
Uriel said:
I recall watching this from Top Gear Season 8 and thinking "one day he's going to really hurt himself":


Of course things really went wrong in season 9.

His "I may have overcooked it a bit" line would equally apply to this crash.
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He is the classic small aggressive bloke, that is his personality.
 
Uriel said:
I recall watching this from Top Gear Season 8 and thinking "one day he's going to really hurt himself":


Of course things really went wrong in season 9.

His "I may have overcooked it a bit" line would equally apply to this crash.
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im going to guess that like the reliant robin that was deliberate.

or at least came from a "i reckon if you turned it in quick enough Hammond it would roll" conversation.
 
asim18 said:
Thats not his proffesion.

How can it be a profession to drive supercars quickly on roads, its not as simple as that. I highly doubt the bbc actively broke uk laws during filming.
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well like i say a few lines down that you deleted.

his actual title is journalist.

he reviews cars (and motorbikes), has done for decades.

in this event he was driving a super car on a closed road in Switzerland far above the speed limits.

effectively being paid to drive a super car quickly on a road and asses its performance.
 
Tefal said:
im going to guess that like the reliant robin that was deliberate.

or at least came from a "i reckon if you turned it in quick enough Hammond it would roll" conversation.
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I drive past one of Clarkson's Reliant Robin rolling spots a few times a week.
 
Wow two troll posts in a row. Do you have anything to discuss re Richard Hammond?

I dont even know why i always feed trolls. Must be the entertainment.

OldCoals said:
it will be the first thing you have entered this month.
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"A few weeks ago" was last month. Not this month, its only the 12th, which isn't even a couple of weeks. If you want to have your go at being a troll/comedian at least get your facts straight. :D


ZG002 said:
I did want to read all of this, but you know asim happens in these threads every now and then
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You're blaming me for the fact that you don't want to read something, but you would have read it if I wasnt here?

Utterly bizarre causation here, but fair enough do what you must to keep yourself content.
 
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danoliver1 said:
It goes the other way too, how many times do you need to nearly kill yourself before you say "you know what Iam not very good at this"? He should leave driving fast to the Stig because next time he might not be so lucky.
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He's had two big crashes. Disregarding this one (as no one knows what actually happened yet) the previous one was likely caused by a nail in the tyre - a catastrophic mechanical failure. I doubt any training would prepare someone to save a vehicle going the speed it was.

Other than that what's he had? A few relatively minor injuries being a bit of an "idiot" (falling off a horse and some motorbike injuries).

Nothing there says he's "not very good". People crash, whether they are good or not. It's a case of when, not if usually for professional drivers - and that's what he is, he's a motoring journalist so paid to drive cars, and has a couple of decades experience doing so.
 
MissChief said:
Funny, me too. I'm sure there's some parts of it that are worth reading but I ended up scrolling through the thread looking for the Hammond in a hospital bed clip.
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Amazing.

So you're aware that theres a clip of hammond in a bed and you go around looking on forum threads just to see if anyones posted the video so you can watch it again?

Definition of insanity right there.
 
Mildly unfortunate juxtaposition of headlines in yesterday's Sunday Mirror:

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