Richard Hammond involved in serious crash

Rybo89 · 10 Jun 2017 at 21:14

I clicked

MooMoo444 · 10 Jun 2017 at 21:26

Finglonga said:
That is the press for you, click bait is what they are all about everyone believes the headline.

Oh and full video of crash HERE.

Exacly

skaif · 10 Jun 2017 at 23:24

Seems as though he's ok, the Rimac is an absolute beast of a machine so can only wonder what went wrong. Does look like he overcooked it tho.

Flack88 · 11 Jun 2017 at 00:11

A car that catches fire like that needs a lot of work imo. He's going to get a proper rinsing on the show for that lol.

Dis86 · 11 Jun 2017 at 00:27

Flack88 said:
A car that catches fire like that needs a lot of work imo. He's going to get a proper rinsing on the show for that lol.

It's not entirely unusual, fuel leaking on to hot engine components resulting from the car being upside down.

My mum had the misfortune when she was in her teens of seeing a car overturn and catch fire with the 4 occupants still stuck inside.

Flibster · 11 Jun 2017 at 00:30

Dis86 said:
It's not entirely unusual, fuel leaking on to hot engine components resulting from the car being upside down.

Aaand when the car is electric, like the Rimac Concept One Hamster was driving?

Flack88 · 11 Jun 2017 at 00:30

Dis86 said:
It's not entirely unusual, fuel leaking on to hot engine components resulting from the car being upside down.

My mum had the misfortune when she was in her teens of seeing a car overturn and catch fire with the 4 occupants still stuck inside.

A long time ago? Car is Electric btw which makes the heat a hell of a lot more intense due to the battery material.

Dis86 · 11 Jun 2017 at 00:31

Flack88 said:
A long time ago? Car is Electric btw.

Flibster said:
Aaand when the car is electric, like the Rimac Concept One Hamster was driving?

That does complicate matters! Depends what kinda of batteries they are however yeah, could be a bit interesting as to why!

Flibster · 11 Jun 2017 at 00:41

Only thing I can think of is that something punctured one of the batteries as it rolled. Happened to a few Tesla Model S in the early years. Turned out it was debris flung up from the road into the underside, and so Tesla armoured the underside.

Housey · 11 Jun 2017 at 11:13

Having watched the video Hammond seems to have been the reason for the crash. Simply got it wrong.

Thaifood · 11 Jun 2017 at 13:02

hope the hamster is ok

Flibster · 11 Jun 2017 at 13:18

Message from Hammond. I'm not dead.

https://drivetribe.com/p/aKm2XPlnT_i1GSSjAfONtw?iid=TiEnl4vRSSuTP2AZvxfj3g

BananaDunka · 16 Jun 2017 at 10:34

Surgery seems to have been a success, he's now hobbling along nicely, as this photo shows:

snips86x · 16 Jun 2017 at 10:36

LewisStuart · 29 Jun 2017 at 23:19

easyrider · 30 Jun 2017 at 01:58

I like the fact that Hammond comments on the handling when he is no doubt a poo driver

jpaul · 25 Aug 2017 at 09:30

is there any update on the cause , could only find below
http://www.thedrive.com/sheetmetal/...d-hammonds-crash-while-filming-the-grand-tour

Rimac believes that Hammond may have simply been going too fast to provide adequate braking into the corner. During the first run, Richard reached a top speed of 145 km/h before reaching the problem corner. On his last run, a maximum speed of 177 km/h (110mph) was reached. Fortunately for the other seven Concept One owners, the value of their cars just went up. Rimac brought in a customer car for this trial - not one of their own. And what makes matters worse, Mate Rimac states that his company will not be manufacturing a replacement.

... so not very surprising

This was Elon Musk's rather blasé comment on earlier Tesla fire, from 2013

With the increased use of batteries are there any additional crash tests to check battery integrity ?

Nasher · 25 Aug 2017 at 09:39

They can armour the underside all they like, but it was in impact and batteries being crushed that is the problem. Once that happens it's like an incendiary bomb going off.

Diagro · 25 Aug 2017 at 10:54

Nasher said:
They can armour the underside all they like, but it was in impact and batteries being crushed that is the problem. Once that happens it's like an incendiary bomb going off.

No... It took several minutes to become a bad fire...

Jonnycoupe · 25 Aug 2017 at 11:02

Nasher said:
They can armour the underside all they like, but it was in impact and batteries being crushed that is the problem. Once that happens it's like an incendiary bomb going off.

Clearly that didnt happen - stop making stuff up.