With nearly 1,100 horsepower, the Concept One is fast. The Rimac Concept One held the role of future, while an NSX hybrid embodied the present. Rimac believes that Hammond may have simply been going too fast to provide adequate braking into the corner. On his last run, a maximum speed of 177 km/h (110mph) was reached. All Rights Reserved, � Copyright TopSpeed. So what the system did actually was to yaw the car around where you wanted to have it. It was a difficult day for a lot of people, including Rimac, which saw one of its $2.1 million units get completely destroyed. Read more about the 2018 Rimac Concept Two. In a 26-minute video interview with Drivetribe, the Hampster sat down with Rimac CEO Mate Rimac for a friendly tell-all that covered the accident, the electric supercar, The Grand Tour, and a bunch of other tidbits relating to the incident. Ford: 190,000 Bronco Reservations Made, More Options Coming, Ford F-150 Tremor Spy Photos Show Off Rugged Pickup Package, 2022 Mercedes C-Class Spied Doing Warm-Ups At The Nurburgring, Enter Now To Win This Ultra-Rare 200-MPH Cadillac CTS-V Championship Edition, Donkervoort Takes Open-Air Fun To The Track With D8 GTO JD70 R. The Grand Tour team did, however, film much of the aftermath, including footage of the Rimac's burning wreckage and Hammond himself being airlifted to hospital. Soon after telling the emergency team to drag him out of the car by his hands because he thought he had broken his leg, the car burst into flames. The destroyed example will still appear in the second season of The Grand Tour, as filming was done by the time of Hammond's last run.

To Hammond’s credit he seemed properly humble, as did Rimac who revealed the now-charred supercar wasn’t a press vehicle, but a customer’s car. In fact that is what was going through my mind. One consolation is that you'll still get to see the Rimac Concept One appear in second series of The Grand Tour, as filming had already wrapped up before the crash. We sold three cars that day. "And yeah of course there was a moment of dread - 'Oh God, I'm going to die'. If you look at those craters, that's a big hole that's just impact and it looks like the thing has been dropped from space to leave a hole that big. Obvious observations aside, here are a few other highlights from the interview. It’s the first all-electric supercar I’ve been in that has proper ambitions in terms of range, which is always the first question people ask, but also performance.”. If it didn’t do that you would have gone straight.”. Hammond on how the crash will affect The Grand Tour’s next season: “So what we’ve got left to shoot, I can do what I have to do. We believe it’s proven that it’s safe.

A more in-depth article is available at The Grand Tour Wiki/Hammond's Rimac Crash .

On his fourth and final run of the hill-climb trail in St. Gallen, Switzerland, Hammond approached a corner carrying far too much speed to adequately brake his vehicle, causing the rear tyres of the Rimac to lose traction and slide the car off the track.

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He remained conscious all along, while his knee joint probably collapsed as he was bracing himself before coming to a stop upside down. By now, Richard Hammond's recent crash in the Rimac Concept One that left him hospitalized with a fractured knee has been well-documented. Why did it suddenly do it?”.

Ouch. For those who need a refresher, Richard Hammond nearly lost his life on June 10, 2017 during a hill climb event in Hemberg, Switzerland as part of a segment that was being shot for The Grand Tour. Four motors couple to four gearboxes and apply torque vectoring to the wheels over 100 times per second. While filming for … Richard Hammond had to be airlifted to hospital today after crashing a Rimac Concept One electric supercar while filming for the second season of The Grand Tour.His injuries are …

The Hamster suffered significant injuries because of the crash but has since recovered from all of it.
Richard Hammond has revealed the full extent of his injuries after crashing his 220mph supercar and escaping with his life. “The only thing I would say is the previous day … I could not for the life of me provoke oversteer,” he said. On the 10th of June, 2017, while filming for an episode of the second series of the Amazon Prime motoring show The Grand Tour, presenter Richard Hammond was involved in an accident while participating in a hill-climb event in Switzerland. Hammond was driving a Rimac Concept One supercar at the time. Hammond's accident has been a consistent source of mockery in The Grand Tour's second and third season, with May and Clarkson mocking Hammond for not being able to drive, buying him Christmas presents such as velcro trousers and an upside-down toy car, and forcing him to compete in the race to Niagara Falls on crutches.

Hammond remained conscious during the accident and told first responders not to pull him out of the wreckage by his feet, as he thought he had broken his leg. Unlike his Vampire Dragster crash a few years earlier, Hammond remained conscious during and after the accident. Road & Track participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. So yeah I was probably going 'well this is it'. The Rimac broke through a barrier on the corner and rolled over several times as it careened down the hill. Rimac will build up to 200 of its upcoming, even more powerful electric car to make sure they have plenty of spares the next time one "gets away" from a celebrity. In a recent interview on Drive Tribe, Richard Hammond sat down with CEO of Rimac, Mate Rimac, to discuss the elephant in the room - the Rimac Concept One that was totaled with The Grand Tour host behind the wheel. We can make it. Acura NSX Review: A Showcase Of The Future? As it rolled, the car dug huge craters into the ground before coming to a stop upside down after rolling 110 meters, as shown in photos shared by Rimac taken from the scene. Soon after Hammond told the emergency team to drag him out of the car by his hands instead of his legs, the Concept One burst into flames, melting into a pile of metal and plastic before the firefighters could put out the chemical fire. This audio was dubbed over the YouTube footage for the episode. Mate Rimac believes the fact that the passenger cell remained intact proves how safe his supercar is, although the company will look into how they could prevent a fire from happening even in such extreme circumstances.

Unfortunately Richard had to prove that.”. Footage of the incident made its way to YouTube on the day of his accident. It’s been almost a year since The Grand Tour’s Richard Hammond barely escaped with his life after crashing a Rimac Concept One.

It eventually came to a rest, upside-down, near the bottom. Inside, Richard Hammond was wearing a helmet, but no racing harnesses. What's certain is that after the back end stepped out, the rear tires ran out of asphalt almost immediately, launching the car off the mountain and crashing into the road 100 feet below.

In a recent interview on Drive Tribe, Richard Hammond sat down with CEO of Rimac, Mate Rimac, to discuss the elephant in the room - the Rimac Concept One … One might wonder how Mate Rimac feel about this crash; after all, any person would hate to see their hard work destroyed. Richard Hammond was airlifted to the hospital after a serious crash in an electric Rimac Concept… And also I was aware that the car was taking just such a beating. Pushing that much power to the wheels effectively takes some serious understanding in torque vectoring. “And you turned the wheel more than the car can take; more than physics can take with the tires and the weight. The Concept One's goal was not meant to be efficient by going all-electric, rather because it was the best powerplant for the idea that Rimac felt would be right for the company. Hammond might simply not have been ready for the technology of the torque vectoring coupled with the sheer torque produced by the vehicle.