Not dead, but not for want of trying... Richard Hammond crashes supercar

OriginalGriff

Richard Hammond airlifted to hospital after cheating death in horror crash in Switzerland[^] £2,000,000 electric car. Crash. Burst into flames. And the worst injury he gets is "a fractured knee" - he is a very lucky man... :thumbsup:

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SoMad

Geez! I like the guy, but maybe driving just isn't his thing :-\

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Luc Pattyn

He shouldn't do that on the public road, CERN is providing special facilities for high speed collision experiments. :confused:

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ledtech3

Looks like the front wheels stuck but rear wheels let loose.

OriginalGriff

Boom, tish! :thumbsup:

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Lost User

"Former Top Gear host..." a quick plug for the [inferior] product? Why not "TV personality" (he's done others beyond TGT/TG), or "[Popular] Automobile Journalist," or ... BTW, does anyone here watch TG? I heard they had another season but damned if I can find anyone who watched it yet.

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OriginalGriff

We watched the first five minutes of the first episode of season 2, and decided that watching paint dry would be more entertaining. The Grand Tour however ... despite some weak parts it worked, and it was "Top Gear with a bigger budget and knobs on".

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Mycroft Holmes

I gave Grand Tour away after they spent 3 days in a dessert and didn't refuel once. And as for the exploding celebrity, that gets old really fast.

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OriginalGriff

Yeah, the dying celebrity got dull by about the first time. But these things take a while to buff up to a polished program - I'm pretty sure series two will be better!

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Lost User

Ah but all these shows are scripted, even the shows on History like Pawn Stars. Agree the exploding guest in Grand Tour is a fail, they were dicing with elements of Top Gear which they're not allowed to do and it failed, really hope S2 looses that. Why GT is good: because it's Clarkson, May and Hammond being Clarkson May and Hammond. Why TG failed: it's (?) and sometimes LeBlanc trying to be Clarkson May and Hammond [and failing big time]. (In LeBlanc's favour he is actually OK when he's allowed to be LeBlanc, the other guy though: not only is it: "who is he?" but concurrently "who is he trying to be?")

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MikeTheFid

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I'm pretty sure series two will be better!

Ah, the eternal optimism of a techie. "The next version will be better." Riiiiight. ;) Frankly the three of them seem to be getting a little long in the tooth. I subscribed to Amazon Prime Video for that series alone and felt disappointed. I hope you're correct, though. I do enjoy their cleverness when they're on their game. (Yeah, mea culpa. I'm a techie and eternal optimist also.)

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Michael J Churchill

That's what I don't quite understand... electric car and bursting into flames. Presumably the crash was so violent it ruptured the batteries?

Herbie Mountjoy

I watched an episode the other day. Looks as if they are trying to reproduce the old format with their new presenters. Didn't work for me.

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