He’s lucky... it could have been worse
IT’S telly so everything will have been done in a mad rush and Hammond might not have had time to get used to the car.
That’s pretty important when you’re driving something ridiculously fast.
And electric cars accelerate like no petrol car. The extra pace is instant. It’s pretty easy to see what happened. To me, it seems that he might have gone into the corner too quickly.
To give the man his due he probably hadn’t had a chance to learn the course well.
And the Rimac is not a light car. When Hammond went into the corner the front tyres probably lost grip – it’s called under-steer. The car goes straight on and you have no steering. Braking hard just makes it worse and can pitch you into a spin.
There really wasn’t much he could do to correct things.
What scares me is that the car caught fire. An electric car.
Hammond was lucky because if he’d been trapped inside the outcome could have been very different.