lets study Richard hammonds crash.

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>drive to fast into a corner
>crash

what a surprise

Probably combo of no abs (boutique car), and super heavy (electric)

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>>17352383
Is he okay?

Mother fucker just can't not crash can he?

>>17352383
Didn't slow down for the blind turn. He probably didn't study the map or overestimated the car's stopping power. Hamster has a long history of crashing cars in his car reviewing history, that episode when he brought a Hellcat instead of something elegant and sophisticated proves that point.

>>17352395
Keeping the brakes locked during understeer doesn't help either. Rookie mistake.

>>17352408
>is he ok?
no hes not "ok" but he does have a fractured knee

>>17352427
time for Hammond to visit Hoonigans and do a segment with the hand controlled drift car

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>>17352468
James May already did. Twice, I think.

>>17352383
noob camera guy.

>>17352404
abs are practically bolt on.
why would they not bolt it on?

>>17352420
the car should fucking have abs though?

it may be a concept car but you would think they would have made an abs system considering every car requires it by law anymore


i dunno maybe abs failure or shit driving

>>17352616
Afaik its an electronically controlled torque vectoring system

My guess is it glitched and locked up the weels unintentionally causing hammond to fuck up

>>17352383
So he's not coming on then?

>>17352627
You can still keep the brakes locked like that even with abs. It's a prototype so I doubt it's properly dialed. Drifting fancy cars all day and having driving skills are also completely different things.

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>>17352636
Okay that's a good one.

>>17352383
How does he live through all this shit?

>>17352654
hes so tiny that the g-forces cant affect him as much

>barely avoids decapitation in a jet drag racer
>now this
is hamster unkillable?

>>17352672
the cockroach of drivers. put him in a Volvo or Hilux and he would be unstoppable

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Is this going to make Richard call it quits? I mean he already nearly died in the jet car crash then there was the bike crash he had in March that knocked him unconscious and now this. I mean he has a wife and three young kids, they are only going to put up with so much.

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>>17352636

>>17352677
I keked

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>>17352383
>>17352641
the problem isn't the brakes or braking to begin with

he started to oversteer going into the right hand corner and that was it, it was already over at that point, traction was broken and there was no saving it

the sharp left hander, going too fast, and no traction just sealed the deal in the crash

ABS or no ABS, locking the brakes or not is totally irrelevant, he was going too fast and oversteered going into the right turn

how you people even consider ABS is the problem is beyond me

>>17353111
ALSO

if it did not have ABS and the brakes were locked, how the hell did the front tires suddenly grip and snap the rear end around right before going off the cliff?

retards

>>17352383
Carrying way too much speed into the corner...track not rubbered in, tires probably not at optimum temps...he pushed too hard, and this is what happens to every race car when pushed too hard in a corner...
He just didn't have a wall to keep him contained...

Whatever the cause was it's definitely because it's an electric car, and not because it was an amateur driver in a 1200hp monster with power delivery characteristics never seen before in any vehicle on an unprepped mountain road

>>17352415
>that episode when he brought a Hellcat instead of something elegant and sophisticated proves that point.
All that proved is he's not some posh mary like James May

>>17352383
Damn does this mean cummy is better than hammond?

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>>17352636

>>17352383
F

>>17352383
doesnt looked like he braked at all. bet the car fukt up.

>>17352614
I think its just some guy with a phone. But yea he fucked up

>>17353442
he didnt brake*

>>17352695
this. dude has 9 lives or some shit, it's crazy.

>>17353442
I don't think that there's any car that can take that turn at that speed.

so I guess they won't be using this Rimac segment in the episode that it was meant to be in for the Grand Tour?

>>17353160
tesla owner pls go

>>17353498
thats kind of my point. it looks like it pulled a honda. if you listen to it the car doesnt stop accelerating.

>>17353542
toyota I mean

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>>17353160

You'd know something about prepping, wouldn't you faggot?

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>>17353111
This is problably right. Hammond fucked up and it wasn't the cars fault. But at the same time what bullshit car looses the back end on such a slight corner while going up hill?
Btw I'm OP and I wanted to ask if he should have just flown straight forward off the cliff or if it was a smart idea to turn left at that last second

SPEED UP HAMMONDS RECOVERY

1 LIKE =-==================== 1 PRAYER

>>17353120
He let off the brakes and the tires gained traction

>>17353650
Eat a dick mother fucker

>>17353502
hope this crash was at the end of the segment so they still have a lot of shots before fucking hamster destroyed it.
I live very close to Rimac factory and was waiting for 2 years for it to come to the show, and now this happens.
RIP in pieces Rimac

Im sure the car weighting 1950 kilogramms has nothing to do with it

i like how it instantly bursts into flames.

>>17353160
>drives cars for a living
>have driven everything between reliant robins and formula 1 cars
>amateur driver
I know tripfags are supposed to have shit opinions, but now you're just overdoing it.

>>17352383
Manlets can't drive, whats new?

>>17352383

he is going way too fast into that corner

>>17352383
He went into the first corner too hot, so when he tried to steer onto the second corner, the weight transfer was too much and he lost it.

He tried to bust a dagumi but couldn't deal.

>>17353613
get hydrated god hand

>>17353613
>>>17353111
>what bullshit car looses the back end on such a slight corner while going up hill?
It's a electric, it has 1600 Nm torque

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>>17354821

To get that look, the batteries are behind the driver, so that's your problem right there. Electric supercars shouldn't be so low, long and try to look so mid engined. Otherwise, they will be even deadlier deathtraps than the sub-thousand-made mid-engined petrol supercar.

>>17354846

tl/dr the car is retarded and it was made by assholes

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>>17353111
Being an actual oldfag who drove before cars got ABS, I will tell you what it was really like when you smashed the brake pedal:

All wheels lock up with ungodly noise and yo screech in the same fuckin direction you were trying to avoid going whilst simultaneously wearing a big flat spot on all 4 fuckin tyres.

ABS is the best fuckin invention after power steering.

Fuckin noobs. You're the equivalent of a faggot in a fedora.

> pic fuckin related

>>17352383
he went in too fast, no need to analyze shit.

>>17353613

Get hydrated, God hand

>>17352383
It looked like he as trying to drift it and gave it too much power and over corrected.

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>>17352636
kek, underrated post.

>>17352383
>i wanted to see /o/s best guess as to why

Because he's a cunt.

>/thread

>>17354864
This anon is 100 percent correct if you think its anything other than this you actually might just be a retard not even a fucking full on rally car built hand built by i dont fucking care who subaru boxer fuck i spun a bearing land wouldnt be able to handle a corner going that fast

>>17352383
There no problem at all with the brakes, he was going too fast.
The car has torque vectoring so altough it appears to have lost traction when he turned left. It was just the car rotating itself through torque vectoring.
Actually the car was amazing, always pointing to the apex/corner exit.
He was too fast for the left hook.

Fucking shame about the car. Those Rimacs are really fine machines Ugly as fuck though, specially the no window rear.

>>17352383
What's there to study? He went into the corner way too fast and on an impossible line. ABS or not, you're not stopping two tons of car fast enough to not go off the track in this situation.

What's more interesting to me is that yet another electric vehicle goes up in flames after a crash.

>>17355598
Lithium fires are a hell of a thing

>>17354507
>Instant torque of a batshit insane electric engine
>No engine braking

>>17355610
Of course, but you'd think they develop safe batteries that don't explode every time you drive over a speedbump too fast before they call battery cars the future of mobility and push the Tesla meme down everyone's throat.

Op here. Here's Hammond in the hospital saying he cocked up
https://youtu.be/PdrTn15JYgc

>>17352383
He tried to do an inertia drift but failed.

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>>17355683
NANI?

>>17352383
it looks like a mix of things
>1. He started to brake to late, maybe before this corner brakes were gold or he just fucked up, dunno
>2. There is definitely a tire screech, before he turned hard left. Some vectoring fuck up.
>3. There was no/zero/nada/zilch/0 grip. Look at that, he jumped like a rock. I know he countered just before the corner, but jesus fuck, that was like old widowmaker. Just a huge pendulum throwing the back of the car over. Dunno if this is the battery weight, plastic tires, no downforce (like in old koenigseggs) or mix of all

>>17355674
>but you'd think they develop safe batteries

They'd rather develop technology stopping you from driving fast.

>>17355678
Honestly there are worse places to crash and end up in hospital in than Switzerland.

>>17355818
>tfw I outrun Teslas in my 86 on the German Autobahn any day because they can't drive faster than 120mph for more than 5 seconds without overheating and going into limp mode

>>17354421
Yeah this fact alone is nuts

Also from the video he was going to fast and understeered into the corner.

>>17352695
I don't think he needs to call it quits, necessarily, but he may want to consider not driving rocket cars and concept super cars and shit. Amazon can afford to hire others to do that for filming purposes.

>>17354851

My car of the last 9 years has no ABS, I've tracked it, hooned it, etc. and it's not that bad, just let off when it starts locking.

>>17353613
Get hydrated, God Hand

>>17355822
YEA LIKE AMERICA He would have had to pay a bajillion dollars for a hospital bed yuk yuk yuk :) and the ambulance would have rusted out chassis and drop him yuk yuk yuk doesn't America suck yuk yuk yuk :)

>>17352677
This, then put him on the streets of london.

>>17354937
How is it underrated you mouthbreathing piece of shit? When you replied to the post, there were 3 replies already. I hope your mum dies in a fire you double nigger

>>17353502
and now, back to the hospital

>>17353613
GET HYDRATED, GOD HAND

>>17356448
>I don't think he needs to call it quits, necessarily, but he may want to consider not driving rocket cars and concept super cars and shit. Amazon can afford to hire others to do that for filming purposes.
Yeah, like, James May.

>>17356520
>85 replies
>4 replies for the best comment
That's how underrated works. It had a potential of 71 replies after it was posted.

>>17356671
We've heard and read the joke around 17 times before seeing it here.

>>17356676
I don't get it

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>oversteered severely because he was going too fast for the corner
>/o/ spergs about ABS

>>17352627

>Every car requires it by law

That depends on where you live

>>17357066
Name a country in Europe where ABS is not mandated.

>>17353613
Get hydrated, God hand

>>17357066
>depends on where you live
>>17357070
>Name a country in Europe
The current state of /o/, ladies and gentlemen.

>understeer
>No abs
>Suddenly griped

You guys have no idea.

In the gentle right hand just before that tight left hand the ass was out already and it came back around just in time to slide over the drop in the other direction

>>17357081
>The current state of /o/, ladies and gentlemen.
The incident happened IN EUROPE you FUCKING SHITBRAIN

>>17357092
How is that related to the accuracy of the claim that "every car requires it by law"?

>>17357105
Because that claim is made during a discussion of THIS PARTICULAR INCIDENT not a discussion of automotive law in every country in the fucking world

>>17357113
>I move the goalposts to wherever I need to them to be
The current state of /o/, ladies and gentlemen.

>>17357124
You didn't read this fucking thread you fucking moron, nobody here is talking about your special snowflake shithole where ABS is not required, ALL discussion was about THIS CAR and THIS CRASH.

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>>17352636

>>17353613
Get hydrated, God hand

>>17356454
then you haven't been in a situation you need it then
(not the oldfag answering)

>>17353613

get hydrated, god hand

>>17353613
GET HYDRATED, GOD HAND

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>>17352383
Kill them Rimac, kill them all

>>17354851
Or, ya know.. threshold brake? I don't have ABS and I hate ABS. Its not a medal of honor you faggot

>>17352415
It was scripted. it's all scripted.

>>17356481
You say that as a meme, but...

>>17353613
GET HYDRATED, GOD HAND

I know there's some really reactive material in batteries but it was impressive and disconcerting how flammable it was.

>>17362064
>some really reactive material
Lithium, the main component in every modern high capacity battery. Also the reason why Teslas randomly self-ignite all the time.

>>17353613
Get hydrated, god hand

>>17362064
>>17362085
There is a fuckton of energy stored in those batteries, it needs to go somewhere.
Also they were probably hot, since all those batteries were probably overheating as they always do.

Check this out, normal phone lithium battery pierced:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAZ62tUtc0w

No imagine that times 1000, it's a miracle they don't explode every accident.
Fucking kerosine is safe when compared to this shit.
We really need some new generation polymer-graphene batteries before it gets really viable

>>17353613
Get hydrated God hand

>>17362120
>>>17362085 (You)
>There is a fuckton of energy stored in those batteries
No need to tell me. I have a degree in automotive engineering and took advanced chemistry in school. All of my professors at uni said battery cars are fucking retarded. Nobody who knows what's up is backing this horseshit technology, it's literally just clueless bleeding heart environmentalists, clueless politicians and people in marketing with dollar signs in their eyes. Just wait until Tesla engineers leak the truth. Everyone I know in the industry who is in any way related to drivetrain development says every major manufacturer (almost all German) has plans for ICE/ICE-hybrids on the roadmap, while battery cars are mostly marketing gimmicks and essentially glorified mobility scooters. That said, I'm a huge fan of things like the Renault Twizy.

>>17362164
I mean, they wanted to ban e-cigs because morons were shorting their mechanical mods making batteries explode.

There was this huge recall of those faggy mini segway scooters because some idiot burned his.

And yet e-cars are overheating constantly and catching fire after every crash and there is no investigation in this. Some day soon, some faggot hipster with more money then sense will try to impress some chick, end in a tree and both of them will burn in minutes and still nothing will happen.

>>17362196
For all you know, that could've happened a lot already. If Tesla doesn't want it in the news, it doesn't appear in the news. Ever heard that the automatic gullwing doors of the European spec Model X chop fingers clean off because they cheaped out on some vital sensors that would stop the door? Thought so.

>>17362217
>Ever heard that the automatic gullwing doors of the European spec Model X chop fingers clean off
I hear they had some problems but really?

Just checked, and holy fuck, that's scary.
There are like hundred videos of people chopping thing with the doors.

>>17353613
"get hydrated, god hand" in this thread.