Let's talk about Richard Hammond. The twat.
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pk
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He's a fucking nutter, but I liked his style.
The missus is well upset about it, she quite fancies the little chap.
300 mph though... it's a bit like Irwin and his constant messing about with extremely dangerous things... do these people bother sorting out a pension or what?
Hope gets better, and stops driving too fast.
The missus is well upset about it, she quite fancies the little chap.
300 mph though... it's a bit like Irwin and his constant messing about with extremely dangerous things... do these people bother sorting out a pension or what?
Hope gets better, and stops driving too fast.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
if it was 230 mph then any form of stoppage is likely at best to smash you head full force off the steering wheel shatter your ribs at least... added to that any chance of the car flipping or rolling once will lead to arms breaking shattered pelvis broken legs fingers feet ankles and of course internal injuries, if it flipped more than once then multiply that...dozzer said:Hope he did walk away, but the bbc reports say "critical"?!?
I HATE top gear... but like the wee guy.
Hope he is ok...
A five point or seven point harness will hold you into the frame of the car assuming the frame stayed together to disperse the impact this care would likely not have a 'tub' safety cell it would have been a tublar steel chassis which would be able to absorb a great impact but there's a shit load of thrust which will need to dissapate most people are saying it was a 300mph attempt so that would literally throw you through the seat belts and cause if nothign else fucking great bruses if you have ever seen the crash test dummies when the seat belt is badly fitted and slack then you get the idea.
It is widely beleived that Donald Campbell was split by his seat belt which lead to no body every being found...
In better and less grousome news hammonds condition has been down graded to stable...
My guess head trama and chest damage if he makes it through the night then he's likely to survive But whether that's to the point of recovery where he will ever get back into a car, or even walk is another matter... he certainly would unlikely be driving for around 6 months if indeed he has broken anything and it may well put pay to any more racing events for him or even if he want's to ....
exosculate
a stagger with a beat
Not a big fan of Top Gear - but I do admire all the presenters on it on some levels . Especially like Clarksons vendetta against speed cameras. Arguing correctly that they are for revenue increasing rather than safety purposes. We need people like this.
Hope he is alright too as others have said.
Hope he is alright too as others have said.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
yeah i was scared the first time i hit 100 toocesare said:
it's amazing sensation having driven a couple of F1 Cars out of season ( 1 season behind ) on silverstone at speeds in excess of 180 mph (before they killed the track with the lastest raft of 'improvements') i can tell you it's little short of shocking the way corners you know well tighten up very quickly.Silverstone is a track i know like the back of my hand i have compleated more miles on that track than any other in all confugreations in an F1 car though it was a totally different track my breaking points were different the turn in points different from even 120 or 140 mph as is to be expected but it still suprises you.
At those types of speeds it also reminds you how fit (or in my case unfit) you have to be to control that level of power the tinyest miscalcuation will stick you off track and thats an error level which is narrower than the gap between these letters ... ll
I have to say that racing a transit for 3 hours track time is less grulling than compleating 10 laps at those speeds ...
lighterthief
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Live by the car, die by the car.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
That speed thing's addictive Garf I reckon. With me, I was driving on the M1 to a funeral, so my mind was completely off at a tangent - was only when my husband started to get a bit edgy that I looked at the clock and realised what I was doing, and it was only then that I got scared. My brother was driving behind me and gave me a right earful (rightly so) at the next service station. The bugger scared himself off bike riding for a while at 130 mph & got called in and banned on a drivers day at Brands Hatch for over doing it so he had no business etc etc 
Was this stunt of RH's planned in advance? I haven't seen any build up to it as some sort of event/challenge.
I really hope he makes it and full recovery.
edit: That stuff you were doing at Silverstone sounds cool, dunno that I could do that tbh. Mine's more of a subconcious foot down get there asap thing which I really have to watch when I'm driving (which isn't often)
Was this stunt of RH's planned in advance? I haven't seen any build up to it as some sort of event/challenge.
I really hope he makes it and full recovery.
edit: That stuff you were doing at Silverstone sounds cool, dunno that I could do that tbh. Mine's more of a subconcious foot down get there asap thing which I really have to watch when I'm driving (which isn't often)
i_hate_beckham
Him From A Village
Thanks for that wonderful input.lighterthief said:
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I've never heard of him.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
felixthecat said:According to Sky news he was trying for a landspeed record and had been hitting speedsof 280mph!
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1234566,00.html
Ah, OK. To be honest the same side of me which says you should be able to do things like that because it's your own responsiblilty also says don't expect me to care if you kill yourself doing it.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Monkeygrinder's Organ said:
Ah well, at least everyone now knows what Monkeygrinder's Organ thinks.
Whew! Luckily, there is no compulsion to agree.
Fucking tedious cunt...
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
TheHoodedClaw said:
Er, no there isn't.
I can't even be arsed to be annoyed by that to be honest. What's your point?
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
cesare said:That speed thing's addictive Garf I reckon. With me, I was driving on the M1 to a funeral, so my mind was completely off at a tangent - was only when my husband started to get a bit edgy that I looked at the clock and realised what I was doing, and it was only then that I got scared. My brother was driving behind me and gave me a right earful (rightly so) at the next service station. The bugger scared himself off bike riding for a while at 130 mph & got called in and banned on a drivers day at Brands Hatch for over doing it so he had no business etc etc
Was this stunt of RH's planned in advance? I haven't seen any build up to it as some sort of event/challenge.
I really hope he makes it and full recovery.
edit: That stuff you were doing at Silverstone sounds cool, dunno that I could do that tbh. Mine's more of a subconcious foot down get there asap thing which I really have to watch when I'm driving (which isn't often)
stick to a track for speed really it's not worth it on the road for a start the surface is not really good enough for anything mcuh above 100, neither are your tires.
there's no skill in going fast on the public highway, none, just luck it only takes one person to change lanes and it's good night and god bless another smear on the ashphelt ...
anyone will tell you that races that there's little you can do to control car in a spin at 100+ just sit and wait for it to stop... and there's a lot more furniture on a road than a track to stop suddenly...
that's with out considering the problems of the legality of it...
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
you could say that about anyone pushing boundaries of human existance though ...Monkeygrinder's Organ said:
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
gilroy said:
Well if I'm being attacked by two people who're that sharp I must be in trouble.
