The Hamster II

[Vonny]

Did anyone see the footage of the Richard Hammond crash on TG on Sunday?
Must have been hard for him to watch that. He even asked for a slow motion replay He's one lucky man, although he didn't look too good imo. Looks like he's lost a lot of weight.

[Stan]

The footage the BBC had was amazing especially the slow motion replay of the tyre bursting. Indeed he was a lucky man.
My wife and I thought that RH looked older and a bit gaunt. Looking at older footage of him he definitely has changed.
I wonder if they will cover him in cotton wool now?

[jtaylor]

I particularly liked the sign which was right next to his head in the cockpit:-
"Never go faster than your angels can fly" (or something very similar)

Nice!

J

[englishangel]

His obviously do at least 400mph.

Didn't watch the prog but saw it on the news including the slo-mo and the cockpit view.

[sejintenej]

Did anyone see the footage of the Richard Hammond crash on TG on Sunday?
Must have been hard for him to watch that. He even asked for a slow motion replay He's one lucky man, although he didn't look too good imo. Looks like he's lost a lot of weight.

The doctors said it would take him 18 months to recover; to even appear on the programme shows how much faster he has recovered. You can expect a bit of fraying after all that.

[Vonny]

Did anyone see the footage of the Richard Hammond crash on TG on Sunday?
Must have been hard for him to watch that. He even asked for a slow motion replay He's one lucky man, although he didn't look too good imo. Looks like he's lost a lot of weight.

The doctors said it would take him 18 months to recover; to even appear on the programme shows how much faster he has recovered. You can expect a bit of fraying after all that.

Yes he has done remarkably well. I think I was just shocked to see his gaunt look - I wish him all the best and hopefully before long he will be back to his normal self.

[sejintenej]

Did anyone see the footage of the Richard Hammond crash on TG on Sunday?
Must have been hard for him to watch that. He even asked for a slow motion replay He's one lucky man, although he didn't look too good imo. Looks like he's lost a lot of weight.

When I was doing that sort of work it never ceased to amaze me the crashes people could go through and walk away.
A BMW 3 series was launched by the grass verge along the side of the tarmac and was still in the air when it hit the armco (steel barrier) straight on at a measured 95 to 98 mph. The driver got out, walked away and was driving fast the next day. (Of course we didn't let him get far without the doctor examining him). (50 yards of armco had to be removed and relaid)
I've see a Ferrari F40 go into an earth bank and "explode" as the fuel went up; the driver was unhurt and got out by himself.
(In fact I've seen far too many Ferraris "fail" mechanically - I don't know if it is design or poor maintenance - belts seem to be a favorite weakness. By contrast Mini failures were almost unheard of)

Cars like the Hamster or whatever benefit from exceptional design and engineering devoted to keeping the driver as safe as possible.

[J.R.]

I can only echo all the sentiments above.

For the word 'Car', maybe we should just insert 'Jet'

The most amazing thing I thought was the fact that before the crash, he hated celery - Now he loves celery.

Very strange !!

[Vonny]

The most amazing thing I thought was the fact that before the crash, he hated celery - Now he loves celery.

Very strange !!

I thought that was quite funny - hate the stuff myself

[J.R.]

Strangely enough I've now had this explained by a medical man. Obviously the liking or disliking of various tastes is controlled by one small part of the brain which was clearly dis-orientated by the crash. My friend said there would probably be many more tastes The Hamster will discover to be either nice or nasty in direct conflict with what he felt before the incident.

Also odours ! One shudders to think........