Top Gear's Richard Hammond Revisits Rimac For The First Time Since Almost Dying In One

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Revisiting the scene of a bad crash or even just the type of vehicle you crashed in can be pretty nerve-wracking. I mean, I crashed the hell out of a Ural sidecar back in 2018 and I still get chills when I see one, so I feel like I have a bit of an understanding of what Richard Hammond is experiencing when he climbs into the Rimac Nevera in this Drivetribe video.

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If you don’t remember, way back in 2017, Hammond (of Top Gear and The Grand Tour fame) entered the Rimac Concept One in a Swiss hill climb event. He made it up the hill without incident despite the absurd power levels of the Rimac only to crash after crossing the finish line, falling over 150 feet down the side of the mountain, rolling the car three times in the process. The car saved his life but was a total write-off.

Richard Hammond drives a Rimac for the first time since his life-threatening crash

Luckily, despite still being relatively early on in its journey as a company, Rimac wasn’t a write-off too and today the company has merged with Bugatti and is on the bleeding edge of max-performance EV technology.

While Hammond’s Nevera drive is certainly less dramatic than the last time, partly because he has a minder in the right seat and also because they’re on the alpine circuit of a test facility, you can still feel and see him processing the experience as he goes. If you’re looking for tire shredding, you won’t get it here, though you do see a sub-two-second launch which is cool.

Have any of you had a bad accident and had to revisit it after the fact? Was it the location that was tough to see again or maybe the vehicle? Let us know in the comments.