The Richard Hammond accident will appear at the opening of The Grand Tour. Hammond TGT accident. Mark Webber will be in the second season of 'The Grand Tour'. We will not have to wait too long to see everything that happened in the Richard Hammond accident. There are barely more than 24 hours left for the premiere of the second season of the Clarkson show and, according to a synopsis of the first episode, the Richard Hammond accident will appear at the opening of The Grand Tour.
Tomorrow, December 8th, the second season of The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime opens. The truth is that the filming of this second season has not been on rails precisely, because in addition to the accident of Hammond, we have another motorcycle accident and pneumonia suffered by Jeremy Clarkson and that has made the plans were disrupted.
Video: Advance of the second season of The Grand Tour: The accident that Richard Hammond suffered with the Rimac Concept_One during the filming of an episode in which they compared the past, present and future of sports cars, with Jeremy Clarkson testing a Lamborghini Aventador S and James May at the controls of a Honda NSX, has undoubtedly been the most talked about the filming of this second season. If they wanted publicity, they have achieved it almost without doing anything.
According to the synopsis of the first episode, we can see the accident of the Hammond Rimac, although the images will be limited as the cameras were destroyed next to the car. "On the road, guys test straight-line maneuverability and speed before participating in a HillClimb event with an unexpectedly dramatic ending," the synopsis explains.
On the other hand, celebrities will return to The Grand Tour with a new section that is called 'Celebrity Face Off' and that comes to replace the previous section 'Celebrity Brain Crash' that was not so successful. In addition, the program has decided to replace 'The American' and engage in the search for a new driver, which will make Mark Webber appear throughout the season.
The website Carscoops has been echoed through the media Spiegel and Jalopnik that Mercedes-Benz had rented and caused damage to a Tesla Model X rented to the company also German Sixt for 15,674 euros.
According to these means, Mercedes-Benz is in the process of developing the second model of the EQ family of electric that the brand will begin to commercialize from 2019. As part of the development of this new vehicle, the signature of the star would have decided Take a look and test the Model X to see the competition first-hand.
In this way, the Stuttgart brand would have rented a Tesla Model X for 7 weeks, instead of buying a new unit, a vehicle owned by Monika Kindlein and Manfred van Rinsum. The couple has been responsible for publicizing the significant damage suffered by the vehicle.
The different media that have echoed the news comment that the car has been subjected to different types of tests and extreme conditions, in addition to being disassembled and reassembled. Apparently, it was tested at circuits in Barcelona and Sindelfingen (Germany), a fact that was curiously prohibited in the rental agreement.
According to Sixt, the owners have been compensated for the damages and for the fact that their car has been used improperly. However, Kindlein and Van Rinsum have not been satisfied with the estimated damage that Mercedes has caused: the aforementioned 15,674 euros in damage plus 2,000 euros devaluation of the car.
Far from agreeing with these figures, the couple believes that they should reimburse 99,392.79 euros, although they are not too optimistic in obtaining them, due to the resources of Daimler or Sixt in comparison with theirs, if the facts ended in court .
For its part, Mercedes-Benz has only defended through a spokesperson that the rental of vehicles "for comparative purposes" is a "very frequent" fact in the automotive industry and that, in case of damages in the rental period, a "normal" claim procedure is initiated with the insurers.