So you're saying there is more crashes to come?

You might. I don't.

@@brisbaneinsider7139 yes quite. Stupidity for Richard.

@@brisbaneinsider7139 Why do people seemingly try and put words in other peoples mouths?

Richard F has tiny little knackers & us too scared to drive over 40mph.

There’d be too many cars and too many episodes to cover LOL

I dont know if there is enough Internet for that 🤔

Only two cars lol

@@Unspoken_T187 he's done way more than that, not even counting offscreen

@@acreativename7999 I have watched from the day he started top gear and trust me buddy he’s crashed two cars lol you must be young

That just sounds like the British way...

He was definitely going through some emotions there, I wonder if he's seeing himself flying down the track 🤘

@@deej8878 almost assuredly. While I can't speak for everyone of the few people I've been lucky enough to speak to who drove/drive dragsters even once they retire the only thing they want, is to get back behind the wheel of one. You gotta remember too often what ends a driver's career in Drag Racing is NOT loss of interest or them deciding they have enough money, it's the physical strain. I'm sure if he were any younger and in better shape physically (less wear on his body, he's clearly not an unhealthy person) he'd probably still be running that car.

Mostly recovered

So somebody tells at just about every time a video about this posted.

@@richardharrold9736 for sure he likes celery now

@@Diggnuts I don't see anyone specifically telling *you* anything.

@@BobMonkeypimp I have no idea what you are blathering about.

Hammonds story has been done. Nothing wrong with a piece on the car. Wonderful stories...both of them 🖖

Did the BBC have to pay out on their insurance ???

Pause at 13:08. The whole floor is dry from the jet engine flames. 😂👍

Well cars don't truly die but humans can and hammond has almost done that many a time and still lives mans a legend all three of em are

It's not all about hammond. what happned to him is long gone.

It’s a great piece!

Agreed. The guys are getting better and better.

Couldn't agree more, really superb.

honestly better than most of the mainstream docos ive seen

Totally agree. Fantastic camera work and editing.

To be fair, it is hard to keep track of all of Hammond's crashes.

Was one at the time

in 2006 i was -2 years old but for me still mutch part of history

@@rachet3879 I was 4 I remember to this day my mum telling me and me and her sitting down together to write a card to send to Richard

I was exactly 1 month old

The other tires are bald.

It's not prepared for immediate set-off, clearly. Just engine check

@@MalachiTheBowlingGod they’re Hoosier drag slicks

How dry rotted they are I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't the spare set at the time of the crash.

@@kennorcott7074 They are Hoosiers but they Aren't Drag slicks. Just worn out, dry rotted road race tires.

I get the impression that Andrew would be keen on driving it for a land speed record again. And if the car has other things in store for him, he appears to be okay with that too.

Of course he's excited. It's his and his teams baby. They've spent so many years working hard to perfect it, and now it's almost entirely restored to its former glory. It must be a truly special feeling, while also quite somber. He knows it's unlikely he will ever get to actually race it again.

Watch NHRA racing. The newer cars are much safer

@XiphiasX10A adrenalin does a lot of cool things

He ran it 7 times that day. Truth is he was far more at risk driving down the motorway to drive the jet car - sure, bad happened, but its safety records is far better.

If you look at the original film you can see Hammond steering towards the wind al lot, the steeringwheel was on 10 o' clock most of the time, it was way to windy that day... I guess thats why one of the the front tyres blew

@@bobrock704 a tire blows because of wind?

There are a few of these cars knocking about

@@TheRedCassette02 if you mean there's a few dragsters knocking about yes there is but only one vampire, it's sister car hellbender was destroyed in a crash years ago

It was indeed. A triumphant return from near death However it was clear he was just barely ready for it. His eyes were just not focusing and was almost running on instinct.

@@invisiblekid99 I was young so can't remember too much about the episode he returned, but I have read a lot about how he really shouldn't have come back so soon, he still wasn't 100%

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Not for him

@@invisiblekid99 Iirc in his book he said that he doesn’t even remember the North Pole special because of the brain damage and wishes that he would have taken a year off

Yes he was imagining going down that roadp road that fast again

Why close the website anyway?

Either you are overdramatizing, or have 0 faith in Hammond not crashing whilst stationary.

I think the owner was brave allowing him.

@@YourFavouriteDraugr 😆 I think with Hammond anything is possible. But on a serious note, it’s not mentally easy to go back to something that caused you an immense pain in more ways than one.

It did not look like a joy ride, by the looks of Hammond’s face

@@futte2303 Potentially re-traumatizing. That's a thing.

yeh the looked fooked

New ones coming soon these are just for pushing about

@@andrewhurdle Andrew, any chance of getting Mike to work with you on a video of how the actual restoration was done? Was any recording done during the rebuild that could be incorporated?

@@davidb6576 not enough to make a documentary but we have got some other ideas showing how to start and tune the engine and burner

@Sunday Girl true! Great video. Surprised he even went near the thing.

It was really nice!

Don't they own it?

@@misterdanielsiii True, doesn't mean they *need* to feature on it. Look at Jeremy lol.

@@BagOfH0lding Jeremy is a busy man. He has all of those beer commercials to make and sheep to birth.

Thankfully jet engines aren't that mechanical so having things inside doesn't really damage much

I actually liked that they choose to present that way 🧐

Thank you! The reference to Red Arrow is a bit irritating as it is a group, not an airplane.

Fun fact: the Folland Gnat starred in the movie Hot Shots, bexoming the Oscar EW-5894 Phallus.

The beginning of it made it seem like Hammond was going to do this piece but just getting into the car was enough to make him think better of it.

@@Dreded100 Yes, but IMHO that was scripted. There's no way Hammond wants anything to do with the car. Imagine him telling his wife that he's going to start up the Vampire. I'm surprised they got him to sit in it.

@@michaeleaster1815 I think if he even _considered_ doing it, Mindy would finish what the Vampire tried to do back in '06

I'm pretty sure top fuel cars are faster than jet cars, at least the ones I've seen.

@@MEatRHIT2009 yeah TopFuel can be much faster - but those have been more fine tuned and perfected over the years, and actually have a track record since they are used much more often than the one-off Jet dragsters.

@@thatsgottahurt Jet cars and trucks are surprisingly common in the states as attractions and land speed cars

@@Dr.Spatula from the states, have been to several drag strips or speed events with jet dragsters, jet trucks, jet bus, jet bikes, etc. - awesome to watch, still too much for me to want to get in one.

As the Drivetribe company is folding this month things like that are probably all down to KZfaq now.

Not road legal

@@ajorngjdonaydbr R/wooosh

Few years out there mate

Not even remotely close to being one of the most dangerous, let alone the most dangerous car. We also did get Top Gear on BBC here in the states

I'm glad *someone* noticed this, I thought we were all just going to ignore it. And yes, it's definitely Bernoldi's overalls, it's easily legible on the waistband. It's not Honda Racing F1, though. The overalls are from 2005 when the team was still called BAR-Honda and Bernoldi was test driver. So they're not race-worn, but they're worn by a guy who had previously started 28 Grands Prix, and who would've used them when helping develop an F1 car, making them at least somewhat valuable as memorabilia. And there has to be a story here, which I'd love to hear! Does Mike own these himself and if so was he a fan of BAR, Bernoldi or both? I can't imagine that Andrew would just happen to have an ex-F1 driver's ex-F1 overalls in just the right size for a random visitor. Nor does it make any sense for the production team to have supplied an at least moderately-expensive piece of F1 memorabilia when they could've supplied something just as effective for a fraction of the cost. Random trivia: Bernoldi in an Arrows was the guy whom David Coulthard's much faster McLaren once famously spent 35 laps stuck behind, causing a deeply-entitled Ron Dennis and Norbert Haug to blow a collective gasket at the temerity of his not simply surrendering his fairly-earned position instantly.

Vampire will be on show on the 29th May at the Bromyard Speed Festival. Bromyard is where the car is now kept and where the car was restored.

This car only went 300mph. Top fuel is 335mph. Miller went 386mph. No matter how you look at it Top fuel is still faster than Vampire even if it's geared to 1,000ft rather than the 5 mile stretch Speed Demon used to go 469mph (also v8)

I believe May was originally slotted to do it - but for some reason he had to cancel, so Hammond stepped up. The doctors said that since May is considerably taller, he would have definitely been killed, whereas Hammond being half a foot shorter saved him.

@Sunday Girl it was supposed to be James run to get captain slow to break the UK landspeed record. Classic TG humour. Glad it was Richard driving his reactions where on point. If it was James driving I think it could have much worse

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What's interesting is to think that current Top Fuel cars for 30mph faster in a 3.5 second quarter mile

Why would they go to the states? Bonneville is barely used anymore for land speed records