Richard Hammond's daughter in Formula E crash - Like father, like daughter

Influencer Izzy Hammond crashes in Formula E event

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Izzy Hammond - daughter of former Top Gear and Grand Tour presenter Richard - escaped unhurt as she crashed during a Formula E influencer event in Saudi Arabia.

Competing in the Duals stage of the sport's Evo Sessions, in which content creators go head-to-head for the fastest lap on behalf of two teams, the 25-year-old smashed into a barrier at turn 13 of the Jeddah Corniche Circuit.

Afterwards, she said she had been checked over by medical staff and was in one piece before saying that "the car's not".

She added: "My first thought when I was say in that wall was 'oh my god, everyone's watching, my dad's watching.

"'He's going to cry or something. Can someone just tell him I'm ok?'"

Joking about the force of the impact, she said: "It wasn't a small crash. If you're going to crash, you've got to really crash.

"I saw the wall coming and knew I was going to enter it at speed."
Hammond was competing as part of Team Senor Frogs alongside influencers including Joshua Larkin (also known as TheBurntChip), William Lenney (WillNe), Arthur Frederick (ArthurTV) and Ethan Payne (Behzinga).

Her father was almost killed in September 2006 when a 300mph (480km/h) jet-powered dragster he was driving veered off the track at Elvington airfield, near York.

The accident happened as he was attempting a land speed record while being filmed.


Influencer Izzy Hammond, pictured with her father at the British Grand Prix in 2024, has almost 280,000 Instagram followers Getty Images


Hammond told her team she was unhurt Formula E

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[Not A Bunny]

influencer event

influencer

There's your problem.

She isn't a driver, she's an "influencer". Why would you give high-power, high-performance machines to a glorified cam girl?

 

[anklyscr]

Why would you give high-power, high-performance machines to a glorified cam girl?

Calm down. It’s only a formula e car.

 

[SmokelessFire]

Why does she look more like James May?

 

[deleuzeon]

That's an appropriate time and place to crash a car so she's doing better than most celebrity kids.

 

[Stoneheart]

Why does she look more like James May?

James May is full sized, she looks small even next to the hamster

 

[LeChampion1992]

I can say this looking at her and all of hammonds escapades in top gear she is defintly her father's daughter.
The sex might be different but that is definitely Hammond blood right there.
Jokes aside glad everyone is safe and no serious injuries occurred.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Headline made me concerned but given where it happened this at least is the normal celebrity child crash.

Why does she look more like James May?

I'm struggling to see the resemblance. They both have long hair?

 

[The Grognard]

That's an appropriate time and place to crash a car so she's doing better than most celebrity kids.

It's also the sort of accident that happens with many rookies who haven't gotten their heads wrapped around that cars need to be driven at a specific pace for the wings and tires to work.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

>Proud to be driving in a country where women have only been allowed a license since 2018
>Crashes
>Proving why women shouldn't have a license.

 

[TowinKarz]

EV race cars are lame and gay.

Even worse when you put a chick in them.

 

[BikeLock]

Not enough speed = no downforce = oversteer straight into the wall.

I don't make the rules, and I also don't drive downforce cars around a track, or really any cars around a track, lately.

 

[kcbbq]

There's your problem.

She isn't a driver, she's an "influencer". Why would you give high-power, high-performance machines to a glorified cam girl?

She has a racing license and a race car of her own.

 

[Adrian Dittmann]

They let women drive cars in Saudi Arabia now?

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

At least she had a sense of humor about it

 

[anklyscr]

She has a racing license and a race car of her own.

Ken block had a racing license and several race cars and he was crap in the WRC

 

[Gandhi's Left Hook]

Joking about the force of the impact, she said: "It wasn't a small crash. If you're going to crash, you've got to really crash.

I'm sure the sponsors, who paid for the car, agree completely.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Tbf, I can understand a person having his/her monkey brain activate on seeing the wall incoming and pressing the brakes rather than the gas.

 

[Not A Bunny]

She has a racing license and a race car of her own.

And yet the article describes her as an "influencer". If she is an influencer before a race driver, then I am glad to use the title most appropriate.

 

[makingmaker]

Letting influencers race was a miskate, makes formula e even more of a bigger joke than it already was.