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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, she said she had been checked over by medical staff and was in one piece before saying that “the car’s not”.<\/p>\n
She added: “My first thought when I was say in that wall was ‘oh my god, everyone’s watching, my dad’s watching.<\/p>\n
“‘He’s going to cry or something. Can someone just tell him I’m ok?'”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“I saw the wall coming and knew I was going to enter it at speed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Izzy Hammond – daughter of former Top Gear and Grand Tour presenter Richard – escaped unhurt as she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-477957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}