Book Description
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
In September 2006, Richard Hammond suffered a serious brain injury following a high-speed car crash. Here is his compelling account of life before and after the accident and an honest description of his recovery, full of drama and incident. An adrenalin junkie long before his association with Top Gear, Richard tells the story of his life, from the small boy showing off with ridiculous stunts on his bicycle to the adolescent with a near-obsessive attraction to speed and the smell of petrol. After a series of jobs in local radio, he graduated to television. His insights into the personalities, the camaraderie, and the stunts for which Top Gear has become famous, make compulsive reading. It was while filming that Richard was involved in a high speed crash, driving a jet-powered dragster. His wife Mindy tells the story of the anxious hours and days of watching and waiting until he finally emerged from his coma. In an extraordinarily powerful piece of writing, she and Richard then piece together the stages of his recovery as his shattered mind slowly reformed. The final chapter recounts his return home and his triumphant reappearance in front of the cameras.
I am a Top Gear fan. I was in Kuala Lumpur when the news flashed that Richard Hammond was seriously injured during a Top Gear stunt.
After many years I was able to read what truly happened and how the crash affected him.
This book is very touching. Written from the perspective of the injured as well as the carer (Mindy, Hammond's wife), the book takes you into the emotion of the moment. The pictures as well as the statistics regarding the crash reinforces the narration in the book. A good read.
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