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Our favorite rodent host of Top Gear, Richard "The Hamster" Hammond, was involved in an on-track collision last Saturday during an endurance race at Silverstone behind the wheel of a BMW 330 DTi Sport. Hammond, of course, was almost killed last September when he lost control of a jet-powered dragster at 288 MPH. This time Hammond merely collided with a car that was trying to overtake him. Reportedly traveling around 100 MPH at the time, he was able to limp the BMW off the track and wait for a tow to the pits where the car was repaired so he could continue racing. Fellow hosts Jeremy Clarkson and Jay Mays, as well as their mystery driver, the Stig, were also taking turns with the BMW last weekend.

The one-year anniversary of Hammond's near death experience in a jet car is September 20th. While his most recent incident is hardly newsworthy in and of itself, the fact it's his first since the jet car accident and comes almost exactly one year later makes it an interesting piece of news. Hammond, however, doesn't think there's much to report here, saying ""Reports of my shunt this weekend have been greatly exaggerated." Regardless, no one can say that Richard Hammond doesn't lay it on the line for his craft, that's for sure.

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Despite the fact a diesel-powered racer has never won the historic 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race, Audi's pair of 650-hp oil burners will be sitting pretty on the front row this weekend after both posted the fastest qualifying times Thursday. Dindo Capello drove one of the R10 racers to the fastest time of 3 minutes, 30.466 seconds. Meanwhile, Marco Werner drove the other R10 to a time just 0.118 seconds behind his teammate. The next fastest qualifier was a full two seconds behind the Audis.

It seems as if Audi has a lock on Le Mans before the race has even started, so assuming the durability of the diesels is not a problem during the race, we think it'd be fun if Audi fills their tanks with french fry oil on the final pit just to gloat.

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Le Mans front row full of Audi R10s originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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