Land Rover’s Range Rover Sport has conquered one of the
world’s most extreme ski runs with a former ‘Stig’ at the wheel.
The Swiss run is called the Inferno Mürren and stunt driver
and former
BBC Top Gear Sti g Ben Collins was in the driver’s seat of a Range
Rover Sport to take on something more conventionally done by people on
two skis rather than four wheels.
The ski course is used in one of the world’s most
challenging downhill races and despite gradients of up to 75 per cent, the
Range Rover completed the 14.9km course in just 21 minutes and 36 seconds,
reaching speeds of up to 96mph.
Coventry car maker Land Rover added
only a roll cage, a harness, and reinforced tires to what was otherwise a
production Range Rover Sport.
The extreme downhill descent saw Ben traverse ice, loose
rocks, mud, and grass.
Speaking after completing the daredevil feat he said: “This
was genuinely one of the hardest tests I’ve faced in my driving career.
“The route was insane and certainly the toughest course I’ve
ever completed.
“It challenged you with every kind of obstacle this side of
molten lava and as conditions go, it was about as bad as it gets – torrential
weather mixed with cliffs, trees, all kinds of stuff you don’t really want to
crash into.
“The key to the run was precision: being able to maintain
speed and carry that speed down the hill in the way the skiers can do, carving
through the turns.”
source: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/watch-former-stig-ben-collins-12166925
by Enda Mullen
http://www.boscheuropean.com
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