Richard Hammond's daughter issues update after horror crash at Formula E event

Izzy Hammond - the daughter of former Top Gear host Richard Hammond - has released a statement after being involved in a horror crash at a Formula E event.

Hammond, 25, was taking part in the Evo Sessions event, where creators and influencers take each other in an attempt to set the fastest lap.

The event sees two teams do battle in head-to-head races around the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, Saudi Arabia, which is also used by Formula 1.

In last year's event, the likes of Brooklyn Beckham and Sergio Aguero took part.

For this year's event, Hammond was assigned to the Senor Frogs team, which was led by content creator and YouTube star Calfreezy.

During her run on track, however, she suffered a heavy crash at the final corner.

She understeered heading into the turn 27 hairpin - the corner Max Verstappen infamously crashed out at during F1 qualifying in 2021 - and hit the wall head-on at speed.

Hammond thankfully emerged from the crash unscathed, and told pit lane reporter Nicki Shields afterwards that her first thought was not for herself, but instead for her father.

"My first thought when I was 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?'

"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."

Richard Hammond has had various horror crashes during his time presenting Top Gear and The Grand Tour, most notably back in 2006.

Hammond was driving a Vampire dragster, which was capable of reaching speeds of 300mph, at a former RAF base in York.

He performed one final straight-line run of the airfield in order to film extra footage for the programme, but his right tyre failed while he was driving at 288mph, causing the car to flip over several times.

Hammond, who spent two weeks in a medically-induced coma after the crash, suffered brain injuries, and reported suffering loss of memory and depression.

The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) ordered a review into Hammond's crash, and declared that his 'instantaneous reaction to the tyre blow-out seems to have been that of a competent high performance car driver'.

After her crash in Jeddah, his daughter has given an update on her condition - and joked that she could now be called 'a proper racing driver'.

"I don't know if you saw, but I crashed the f**k out of that car," she told her 287,000 followers on Instagram.

"Massive apologies to my team, to Lola [car manufacturer], they've been so amazing. And I returned the favour by putting their car into a wall, sideways, and destroying it. So that's not great.

"How did I do it? I don't think I had enough heat in my tyres, so I was trying to brake and I was trying to turn, with no heated tyres, and it all just went a bit t**s up and I hit the wall.

"It was 24G [impact], so my neck hurts a little bit. But I'm absolutely fine, so thank you for everyone that's concerned.

"This stuff happens, and now I can say that I'm a proper racing driver because I've had a monumental crash.

"I'm going to go to bed now and sleep off my concussion."