Wed 16 Oct 2024

When David Coulthard dropped into the Hansens’ backyard

Of things you do not expect to see on a trip to your local forest, rallycross cars jumping over a Formula 1 car likely rates highly… unless you live in Sweden.

When David Coulthard recently took on a Scandinavian road trip in his Oracle Red Bull Racing RB7, one point of call along the way was to visit Timmy and and Kevin Hansen. It did not take too long for a plan to be hatched by Timmy and for Kevin to jump onboard (literally) – leading to two epic days of fun.


From their dream collection of vehicles, two Zeroid X1 RX2e cars were charged up and a plan was formulated: simultaneously leap Coulthard’s F1 car from opposing directions, creating an image worthy of the Louvre.


But working with a run-up of just 30 metres, this was not something that was going to come together with one jump, or indeed in one day.

The short run-in almost had a catostrophic outcome on the second attempt when Timmy only just made it across the gap: “I have never landed short before and it really isn’t something you want to do.


“I was lucky though; five more centimetres and it could have been much worse. It definitely stuck in my mind over night.


“The gravel made it hard to get traction, which in turn made it hard to reach 100kph in time for the jump. We could have done with the run-in being longer, especially for my jump, which was the highest of the two,” recalled Timmy.


Following some overnight adaptations with the brother remaining heavily involved in the process, it was back to work the next morning. This time, they were successful. “It couldn’t have gone any better. It feels like winning a race, just so flipping good,” expressed Timmy.

For Kevin, it was an equally satisfying achievement. He said: “You are proper nervous before, especially with getting the timings right and stuff. And then you get the “let’s go” over the radio and you put the foot to the floor. You’re so focused. Then when you realise that you’ve nailed it, I mean, it’s just such a cool feeling.”


Another highlight of the trip was an epic ‘convoy’ on a closed forest road, with the RX2e cars flanking Coulthard. Check out Hansens’ social media channels to see more of this epic adventure.

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