Range Rover Sport Masters Downhill Alpine Ski Challenge

07.11.2016 by Rovertune

This is something that is just too good to miss and goes a long way to prove that the New Range Rover Sport is probably one of the finest, if not the best, sporting SUV’s around today. Land Rover set up a challenge using a 5.0 litre Supercharged Range Rover Sport (not the SVR version)) to tackle the ultimate all-terrain surfaces on the legendary Inferno downhill ski course in Mürren, Switzerland. They selected British racing driver and the ex-‘Stig’ from BBC’s Top Gear, Ben Collins to drive the fearsome 14.9km run, which was completed in 21min 36sec at up to 96mph (155kmh).

During the 2,170 metre descent speeds of 96mph were reached whilst traversing 75 per cent gradients. The Range Rover Sport conquered it all on an Alpine ski course that has been the downfall of many skiers. During the 2,170m descent, the Range Rover Sport followed the route used by skiers on the tough Inferno Mürren, one of the oldest and most challenging downhill races. It tackled snow, ice, loose rock, mud, broken asphalt, grass and gravel, helped by Land Rover’s pioneering Terrain Response technology.

Ben Collins 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’.

This was some extraordinary challenge, probably never to be repeated, so to ensure that the full story is made available to our customers, readers of our website, and of course potential buyers of the Range Rover Sport, we show here the official news release from Land Rover which contains stunning film of the vehicle during the descent.