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Guerlain Chicherit Car Backflip in Tignes

World's First in l'Espace Killy

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By Sophie Nicholson, Updated

Tignes was the location for a world first this weekend when Guerlain Chicherit did an incredible backflip in his Mini.

Guerlain Chicherit is a French rally driver and professional skier who wanted to combine his passions for freestyle and motorsport and succeeded in doing exactly that when he became the first person to successfully complete a backflip in a car yesterday in Tignes.

The amazing stunt is part of a new motor slopestyle movie that Chicherit is currently filming and if you want to catch him in action, then make sure you are in Tignes at the beginning of April when he is next in town.

Click here to watch the record breaking Mini backflip.

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