British men killed in Austrian alpine road plunge

The Metro reports that police spokeswoman Eva Wenzl said the accident occurred as the pair were racing another auto on the stretch of road, going at speeds up to 124mph.

They had been posting updates of their seven country, eight-day rally, including video footage as they drove through the mountains.

Police say one of the victims was 22 and the other 25.

The famous hairpin route is named after Austria’s highest peak, the 12,460ft Grossglockner.

Yesterday the pair were thought to have been following a Porsche driven by a 42-year-old British man.

On its website the Great European Rally promises “over 1,500 miles of driving heaven” and to make drivers “look like true rally legends”. They failed to turn up at a planned rendezvous with him or at a glacier further along the route.

Mr Robinson’s father Marcus wrote on Facebook: “You will always be my little boy”.

The mountain pass where the crash happened leads to the Grossglockner, which is the higest mountain in Austria at more than 2,000 metres above sea level.

The two men were pronounced dead at the scene and the crash is being treated as an accident.

A Foreign Office spokesperson told The Independent: “We are ready to provide consular assistance to families”.