Top Gear - New Series

[pete]

First 50 odd minutes were excellent, not sure about the last bit🤣

[Bibs]

Maybe he needs to think about working for another show!! 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63966337

[Rambo]

I'm a celebratory, get me out of here quickly !!

[Bibs]

In an ambulance! 

[C8RKH]

How did he get an ambulance without the now obligatory 24 hour wait?

[jep]

I don't watch TG but Andrew is a special bloke, a real good egg and a hero of my favourite sport. I sincerely hope he is ok. 

How long before someone dies on TG? Shades of 'The Late late breakfast show' in the 80s.  

Justin

 

[TdM]

1 hour ago, jep said:

How long before someone dies on TG? Shades of 'The Late late breakfast show' in the 80s.  

The stuff they do isn't all that dangerous usually. There have been a few freak accidents but you can't eliminate every risk. Hammond's rocket car was probably the most wilfully dangerous thing they've done really. Him launching a car off a cliff was just bad luck. Considering how long Clarkson has been making videos of him doing stupid things the injury rate has been remarkably low.

Sounds like Freddie had some sort of incident at low speed. Strange one on the track really but we'll see what comes out as the reason.

[Redwing]

8 hours ago, Bibs said:

In an ambulance! 

In an air-ambulance, apparently. 

[Dave Eds]

Ha ha how strange....many air ambulances appear to be based at airfields, and guess where many road ambulances appear to be parked up?.......

Anyone else been to North Weald airfield?......

 

[ChrisJ]

Will be there on Sunday

[mg4lotus]

15 hours ago, Dave Eds said:

and guess where many road ambulances appear to be parked up?.......

 

Outside A&E ☹️

[pete]

Seems like Flintoff was driving a Morgan 3 wheeler when he had his accident

 

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/tv/10387863/freddie-flintoff-crash-car-no-bags/

 

[pete]

Latest series of top gear has been cancelled and it seems Flintoff is still traumatized by the accidenthttps://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/top-gear-production-will-not-26546956

[Andyww]

I find myself wondering why any self-respecting engineer or car company would build cars with 3 wheels which are capable of 130 MPH. 

Whole thing is wrong on every level. Who buys these? 

[Mark Blanchard]

If Top Gear is cancelled permanently I wont give a monkey's.  I stopped watching it properly when Clarkson, May and Hamster left.  The current crop are an embarrassment and it's painful to watch.  Though I wish Flintoff a speedy recovery.

[Rambo]

I gave up when that tw@t Hammond joined the show 😲 Now he's blaming his crash for early onset dementia. Compensayshun?

[exeterjeep]

Hammond he has his own show - trying to run a car restoration and now a 'race' team. Rather a shambles.

[TdM]

2 hours ago, Andyww said:

I find myself wondering why any self-respecting engineer or car company would build cars with 3 wheels which are capable of 130 MPH. 

Whole thing is wrong on every level. Who buys these? 

I think it looks like a brilliant car, huge fun I would think. I love the older ones done up like WW2 planes. Brilliant.

 

As for Hammond claiming early onset dementia... Well he did almost die from brain injuries sustained, so I think he can carry that point better than most.

[Rambo]

1 hour ago, exeterjeep said:

Hammond he has his own show - trying to run a car restoration and now a 'race' team. Rather a shambles.

I think the car restoration business is in Herefordshire, my home county.

[exeterjeep]

possibly -- Fir Tree Lane,, Rotherwas Industrial Estate, Hereford HR2 6LA

Back to Top Gear, perhaps they should go back to an older format and make it more of a car program and less a comedy show - have to move it the BBC3 due to reduced number of viewers though.

[Rambo]

Yes, that's the place.

I prefer the older style format rather than the big blokes acting like kids format.

[ChrisJ]

4 hours ago, Andyww said:

Who buys these? 

When I did a track day with Bell & Colvill back in 2014, there was a chap there who was in one - I knew him from the early 1990s when he rebuilt a Europa. He seemed to have great fun in it.

[Andyww]

I must be missing something  What different cars, the Europa with its fantastic chassis and another with three wheels which is, on the face of it, an insufficient number of wheels.

[Bibs]

Bikes seem to do ok with 2, there's even some with only 1 wheel!! 

Get your point though, I've never wanted a go in a 3 wheeler, Morgan or otherwise...

 

[jonwat]

58 minutes ago, Bibs said:

never wanted a go in a 3 wheeler, Morgan or otherwise

I read somewhere that Chapman was considering producing one until he drove one