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Richard Hammond has opened up about how his injuries from his Top Gear car crash still affect his health today.. In 2016, Hammond was driving a jet-powered dragster at 319mph on the motoring show ...
Richard Hammond shared the “intimate” details of the 2006 high-speed crash that left him with serious injuries in the hope it would “connect” with people affected by brain injury.
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Richard Mark Hammond (born 19 December 1969) is an English journalist, television presenter, and author. He co-hosted the BBC Two motoring programme Top Gear from 2002 until 2015 with Jeremy Clarkson and James May.
First screened on BBC One in 2007, its first presenter was Richard Hammond.He agreed to front the show to thank the Yorkshire Air Ambulance crew which flew him to hospital in after his near-fatal jet engine powered car crash, while filming for Top Gear, at Elvington airfield near York, in September 2006.
Meanwhile, Clarkson pits the Jaguar XKR against the Aston Martin V8 Vantage on the track to see which is better, chef Jamie Oliver returns to see if he can be faster than fellow chef and rival Gordon Ramsay, and the trio look at the footage of Hammond's Vampire dragster crash. Note: After its broadcast, the BBC aired three repeats of this ...
Clarkson asked Hammond following his 370 km/h (230 mph) crash, "Are you now a mental?", which was followed by James May offering Richard Hammond a tissue "in case he dribbled". The BBC claimed the comments were meant as a joke, but also claimed they saw how the comments could cause offence to mentally disabled and brain-damaged viewers. [65]
James May has suggested that he would be open to presenting a new programme with his regular co-stars Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, after the trio’s former show Top Gear was paused ...