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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 has said he thinks a “well-controlled risk” is “excusable” for motoring shows like Top Gear. Hammond, 54, was addressing Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff ’s serious crash on ...
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.
It was named among "The Five Worst English Cars of All Time" in a 2012 article on askaprice.com [36] and ranked the 5th worst British car in a 2008 survey of 4,000 motorists by internet magazine iMotormag. [37] Hotcars.com ranked it #3 in its list of the 20 worst European cars of all time, [38] and the Oxford Mail included it in its "The worst ...
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.
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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. [64]
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.