There can still be dangers.”īorn in Solihull, the eldest of three boys, Hammond later moved to Yorkshire with his family, where his father worked as a solicitor. The accident taught me that we might be making television but that doesn’t mean that we exist in some kind of bubble cut off from reality. “Sometime accidents happen, but accidents can happen in any line of work,” he says.
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“I remember when I had my big crash and suffered a brain injury sitting in a cottage with my wife Mindy and I said to her, ‘It is up to us whether or not we are going to make this a good thing’.”Īnd they did, he adds, even if she did give him an ultimatum that if he had another big crash the marriage was over. He spent five weeks in hospital recovering from an injury to the brain that left him with post-traumatic amnesia. In 2006 the presenter crashed a rocket-powered car, which had been travelling at over 400km/h. He had a similar attitude, he says, to the crash that changed his life. I think when something like that happens you can actively decide for yourself are you going to take it with you, or are you going to move on.” I don’t take with me, I have tried to move on from it, and I’ve actually got so many positive memories of France. I think anywhere there are a lot of holidaymakers are going to be vulnerable to being robbed. I never made a big song and dance about it to be honest. Hammond says that they “never caught the guys who did it. It was a completely different attitude to cars.” If it had been either of my kid brothers I’d have thrown them in the canal but they were just like, ‘Eet is not a problem’. His kid brother was flicking pebbles at the car and chipping the paint off. I’m from Birmingham, I’d never seen a brand new car, never mind one owned by a teenager. Growing up he did a student exchange there and was shocked at the host family’s insouciant attitude to a new car. They just park by ramming it into the space.” “Socially, one of the worst things you can do in France is to wash your car. They don’t care about knocks and scrapes.”Īnd they’re not car-proud, he says. They’ve never had an indigenous purpose built off-roader in France, he adds, “and that’s because your average French person would look at a big hill and ‘I want to go up there and I vill take ze car.’ I mean, they’d do it in a Renault Clio if it comes to it. “They’re not about saying, ‘Look what I’ve got, it’s all shiny and nice’, they’re about getting to where they’ve got to go to do what they’ve got to do.” The French, Hammond observes, are a bit more chill about cars generally than the British.
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Immediately after, the trailer cuts to a French flag with a plate + cutlery silhouette superimposed upon it being waved, prompting a procession of rallycross whips to halt dead in their tracks, and every one of their respective drivers to disengage the engines for lunch.
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RELATED: ‘Wheel Of Time’ Is Amazon’s Most-Watched Series Premiere Of 2021 “The French pretty much invented motorsports, and certainly today, we will be adhering to French rules.” We like their food, their wine… but French cars can be a bit weird,” says Jeremy Clarkson, to which James May later quips if you’re French, “that’s just what a car looks like.” While this has been billed as the “France special”, and is probably how you found this article on Google, due to the ongoing global matter of a certain spicy cough, The Grand Tour Presents: Carnage A Trois was actually filmed entirely within the UK.
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Christmas is coming early to Amazon Prime Video this year as Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and the Hamster himself, Richard Hammond, head to France (sorta) for their latest lockdown/holiday special – The Grand Tour Presents: Carnage A Trois.