As you may already know, I’m a big fan of the BBC TV Motoring show Top Gear (see here for a few previous posts). Although BBC World does eventually broadcast a cut down version of the show via our satellite receiver, it does not feature the (mainly British) guests, and often cuts other funny sections. Luckily most of the shows are downloadable from the net, and so before we had ADSL, ChrisD would normally grab them for me.
Anyway, Richard Hammond (subject of a few posts last year when he had a 300mph+ crash in a jet ‘car’) has had another accident, though nothing like as serious this time. The show was recording the three presenters taking part in an endurance race over at Silverstone, when the car (which Richard was driving at the time) was crashed into by another vehicle. By the sound of the BBC news article, some media outlets are overplaying the seriousness of the crash, as the presenter seems fine, and even the car itself was repairable quite quickly.
Sep 13 2007
November 10th, 2008 6:13 am
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November 11th, 2008 10:16 am
Hamster? I don’t quite get where the hamster comes in. Anyway, just thought I’d say that due to Top Gear being very popular in Australia they have just recently started up their own Top Gear Australia. It’s very similar indeed and takes virtually the same format, even to the extent of having their very own Stig. I’m not sure that they should have called him the same thing though, Mat and I reckon Stig’o or something Aussified would have been better but other than that it works pretty well. The presenters obviously take a little getting used to as you just can’t replace Jeremy Clarkson’s dry wit but all in all it’s definately worth watching. Check it out some time.
November 11th, 2008 1:05 pm
Richard Hammond = Hamster. The nickname gets used reasonably often in Top Gear. Hammond is short, and almost rhymes with hamster. I’ll check out the Aussie Top Gear once I get back to a decent internet connection – torrents kill all network activity over here 🙁