Top Gear fans will be amused this week to see car fanatic Jeremey Clarkson trying to squeeze himself into the world’s smallest car, The Peel.

Richard Hammond also invents motor-home racing and the Ferrari goes to the test track.

Catch the show tonight on BBC Two at 8PM

Britain’s favourite motoring programme returns for its 10th series. In this first programme, presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May take three lightweight supercars across Europe in search of the world’s best roads.

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Top Gear’s death-defying presenter Richard Hammond reveals he forgot he was married in the aftermath of his horrific crash when he makes a return visit to the Ross sofa tonight on BBC One’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross.

“I didn’t forget Mindy, I fancied her – thank God – I attempted to chat her up.” His wife, who has co-written his new book documenting life before and after the crash, confirms “he didn’t believe we were married! He said you’re lovely, but I’ve got to stop talking to you because I’ve got to go back to my wife, she’s French.”

Hammond – who can’t remember his interview with Jonathan last year – says he’s still very much in recovery: “It was a big event, it’s a long old journey. You get to the end of each week and realise you weren’t actually better, and it goes on and on. Read more & comment »

Not even a year after the car crash that almost claimed his life, Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has been involved in yet another motor accident.

Richard (or Hamster as we like to call him!) skidded off a race track during a 24-hour Le Mans-style race at Silverstone on Saturday, the BBC said.

“During the race, at night, Richard was driving and another car shunted him off the track,” said a BBC spokesman.

“Richard wasn’t hurt at all but the car was damaged. It was taken back to the pits and repaired before Richard carried on with the race.”

It’s the ultimate test of man against machine – or should that be dog against machine – as the Top Gear team set out on their most ambitious and arduous challenge to date.

Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond are undertaking a Polar Challenge. It is an epic land race starting in the town of Resolute, Northern Canada, and – if all goes to plan – finishing 450 miles later at the Magnetic North Pole. The terrain they tackle is some of the toughest on Earth – a mix of mountainous land masses and jagged sea ice where temperatures can drop to a mind-numbing minus 65 degrees Centigrade. And then there are the polar bears. The Arctic is home to 80 per cent of the world’s polar bear population and, when it comes to lunch, they really don’t care if it’s seal or human. Read more & comment »

You would think that after his almost fatal crash last year, Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond would be sticking to bicycles from now on.

But Richard Hammond has laughed in the face of danger and is now showing off on his new 175mph Ducati 1098 motorbike.

Richard told The Sun: The Sun, “This is a toy I am going to enjoy a lot.

“You don’t know whether to pet it, caress it or leap on and cane it round the lanes.”

The Sun has reported that the BBC is in talks to move its hugely popular motoring show, Top Gear, across the Atlantic.

It is reported that the show will be fronted by current presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. The US show would follow the UK format very closely, but with American cars such as Cadillacs replacing British models.

As a female who is not very interested in cars I would never have expected to like Top Gear, however even I have become a huge fan of the show. It really does have universal appeal, and I think it will do well in the states.

I have to say I really admire Richard Hammond. Just a few months since his almost fatal accident and not only is he back at work, but he is penning an autobiography, writing more newspaper columns than most of us have time to read and now in talks about launching his career in America.

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond, believes that the BBC were right to air footage of his hideous, 288 mph car crash.

He stated to Star Magazine:

“If it didn’t kill me at the time, it wasn’t going to kill me just watching it. But to see details - like the crash helmet that saved my life and the harness that stopped me being smashed to pieces - took my breath away,” he said, adding that he felt it was important that viewers were not shielded from the images.

“It’s a sensitive issue, but I think it would have been irresponsible for us not to show it. Things go wrong - that’s how it is in the world.”