Overview
- Asked whether Top Gear will be back, Hammond replied that it would return despite having no control over the decision.
- The BBC continues to keep the programme off air following Freddie Flintoff’s serious 2022 crash at Dunsfold and has described the show as rested for the foreseeable future.
- Hammond said news of Flintoff’s accident triggered memories of his own 2006 dragster crash and he wished Flintoff well through a long recovery.
- He argued the motoring format remains timely given debates over transport decarbonisation and suggested solutions need not be exclusively electric.
- He confirmed he will address his divorce at the start of the new series of Richard Hammond’s Workshop on Discovery+.