The Grand Tour 2

[Hajo]

Episode one is out.  It is a hoot!  The cast is the BBCs' old Top Gear crew Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond.  Well worth watching if you have Amazon Prime.

Same old bickering and caustic humor.  Americas version of Top Gear imho was completely boring.  The Gents from the old Top Gear BBC version made the show.  Well worth your time.

[Kanth]

Yes just caught the first ep of season 2 last night. The Hammond crash. Dang!!!

I like the banter, it’s silly 

[Skuzzy]

Could not believe that crash.

The 'Hoff' was hilarious, as was his driving.

Good kickoff for season 2.

[nrshida]

As they say in England; Richard Hammond could not drive a greasy stick up a dog's ar*e 

[saggs]

Saw this interview last week, with Hammond and the President of Rimac.  They discuss the crash in some depth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18oAkxwYQh0

[Kanth]

interesting, i had wondered if he'd pulled himself out or if someone came and got him.

sounds like a little of both. 

[Chewie]

I like the America version myself.  I will say, when the Brits welcome aboard the German version and flew there Spits into the German meeting-PRICELESS!

[Hajo]

I missed Season one and have been going through the first seasons episodes.  Season 1 Episode 3  Opera, Art, and Donuts was absolutely hilarious (a Grand Tour of Italy).

Hammond Stop!!!   Brown Aston-Martin, Rolls Royce Dawn and a Hellcat.  Along with two box trucks full of tires for Hammond's Hellcat.   

[nrshida]

Saw this interview last week, with Hammond and the President of Rimac.  They discuss the crash in some depth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18oAkxwYQh0

Thinking he was in trouble in that left hand bend already shows he should not have been in that car doing what he was doing. Look at the video, he's in heaps of trouble before the apex of the right hander and fails to react. He's on a crap line, in a very heavy car and probably braked too late. You can add any amount of torque vectoring and electronic aids you like and not change the fact that in that regime of driving the limit is the tyres only being able to do any proportion / combination of job up to their point of braking traction.

He's a sensationalist journalist more than a 'driver'. Unfortunately he's already learned how to get more sensation out of his mistakes than paying attention to the consequences of his mistakes. This won't be his last accident I predict.