It’s incredibly gratifying, obviously, to learn that people are watching it. There’s always been hotspots of people who know us and people who enjoy what we do. Therefore, to resonate in all of the States is quite a big ask. But it’s full of different and disparate places, and it’s enormous. Imagine Jeremy talking in extremes? Those of us outside the States, us Europeans, tend to look at America and think of it as one big place. I wonder if you agree with that, and if you do, why you think that is? When I talked to Jeremy last year, he said that America is still the country where you’re least-known. That’s the place you go to if you got petrol or gas in your veins, and we’ve been romping around elsewhere in your country, too. We love filming in the States, and we did enough of it this season, that’s for sure. We’re lucky to resonate with places and people around the world.
It’s nice that Amazon has global reach and that’s one of the reasons we love working with them - and one of the reasons they wanted to work with us. Now that it’s been three seasons, do you think you were successful in cultivating a bigger fan base stateside? I thought it was fitting that this season began in Detroit, as it’s been nice to see you traveling more around the U.S. Who was your Oliver? What was your car?Ī white Mazda 6.
Oh yeah! Not a lot, he’s not exactly quick. He’s a bit old and feeble now, but he’s still going strong. I still have Oliver, he lives at home in my garage. I have to start by saying I actually named my first car, Oliver, after your Oliver from your Top Gear days. (Watch out, Al Pacino: We may have a new goatee icon.) With The Grand Tour’s future now up in the air with its three-season Amazon contract fulfilled, Vulture called Hammond up in England to discuss the future, his post-crash recovery, and, of course, his new signature facial hair. And with trips slated to everywhere from Detroit to Mongolia and China for The Grand Tour’s latest season, which premieres on Friday, his presence is not only a joy, but doubles as the embodiment of what international relations should be. (It was so bad, co-presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May believed he had died.) Filming was temporarily put on hold while Hammond recovered from a fractured knee, and now, with the show’s third season completed, his relentless affability - the perfect everyman yin to Clarkson and May’s sardonic yang - somehow makes you forget he was almost paid an early visit by the grim reaper, lingering knee pain be damned.
Two summers ago, Richard “Hamster” Hammond experienced an unfortunately familiar event while filming Amazon’s The Grand Tour : He lost control of his supercar and crashed into a Swiss mountain range, barely escaping the vehicle before it was engulfed in flames.
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