When Top Gear goes wrong
Koenigsegg eats rubber
02 October 2009
Vijay Pattni is your host for this week’s Weird World of Wheels Top Gear special.
They’ve been to the North Pole in a Toyota pick-up truck, crossed the channel in a home-made amphibious car and even knocked up a V8-powered food blender.
But sometimes – just sometimes – Top Gear goes wrong. Horribly, horribly wrong.
Fresh news this week as filming for the new series took a sinister and dramatic twist when ‘Captain Slow’ managed to escape disaster.
The team were filming a typically Top Gear-esque stunt as James took to the skies in an airship – which had a caravan attached to the bottom.
Gallery: click below to view images of when Top Gear goes wrong
Instead of landing in a nearby cricket field, strong winds caused the airship and caravan to smash into trees and hedges half a mile away.
Thankfully James wasn’t injured in the ambitious challenge, believed to be part of a race against Richard Hammond in a Lamborghini.
Ambitious…but dangerous?
This is merely the latest instalment in the long-running ‘what-could-possibly-go-wrong?’ saga, with chief stars Clarkson, Hammond, May and even The Stig making appearances.
In August this year Richard Hammond was involved in a four-car pile-up near Gloucester in his beautiful £110,000 Morgan Aeromax supercar. His V8-powered motor suffered damage, but thankfully ‘Hamster’ walked away unscathed, and even managed to engage in some “good humoured banter”, according to one eyewitness.
Jeremy Clarkson also suffered for his art – while riding a Vespa.
The Top Gear Vietnam challenge saw the three presenters ride motorbikes across the country, with Clarkson even admitting at one stage that he enjoyed it.
But it wasn’t to last – he fell off and suffered his “first motorbike accident”.
Even the usually unflappable and Michael Schumacher-shaped Stig has crashed – but you’ll have to click on the slideshow to find out how…
Video: we filmed the Top Gear team last year. In a tank. Crossing Tower Bridge.
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