Culture | TV The jaw-dropping news came over the weekend in the form of a Company’s House document: Jeremy Clarkson , James May and Richard Hammond are dissolving their production company, W. Chump and Sons, which made Prime Video's The Grand Tour . It indicates the end of the road for the three presenters who have been working together for over two decades – May joined Hammond and Clarkson on Top Gear ’s second season, which aired in 2003.
Ever since, the car enthusiasts have stuck together: after Clarkson was dismissed from Top Gear in 2015 after allegedly punching a presenter, May and Hammond also quit the programme and they launched The Grand Tour with Amazon. That incident was by no means Top Gear’s first controversy. Over the years, the popular series – which saw as many over seven million viewers per episode at its peak – came under fire for everything from the presenters’ outrageous comments, to their dangerous stunts.
At the same time, the show, and its Prime spin-off, contained some brilliant, hilarious and unforgettable scenes. Here we pick some of our favourite Top in Gear and The Grand Tour moments. Less a game of Supermarket Sweep , more a race, this unforgettable episode saw the presenters try and get around a supermarket in a car without hitting anything.
Of course, May was careful, Clarkson broke everything, and Hammond smashed into the rest. This 2007 challenge, one of the show’s best, saw Clarkson, Hammond and May turn a Reliant Robin into a.