Richard Hammond has admitted he was glad his Grand Tour co-star James May suffered a horror crash for once and not him.
Top Gear trio Richard, James and Jeremy Clarkson have just finished the fifth series of The Grand Tour, which is called A Scandi Flick and hits Amazon Prime Video on September 16th.
However, the trip went horribly wrong when James crashed his Mistubishi Lancer Evo 8 into a tunnel wall at 75mph at a Norwegian naval base.
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James had to be hospitalised, reportedly broke a rib and needed to get a brain scan before getting the all-clear from medics.
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The tough driving stunt involved the trio taking it in turns driving along the tunnel, but the lights came on when they were already speeding, so they only had three seconds to react before they ran out of space.
Unfortuantely, James broke too late and had to be helped out of his car by paramedics covered in blood.
However, it seems his pal Richard Hammond wasn’t too worried about him and was, in fact, relieved that it wasn’t him crashing cars for a change.
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Speaking to Daily Star and other press, Richard teased: “I think selfishly I was more relieved than anything else that somebody had taken the focus off me, and people can stop asking me: ‘Woah, you’re always crashing’.”
He then jokingly threw his hands up in the air as he added: “Well, it’s not just me, is it now!”
Richard suffered a catastrophic crash in 2006 whilst filming an episode of Top Gear at the RAF Elvington near York.
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He spent two weeks in a coma and sustained life-changing brain injuries following the accident, where he had been driving at 317mph in a Vampire dragster before the front tyre failed and the car flipped over and rolled.
Richard did admit that he was briefly worried about his friend James, but jibed he was more concerned about the state of his lush car as May had “buried” the vehicle in a wall.
He added: “Yes, of course, a brief moment of fleeting concern for James, but an overwhelming flood of concern for that fabulous car that he buried in a wall. It’s unforgivable.”
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James recently broke his silence over the crash – reassuring fans he was “perfectly OK” after the incident.
He wrote: “Thank you for all your kind comments and funny jokes re my crash, but it was a while back, not that bad, and I’m perfectly OK.”
He added: “Apologies to Evo fans for binning the VIII. #Bell**d”
The Grand Tour presents: A Scandi Flick sees Richard, Jeremy and James tour the arctic regions of Scandinavia, from the coast of Norway to the border of Russia.
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The Grand Tour presents: A Scandi Flick launches on Prime Video on 16th September 2022.
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