@@nunyabidness674 They were vicious after the Rimac. The Christmas gift exchange was brutally hilarious. Worst of all was Rimac itself. They presented Hammond's burned watch in a plastic case with the inscription "Made in Switzerland, perfected by the British" with the date of the wreck.
I’ll never forget a video I saw on RUclips about the Vampire dragster where Richard actually revisited the car. He said “It’s funny. I remember getting in this car but I don’t remember getting out of it, so technically I’m still in it.” Even though he said it humorously, it felt like quite a harrowing thing to say about a machine he nearly died in.
It was a nod to his full recognition of the PTSD caused by the incident. The person he remembers as whole did get in, Someone entirely different came out.
@@Reel210Tx I know! It was brutal. I remember when that was a new episode and I saw that moment. When he returns and is like "no big deal" I was amazed
@iLikeCars485that wasn't a top gear episode though the rimac crash happened on the grand tour I don't know how you consider that crash more scary than the dragster crash considering he ended up in a coma afterwards
I know it is The Grand Tour, but May´s crash of the Mitsubishi Evo was scary as well, since he landed on his side of the car. Terrifying to watch but glad these 3 are OK after all they´ve been through. Hopefully we will get some more from them in years to come.
@@flatpedalswinmedals7274 you missed that for thank. But thanks for all the corrections,go ahead and rewrite what I posted for me. Even as a D student I’ve done pretty well. You figured out what I was trying to say,now tell me how my poor spelling shows a lack of detail in my life.
I know that Clarkson and May agreed to not joke about Hammond’s crash, but after the Rimac incident, they started making numerous subtle jabs at it far more often.
But that episode where they talked directly about that accident has never been replayed. Partially because Hammond has no memory of it. Not joking, he has said he doesn't remember doing that show.
Hammond did an interview with Jonathan Ross and said that the entire year after that dragster crash was lost to him memory wise. He has absolutely no memory of the North Pole trip and said that he came back far too early. He came back to Top Gear only a couple of months after the crash.
Yes and no. Hammond had at the very least 6 month off and it was under doctors order that he resume back into normal life with the support of TG team ( Not BBC. A lot interviews implied that TG / GT team work as a semi family. ) However, Hammond felt that for series 10, he should sit it out but ultimately didn't. There a really good video on Richard hammond that explain the timeline.
I thought the same thing at the start. But you see later that he actually is in a Porsche when the incident mentioned happens. I just don’t know why they show the audio footage previously.
Of course, after promising to never speak of the accident ever again, the next week they were mercilessly needling Hammond about always crashing and haven't stopped since.
@@benjamingrobe5296Sadly Clarkson has brought about his exit from GT. Now that FF isn't returning to TG - Maybe this opens the door for Clarkson & Co to return to TG.
He once listed all his illnesses on QI, including his two slipped discs, which led to Alan Davies and Stephen Fry to join in singing "and a partridge in a pear tree". 😂
Mays near miss on the burma special when Clarkson tips the crane had my heart in my mouth. May looked genuinely furious, composed himself and went oh my crane being too small is punishable by death is it 😂
It was staged. They made it pretty clear when they were asked about it. 80% of what you see is scripted along with jokes etc. 20% is improv and just stuff that happens on road.
I had 5 broken ribs in my back once. Watching James May fall to the ground actually hurts! If anyone wondered why he moved so slowly afterward, it's just that doing anything is very painful and difficult after that.
@@anthonymclean2543And how many people were injured in that dangerous electric car fire that burned for a week? You have a strange sense of what is dangerous.
Remember seeing video that showed the right front tyre before that last run and it was badly torn up. I though they would change it first but was shocked when they set off.
just fyi: hammond had no intention of breaking the land speed record, in fact, he wasn't even allowed to try as you not only had to do the top speed going down the runway, you had to then turn around and do the same speed in the opposite direction and the production team deemed this too "unsafe"
Flintoff didn't crash he simply went off the runway. Hammond's crashed occurred when they were taking tracking shots he wasn't going for any kind of record there were no Guinness world record officials at the runway or any land speed recording equipment.
Guinness isn't the official records keeper for that, it's the FIM or the FIA. Hammond was doing 320 miles per hour when he crashed the dragster too, so I don't think that was just a tracking shot. Then again I don't know if he had any intentions of attempting a record in the first place.
he wrote a book on it, great read, highly recommend. when you suffer that amount of brain trauma you never fully recover, its just the unfortunate fact.
Some constructive criticism: Instead of putting the name of who got injured on the screen, it would be a lot more useful to know which series and episode the injury features in. Everyone watching this likely has seen all of these injuries already so knows who got hurt.
If you watched the video for ~10 seconds longer, you’d see that Jeremy WAS in fact driving a Porsche. They were using footage of the Audi because it appeared in the same episode AND the same scene as the Porsche. Next time, maybe fully watch the clip.
It's just crazy to think that if Hammond was just a little taller he would have been decapitated. It's also crazy to think james may was originally supposed to be in that car but due to scheduling conflicts wasn't avaliable for filming
Hammond was not in a coma after the dragster crash. He came to before even the helicopter arrived. He even walked on his own around 30 hours after the crash.
Apparently james went to see Richard in the hospital after that vampire dragster crash, and surprised him with a bunch of lego sets since he knew hammond loved them and to help aide his recovery, which i think just goes to show that no matter how much shit these three give each other, deep down, they’re friends
he wrote a whole book about the crash and the after math, I've read it and its actually really good and a fascinating read if you interested in brain trauma like I am, I believe its called "on the edge"
“I shall go where no American has gone before” *That one 8 year old that fell off their bike a year prior* Along with all of this I thought Hammonds Rimac crash would be on here
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"They agreed to never make fun of Hammond for it."
And they failed miserably.
in all fairness, they left him alone for a show or three... Following the Rimac though... lol
"We'll see how this goes. Richard Hammond can you drive in a straight line?"
@@nunyabidness674 They were vicious after the Rimac. The Christmas gift exchange was brutally hilarious. Worst of all was Rimac itself. They presented Hammond's burned watch in a plastic case with the inscription "Made in Switzerland, perfected by the British" with the date of the wreck.
@@soulcornflake1Nah the second car with a fire extinguisher strap inscription In Case of Hill Climb
@@EvLSpectre I agree. Rimac forever earned my respect for that smartass response.
Jeremy has been hurt several times. James and Richard have almost been killed.
Yes bacuase Jeremy - accidents - are mostly hilarious:)
I think Jeremy's thumb injury was BS
Nope, there was one time where James tried to kill Clarkson, so technically he was almost killed
we know James's death would have been the slowest
😂
I’ll never forget a video I saw on RUclips about the Vampire dragster where Richard actually revisited the car. He said “It’s funny. I remember getting in this car but I don’t remember getting out of it, so technically I’m still in it.”
Even though he said it humorously, it felt like quite a harrowing thing to say about a machine he nearly died in.
It was a nod to his full recognition of the PTSD caused by the incident. The person he remembers as whole did get in, Someone entirely different came out.
@@redneckhippiefreak That’s even worse.
@@Uajd-hb1qs Well, Yeah, I'd wager that's why he coated it in humor. Facing death tends to tweak both ones sense of humor and ones coping abilities.
@@redneckhippiefreak Certainly.
@@redneckhippiefreak I agree. Hammond became a very different person, whether from the brain injury or just staring Death in the face like that.
Out of all of these, Mays hit to the back of the head is the scariest to me
It made my head hurt watching him sling back onto the ground
@@Reel210Tx I know! It was brutal. I remember when that was a new episode and I saw that moment. When he returns and is like "no big deal" I was amazed
@@ExCordeEntlots of time the "look and axt ok" axtually meant something is very wrong
To me crashing with dragster in 300miles + is more scary to me...Auch!
@iLikeCars485that wasn't a top gear episode though the rimac crash happened on the grand tour I don't know how you consider that crash more scary than the dragster crash considering he ended up in a coma afterwards
You forgot Hammond falling of a bike twice in St Petersburg and him falling off he's horse in Burma.
Watch mojo for u
And the rimac crash
@@RanDom-pl7fx That wasn't on Top Gear. That was in The Grand Tour.
And hammond crashing rimac in swiss hill climb
and james in the middle east
I know it is The Grand Tour, but May´s crash of the Mitsubishi Evo was scary as well, since he landed on his side of the car. Terrifying to watch but glad these 3 are OK after all they´ve been through. Hopefully we will get some more from them in years to come.
James could have suffered a basil scull factor on that one,that heavens he didn’t that was terrifying to watch.
@@lancehowlett3910basal skull fracture *
@@flatpedalswinmedals7274 you missed that for thank. But thanks for all the corrections,go ahead and rewrite what I posted for me.
Even as a D student I’ve done pretty well. You figured out what I was trying to say,now tell me how my poor spelling shows a lack of detail in my life.
@@lancehowlett3910 I was just trying to help. Other people might not understand what you meant.
And Richard Hammond's Rimac crash
I know that Clarkson and May agreed to not joke about Hammond’s crash, but after the Rimac incident, they started making numerous subtle jabs at it far more often.
But that episode where they talked directly about that accident has never been replayed. Partially because Hammond has no memory of it. Not joking, he has said he doesn't remember doing that show.
Hammond did an interview with Jonathan Ross and said that the entire year after that dragster crash was lost to him memory wise. He has absolutely no memory of the North Pole trip and said that he came back far too early. He came back to Top Gear only a couple of months after the crash.
that's what being self employed does to you
@@davidzof that's not self-employment at all
Yes and no. Hammond had at the very least 6 month off and it was under doctors order that he resume back into normal life with the support of TG team ( Not BBC. A lot interviews implied that TG / GT team work as a semi family. )
However, Hammond felt that for series 10, he should sit it out but ultimately didn't.
There a really good video on Richard hammond that explain the timeline.
@@lukestarford7608 he's completely out of it and in telly auto pilot on the Jonathan Ross interview, it's not a pleasant watch if you know the context
How Hammond is still alive and kicking is extraordinary. Had that crash happened ever so slightly as it did, he's dead.
May was supposed to do but could not, his extra height would have made it a fatal crash
Well, sometimes you can be extremely unlucky and extremely lucky at the same time. In this case, you can have a fatal crash but survive that.
Crashing at 320 mph, or tumbling down a cliff and coming out alive in both those incidents, Hammond sure had luck on his side.
@@camarocharger8180 He so lucky he even escape a car fire too
the hospital called his wife in to say final goodbyes to the hamster. Lucky it didn't turn out that way
Is anyone going to talk about how this guy mistaken an Audi R8 for a 911 turbo cabriolet
I thought the same thing at the start.
But you see later that he actually is in a Porsche when the incident mentioned happens.
I just don’t know why they show the audio footage previously.
Did you watch the video
Of course, after promising to never speak of the accident ever again, the next week they were mercilessly needling Hammond about always crashing and haven't stopped since.
I miss the TG old days.
We all do 😔
I haven't watched any TG with the new guys. Thank God there is Grand Tour
@@benjamingrobe5296Sadly Clarkson has brought about his exit from GT.
Now that FF isn't returning to TG - Maybe this opens the door for Clarkson & Co to return to TG.
@cancer_sucks and they are right
How they are all still alive is beyond me 😂
Richard the most, man gone through major crashes
@@JokerOrTickleagreed but also James with Finnish special
@@dorreyeet1529Scandi Flick was GT, this is TG
He once listed all his illnesses on QI, including his two slipped discs, which led to Alan Davies and Stephen Fry to join in singing "and a partridge in a pear tree". 😂
Mays near miss on the burma special when Clarkson tips the crane had my heart in my mouth. May looked genuinely furious, composed himself and went oh my crane being too small is punishable by death is it 😂
It was staged. They made it pretty clear when they were asked about it. 80% of what you see is scripted along with jokes etc. 20% is improv and just stuff that happens on road.
I had 5 broken ribs in my back once. Watching James May fall to the ground actually hurts! If anyone wondered why he moved so slowly afterward, it's just that doing anything is very painful and difficult after that.
Hammond with Rimac also scary, but that was TGT
when clarkson and may agree not to make fun of something, you know its serious
well, until they made fun of it again
Not a Top Gear injury but Jeremy grating is thumb in Clarksons Farm was the most disgusting looking injury of the trio
not seen James May's attempt to use a mandolin in his cooking show Oh Cook!
I shouldn't have laughed but I did when he had that injury lol
Can we not forget the Hamster wiping out the Rimac and breaking his leg in the process.
That’s on The Grand Tour
Wrong show mate but yeah that was a massive crash and proved how dangerous electric cars are it burned for over a week
@@anthonymclean2543And how many people were injured in that dangerous electric car fire that burned for a week? You have a strange sense of what is dangerous.
@FraserOram same show for us. The new top gear isn't
@@anthonymclean2543that was a great advertisement of Rimac's safety. Despite the horrible crash it DIDN'T explode
Remember seeing video that showed the right front tyre before that last run and it was badly torn up. I though they would change it first but was shocked when they set off.
We need a top 20 top gear crashes video!
You spelled: ‘Top 20 Richard Hammond crashes’ wrong. 😂
@@willfaulkner7389Ahaha
3:30 - it's Monaro, not Montero. Montero is a Mitsubishi SUV
That is very true, my bad!
I was gonna see if anyone else mentioned this
I watched that show so much. Then the 3 kings left, and so did I.
And yet even with all the injuries and other stuff these 3 men made this show and kept us highly entertained
11:30 bless Richard. That must have been agonising
No way he called an Audi R8 a Porsche 💀💀💀
You clearly don’t pay attention
The bee got lodged in his nose while driving the Porsche not the R8
@@JoeWilson738was it really bonny tyler in the car ?
Future Me
Past me is stupid
@@homerdohytya don’t say
These new hosts will never count as "TopGear". TopGear isn't just a name, but the Orangutan, the Hamster and Captain Slow!
just fyi: hammond had no intention of breaking the land speed record, in fact, he wasn't even allowed to try as you not only had to do the top speed going down the runway, you had to then turn around and do the same speed in the opposite direction and the production team deemed this too "unsafe"
They weren't wrong.
Did I just hear you say that a Porsche 911 Turbo was the same as an Audi r8
You're not very smart are you
first watch then comment
There was also another injury Jeremy suffered where he injured his neck when he was driving a Nissan GTR
that was in the grand tour, i think
@@importantlifeskills.9918 It was Top Gear, he reviewed the Nissan GTR in Japan and the cornering G-Forces caused an injury to his neck.
Flintoff didn't crash he simply went off the runway. Hammond's crashed occurred when they were taking tracking shots he wasn't going for any kind of record there were no Guinness world record officials at the runway or any land speed recording equipment.
Guinness isn't the official records keeper for that, it's the FIM or the FIA.
Hammond was doing 320 miles per hour when he crashed the dragster too, so I don't think that was just a tracking shot. Then again I don't know if he had any intentions of attempting a record in the first place.
It's amazing how Clarkson was the one to fill out this list.
New fear unlocked, breaking your spine because you drove to aggressively😂
They agreed to never make fun of hammond for that dragster crash and when he almost died in ther RIMAC the first thing they did was make fun of him😂😂😂
"Clarkson and May agreed never to make fun of it..." Well that lasted about three episodes, but oh well. 🤣
You forgot when Hammond almost killed in a washing machine call it... Rimac Nevera
The crash we see on the grand tour in the tunnel is horrifying. They do take some risks
You forgot Hammond failing of his bicycle in series 22 episode 1
The second I saw Freddie was in the list I immediately skipped to the next crash 😂
As we all did, and as we should do
The dragster crash is probably the most horrific top gear crash ever
Have I seen these 20 times before? Yes. Will i watch them again? Yes.
Hammond didn't suffer ' catastrophic' brain injuries. He made a full recovery.
No, he has said before that he does have issues regarding memory sometimes iirc. Its in a video on the Drivetribe channel
Just because he recovered, doesn't mean it wasn't catastrophic. Any significant brain damage, lasting or not, may be validly seen as catastrophic.
Thats what they said about Chris Benoit and look up how THAT wound up!
he wrote a book on it, great read, highly recommend. when you suffer that amount of brain trauma you never fully recover, its just the unfortunate fact.
@@StarHorder roid rage is very different to physical trauma.
Some constructive criticism: Instead of putting the name of who got injured on the screen, it would be a lot more useful to know which series and episode the injury features in. Everyone watching this likely has seen all of these injuries already so knows who got hurt.
2:00, that's an audi R8 spider dude
If you watched the video for ~10 seconds longer, you’d see that Jeremy WAS in fact driving a Porsche. They were using footage of the Audi because it appeared in the same episode AND the same scene as the Porsche. Next time, maybe fully watch the clip.
James hit his head so hard lol, he died for a few seconds 😂
Amazing to see how much Clarkson's gut has grown over the years
That’s what happens when you drink large amounts of alcohol
@@imnotirishok or when you get older 🤣🤣🤣
James being hit on the head just feels so sore every time I see it. It’s almost like I feel the impact at the back of my head
Hammond could have his own video for epic crashes tbh xD
Putting paintballs inside the exhaust of a car in hope of them being shot and then standing right in front of the exhaust was genious😂😂😂
I was gonna say ‘what about the Rimac?’ But I forget that’s not Top Gear ;)
It's just crazy to think that if Hammond was just a little taller he would have been decapitated.
It's also crazy to think james may was originally supposed to be in that car but due to scheduling conflicts wasn't avaliable for filming
When Clarkson and May agree to not fake fun of Hammond for something, you know it was bad
When jeremy hit that brick wall, it looked like he was having a heart attack afterward.
"I guess we're walking then."
James fall on the desert special still gives me the jitters you can clearly hear the sound of his head hitting the ground.
Forgot to mention James's ,, accident with Clarkson's carne,, in Thailand or elsewhere.
It nearly killed him
They don't make fun of him SPECIFICALLY for that incident, but they'll commonly reference his... Tendencies to crash fast cars.
6:06 damn I had a case of Vespa vs Ice patch a few months back
The bit where James smacked the back of his head in Syria actually freaked me out.
But the bit where Richard dug a trench with his head.
Jeremy and James have actually made fun of the Drag Car crashed a few times , especially on the Grand Tour.
Probably since it's been quite a while since it happened, and the topic may have loosened up a bit.
@@shatl_bar_kingyeah he's likely become less sensitive about it over the years.
My eyes started tearing up when james hit his head in the desert
2:06
Literally an Audi r8, bro said a porche💀💀
Well after the audi there was a Porsche so your wrong as he meant that the accident happened with the Porsche
These are tough guys!
And they are great show presenters!
8:38 Most hillarious one:):)
Eweryone knows its nearly imspossible die in Volvo,Jeremy proves that hitting wall with higher speed.
Clarkson said "I'd have held it" ... poking fun at Hammond and saying he would not have crashed the dragster.
please bring back OG Top Gear
thats an R8 not a 911 cabriolet
I was gonna say the same thing until 12 seconds later when Clarkson is literally driving the 911
Poor old James getting concussed then having to deal with those two dressed in burkas
🤣
Hammond was incredibly lucky, given the forces involved
Name the list: Clarksooooon❤😂
I'd do the narration for half the price of this guy and still not sound like I'm speaking to the job centre manager about signing on. Sort it out Mojo
Hammond was not in a coma after the dragster crash. He came to before even the helicopter arrived. He even walked on his own around 30 hours after the crash.
The episode where Clarkson hit the asphalt in Vietnam was my Vietnam War vet Dad's favorite show of the series.
they make fun of hammond's size, but it's saved him and he's the bravest
Ah the Audi Porsche Cabriolet
It hurts knowing that it’s over now
how did Freddie's most recent crash not make it considering it's ended Top Gear as of this moment?
Because it wasn’t shown on tv, which is what this list is about! 👍
Dude there is no Freddy on Top Gear...
Poor Richard, everytime something bad happens to him it's nearly fatal. What a show, what a guys! TV at it's finest
That "porsche" looks a lot like an audi R8
So we're ignoring the fact he called an Audi R8 a Porsche 911?
I would love to have Bonnie Tyler in my passenger seat
I remember watching episode with May’s concussion yelling at the TV GET OUT OF THE WAY ITS GUNNA SNAP, that was very clumsy on his part
Forgot to mention Jeremy cracking his neck from turning a Nissan GTR too sharply.
Not only has Hammond almost killed himself on Top Gear, he's done the same thing on The Grand Tour
Apparently james went to see Richard in the hospital after that vampire dragster crash, and surprised him with a bunch of lego sets since he knew hammond loved them and to help aide his recovery, which i think just goes to show that no matter how much shit these three give each other, deep down, they’re friends
I was expecting the one crash where Hammond slid of the road in a car and it caught fire
That was in the Grand Tour
@@Palmacry95 oh yea i forgot
I noticed Hammond spoke slower, after he recovered from his crash.
he wrote a whole book about the crash and the after math, I've read it and its actually really good and a fascinating read if you interested in brain trauma like I am, I believe its called "on the edge"
The original trio is 🐐
Number 2 should have been an honorable mention.
"im proudly going where no American has before" *falls straight onto the road and rolls*
10/10 moment forever
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No i don't want
And i hate top gear and is not funny at all
And isn't cool
And those 3 host guys are as*hole and wankers
And sorry for ruin the wankers word
6:52 Americans would be dying of laughter 😂😂
“I shall go where no American has gone before”
*That one 8 year old that fell off their bike a year prior*
Along with all of this I thought Hammonds Rimac crash would be on here
Rimac crash is from the grand tour
@@abigailturner3108 but wouldn’t that count as top gear still?
@@ozoioi11 idk i guess technically not
@@abigailturner3108 fair
“I am now boldly going where no American has gone before!”
Immediately crashes.
Hammond would be the world's most accident prone driver
These guys were the best back in the day man it was an awesome show to grow up with. They still are but there getting old🥲.
5:36 I was Howling with Laughter when Clarkson was Hit in the Gonads with Paintballs!🤣🤣🤣
grand tour next?? and maybe a part 2??
Not as bad as the Grand Tour when James hit the wall in the tunnel.