Will you watch The Grand Tour without Clarkson, Hammond and May?
Are you ready for the final The Grand Tour with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May behind the wheel?
It sure has been one hell of a ride. The trio have finally taken the foot off the gas when it comes to their on-screen work together, now they are ending their beloved Prime Video series with one final special The Grand Tour: One for the Road arriving on the streaming service on Friday.
Their plan to wrap filming had been on their minds for some time though. In fact, they had a pact to end The Grand Tour on their own terms and exactly how they wanted. They reach their final destination in Zimbabwe.
Rewind 20 years, their friendship took off when they begun presenting BBC Two car show Top Gear together in 2002. When the BBC fired Clarkson for punching a producer on the show in 2015, Hammond and May quit saying the three of them come as a package deal.
Getting back on track again, the friends signed to do racing series The Grand Tour in 2016. Fast forward to now, eight years later from when they first started, the trio have come to the end of the road with The Grand Tour.
Hammond confirmed the show will continue without the trio at the helm. He told The Metro: "It will be carrying on. The Grand Tour continues. We're stepping away as the hosts, but Prime will be continuing it. So I can't wait to sit on my own chair and watch somebody else do it. That's amazing." It's not known who will replace the trio.
So as you say goodbye to the three famous hosts on Friday, will you still be watching when the new hosts take over behind the wheel? Cast your vote in the poll below to share your opinion.
Clarkson, Hammond and May's The Grand Tour ending
It's clear that Clarkson, Hammond and May have given their final TV road trip together a lot of thought.
Last year, May had said they were all getting a "bit old" for the car show – sentiments echoed by his pals. He told The Times: "The truth is, we're a bit too old for all this now. Jeremy is 63, Hammond is 53. We'll have to stop one day and by my reckoning that terrible day is almost upon us."
In the weeks (and months) leading up to the final episode, the three pals have been speaking about why now was the right time for the show to end. "We've run out of things to do and we've run out of places to go, and I was fat," Clarkson said most recently at a London Q&A that shared a private press viewing of The Grand Tour.
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Clarkson also said the world is too dangerous for The Grand Tour now. "We’ve done everything you can realistically do with a car and the world has shrunk and that’s the tragedy," he said. They flew to Mauritania to film The Sand Job earlier this year but they had received a warning from the Foreign Office advising them not to make the trip.
"Years ago, we drove from Iraq into eastern Turkey into Syria, Damascus and Israel. We did the Crimea to Ukraine. You couldn’t do any of that now. There’s some rich ground in and around Indonesia, but you can’t really go there either. North Africa, apart from Morocco, is completely out."
He added: “The world is a much more troubled place than it was 20 years ago. We were very lucky to do what we did, when we did.”
They have reached a fork in the road, with the three of them taking different directions on their individual career paths. Clarkson remains focused on his hit Prime Video series Clarkson's Farm and has just opened The Farmer's Dog pub nearby in the Cotswolds.
The Grand Tour: One for the Road premieres Friday, 13 September on Prime Video.
