I think the budget is split 90/10. 90% to fix things that Richard breaks, and 10% to the actual show!

He's also the most expensive of the trio to replace, hence all the efforts to patch him up whenever he crashes. The others just "die" and they get a replacement clone from the closet, no mention of the incident again. Probably something to do with teeth-whitening costs.

@@quillmaurer6563 --- I wish I could give you more than one thumbs up for that! It was pretty good until the end, which had me bust out laughing. Thanks

Now you know the truth. 😄

''minimal''

Did he really take a bite out of that sun panel

@@Timochat_ Yes, though to be fair, it wasn't a real panel

@@JetFalcon710 what actually happened

@@JustTheRat01 They made a fake sun panel out of cake fondant

@@JetFalcon710 wow

I've seen more unnecessary ones. Like the one when the car lost its wheels but the driver applied handbrake anyway.

​@@PouLSthis situation is the same if not worse cause he's deep in sand too

Yes, just 100% pure "OH FUCK"

What episode and season is that?

@@gregthecarguy5092 s14e05

"Shit"

He has sunglasses on and then suddenly he doesn't

Which episode

@@jamesdeanseternaldreams2232 Series 14 Episode 5, it's in the description

@@JetFalcon710 thank you so much, how the bloody hell did miss that

@@jamesdeanseternaldreams2232 When you're told you can use something at a certain place, you don't expect there to be something else mixed in with it Clarkson only found out because one of the production crew would have noticed themselves and given him the papers

@@PJOZeus didnt think of it like that.... Damn

Does anyone know why he did that anyway? Seems like quite a waste of a good Toyota minivan.

@@Kroooza I haven't watched the episode in a while, but I'm pretty sure that was his family car when he was younger and he hated it

@@turbobrick3419 Okay Thanks for letting me know.

@@turbobrick3419 Nice. I imagine it must have been extremely satisfying finally getting to take out all his anger on that car

scripted or not, it's all gold. they are true alchemists

"Clarkson, he's sick"

I mean even if it wasn’t wouldn’t he have come to check what the fuss was about considering Hammond was shouting from the top of his lungs earlier.

That was in St Petersburg.... Not London

it was a sound effect added in post. The BBC loved doing that for added drama, I remember even hearing sound effects I recognised from video games.

I know this is unrelated but he says “fuck” at 0:23

Yea

@@regmanray Yes and that makes it even more nicely. Normally the lorry operator would just have run over Hammond...

"Clarkson. He's _sick."_

Fake there no way he didn’t know his car roof was under his car.

@@thesmilinggun-knight9646 People don't always check under their cars, especially if they're tired and pissed off like Hammond was

His greatest line of the year he said it, mans has had a lot of great quotes

No; you're completely wrong. Hammond is ALWAYS at fault.

He put those tracks on the Focus in Madagascar. That episode started out on the perfect roads of Reunion, to which they'd brought sporty not-off-road cars, then they were told they had to go to Madagascar and modified their cars for the terrible roads. Well that's the story anyway, we all know the mods were actually done by a crew of actual professionals, but still at least with the "plot" he gets the blame 100%.

@@quillmaurer6563 I don't remember the episode implying that they'd actually fitted their mods with their own hands. I got the impression that they hired professional mechanics to do the work.

Does it matter enjoy the video

@Lifthil----I think Hammond chose tracks because he was hoping they would break down. It added a bit of aggravation, just like a real trip like that probably would, a little zip to the narrative, and was more fun to watch afterwards. That being said, I don't see how anyone can say that parts breaking down on a roughly-used car can be exclusively Hammond's fault.Good luck to you.

Which episode was that?

The sheer look of fear as well makes me lol

@@mikea1157 The one in which they put together an art exhibition

I think that bike was bout £6,000 and he crashed it after bout hour

I remember a Top Gear fan saw Hamster crash and offered his bike if the producers drove him to work. Not a bad deal honestly!

Yeah a £9,000 bike lol

Apparently it was fondant or something

@@dustojnikhummer ohhh makes sense

Eat the evidence

@@dustojnikhummer actually was a cake with fondant cover as a joke. The idea about biting it was only him

If I remember correctly, they decided to send the LC down the hill by itself like that for exactly the reason you described.

What episode is it?

@@SailorInnerShish Bolivia Special, Series 14 episode 6

@@SailorInnerShish --- It's the Bolivia special

Oh come on, it wasn't THAT bad.

He isn't called the hamster for no reason

It's a feature on all Ford Fiestas after 2008, it's to help save money and fuel from stopping at motorway services, if you get peckish, have a gnar on your sun-visor, very revolutionary. It's also handy if you are of the vindictive position; has your passenger displeased you this morning? Is it a sunny day? Eat their sun visor, let the blinding rays in, that'll show them!

@@alxwlsh bwahaha, nice one! xD

Yeah they made it out of cake fondant for the joke!

@@alxwlsh I read your comment in a British accent

Please I’m going to the gulag

I have no idea how he's still alive and well tbh, he's easily the luckiest man I've ever seen

@@JetFalcon710 because all of it (except the bike crash) is scripted.

@@thesmilinggun-knight9646 No

TONIGHT! Hammond breaks a thing, Hammond breaks a different thing, And Hammond nearly dies

Im sorry. Its a stupid question but you know what car it was?

@@frankgrimes4336 Hammond's one is a Noble M600, Clarkson's one is a Lambo Aventador, May's one is a McLaren

You complete numpty, Hammond.

You would have thought after like 30 years, they'd have learnt and started to keep Craig away from stuff. Hell, you'd have thought they'd have learnt that in 15 seconds with him being the platonic Scouser.

Hammond, internally: OH FUCK

What happened there? Was it scripted, what lead up to it???

@@emotionaloveracorolla5274 I believe they made it out of cake and fondant as a joke

@@Muricaguy Ok, thanks

"It's a £400 000 crane, why would you steer it with a piece of string?!"

John?

That would be several hours long.

This compilation was already done

Simple really. That one WASN'T his fault.

the tea joke killed me

Richard hammond, The closest thing to a victim of top gear

@@lordcharles9786 Every time I think about the Vampire dragster or the Rimac crash, it makes me wonder how the hell Hammond's still alive

Sounded like he took psychic damage

"You've ruin my car"

He's also really good at getting into serious accidents and surviving

Do you not?

To be fair, safety was out of the question at that point, as the thing had practically no brakes and could barely drive down a level paved road

@@JetFalcon710 that is fair, but still 😅

@@fishingfan1500 True, true ;v;

Yes, and even though my profile name is Jaguar, I will always be a Landcruiser man at heart.

I would be sad if my old Cruiser was wrecked. I feel his pain.

What u on about

I don't know. How do you miss something that big directly under your car as you walk towards it?

@@michaelj.beglinjr.2804 i dont think ppl normally check under there car when walking up to it early in the morning when they sleepy

@@michaelj.beglinjr.2804 he was already pissed that jeremy had removed his roof so I'm guessing he didn't even realise it was below

Clarkson... HE IS MORE THAN JUST SICK!!