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UPDATE: Watch the video after the jump! Clarkson makes a promise.




The triumphant return of Top Gear took place less than an hour ago on BBC in the UK. Afterwards, Richard Hammond hopped on to the Top Gear website to offer up his perspective on the show's return, his crash and the benefits of viewers seeing his brush with death.

In addition to reliving the experience on tonight's show (torrents are being created as you read this), Top Gear put together a step-by-step recreation and also aired video of the crash.

You can read Hammond's blog here and also view the videos on the BBC's website.

UPDATE: a bittorent of the video has been added to Finalgear.com.

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Hammond's crash available on Top Gear's website originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We just reported a couple of days ago that Richard Hammond is out of the hospital and starting his recuperation. Even better news today, we have a photo of the Hamster walking with his family. Amazingly, it looks like it could have been taken six weeks ago before the jet car crash that sent him to the hospital occurred. While we know he is not out of the woods just yet, it is very heartening to see him up and about like this. Despite the severity of the crash and the lingering potential for brain damage, Hammond's doctors expect him to fully recover.

Richard was seen strolling with his wife and daughter as he went on his first family outing since the accident, a shopping trip close to his home in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Earlier this week, the Hamster revealed how the accident had left him "utterly bonkers." The father of two said that his brain damage caused him "terrifying mental anguish." He also mentioned that he had "flatlined" in the hospital and that he has suffered "private breakdowns" since the crash. Click through the read link for the full story and a larger pic. Great to see you on your feet again, Richard.

Thanks for the tip, Vinny!

[Source: Daily Mail]

First pic of Richard Hammond up and out of hospital originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Top Gear's Richard "Hamster" Hammond is in serious but stable condition today in the Leeds General Infirmary, with his family and Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson and James May in attendance.

The 36-year-old Hammond was driving a jet dragster, similar to the British land speed record-holding Vampire, in the neighborhood of 300 mph when he crashed on Wednesday. Observers said that Hammond had successfully completed several runs when a possible problem with the car's drag chutes caused the car to veer off the airport runway onto the grass verge and crash. The BBC and the government's Health and Safety Executive have already begun crash investigations.

It's likely that the accident will renew criticism of Top Gear and its high profile car stunts. In 1999 a group of Members of Parliament slammed the popular show for being "obsessed with acceleration and speed," while only last year a lobby group demanded that the show be shut down, saying it was "glamorizing speed and failing to make the connection with danger on the roads."

Even by Top Gear's liberal standards, 300 mph in a jet car seems an extreme assignment for any journalist. Everyone here at Autoblog wishes Hammond a full and speedy recovery.

[Source: BBC]

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Top Gear's 'Hamster' in stable but serious condition day after crash originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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