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Richard Hammond has addressed throwing himself into genuinely perilous situations during filming on Prime Video\u2019s high-octane motoring show The Grand Tour.<\/p>\n
The show returns from a nine-month break in September with A Scandi Flick<\/a>, the latest in a series of feature-length episodes, which see Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May getting into antics around the world.<\/p>\n The trio have certainly pulled off some daring stunts during their time together, which began during their tenure on the BBC\u2019s Top Gear, but Hammond told press at a recent roundtable interview that a sense of real danger never escapes them.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cWe are in real peril because we\u2019ve learnt \u2013 I personally have learnt and now James has learnt better than most people \u2013 that just because you\u2019re doing telly doesn\u2019t mean things can\u2019t go wrong. They do.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I\u2019ve ended up in hospital with things broken, including my brain, because they do and there\u2019s nothing you can do, there\u2019s no magic wand. There\u2019s no protective TV bubble.\u201d<\/p> Hammond was left with serious head injuries following a high-speed crash in 2006 while filming for Top Gear, and\u00a0made headlines again in 2017 when he had to be airlifted to hospital following a supercar crash in Switzerland, which took place during shooting on an earlier season of The Grand Tour.<\/p>\n At the time of the latter, co-presenter Clarkson described it<\/a> as \u201cthe biggest crash I\u2019ve ever seen\u201d, but fortunately, Hammond was able to escape without sustaining serious injuries.<\/p>\n James May was hospitalised just last month<\/a> during another of the show\u2019s motoring challenges, in which he reportedly reached speeds of 75mph (via The Sun<\/a>), but also managed to avoid doing permanent damage to himself.<\/p>\n Hammond added: \u201cAccidents can happen, circumstances can change, things can go wrong and break and they do.\u201d<\/p>\n Check out the trailer for The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick below, which is streaming on Prime Video from Friday 16th September.<\/p>\n