{"id":7515,"date":"2021-11-21T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1514895"},"modified":"2021-11-21T13:18:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T12:18:07","slug":"top-gear-viewers-name-jeremy-clarkson-the-best-presenter","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/top-gear-viewers-name-jeremy-clarkson-the-best-presenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Gear viewers name Jeremy Clarkson the best presenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Flora Carr\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 21 November 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Jeremy Clarkson has been named the nation\u2019s favourite <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/top-gear-2021-release-date\/&quot;\">Top Gear<\/a> presenter in an exclusive <a href=\"\/\/RadioTimes.com&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">RadioTimes.com<\/a> poll, in which readers were asked to select the best presenter in the BBC show\u2019s history since it\u2019s 2002 reboot.<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson was the runaway favourite \u2013 50 per cent of <strong>RadioTimes.com<\/strong> readers named the former series host as the best Top Gear presenter, with 537 votes cast in favour of Clarkson, whose recent Amazon series <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/clarksons-farm-season-2-release-date\/&quot;\">Clarkson\u2019s Farm<\/a> became a surprise hit earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson\u2019s fellow presenter James May (nicknamed \u201cCaptain Slow\u201d on the motor series) came in second, with 13 per cent of the vote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;riddle_target&quot;\" data-rid-id=\"&quot;351859&quot;\" data-fg=\"&quot;#1486CD&quot;\" data-bg=\"&quot;#FFFFFF&quot;\" style=\"&quot;margin:0\" auto=\"\" data-auto-scroll=\"&quot;false&quot;\" data-auto-scroll-offset=\"&quot;0&quot;\">\n<script src=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.riddle.com\/embed\/files\/js\/embed.js&quot;\"\/><link href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.riddle.com\/embed\/files\/css\/embed.css&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;stylesheet&quot;\"\/><iframe style=\"&quot;width:100%;height:300px;border:1px\" solid=\"\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.riddle.com\/embed\/a\/351859?&quot;\" allow=\"&quot;autoplay&quot;\" title=\"&quot;Opinion\" poll=\"\" who=\"\" is=\"\" the=\"\" best=\"\" top=\"\" gear=\"\" presenter=\"\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>However, the third member of the original trio of presenters, Richard Hammond, was beaten to the third-place spot by Chris Harris, who scored 12 per cent of the vote. By comparison, six per cent of respondents voted for Hammond.<\/p>\n<p>Other entries in the Top Gear poll included Freddie Flintoff (five per cent), Paddy McGuinness (four per cent), Sabine Schmitz (four per cent), Matt LeBlanc (two per cent), Jason Dawe two per cent), Rory Reid (one per cent), and Eddie Jordan and Chris Evans (0 per cent).<\/p>\n<p>Top Gear, which turns 20 next year, recently returned for a new series featuring current presenters Flintoff, Harris and McGuinness, and kicked off earlier in the month with the trio heading to the British Grand Prix to take on a group of Formula One\u2019s finest drivers.<\/p> <p>Last year\u2019s series saw <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/paddy-mcguinness-top-gear-crash-lamborghini\/&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener\" noreferrer=\"\">McGuinness crash a \u00a3250,000 Lamborghini Diablo whilst driving in Yorkshire<\/a>, while Flintoff got into an accident whilst riding a motorised trike at Elvington Airfield in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Tour\u2019s Clarkson, Hammond and May boast the longest presenting tenure on Top Gear so far, fronting the much-loved series from 2002 until 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Gear airs on BBC One. Looking for something else to watch? Check out our <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/&quot;\">TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0or visit our hub for more\u00a0<a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener\" noreferrer=\"\">Entertainment<\/a> news.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Flora Carr Published: Sunday, 21 November 2021 at 12:00 am Jeremy Clarkson has been named the nation\u2019s favourite Top Gear presenter in an exclusive RadioTimes.com poll, in which readers were asked to select the best presenter in the BBC show\u2019s history since it\u2019s 2002 reboot. 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