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Ex-Top Gear trio feeling pressure of new motor show

Richard Hammond - "We're not going to disappoint, because we can't"
Richard Hammond - "We're not going to disappoint, because we can't"

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will return with their new motoring show to rival Top Gear later this week, and Hammond revealed the trio are feeling the pressure to make the show a success.

Hammond and May followed Clarkson to Amazon Prime after Clarkson parted company with the BBC for assaulting Top Gear's Irish producer Oisín Tymon in March 2015.

Hammond told the Daily Telegraph of the pressure of their latest motoring show, The Grand Tour, saying they can't afford for it not to work.

"We're not going to disappoint, because we can't. We've got to make this good or they will come and torch us - and rightly so," he said.

James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond say their new car show won't disappoint

Clarkson previously revealed that the series will be named The Grand Tour because the presenters will travel around the globe in the show.  

“We'll be travelling the world hosting each episode in a different country, from a giant tent," he said.

"It's a sort of ‘grand tour’, if you like. So we've decided to call it 'The Grand Tour'.”

The Grand Tour will include sections filmed in front of studio audiences in a giant tent, which has gone up in different parts of the world. 

There have been various sightings of the trio during filming in locations such as in Johannesburg in July with a live audience.

The Grand Tour makes its debut on Amazon Prime Video on Friday.

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