Полезла на википедию почитать про автокатастрофу, когда Ричард Хаммонд разбился в джет-каре на скорости 463 км/ч.
Там же наткнулась за умилительный факт:
On 22 July 2007, during severe flooding, Hammond left his Porsche 911 - in which he had been stuck in traffic for 13 hours - to run home for his daughter's birthday. He ran 16 miles (26 km) in two-and-a-half hours (from 3am to 5:30 am), arriving home before his daughter woke up.

И еще немножко об Опеле, прелестном "Оливере", на котором Хаммонд сотоварищи покорял Африку:
On Top Gear in 2007, Hammond went to Africa on an 'Epic Road Trip' across Botswana. While there he found a 1963 Opel Kadett, in which he drove across Botswana. Hammond named it Oliver. On Top Gear a week after the special was aired, Hammond announced during the news, that he had shipped Oliver back to the UK, where it was restored by a team from Practical Classics magazine.

Чувак прелестен нереально