Jeremy Clarkson hints at major format change to The Grand Tour forthcoming special

JEREMY CLARKSON has hinted at a major format change ahead to The Grand Tour, as he admitted he “plans to do something similar”.

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May returned with their second Lockdown special of The Grand Tour. The series hit Amazon Prime Video back in December of last year, and viewers watched the trio go on another epic road trip. They started in the Welsh hills before finally reaching the English Channel.

hroughout Carnage A Trois, the presenters faced many different challenges including mountain climbing, driving propellor powered cars and taking on a helicopter stunt.

Jeremy discussed what fans could expect from the trio in the series.

He also addressed a change to the format of the programme after they managed to produce it during a pandemic.

“We’ll see how this one [series] is received, but there are plans to do something similar again,” the former Top Gear host admitted.

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“But for now, we can’t wait to get back to doing more big foreign travel.”

He continued: “So, it’s tricky because everything’s so fluid at the moment.

“It takes six months to plan a foreign trip for us, and who’s to know what’s going to happen in six months’ time?”

Speaking about what it was like to film the latest series with his two pals, Jeremy said: “There’s plenty of falling over and bashing, but in between, there are moments when the three of us sit down and have sensible conversations.

“Also, the car race we have is the best we’ve ever done. Genuinely the best we’ve ever done.”

“The French are extremely good at making hot hatchbacks, but there’s some debate over which is the best,” the 61-year-old added.

The Grand Tour wouldn’t be complete without a few crashes and stunts involved.

Jeremy, who also has his own farming show Clarkson’s Farm, went on to recall a couple of stunts on the show.

“Yes, there are a couple of stunts,” he explained. “There’s the Citroën SM, which we had to sit back and drool at because it’s so beautiful. “

“There’s still plenty of us c***ing about,” he joked. If you’re genuinely interested in why the French are different, there are some interesting points made.”

The Clarkson’s Farm star will be back on Amazon soon for the second season of the hit docu-series.

The programme sees Jeremy alongside his co-star Kaleb Cooper attempt to run Diddly Squat Farm.

“It’s been a totally crazy ride,” Jeremy said about the series.

Last year, JEREMY CLARKSON was visibly emotional as he discussed how his show The Grand Tour was headed for a major change.

Drama looks set to unfold as fans prepare for the next instalment of The Grand Tour, in which the trio are exploring the world of French cars. To pay tribute to motorsports’ French origins, the former Top Gear hosts faced off against three other drivers in some of the best four-wheelers the country has to offer. Jeremy Clarkson got behind the wheel of the Peugeot 306 GTi 6, whilst James May opted for the RenaultSport Clio 172 Cup. Richard Hammond’s Peugeot 205 GTi 1.6 was sent off track by one of the show’s script editors.

The trio have enjoyed making The Grand Tour since partnering with Amazon Prime in 2016, but at one stage, Mr Clarkson got emotional as they prepared for a big change in the show.
In April 2019, Mr Clarkson appeared to well up as he spoke in the final episode of season three.

This was because the trio were announcing that they would no longer be doing shows from their tent, meaning there would be no more studio audiences.

Mr Clarkson said: “Tell you what though, we have had some laughs.
“In all of the years we’ve worked together, every single time one of us fell over, there was never any sympathy,” he added. “We just burst into laughter straight away.”

They reassured fans, however, that they planned to continue making shows.

Mr Clarkson added that, while it was “upsetting” to be shelving the format of the past three years, the show itself would continue.

He said: “The show as you know it is ending and that’s very upsetting for us: the audience and this sort of thing and the track.

“But who’d like to see us doing more big adventures? Road trips? Specials?”

Due to COVID-19, Mr Clarkson, Mr May and Mr Hammond have had to film recent specials in the UK.

Mr May spoke topress outlets recently, and said he’d like future episodes to be somewhere new.

He said: “Ideally somewhere we haven’t been yet.

“We do have some ideas.

“We have some partly formed ideas on the back burner which we were working on before Covid stopped everything.”