Richard Hammond has wasted no time in announcing an ‘exciting’ new project after his Amazon Prime show with Jeremy Clarkson and James May ended.
The presenter, 54, brought close to his long-standing TV partnership with his fellow ‘petrol-heads’ on Friday with the release of One For The Road.
But just hours later he revealed he already had something new in the pipeline with his restoration company, The Smallest Cog.
Sharing a photo to Instagram, Richard wrote: ‘It’s an end of a era. BUT the start of something exciting, we don’t just have 1 but 2 of the latest The Grand Tour cars!
‘We are so excited to start work on these icons, keeping their special memories but getting them back to a usable working order to be enjoyed.’
Richard Hammond has wasted no time in announcing an ‘exciting’ new project after his Amazon Prime show with Jeremy Clarkson and James May ended
The presenter, 54, brought close to his long-standing TV partnership with his fellow ‘petrol-heads’ on Friday with the release of One For The Road
Richard founded The Smallest Cog in 2021, with the company featuring in his Discovery+ series Richard Hammond’s Workshop.
Last week, Richard said he was getting ready to ‘wake up and cry every day’ as he prepares to bid goodbye to his partnership with Jeremy and James.
Speaking on Monday’s This Morning ahead of the final episode, Richard admitted he was ‘struggling to get his head around’ the end.
Joining hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard, he recalled his career on Top Gear and said: ‘It went berserk and we didn’t know it would go out of control. It feels really weird I can’t get my head round it.
‘I’ve been doing this for 22 years because of that partnership. I’ll be forever grateful to Jeremy and James.’
Richard continued: ‘It’s not sunk in yet. I reckon six months from now I’ll wake up every morning and cry.
‘When I got the job, I was 31, I burst out crying when they called. I said to my wife, “this is going to change everything,” and it did.’
For their last adventure, viewers see Jeremy, Richard, and James ignore Mr Wilman’s instructions and head to Zimbabwe in three cars they’ve always wanted to own.
But just hours later he revealed he already had something new in the pipeline with his restoration company, The Smallest Cog
The final ever episode sees the trio traverse the width of Zimbabwe in three cars, all unfit for the task, as they say goodbye on a high
The trio will embark on a stunning road trip through beautiful, challenging landscapes in a Lancia Montecarlo, a Ford Capri 3-litre, and a Triumph Stag before finishing the episode with an emotional ending on a strangely familiar island.
Long-time producer Andy Wilman told the Edinburgh TV Festival that filming the episode was ‘quite weepy’ and ‘quite heart-stringy’.
Asked why the trio had decided to bring to a close the global phenomenon, Wilman said: ‘We are getting to the point where enough is enough. On top of that, there is the sense that we want to end things on our own terms. It had to come to an end and we wanted to be the ones who called it.’
They shot the last episode in September last year. It will see the hosts return to Kubu Island, Botswana, which was the location of their first ever special. Wilman described the episode as “deliberately gentle” as the three stars wanted to go back to basics.
