Miami gets into Top Gear
TEASER: A JOLLY BOYS’ OUTING AFTER LOCKDOWN – AND THE STIG SETS OFF ALARMS
Popular motoring show will air on BBC One before coming to South Africa.
The BBC has released the first official teaser video for the 32nd season of Top Gear, due to air “very soon”. Once again fronted by Chris Harris, Paddy McGuinness and Andrew Flintoff, the latest instalment of the famed motoring show, which will once again air on the broadcaster’s premium station, BBC One, sees the trio descending on
Miami for what appears to be a Top Gear Special to start proceedings off.
Opening with the trio’s luggage being searched at customs, the one minute 25 second clip then sees them piloting an RV, attending a drag race and getting drenched in a swamp buggy race.
The clip also includes scenes of Harris taking part in an oval-type banger race in a Ford
Crown Victoria, McGuinness riding solo in a bobsleigh and what appears to be an re-enactment of the cult ’70s television show Starsky & Hutch, featuring a Ford Gran Torino like the show’s protagonists, David Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) and Ken Hutchinson (David Soul), drove.
Unsurprisingly, the clip shows The Stig emerging from seemingly nowhere and standing next to Harris. He proceeds to ignore the security officer’s request for him to remove his helmet.
The video ends with airport personal running to the interview room after the triggering of an alarm, seemingly as a result of The Stig’s refusal.
In a subsequent interview discussing the episode, Harris said filming amounted to “a jolly boys’ outing; we were chomping at the bit to go overseas and explore after having been locked-down for so long in the UK”.
Despite lingering criticism of the broadcaster dropping longtime presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May in 2015, the show, reorganised in 2019, has seemingly regained its past form.
According to viewership figures, just over six-million Britons watched season 31, down on season 30’s 6.4 million.
Airing in South Africa is expected to take place on DStv’s BBC Brit.