Richard Hammond says Grand Tour finale with Jeremy Clarkson and James May ends partnership ‘on own terms’

Richard Hammond says Grand Tour finale ends on trio's 'own terms'Source: ITV

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00:00Jeremy and James, there's one last drive in you.

00:02You've got the Grand Tour. I know.

00:04One for the road, I think it's out on Friday,

00:06and that's the last one. That's the end.

00:08That is the end. 23 years. I know.

00:10That feels quite final. It is.

00:13We've done it. We always wanted to land it on our own terms.

00:16It took off.

00:18We started on Top Gear together 23 years ago,

00:20and it went berserk.

00:23We didn't know it was going to do that.

00:25So that was kind of out of our control,

00:27and we always wanted to make sure that when we finally

00:29landed our partnership together, it was on our terms,

00:33at a time, in a place, and in a manner of our choosing.

00:35And we have.

00:36But having done it, and the film is out, yeah, Friday,

00:40it's really weird.

00:41And I sat there and thought, oh, wow, this is...

00:44I've been doing this for 23 years because of that partnership,

00:48and it ends.

00:49And I'll never do it again as part of...

00:53That makes me have a bit of an icky heart, let alone you.

00:57It's going to hit, I reckon, six months from now,

00:59I'll suddenly sit up in bed in the morning and go,

01:00oh, it's all over!

01:02It'll really hit me.

01:03If you could go back 23 years and tell 23-year-ago Richard

01:07what it was going to be like working with Jeremy...

01:08I was only 31. 31, you old bitch.

01:10What it was going to be like working with Jeremy and James

01:1223 years, what advice would you give him?

01:13Well, I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you.

01:17No, I would say, stick with it, it's going to be incredible.

01:19When I got the job, I said to Mindy, dear wife,

01:25they rang and said, would you like to join the team?

01:27I'll be honest, I burst into tears.

01:28Are you sure? Me? OK.

01:31And we opened a bottle of champagne and I said to Mindy,

01:33this is going to change everything, and it did.