New series of Top Gear, that's who's leaving

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Do we need a spoiler for this? Probably.

It’s James according to the page for the new series.

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Well, shit.

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Pfft, the spoiler doesn’t stop the preview from spoiling what you’ve written :rolleyes:

I’d have preferred to see the Hamster go, you can replace that sort of presenting, old fart James is too much like an institution. I guess he’s had enough stuff of his own to get on with since he started on Top Gear.

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At least that German lady Sabine whatshername is making an appearance again.

Sabine Schmitz.

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I went over to the finalgear.com forums, and expected them to be freaking out about this, but it seems that the episode description was just a little ambiguous.

http://forums.finalgear.com/top-gear-pre-episode-discussions/11x01-june-22nd-2008-a-27914/

Nobody’s leaving, but a stunt driver is being introduced. (Could still be wrong, but we’ll know soon, right?)

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If they are introducing a stunt driver, is that perhaps because of Richard Hammond’s accident? Maybe the idea is that a professional should be the one to do the really insane stuff like that. And I hope they do like they did for Torchwood and broadcast the show in the US only shortly after the UK premiere, rather than making us wait months.

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Thanks to the fine work done by the people at FinalGear, I’ll be watching this episode tonight.

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It looks like they’re setting up a theme, of setting new world records which didn’t actually exist before. Tonight saw him set one for jumping over cars while driving backwards. If so, I presume it’s an elaboration on the rather uneventful setting of the first-ever indoor speed record for a car some time ago, which they did it in an F1 car, but it couldn’t grip the floor properly.

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I only caught a little (I’ve still to watch the rest of the show on tape) but I got that vibe when they introduced him. The lack of furore anywhere else should have clued me in.

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Sorry if this has already been asked: In tonight’s episode, what website did Jeremy first bring up that the editors didn’t let us see?

(Was it goatse?)

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Nearly died laughing at the police car segment. I’m so glad this show is back.