Richard Hammond To Set Up Race Crew And Take An MGB GT Classic Automobile Racing

Richard Hammond, as you is perhaps conscious, isn’t merely a well-known TV presenter, he’s additionally the proprietor of a traditional automobile restore store referred to as The Smallest Cog. He might also quickly be the proprietor of a racing crew referred to as Crew Smallest Cog.

That’s the revelation from the most recent video on DriveTribe, wherein Hammond provides viewers a tour of his private automobile storage barn. A humbly adorned storehouse, albeit one with lots in it, The Grand Tour host runs by his assortment of automobiles and his plans for them.

On the finish of the video, he explains his “actually huge plans” for a blue 1972 MGB GT. Not solely that, however he additionally explains how he got here to personal the automobile, which was apparently meant to look on one in every of his final episodes as host of Prime Gear.

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“It’s the final automobile I drove on Prime Gear. At first modified,” he explains. “I drove it as a result of we did an merchandise, and we stated let’s deal with traditional automobiles – the opposite two don’t actually like traditional automobiles, I do – I purchased this as a result of I assumed, nicely, it’s the archetypal each man traditional.”

Hammond confesses, although, that he had by no means pushed one earlier than getting this very automobile for the manufacturing. He says that he couldn’t imagine how good the automobile was, regardless of not being a very uncommon nor costly traditional.

“I assumed it was probably the most spectacular little automobile. It’s acquired a sense of completeness to it,” he says. “Really it’s a crisp, pretty fantastically balanced, Pininfarina-styled, pretty little British coupe and I’ve a plan for it. A giant plan.”

So, he explains, the automobile can be a method to promote his storage to passionate homeowners who need their classics fastened. And there’s no another passionate, nor extra in want of repairs, than individuals who go classic automobile racing.

“So I’m going to take that racing as Crew Smallest Cog, and we’re going to race alongside folks with different traditional automobiles, and they will be taught to know us,” Hammond says. “And once we watch them smear their automobile down a wall and into the tires, we’ll be racing alongside them. I shall give them a enterprise card, and hopefully they’ll give the automobile to us to straighten.”