Being a Videographer for “The Grand Tour” Takes Guts (W/Video)

As the rebooted “Top Gear” ends its first season with Chris Evans’ departure bombshell, the original trio of Clarkson, Hammond, and May are doing even more prep work for their new Amazon Prime show, “The Grand Tour.”

We’ve already been given hints at what the three best blokes on television have been up to with the trio tweeting while on location, or doing Facebook Live videos from their office, but we haven’t seen the shenanigans that we’ve all come to know, love, and expect from them while they create brilliant content, until now.

When producing gorgeously shot videos that have a habit of blurring the lines between entertainment and artwork, those involved in the making of the video have a habit of pushing the boundaries and safety. Recently, on Jeremy Clarkson’s Facebook page, the Brit uploaded a “behind the scenes” video shot by one of the camera crew while filming an upcoming segment.

The video itself starts pretty innocuously, but about five seconds in, both Clarkson driving the new DB11, and Hammond, driving a Hellcat come drifting in a mere foot or so from the camera car’s front bumper. It is a truly fantastic shot purely from the inside of the camera car, but we can’t wait to see what it looks like with the actual cameras rolling when the show finally premieres this fall.

“The Grand Tour” will begin in South Africa, but Amazon also recently revealed that there would also be additional live studio recordings in the UK, the US, and Germany, and that each studio location would be “housed within a giant tent.” More locations will be added as the series progresses, and fans will be able to attend tapings after each city is announced.

Who’s ready for their ex-Top Gear fix?

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