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Freddie Flintoff
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Been airlifted to hospital after car crash while filming Top Gear. Haven’t seen anyone reporting his condition which is extremely concerning.
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Just read a BBC article that reports that his condition is not life threatening which is a relief.1
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There’s always an accident waiting to happen on Top Gear. Flintoff is a cricketer and McGuiness a comic. They ain’t racing drivers. Didn’t Richard Hammond have a serious accident a few years back1
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Hammond has had multiple horror crashes. It's certainly a dangerous job!_MrDick said:There’s always an accident waiting to happen on Top Gear. Flintoff is a cricketer and McGuiness a comic. They ain’t racing drivers. Didn’t Richard Hammond have a serious accident a few years back1 -
James May had a horrible one on the latest Grand Tour Special too2
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Is now time to reduce the stunts on Top Gear before someone is killed.There has now been near fatal crashes Iam not being a killjoy because I dont like the programme.Top gearhas changed so much since the 50s/60s when it all about new cars and their pros and cons.I remember Noel Edmonds programme when a stunt went wrong.Please BBC tone itdown about as to not put lives at risk.1
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driving very powerful cars at very high speeds is a dangerous job .. get well soon Freddie0
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That was stupid, driving in a dark tunnel into a concrete wall. I'm surprised that was signed off by health and safetyPelling1993 said:James May had a horrible one on the latest Grand Tour Special too1 -
Yes - that was very silly!BigRedEvil said:
That was stupid, driving in a dark tunnel into a concrete wall. I'm surprised that was signed off by health and safetyPelling1993 said:James May had a horrible one on the latest Grand Tour Special too0 -
The cynic in me thinks that they just put it down to good publicity for a new series coming out._MrDick said:There’s always an accident waiting to happen on Top Gear. Flintoff is a cricketer and McGuiness a comic. They ain’t racing drivers. Didn’t Richard Hammond have a serious accident a few years back
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I'd always assumed that Freddie and the No Likey No Lighty fella had to do some kind of racing licence to drive cars at speed around the race tracks/runways as they wouldnt be able to get insurance?
As for the May/Captain Slow crash in that tunnel, christ he was lucky. I thought they were bloody mental doing that, even before Jezza done the first run.2 - Sponsored links:
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Do racing drivers need to have different lincense? Or do the team or in this case broadcasting companies cover any extra insurance?0
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I do think sometimes 'risk ' is misunderstood.
Such a show is not (cannot?) be risk free. There are steps to mitigate and also to respond if the risk materialises but it is the 'risk' which sells the programme in the first place. Also of course clever editing / camera angles etc. to exaggerate speed / danger helps too
People do not watch plain / vanilla programmes if there is an alternate more exciting choice.
In this instance we don't yet know what happened. Regardless it will influence the show going forward.0 -
Really hope he recovers fully and isn’t suffering, I bet the production team were straight onto the press when it happened 🤔SELR_addicks said:
The cynic in me thinks that they just put it down to good publicity for a new series coming out._MrDick said:There’s always an accident waiting to happen on Top Gear. Flintoff is a cricketer and McGuiness a comic. They ain’t racing drivers. Didn’t Richard Hammond have a serious accident a few years back0 -
Their insurance premiums must be astronomical.😲0
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Broken rib & facial injuries.0
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JohnBoyUK said:I'd always assumed that Freddie and the No Likey No Lighty fella had to do some kind of racing licence to drive cars at speed around the race tracks/runways as they wouldnt be able to get insurance?As for the May/Captain Slow crash in that tunnel, christ he was lucky. I thought they were bloody mental doing that, even before Jezza done the first run.Flintoff does have his racing driver's licence now.0
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Flintoff also does some ridiculous stunts like the car bungee jump off of a dam. Balls of steel but completely unnecessary._MrDick said:There’s always an accident waiting to happen on Top Gear. Flintoff is a cricketer and McGuiness a comic. They ain’t racing drivers. Didn’t Richard Hammond have a serious accident a few years back0 -
Didn’t he smash up a rally car in ALOTO?Friend Or Defoe said:
Flintoff also does some ridiculous stunts like the car bungee jump off of a dam. Balls of steel but completely unnecessary._MrDick said:There’s always an accident waiting to happen on Top Gear. Flintoff is a cricketer and McGuiness a comic. They ain’t racing drivers. Didn’t Richard Hammond have a serious accident a few years back0 -
Great, smashing, super.2 -
You can’t beat a bit of Bully!guinnessaddick said:Great, smashing, super.0 - Sponsored links:
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Freddie is not the only famous (or rather that should read "infamous") person to appear on Bullseye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjQYUDsVAV4
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p/t T V celeb & p/t England cricket coach0
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Sorry Freddie, only people who have represented Charlton should present Bullseye.0
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Let's see what you would have won
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BFH0
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“You’ve got the time it takes the car to revolve to make your mind up”0
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Applied for that as soon as I saw it. I wonder if they're still doing speedboatsguinnessaddick said:Great, smashing, super.0 -
Croydon said:
Applied for that as soon as I saw it. I wonder if they're still doing speedboatsguinnessaddick said:Great, smashing, super.
Used to love seeing people on landlocked northern bobholes winning those.
Or their BFH
That's yer bus fare home0 -
Odd. peculiar, strange!0
