In a column for The Sunday Times, Jeremy Clarkson makes it clear why both the collaboration with Hammond and May and his time with cars on TV are over.
– Now I'm packing up. I'm too old and fat to get in and out of and corral the cars I like.
Jeremy Clarkson is so brutally honest in a new column for The Sunday Times .
However, the now 64-year-old TV Brit is not without humor in his farewell to the world of cars. That is, the one who has cards in your TV for the last 23 years.
And then he looks back on life, which really took off when Top Gear was relaunched in 2003. But in the beginning it was also difficult. Both viewers and the audience in the studio were gone.
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Even though James May was brought in as 'the breath of fresh air', it took time to shake off 'a critical left wing'. In fact, Clarkson believes that Top Gear as a program was made into a target from the very beginning. But it was mostly because the BBC was too politically correct, it says.
Today, the whole thing could well have continued. But everything has an end. Also when you are 64 years old and perhaps have a little too much on your side legs.
– I am too fat and old, and my back is stiff, I can no longer get into the cars I want to drive, and then it is time to retire, he writes.
However, Clarkson can't help but send a broadside at his arch-enemies on the other side of the political spectrum. Especially when it comes to cars.
– When we started, climate change hadn't been invented yet. Back then, cars were objects of love. Today, unfortunately, they have become objects of hatred, he writes.
The final Grand Tour program with host trio Clarkson, Hammond and May in front of the camera premieres on Friday 13 September. It all takes place in Zimbabwe.
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