Where to start? Poor Richard Hammond was injured last March in a motorbike accident, and had to be airlifted to hospital just three months later after crashing a Rimac Concept One electric car while taking part in the famous Hemburg time-trial. And then some!' The Grand Tour: Remind us of the drama that went down in series 2. There's no grand-scale online motoring community where people can meet and share video, comments, information and opinion.

'But people who are into cars have got nowhere. 'Gamers have got Twitch, travellers have got TripAdvisor and fashion fans have got, oh, something or other too,' Hammond told The Guardian. The trio teamed up with Grand Tour producer Andy Wilman and Beamly tech mogul Ernesto Schmitt to launch the service in 2016.ĭriveTribe is being presented as a car enthusiast's equivalent to Twitch, where gamers can watch other amateurs and professionals in action. There's always DriveTribe – the motoring app launched by Clarkson, Hammond and May. The gamble clearly paid off, as the first season of The Grand Tour made a nice profit of £8.39 million before taxes, (nearly $11 million dollars), according to AOL UK. This makes it Amazon's biggest investment in original content to date, and easily one of the most expensive UK shows ever made. It means on average they have around £4.5m to spend per episode. When they first joined Amazon, the team were given a whopping budget of £160 million. The Grand Tour season 3: How expensive will it be? And I think the viewers would agree,' Jeremy Clarkson told Digital Spy recently.

'It's easier to spend the money and time on films, rather than on the guest.

That will change in the new Grand Tour episodes, because the trio have dropped the celebrity interviews entirely. One segment of the trio's shows, dating back to their Top Geardays, has been bantering with celebrity guests - from Carol Vorderman to Tim Burton - about their motoring likes and dislikes. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have made some crucial changes to the show's format. The Grand Tour season 3: Will there be any changes? If you want a full guide as to what the hell Amazon Prime is and how you can watch it on your desktop, smartphone, tablet or TV, head over to our in-depth handy primer here. When it is finally released – as well as the first and second seasons – you can watch it all online via Amazon Prime.

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