Prime Gear followers have been left all nostalgic after Richard Hammond and James Could returned to the place they used to name dwelling for therefore a few years.
Minus frontman Jeremy Clarkson, two of the trio headed again to the previous Prime Gear headquarters, together with the studio hanger the place they might movie the episodes, in addition to the inexperienced room across the nook from it, the place the crew would work on scripts and excellent the present earlier than it aired.
Except you are a really younger member of the Gen Z brigade, you need to be conscious of simply how epic Sunday nights had been when Clarkson, Could, and Hammond took to our screens on the BBC between 2002 and 2015.
Taking what was an excellent but bizarre automobile present that had been operating since 1977, below that trio of automobile fans, Prime Gear changed into a worldwide phenomenon and embedded itself on the forefront of 2000s British popular culture.
However the empire got here crashing down in 2015, when Could and Hammond give up the present after Clarkson’s contract with the Beeb wasn’t renewed attributable to after an ‘unprovoked bodily assault’ on a Prime Gear producer.
The three moved to Amazon Prime Video and carried on their schtick below the brand new guise of The Grand Tour, which got here to an emotional finish in 2024.
Since then, the trio have formally parted methods professionally. Nevertheless it’s not stopping them from assembly up in their very own time, given they’re nonetheless mates off display screen.
Now, in a clip shared to the James Could’s Planet Gin YouTube channel, Could and Hammond had been seen rocking as much as the previous Prime Gear set at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey.
“I really feel humorous, I really feel actually odd being right here,” Hammond mentioned, with each of them confirming it was the primary time again on set since their final day in 2015.
Strolling across the inexperienced room after by chance locking themselves out of the constructing, Hammond mentioned ‘it by no means appeared glamorous’ again then and positively did not now with the constructing considerably dilapidated. After lastly discovering a door inside, they mentioned ‘it smells the identical… horrible’.
“I really feel each 10 years previous and 110 years previous,” Hammond mentioned. “It is that sense of I really feel like a bit boy however an previous man… bloody hell.
“Each week we would come right here for years and years and years.”
Venturing via the inexperienced room some extra, the duo got here throughout The Stig’s personal dressing room.
“The Stig had his personal room as a result of no person may know who he was so he would he would smuggle himself in right here and alter and costume,” Hammond defined.
In addition they discovered the spot the place they might put all their TV awards in a glass cupboard.
Followers had been feeling the nostalgic within the remark part of the YouTube video.
One wrote: “The perfect present that the BBC has ever misplaced. I can’t change my thoughts on that.”
One other quoted Hammond saying ‘this was an enormous a part of our lives’, including: “Richard… do not realise how a lot of an enormous a part of all our lives it was too.”
And a 3rd posted: “Nostalgia is a bizarre mixture of happiness that it occurred, and disappointment that it’ll by no means be the identical once more.”
