Comments on: Top Gear presenter suffered “significant brain injury”

By: Born Right The First Time

Born Right The First Time — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:39:31 +0000

he also loved the 911 JohnnyBozo

By: JohnnyBlazE

JohnnyBlazE — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:44:37 +0000

The reason Hammy rocked is because he didn’t give a crap if his stupid American car couldn’t handle and drank fuel like nobodies business… he understood the character of the car – beauty and a beast – screw practicality and mechanical genius – we don’t need that… that’s why I love American cars too… Raw.

Course, nothing will steal Euro Fords’ places in my heart…

By: Born Right The First Time

Born Right The First Time — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:55:05 +0000

I don’t understand your problem with gay people

By: John Landers

John Landers — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:42:08 +0000

Tiff Needle is awesome. If he’s gay, that’s even better! What a character!

By: Endurancevm

Endurancevm — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:30:10 +0000

MiracleGro: The reason Top Gear was entertaining is because of all the rediculous stuff they did, if you didnt have that, then you just have Tiff Needle and Fifth Gear…which is boring and hes gay.

By: Heydn

Heydn — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 02:19:26 +0000

This is pretty depressing, indeed. This bit from the BBC made me laugh, though…

“Hammond’s wife Mindy was at his bedside in the Leeds hospital and he was also visited by Top Gear co-hosts Jeremy Clarkson and James May.

Clarkson told The Sun newspaper that Hammond had smiled when Clarkson had insulted his driving skills.”

By: Hidden_Hunter

Hidden_Hunter — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:17:39 +0000

MiracleGro, I can’t stand people like you. A man is seriously injured and you deem it needed to attack the the show he was on.

By: MiracleGro

MiracleGro — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:17:44 +0000

The culture behind the show was warped, Jeremy and the producers obviously encouraged more extreme segments to keep the show top of the ratings.
The irony is that most car fanatics are not interested in rocket powered cars that bear little resemblence to road cars. This would have been the segmant during which I made a cup of tea

By: Renton

Renton — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:59:46 +0000

Very very sad. I hope he can feed himself still.

By: Toy Yoda

Toy Yoda — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:16:35 +0000

I hope he does get well. He’s my favorite of the 3 Top Gear hosts.

By: 1c3d0g

1c3d0g — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:07:27 +0000

Damn. Whenever I hear “significant brain injury” I can only hope things will go well for him. Just hang in there, Hammond.

By: gsh

gsh — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:55:05 +0000

it would suck very much to lose him, worse than when the first Stig died. cant replace hamster with another one…

By: BAMF

BAMF — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:36:13 +0000

Poor guy. I’m going to miss him terribly if he doesn’t come back to the show. I hope he has a full recovery, but if nothing else, I hope, for his sake, that he is still able to drive after all of this.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:32:15 +0000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/uk_enl_1158860103/img/1.jpg

By: bacalao

bacalao — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:01:09 +0000

i hope he doesnt die like the croc hunter did

By: Namir

Namir — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:41:30 +0000

Shoot, if only they had those camera activate speed bumps… they would have been able to slow him down.
But on a serious note, I do hope he makes a speedy recovery, Top Gear is the best car show around and Hammond is a big part of that… even though he gets his teeth whitened.

By: JC Whitless

JC Whitless — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:41:14 +0000

“Nobody deserves being locked inside a damaged brain and unable to function mentally”

Now lets not rush to judgement here…

I think Clarkson has been been this way for years!!

By: Hyperion

Hyperion — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:19:12 +0000

Nobody deserves being locked inside a damaged brain and unable to function mentally. Poor man.

By: MiracleGro

MiracleGro — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:10:31 +0000

I hope he makes as full a recovery as possible,but significant brain injury doesn’t auger well for his broadcasting career. You have to feel for his wife and kids. The air ambulance that took him to hospital has raised £4000 in donations to keep their service going already

By: Jimbo - G Mill$

Jimbo - G Mill$ — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:05:33 +0000

Hammond was a cool guy; atleast on the show. Hope he puls through this mess.
…and i thought i was a mess during my hernia surgery

By: Piablo

Piablo — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:56:17 +0000

Nice Yoda.

Andre Neves – I wasn’t serious at all, but I was very sarcastic. I wish the Hamster the best recovery possible.

By: Toy Yoda

Toy Yoda — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:47:39 +0000

Maybe traction control could exist if there were two rockets. A computer could adjust the thrust depending on whether traction was slipping on either side of the car. This would assist the driver in handling.

By: Mach

Mach — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:43:29 +0000

Hope he has a full recovery

To the first post, how can you have traction control on a jet-powered dragster?

By: 5P33DY

5P33DY — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:43:02 +0000

Hamster is a legend!
Lets hope for a speedy recovery.

By: The Stig

The Stig — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:37:00 +0000

Best wishes for a speedy recovery Richard.

By: Scott Kempton

Scott Kempton — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:25:49 +0000

Jesus—I’m sure that with your impeccable credentials, your translation of the doctors’ prognosis is spot-on. But how about giving them, and their patient, a break by wishing him a speedy recovery? I’m sure that’s what Jesus would do.

By: Firekyro

Firekyro — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:02:34 +0000

They are all good guys and its just terrible.

By: Saud

Saud — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:30:40 +0000

Damn, I liked the hamster better than clarkson & may. Hope he gets well.

By: Jesus

Jesus — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:19:44 +0000

Gotta love doctors euphemisms
“good recovery” = not dead

By: Endurancevm

Endurancevm — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:19:18 +0000

Go Hamster! I hope he does get better because if he doesnt Top Gear will have to get back that stupid fat guy that was in season 1.

By: Jesus

Jesus — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:18:24 +0000

grow up Mike

By: Andre Neves

Andre Neves — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:18:21 +0000

Piablo, you can’t be serious.

Does anyone know if there has been any type of footage released of this?

By: Andre Neves

Andre Neves — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:17:14 +0000

that really sucks, I hope he gets better because I liked him the most of the two on top gear

By: Piablo

Piablo — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:15:56 +0000

Hmm, maybe if he had a government mandated traction control system there wouldn’t have been a crash.