This article is about Richard Hammond, the most interesting, exciting and charming, which we want to constantly see on our screens a variety of devices. The one whose shows can be watched and reviewed all the time. Richard Hammond, whose new shows we are waiting with great excitement and desire! And they are always magnificent and interesting. Especially his last show, which turned out to be really Grand, and Big, it causes delight, admiration. After watching the already released series, I want to see season 2. Or something similar about smart, amazing with the intellect, beauty and scale things in this world. I am about Richard Hammond's Big on Discovery Channel and... on Amazon too!

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But we can be happy, because soon there will be a new show about smart things, about real discoveries and real fun on an uninhabited paradise island somewhere in Peru. Richard Hammond and Tori Bellesi promise to surprise us, and if you are wondering how to survive there, you can purchase such a book.

I'd love to know the most difficult answer to the question, but how can a vegan survive there? If it is convinced to the end that kindness will change the world, and not his death from hunger. But it can not to be a non vegan. After all, the modern world with its conditions gives us so many opportunities to become kinder and more attentive to living creatures around. Because everyone knows how to survive an ordinary person, but how to survive a vegan would be very exciting to know! Although the answer looks very simple, bananas, coconuts, papaya and other wonders that you can eat all year round and not think about anything grow on the islands. But will it be there?

It's very unusual to see Richard with anyone other than James and Jeremy. But maybe in the future they will come up with some new projects, where they will film together for their loyal fans? It would be interesting to see them on such an uninhabited island, where they would live for about a month.

I translated specially for DriveTribe a Big, interesting article from Portuguese magazine Noticias on English language. There you can find the most exciting information about the new EV car for Richard Hammond this year, his choice of a better future. And let it brings him a good luck and a great mood! And a good health. Always.

20 of January 2020

Richard Hammond: the man and the passion for the machine

It was at the wheel of "Top Gear" that Richard Hammond became known on a planetary scale. But it is much more than that. He is a journalist, television presenter, father and husband. He has the soul of an engineer. And a great appetite for adventure.

The boy who “invented” the steam engine at the age of seven has been spreading the word about the combustion engine and the gospel of engineering for three decades. It should release in April on the Discovery channel, on cable television, “Richard Hammond’s Big”, a program dedicated to engineering… in a big way.

You probably know this 50 year old Englishman in one of the seasons of the worldwide hit “Top Gear” or one of the programs he starred in, like “Brainiac” or “Science of Stupid”. Today, his home is “The Grand Tour”, on Amazon, where he moved after the BBC's turbulent departure from friend and co-worker Jeremy Clarkson, with whom he traveled the five continents trying out cars for the past 20 years.

Richard Hammond received “Notícias Magazine” in a London hotel (Photo: Luís Pedro Carvalho) Richard Hammond received “Notícias Magazine” in a London hotel (Photo: Luís Pedro Carvalho)

Showing great engineering achievements on television is not a new concept, but Hammond's latest program, to debut in April, has the English character and humor, emphasizing the “Big”, the big and disproportionate, which makes a little insect feel. “It's about the difference between a big plane or a really big one. A tall building or the tallest in the world. And what it means for those who designed and built it ”, he sums up, in a conversation with“ Notícias Magazine ”, in London, the day after arriving from recordings on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

And the apology for what is great continues, were it not for “Hamster” - affectionate name that gave him the mentor in automotive journalism, Zog Ziegler - an aficionado of American culture, in which vans are almost trucks and a small utility would give to transport the All the family. “Building in a big way has an impact, excites, fills us”, he underlines with the emotion of the ten-year-old child who says he has hidden inside himself, recalling the construction of the pyramids in Egypt: “It makes us feel small for our own deeds”.

Despite focusing on structures that are the product of mathematical calculations and physics, what Richard wants to show us are the people, faces and brains of those who had the audacity to imagine something that goes beyond what seems reasonable. Among the places he visited, and with which he hopes to fascinate us, is the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, 863 meters above Dubai. “It's almost a kilometer”, he exclaims, to present us with one of the factoids that he hopes will be the topic of conversation in any café on the planet. “Floats on the sand. There is no rock underneath. Use friction between the pillars and the sand ”to stay upright. And the enthusiasm was the same as counting the in-flight refueling of the largest military cargo plane, the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, or describing the Kölnbrein dam in Austria.

Photo: Discovery Channel Photo: Discovery Channel

Passion was born in the cradle . But where does the passion for engineering and engines come from? He, who has always been a journalist and communicator, seems to have been destined to like cars. It all started with the hometown, the Birmingham industrial powerhouse, and with the work of his maternal grandfather, in the British automobile conglomerate British Leyland. “My grandfather used to build bodies. [It was] a beautiful factory and those were the times when a metal chassis was built with a wooden structure on top. It was in my blood. ”Plus: my grandmother worked at Morris and her paternal grandfather taught Polish military personnel to drive during World War II. There was really no escape.

Inevitably, a child's curiosity led him to want to know more. The toys were destroyed to find out how they worked - "it was the worst", he assures us - and were almost always unusable, because the reconstruction never went as expected.

The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is the world's largest military cargo aircraft (Photo: Discovery) The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is the world's largest military cargo aircraft (Photo: Discovery)

With a smile, he recalls a tender story of “Rich”, a spanner and a half engineer: “At the age of seven, tell me my father, I invented the steam engine. I must have seen something at school, I drew a diagram and took it to him: ‘If you heat the water and make steam, you can…’. ‘Yes, Rich, it’s a steam engine,’ ”replied Alan Hammond, much to the disappointment of the petiz.

This “love affair” with the machines is so intense that, after recording a “Top Gear” special in Botswana, he had to return to England with “Oliver”, the Opel Kadett that made him cross the Kalahari desert, the delta Okavango and reach Namibia. “This is where design and engineering can become emotional. That car was designed with a purpose: to be simple and cheap to use. But it spent its life between South Africa and Botswana and I used it for very different purposes than it was imagined. I get the feeling that you're brave. It seems. ”And hesitates.

Built in the 1970s, the Kölnbrein dam (Austria) rises 200 meters high (Photo: Discovery) Built in the 1970s, the Kölnbrein dam (Austria) rises 200 meters high (Photo: Discovery)

“I know it isn't”, he says, as if to accept that there is something beyond what would be socially acceptable in this passion. “It is a set of metal pieces, but they were designed and assembled by human minds. They are the continuation of the human mind. I still feel happy whenever I get in the car ”, he says, even after having driven almost everything you can imagine. And Oliver has already taken on a life of its own. Its destination is a recurring question on the Internet and there are even those who borrowed it for their wedding day. "

“Top Gear” and… the environment? The fact that I have no technical training in science or engineering is not a problem, quite the contrary." Without a reputation in the area to maintain, Hammond is ready to ask the "stupid questions" about how things work. "If I understand, everyone will understand." The knowledge he has is enough to make some repairs to the cars during expeditions of programs like "The Grand Tour" or "Top Gear". “I am quite capable. I can weld well, not always brilliantly ”, he says, explaining that there is always an engineer in the adventures, because taste does not give him the ability to maintain up to 26 cars (plus the three presenters) of the caravan that accompanies the more complicated challenges of the May, Clarkson and Hammond trio.

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At a time when the environment is a central theme, someone who stands out in programs that glorify combustion engines must have something to say, and Hammond goes back to engineering to confirm that he shares in part Clarkson's idea on the theme: science will solve the problem.

“A bigger change in our lifestyle is needed. It's lazy to say it's just the car. Textiles, for example, have a carbon footprint four times greater than that of transport. It's huge. ”And if the future of the car is electric, Hammond is attentive: he arrived at the interview with“ Notícias Magazine” in a hybrid Mercedes and plans to buy the Porsche Taycan electric supercar this year. On the current symbol of the fight against climate change, Greta Thunberg, not a word. He smiled.

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Not everything is rosy for someone who has seen life pass before their eyes, in an accident at about 500 kilometers an hour, during the recording of “Top Gear”, with a jet car prepared to set speed records . It was in 2006, but it is present in the spirit of those who saw the pictures with its own eyes, who still today has difficulty talking about that second in which everything seemed lost. In 2017, there was a new visit to the hospital, with his injured left leg, after a screening at the wheel of an electric sports car in Switzerland.

“There are no magic pixels on television to protect you. You have to be aware that you are still in the real world ”, warns Hammond to anyone who thinks the screen is just glamour. “A tire breaks at 514 kilometers per hour and I am injured in the hospital for a long time. Or else I shatter my legs on a Swiss mountain. ”So prudence is essential, whether driving a car or hanging from a crane in the port of Rotterdam, seeing the largest container ship in the world.

“Big” passed through Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, to visit the largest freighter in the world (Photo: Rogier Bos / Discovery Channel) “Big” passed through Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, to visit the largest freighter in the world (Photo: Rogier Bos / Discovery Channel)

Between scratch and a cup of tea . Later in the conversation, the theme of adventurism and risk comes up again. The tone gets more serious. He, better than anyone, knows what storms have been through. Will you be an adventurer who does not assess the risks? “No, you can't be a‘ daredevil ’flying helicopters [you have a flight license and a helicopter]. They don't forgive. I am not irresponsible. It would be disrespectful to my wife and my daughters. I do this job to support ourselves. Do I want to kill myself and leave them without Daddy? No! Not at all. ”

What does the woman, Mindy, think of this job? “She has an opinion on the topic.” Negative, you can imagine. "I don't want to call her, or worse, I don't want anyone to call her again to say I'm in the hospital and a bit broken."

What is certain is that it even seems easy when the emblematic trio gathers on the screen. They have known each other for so long that they know how they will react and “this is comfortable”, considers the presenter whose name is marked in the history of television, alongside those of Jeremy Clarkson, the outspoken and always involved in controversial master of ceremonies of “Top Gear ”and“ The Grand Tour ”, and the - sometimes - thoughtful James May.

In the future, Hammond finds himself behind the scenes, carrying out or idealizing new programs, letting the younger ones shine, and staying away from the hustle and bustle. For now, he continues to cross Colombia in an old car, making the Mekong delta, between Cambodia and Vietnam, on a speedboat or needing to assemble a car to get out of an inhospitable part of Mongolia.

With this excitement, what still excites Richard Hammond? The answer comes out quickly and with a mischievous smile, which also made the trio of aides in the room laugh: “A good seated rest, a nice cup of tea. I like to excel at work. I try to do difficult things and ‘Big’ is an ambitious program. But also, when I'm at home, I go for a run with my dog ​​”.

The frantic pace leads him to not know if he has ever been to Porto. In Portugal, yes. There is evidence, because the first episode of “The Grand Tour” passed by the Algarve race track. But in Porto? "I think so ... But, because of my ridiculous work, I travel so much that I don't even realize if I've been anywhere until I go back there and notice 'Oh, I've been here'. Let's assume I was and that I liked it. ”Another inseparable facet of almost everything you do: humor. Richard even got his feet wet in the stand up, in “Richard’s Hammonds Crash Course” (“funny name”, he comments), a program in which he tried different professions. Verdict: “I will never do that again. It is really very difficult, don't do it! ”. And the conversation was interrupted by a fire alarm. It was just a test, but it served as a motto to accelerate until the end of the interview.

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