Did Hammond make it to the pole?

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SJMR_82@reddit

No he didn’t. I’m sure I read somewhere that they went back after learning that Clarkson and May made it.

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RafflesEsq@reddit

You’ve crashed into the sports iceberg!

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Azuras-Becky@reddit

They rolled about 10 times. Firefighters couldn't put out the fire for five days.

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He mentioned it on today’s drivetribe video, the plane that collected Clarkson and May was supposed to pick Hammond up too but it lost a ski on landing at the pole so had to fly back to base and pick Hamster up the next day. He said they made camp wherever they’d got to when he got the call that they’d lost the race and spent the night working their way through the medic’s drug supply

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fitterking3000@reddit

I remember the opposite. It was the met up area where a plane flew in and picked them all up

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devadander23@reddit

Meet up area wasn’t at the pole

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SJMR_82@reddit

Not sure but Wikipedia says production didn’t make Hammond continue to the pole

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fitterking3000@reddit

You know what we need? CHM to write books on their adventures. Like Mr William

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SJMR_82@reddit

True! Or a podcast on all the specials. I really wanted these last three Grand Tour episodes to be a ‘behind the scenes’ and/or a ‘bloopers’ or bits that didn’t make the final episodes. That would have given fans so much more insight and more to enjoy than just three quite lazy best of episodes.

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I_Have_The_Legs@reddit

I've heard they couldn't land to collect Hammond so he had to sled all the way back too

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TJ_Blues18@reddit

They were going to the magnetic north pole. not the one on "the top of the word", but I think he made it.

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YetiBoney@reddit

He did not make it, as they stated.

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TJ_Blues18@reddit

Thanks for the update, it was such a long time ago and I was lazy to google it. I only remember the car toilet and James offering Gin to Jeremy. :)

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FriskyDingoOMG@reddit

Excuse me, you will address Jeremy’s invention by its proper name… The bumper dumper.

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TJ_Blues18@reddit

The bumber dumper is a great name and actually one of his few great inventions.

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tryingtolearn_1234@reddit

Technically none of them made it to the pole

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ComputerLord98@reddit

From the BBC Top Gear Production Notes:

Richard never actually made it to the Pole. Communications between the two teams were unreliable at best, and after Jeremy and James arrived and we realised just how far behind Richard was and it seemed cruel to make him go the extra distance just so Clarkson could gloat.

Source

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Suitable_Candle1518@reddit

There is a video posted on Hammonds Drivetribe channel that was posted today (they nicked the idea of Wired autocomplete video) which answers this question. Best watch that for the full story

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THevil30@reddit

Crucially nether of them made it to the pole. They just sort of drove around in northern Canada for like 100 miles. If you actually look at the map of the polar special it’s like “really? That was it?”

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snowmunkey@reddit

Found someone who doesn't know the difference between magnetic north and true north

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THevil30@reddit

I do know the difference, but they ALSO didnt reach the magnetic North Pole; they reached where the magnetic North Pole was in 1996 (11 years before then) which was 150 miles away from the then-current magnetic North Pole.

I like the special well enough, it’s just that they factually did not drive to either the geographic nor the magnetic North Pole. The Wikipedia article is pretty spot on about this, they weren’t on the polar ice cap they were in a patch of frozen sea in Nunavut only about 150 miles north of Canada’s northernmost town

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Fun-Web-7583@reddit

TGT is not that kind of show. Never they have ever been correct with anything, it’s part of the fun and charm. And yh… that’s it.

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THevil30@reddit

Never said it was, I have nothing against the polar special, it's good entertainment. Was just responding to the specific post haha.

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TDavy147@reddit

What are you on about?

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THevil30@reddit

Responded in a separate comment.

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killconsolepeasants@reddit

In a sense they did go to the North Pole but in a way it was somewhat misleading. Where they went was technically the GPS coordinates of the magnetic North Pole, but it was the location where the North Pole was 11 years earlier (in 1996 or so). By the time Top Gear filmed there the magnetic North Pole had drifted much further up north and I doubt they could realistically get there.

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signmeupnot@reddit

Hammond, May...

Bad luck

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