Richard Hammond says Grand Tour finale ends on trio's 'own terms'Source: ITV
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00:00Jeremy and James, there's one last drive in you.
00:02You've got the Grand Tour. I know.
00:04One for the road, I think it's out on Friday,
00:06and that's the last one. That's the end.
00:08That is the end. 23 years. I know.
00:10That feels quite final. It is.
00:13We've done it. We always wanted to land it on our own terms.
00:16It took off.
00:18We started on Top Gear together 23 years ago,
00:20and it went berserk.
00:23We didn't know it was going to do that.
00:25So that was kind of out of our control,
00:27and we always wanted to make sure that when we finally
00:29landed our partnership together, it was on our terms,
00:33at a time, in a place, and in a manner of our choosing.
00:35And we have.
00:36But having done it, and the film is out, yeah, Friday,
00:40it's really weird.
00:41And I sat there and thought, oh, wow, this is...
00:44I've been doing this for 23 years because of that partnership,
00:48and it ends.
00:49And I'll never do it again as part of...
00:53That makes me have a bit of an icky heart, let alone you.
00:57It's going to hit, I reckon, six months from now,
00:59I'll suddenly sit up in bed in the morning and go,
01:00oh, it's all over!
01:02It'll really hit me.
01:03If you could go back 23 years and tell 23-year-ago Richard
01:07what it was going to be like working with Jeremy...
01:08I was only 31. 31, you old bitch.
01:10What it was going to be like working with Jeremy and James
01:1223 years, what advice would you give him?
01:13Well, I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you.
01:17No, I would say, stick with it, it's going to be incredible.
01:19When I got the job, I said to Mindy, dear wife,
01:25they rang and said, would you like to join the team?
01:27I'll be honest, I burst into tears.
01:28Are you sure? Me? OK.
01:31And we opened a bottle of champagne and I said to Mindy,
01:33this is going to change everything, and it did.