AN EPISODE of Top Gear which was filmed in Tenby and Pendine in January will air on BBC 2 at 8pm tonight.
The Top Gear stars and crew stayed at the Lamphey Court Hotel, Pembrokeshire during their stay in west Wales.
Whilst filming in Wales for the episode presenter Freddie Flintoff thought things had taken a turn for the worst as for one moment, he thought he’d actually killed his co-star Paddy McGuinness during one particularly dangerous stunt!
After the brand new team of presenters dropped in on Tenby back in January for filming at the resort’s harbour, Freddie, Paddy and co-host Chris Harris then headed over to Pendine beach where they filmed alongside The Stig racing around a marked out course after Top Gear producers challenged the team to a ‘series of sensible family car tests’ to back-up Paddy’s claim that the perfect second-hand family car was not a sturdy Volvo estate, or indeed a dependable Land Rover Discovery…but an old hearse!
“They’re spacious, carefully driven, and really very cheap, on account of no sane human wanting to but something that’s spent a decade ferrying corpses about!” Paddy told his fellow presenters.
Convinced, somehow, of Paddy’s genius, Chris and Freddie took it upon themselves to lightly upgrade Paddy’s Daimler, transforming it from hearse into…The Overtaker – Britain’s ultimate family car!
A beach assault course was set up on Pendine sands, complete with deckchairs, 500 buckets, 100 metres of wind breaks, seven jet skis, and two ice cream vans, used for a beach slalom course in which the hearse raced against a Mercedes AMG E63.
Flintoff was happy to wave to bystanders who had gathered during filming.
“It’s not often you have the chance to do both of your dream jobs, but I’m now lucky enough to say I will have,” he said.
“ I’ve always been passionate about cars and I’m so excited to be joining the Top Gear team.”
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