According to The Mail on Sunday ,today, on page 7, it turns out that Clarkson and his 2 chums do not do the driving when it comes down the "the fast stuff" during the televised scenes on the made -up circuit they have. To quote the article," they are tv presenters not professional drivers".

Does this come as a great surprise, in a word....NO!

You can see it's made to look like Clarkson in the close ups in-car camera stuff, but the fact is Jeremy you don't let go of a car steering wheel and let it self-centre when a car is in full 4 wheel drift , whether it be a Fiat or Ferrari, Lada or Lambo, Morris Marina or Maserrati!!

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Not professional drivers?

To be honest half the time I don't think you could accuse them of being professional TV presenters either.

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