The Grand Tour season two: is Jeremy Clarkson back at his best?

Trio’s ‘matesy bickering’ drives first episode of the new series on Amazon

Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson was dropped by the BBC in 2015 after assaulting a Top Gear producer
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The second season of Jeremy Clarkson’s Amazon Prime motoring show, The Grand Tour, premiered last night - and proved an instant hit with both fans and critics.

The opening episode saw Clarkson and co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May take three supercars across Switzerland before entering a hill-climb rally event.

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