Hammond's Noble at Imola heads Top Gear Classic's week of races and chases

The 45-minute compilation also directs a car chase, races homemade mobility scooters and ends on rallycross.

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Reckless Races and Car Chases | Top Gear Classic

"Reckless Races and Car Chases | Top Gear Classic" is the BBC Studios clips channel doing what it does best: stitching old episodes into one long sitting. Jeremy, James and Richard race supercars at Imola, turn film directors for a car chase, build mobility scooters for a race that is low on speed and high on drama, then finish at a rallycross track. It passed 200,000 views in under a week.

The comment section has settled on a hero. Viewers keep coming back to Richard Hammond in a Noble with no driver aids, no ABS and a manual gearbox, finishing within seconds of a professional in a Ferrari 458, and several call him the best driver of the three that day. Others enjoy James strapped into a racing harness in a vehicle slower than walking pace, and more than one names the rallycross among their favorite challenges ever.

The other new uploads were Jeremy taking the McLaren P1 from Bruges to Spa, from Series 21, and a short of caravan conkers from Series 5. Meanwhile a 20-day-old roundup of the wildest challenges of 2011, burning Skoda Yeti and Albanian police chase included, is drawing almost exactly as many daily views as the new compilation.

The channel ran a little above its usual pace, and among the motoring channels near its size it added the most views of the week, about four million, roughly three times what Chevrolet managed. RESTORED and Speed Academy were having much quieter stretches.

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The videos drawing views on Top Gear Classic right now

The Mighty McLaren P1 goes to Spa! | Top Gear Classic116,973 views · 2026-09-29 Caravan conkers! 🌰 #TopGear13,025 views · 2026-09-30 (Some of) The Wildest Challenges from 2011 | Top Gear Classic806,633 views Top Gear Goes Off-Road | Top Gear Classic604,517 views

The numbers

Here is how Top Gear Classic's week looks in figures.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Top Gear Classic

4,052,526

Chevrolet

1,319,005

RESTORED

1,179,589

Autoalex Cars

963,967

Garbage Time

906,016

Sparks Motors

517,442

Zip Tie Tuning

515,869

Speed Academy

393,426

MCM TV2

42,563

subscribers

747,000

▲ 2,000 in the last 7 days

total views

286,697,264

views per day

644,163

typical day: 589,236

first-day views of each video posted this week

Reckless Races and Car Chases | Top Gea…

78,837

The Mighty McLaren P1 goes to Spa! | To…

47,617

Caravan conkers! 🌰 #TopGear

8,874

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Autoalex Cars

804,000

Chevrolet

787,000

Zip Tie Tuning

753,000

RESTORED

749,000

Top Gear Classic

747,000

Speed Academy

735,000

Garbage Time

712,000

MCM TV2

708,000

Sparks Motors

704,000

As of October 6, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.