- Original release
- Previous episode S00E79 - Top Gear: The Races (3)
- Number S00E80
- Episode runtime 50 minutes
- Country United Kingdom
- Original language English
- Genres Comedy, Documentary, Talk Show, Travel
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S Top Gear: The Races (4)
From very early on in Top Gear's life the phrase 'We decided to have a race' has appeared often. Some of the races have been brief, and some have been simply epic. Matt LeBlanc, one of the fastest ever celebrities round the Top Gear test track, presents a selection of the greatest and most entertaining races from the past 13 years.
Another batch of the most entertaining races in Top Gear's history including a classic Ferrari Daytona against a million pound powerboat to St Tropez, a jet-powered flying man against Richard Hammond in a rally car, an Audi RS4 vs a speed climber and Jeremy vs the might of the British Army.
Spoiler warning: this post-finale analysis discusses events and themes from The Grand Tour Season 7, including the finale, which aired on Prime Video on September 4, 2026.
Season 7 of The Grand Tour arrived with an enormous challenge: how do you continue a series so closely associated with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May without simply imitating them? Across its four episodes, the 2016 Prime Video hit leaned into that question rather than pretending it did not exist. Thomas, Francis and James were introduced with an official blessing from Clarkson in the premiere, and by the finale, the season had become less about replacing the original trio and more about proving that The Grand Tour is a format strong enough to survive a change in rhythm, chemistry and perspective.
The finale worked because it understood what viewers actually come to The Grand Tour for. Yes, the cars matter. Yes, the jokes matter. But the secret engine of the series has always been the collision between expertise, idiocy and friendship. Episode 4’s mission to discover “the strongest car ever made” could have been a simple excuse for destruction, and to be fair, it absolutely was that too. But the destructive tests had an old-school Grand Tour purity to them: a daft question treated with total seriousness, an escalating series of challenges, and the wonderful sense that no producer in the room had been brave enough to say, “Maybe this is too much.”
