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Topics: Paddy McGuinness, Top Gear, Podcast
Anish Vij
Chris Harris has given his version of events on Top Gear when Paddy McGuinness crashed a Lamborghini during filming.
The TV presenter was involved in a car crash when filming for the show back in June 2020.
McGuinness was driving a red 1990 Lamborghini Diablo on a wet road in the Yorkshire Dales when he 'hit a wall at 80 mph'.
While McGuinness was physically unharmed, after opening up about the accident years later, he said it impacted his health and left him suffering from panic attacks.
In an interview with the Restless Natives podcast, he said: “I remember we were in a race in America and I hit this wall, I was doing about 70 or 80 miles an hour. Again, Flintoff calls that, I've let him know.
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"But what I'm getting at is I hit this wall in this car that hard, you could feel your f**king brains rattling.
"Now, thank the Lord I walked away from it. But I remember that night being in my bed in the hotel and literally having a bit of a panic attack.
"I went 'f**k', it come back to me. It like stays with you."
Addressing what went wrong, his co-host Harris claims the problem was due to the car having old tires on it.
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Speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the car enthusiast said: "He crashed a Lamborghini when we were filming and it was all over the press in the UK.
"It helped it was red like proper dog knob red Lamborghini goes off the road.
"Anyhow, at the end of it all, the cars on a low load and I look at the tires they're 20 years old.
"It had been borrowed for the job, you know old tire technology matched with age as well, it's terrible."
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Rogan replied: "That's the story with the guy from Fast & Furious. What's his name? Paul Walker.
"That's the story with him. They had old tires on that car."
"So Paddy gets eviscerated in the press 'because you can't drive' and everything else," Harris continued.
"I could have been in that car l'd have crashed it. I can drive a bit, anyone, you cannot and if you get in these old cars with old tires on them, they have nothing."
In a statement, the BBC told LADbible: “The independent Health and Safety production review of Top Gear, which looked at previous seasons, found that while BBC Studios had complied with the required BBC policies and industry best practice in making the show, there were important learnings which would need to be rigorously applied to future Top Gear UK productions.
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“The report included a number of recommendations to improve approaches to safety as Top Gear is a complex programme-making environment routinely navigating tight filming schedules and ambitious editorial expectations – challenges often experienced by long-running shows with an established on and off-screen team. Learnings included a detailed action plan involving changes in the ways of working, such as increased clarity on roles and responsibilities and better communication between teams for any future Top Gear production.”