James May says Top Gear is now outdated but defends it as just ‘painfully honest’
James May has said his former show Top Gear was ‘very much of its time’, and suggested that a change to the format would be needed to bring the motoring series back to TV. The BBC ‘rested’ Top Gear for the foreseeable future after Freddie Flintoff was injured in a crash on the test track at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey during filming in December 2022.