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Here It Comes Again: BBC Announces Newest Cast For Top Gear USA And Antron Brown’s On It!


Here It Comes Again: BBC Announces Newest Cast For Top Gear USA And Antron Brown’s On It!

It was announced a while back that BBC Worldwide would be bringing back an American version of the Top Gear franchise. It was announced yesterday who the three guys on the cast would be and we’re guessing that you’ll be familiar with two of them and perhaps not the third.

For starters, three time NHRA Top Fuel champion Antron Brown is part of the program and we think that’s pretty awesome. Antron is a funny, intelligent, quick-witted, and altogether awesome guy who is not afraid of a camera. He’s got great race driving chops and of course because of his incredibly successful top fuel career many people forget that he was an equally as great pro stock motorcycle racers before he got into the long cars. The point of that being to illustrate that he has a variety of experience.

Lastly, Antron is a real gearhead who gets it and gets his hands dirty. Not just on his own stuff but on the junior dragsters his kids run and other projects as well. We’re pretty excited for him and it is awesome for the sport of drag racing to have someone making this type of a crossover. We literally cannot name another modern drag racer who has been granted an opportunity like this.

William Fichtner is an actor you have likely seen on screens small and large over the years. He has been in huge movies like Armageddon as well as a few successful television series. He’s a racer and a car guy, having won the pro-am race at the Long Beach Grand Prix. We’re guessing Fitchner’s tastes skew more toward the exotic and sports car sides of things just based on his affinity for road racing and things of that nature. Not knocking it, just making a statement there.

The last guy is the person few of you likely know and we sure don’t. Tom “Wookie” Ford is a European automotive journalist who reviews cars and has had his own show on the BBC before called Mud, Sweat, and Tears. He’s the test editor for CAR magazine.

So as everyone reading this well knows, someone’s resume is not what makes one of these shows work. It is how the cast gets along, interplays, and ultimately entertains the audience. It seems like it would be pretty tough to get this one right as you are trying to essentially emulate the seemingly cosmic levels of chemistry that Hammond, Clarkson, and May have developed over the years and now continue on with The Grand Tour on Amazon.

We’re pulling for this one to be good. Antron is an awesome guy and hopefully he and the boys hit it off quick! Top Gear USA V2.0 is on the way.


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7 thoughts on “Here It Comes Again: BBC Announces Newest Cast For Top Gear USA And Antron Brown’s On It!

  1. orange65

    I hope these guys have some chemistry between them and they weren’t just hired for their past experiences. Chemistry is what made Hammond, et. al. funny.

  2. jerry z

    I liked the other three, granted it took some time for them to gel but they were good. Now BBC just managed to f*** up a wet dream again.

  3. andy

    Its interesting, I’ve seen interviews where Clarkson said in the begining THEY didn’t have chemistry and it took a while to find it. BUT the difference was they didn’t have a HUGE viewership at that time so it didn’t matter.

    Anyone with the expectation that replacements could perform as good on day one as three guys that had 22 seasons together…is not being realistic.

  4. Sneke_Eyez

    What a shame they couldn’t just leave well enough alone and let Rut, Tanner, and Andy continue to get better. The last season of the previous show was pretty darn good – better than the UK TopGear series was last season.

    I am not knocking any of these guys – they are probably all great guys, but I liked the previous 3.

  5. Ryan Spitz

    Doesn’t matter. Stopped watching long ago. If you’re watching car shows, you’re not in the shop working on your cars or out using your cars for whatever purpose they are intended. why trade your real life experience with you own hot rods and race cars for watching other people play. My car life is mine and I enjoy it in real time with thousands of others doing the same. TV car shows only steal time way from the real thing.

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