Clarkson & co Gear up for Irish shows

“BASICALLY, we are three middle-aged men cocking about with millions and million of pounds worth of toys.”

Jeremy Clarkson, in typically eloquent style, sums up the ethos of the new Brown Thomas-sponsored Top Gear Live show which will play to more than 30,000 people at Dublin’s RDS as part of a worldwide tour this November.

Moments before summing up the €25 million motoring extravaganza in such simplistic terms, the Top Gear lynchpin and his fellow presenters, James May and Richard Hammond, had ridden over Tower Bridge in London in a huge tank followed by two super-cars, a Ferrari 430 and an Aston Martin DBS.