Start your engines…

The Top Gear boys get set for more motorised mayhem

- IAN MACEWAN, RICHARD MCCLURE

Strap yourselves in for the return of Top Gear’s Chris Harris, Paddy McGuinness, and Freddie Flintoff this week with more of the show’s winning combination of crazy challenges, desirable motors and general larking about.

Now in their third series as co-hosts, the trio move to BBC1 for the new run, which sees them driving around an empty Alton Towers theme park, negotiating a vertical ‘wall of death’, racing rental cars down a ski run, and even finding time for a bit of in-car karaoke.

TV&Satellite Week met up with long-suffering motoring expert Harris, 45, for a preview…

CAR CHAOS

As part of a company-car challenge, all three presenters drive a car around a go-kart circuit, with the other two on board to promote ‘team bonding’. Unsurprisingly, the worst behavior took place when Harris was at the wheel.