He describes his childhood and adolescence and the emergence of the adrenalin junkie, the first ridiculous stunts on his tricycle, and an increasing and near obsessive attraction to speed and the smell of petrol. He finds an attractive girl, Mindy, who shares his interests and helps him organise his high-speed life. For such a lively and intelligent communicator TV beckons and he becomes one of the daredevil trio, with Jeremy Clarkson and James May, who make such an enormous world-wide success of the revamped BBC TV programme Top Gear. He describes the personalities, the camaraderie and the stunts with which they entertain their weekly audiences until the day of his 300 mph crash that took Top Gear off the air and plunged a nation into mourning. The day of the crash, his rescue and the flight to hospital in a coma are described and then Mindy recounts the anxious waiting until he finally emerges from his coma - to immediately pull out all his life support equipment - and Richard then pieces together the stages of recovery as his shattered mind slowly reforms. We learn exactly what happened to him and the milestones in his slow recovery to full health.The final chapter recounts the return to Top Gear and the screening of the events of that fateful day.

非常喜欢"Hammster"这个可爱的称呼，虽然在三个人中间看起来是最年轻的，但是也不愿意看着他渐渐富有男人味道甚至苍老。

Richard不仅仅是Top Gear，Brainiac: Science Abuse的主持人，也会偶尔写点关于汽车的专栏，如果你在UK，每个星期五也许就能找到The Daily Mirror里他的文字。我并不想很详细地把wiki完全翻译了，只想再提到一点，Hammond以前也曾有过相当漂亮的播音员生涯。当你读过了Clarkson的那些扯淡，请不要错过另外一位才华横溢的主持人向你用参杂了更多亲情与生命感悟的自传。

然后，我们就等着James写艺术吧。