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.

非常喜歡"Hammster"這個可愛的稱呼，雖然在三個人中間看起來是最年輕的，但是也不願意看著他漸漸富有男人味道甚至蒼老。

Richard不僅僅是Top Gear，Brainiac: Science Abuse的主持人，也會偶爾寫點關於汽車的專欄，如果你在UK，每個星期五也許就能找到The Daily Mirror裏他的文字。我並不想很詳細地把wiki完全翻譯瞭，隻想再提到一點，Hammond以前也曾有過相當漂亮的播音員生涯。當你讀過瞭Clarkson的那些扯淡，請不要錯過另外一位纔華橫溢的主持人嚮你用參雜瞭更多親情與生命感悟的自傳。

然後，我們就等著James寫藝術吧。