Top Gear

The BBC has just announced that it has let go of Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson after a "fracas" with a producer earlier this month. Director general of the BBC, Tony Hall, announced the news overnight and published the full findings of the corporation's internal investigation into the incident.

Two out of three Top Gear hosts have been suspended from driving in France for three months after being caught, somewhat unsurprisingly, speeding. The incident occurred while Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond were on location, filming the final sequence of a road trip DVD from Venice, Italy to Pau, France. Clarkson was in an Aston Martin Vanquish Centenary Edition with Hammond behind in a Porsche 911 GT3.

A teaser for the 20th season of Top Gear has been released by the BBC, ahead of its premiere in the UK this Sunday. The first episode will feature a European road trip in a bevvy of drop-top supercars, including an Audi R8 V10, Ferrari 458 and McLaren MP4-12C. The clip also highlights a few of Clarkson and co’s shenanigans to come, such as getting air in a Ferrari F12, power-sliding limos, and disposing of an even less-emotive-than-usual Stig into a dumpster.

Top Gear UK presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May are back in Australia to host the upcoming Top Gear Live event which will take place in Melbourne. While they're here, Team Vodafone and Craig Lowndes thought they'd take them both out for a quick lap in the Holden V8 Supercar.

There's been mixed reports as to what happened exactly, but James May from Top Gear UK has been injured during the filming of an upcoming Top Gear Christmas special episode in Iraq. According to reports, May was helping out colleague Jeremy Clarkson at the time of the accident. May was apparently trying to tow Clarkson's car out of a sticky situation.