Top Gear stars Richard Hammond and James May made a surprise return to the BBC’s show’s former headquarters.

The duo said they had not visited Dunsfold Aerodrome since they exited the programme in 2015 when co-host Jeremy Clarkson, 64, was fired after punching producer Oisin Tymon.

The show became one of the BBC's biggest money makers with spin-off shows being sold worldwide.

All three hosted the show from 2002 until 2015 when they left the format.

After they left, the trio became the faces of Amazon's motoring show The Grand Tour from 2016 until it ended last year.

On Top Gear, they were replaced by Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc before Chris Harris, Freddie Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness became the presenters in a shake-up.

But as part of James May's YouTube series called Planet Gin, he and Richard, 55, returned to Top Gear's former studio in Dunsfold Aerodrome.

As they stood outside their former green room, Richard admitted: "I feel really odd being here.’


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He continued: "The last time I was here, I was leaving after the last studio record. I was in the bronze Land Rover. And I sat up and thought, well, that was that.’

Before entering their ex-production offices, Richard warned James it could be ‘weird.’

Agreeing, James stated: "It is going to be weird. It might be a bit traumatising."

Once inside, Richard and James had a hunt for any Top Gear relics, joking they had left their ‘youth, vigour and energy’ in the building.