Jeremy Clarkson claims he, James May and Richard Hammond were 'mostly smashed' during filming of their final episode of The Grand Tour

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that helium and co-stars Richard Hammond and James May were 'mostly smashed' portion filming the past occurrence of The Grand Tour.

The seasoned TV presenter made the comments astatine a Q&A aft a premiere screening of The Grand Tour: One For The Road, which looks acceptable to beryllium the past ever motoring programme hosted by the trio.

The ticket-only screening took spot astatine the Who Wants to beryllium A Millionaire host's caller pub The Farmer's Dog successful the Cotswolds connected Friday night.

During a Q&A pursuing the premiere, Clarkson told the assemblage however helium and his co-stars were 'mostly smashed' during filming but 'hopefully cipher volition notice'.

He besides claimed to person filled a 3rd of a cargo level with brew aft failing to capable it with unit and filming equipment.

In their last escapade together, Clarkson and his co-stars volition research beauteous landscapes successful a Lancia Montecarlo, a Ford Capri 3-litre, and a Triumph Stag.

When asked however galore units of alcohol they drank per episode, Clarkson, 64, replied: 'I'll fto you into a small secret.

'We had a large cargo level to determination each of the kit we needed to movie and a unit of 70 radical and much but we didn't capable the plane.

'A 3rd of it was near - we thought, 'so what should we enactment connected that?' Beer was the answer.

'But we bash portion a lot, we are mostly smashed - hopefully, cipher volition notice.

'I'm duty-bound to archer you determination was a three-day spread betwixt arriving and mounting disconnected - but determination wasn't.'

Clarkson besides said helium does not person the aforesaid emotion for cars arsenic helium did 35 years agone arsenic 'they're each s**t now' and called the superior of Bolivia, La Paz a 's**t hole.'

He said: 'Genuinely 80 per cent of them present 90 per cent, I couldn't adjacent identify. I don't cognize what they are, I don't care.'

The Diddly Squat workplace proprietor besides spoke astir the Top Gear days and filming successful Alabama and Argentina wherever infamous episodes were filmed.

In an occurrence changeable successful Alabama, the trio are seemingly chased retired of municipality aft spray-painting each others cars with violative messages.

While successful Argentina they caused a diplomatic incidental aft 1 of the cars' fig sheet had the fig 82 - which locals believed was a deliberate notation to the 1982 Falklands War.

The past escapade besides sees Jeremy, Richard, and James disregard shaper Andy Wilman's instructions and caput to Zimbabwe successful 3 cars they’ve ever wanted to own. 

Another archetypal look drawback shows the trio giggling astir a campfire arsenic they sip connected a mates of beers and bask a relaxing interruption adjacent to a stunning lake. 

Jeremy said: 'I was much frightened successful Alabama than Argentina. In Argentina, we bravely flew distant earlier the occupation started.

'The unit was there, and they had a truly torrid time. Alabama was atrocious - everybody ran there. I recovered myself astatine 1 constituent down James May's Cadillac.

'Behind maine was a pickup motortruck with bully aged boys with guns - I conjecture it was a benignant of 'look aft your mates' situation.

'I thought, 'f*** that,' and overtook James, leaving him to it - it was beauteous scary.'

Clarkson was besides asked who the fastest operator retired of Hammond, May, and himself was.

He replied: 'Richard has driven accelerated twice, had his trousers chopped disconnected twice, and got successful an ambulance twice.

'James erstwhile went 45 mph, and it astir killed him.'

After mishearing the question 'What's adjacent for you?' arsenic 'What enactment are you?' helium besides quipped 'Oh the Labour Party's here!'

He besides revealed the idiosyncratic helium astir wanted to spot arsenic the prima successful a reasonably priced car was euphony fable Bryan Ferry.

He went connected to downplay Top Gear's power connected the motoring satellite and added:

'We ne'er thought we were influential. It reviewed the Ford Orion and I gave it a truly hard time.

'It went connected to beryllium Britain's best-selling car. I past said the Renault 6 TL was superb - but they sold six.'

Hammond paid tribute to his 2 co-stars arsenic the trio's 20-year concern came to an end.

He said : 'I'll beryllium truly honest, and they’ll mock maine for this, but I'll miss them terribly. We’ve worked unneurotic for 20 years. 

'We’ve worked hard, and we person to ovum each different on, and it’s ne'er conscionable loafing about. So, it'd beryllium hard to recreate that situation. 

'If I spell implicit and sojourn Jeremy astatine his farm, it would beryllium to spell implicit and relax. That's not the aforesaid arsenic having to get up astatine 5 successful the greeting and thrust for 8 hours done the jungle.'

Long-time shaper Andy Wilman told the Edinburgh TV Festival that filming the occurrence was 'quite weepy' and 'quite heart-stringy'. 

The Grand Tour: One for the Road launches globally from 13 September lone connected Prime Video