Calls for BBC to sack Top Gear host after speeding admission

For the record, Grid Crasher thinks Clarkson is a Premier League tool. Smug, arrogant, blinkered, xenophobic, badly dressed, pompous, self-aggrandising… we could go on and on about JC’s faults. He is undoubtedly the worst thing about Top Gear - who else could make James May look like a cool guy?

That said, when we heard that Clarkson had admitted speeding on a British public road (in the Limehouse Link tunnel, to be specific) at 186mph, in a Bugatti Veyron, we smiled. It’s a typical admission from this massive-headed wind-up merchant, uttered with the sole intention of annoying lefty liberals who don’t own cars. There’s nothing wrong with winding up liberals, but at 186mph? That’s almost 120mph faster than the national speed limit.

Clarkson owned up during an interview at the Hay literary festival. Predictably, road safety campaigners are not impressed. Mary Williams, chief executive of Brake, said:

“Jeremy Clarkson is extremely offensive and irresponsible. His comments are very upsetting to loved ones who have suffered a bereavement through a road crash because of a speeding driver. He is the most appalling role model for our next generation of drivers. The BBC should sack him - he is totally out of control.”

Yes, he is offensive, but any notion that the Beeb should sack him is obviously ridiculous.

Watch Clarkson take on the mighty Veyron: