Top Gear returns with new hosts

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Rory Reid, Sabine Schmitz, Matt LeBlanc, Chris Evans, Chris Harris, Eddie Jordan and The Stig make up the new team

Motoring show Top Gear has returned to BBC Two with its new line-up of hosts.

The relaunch featured Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc driving Reliant three-wheelers from London to Blackpool and actor Jesse Eisenberg and chef Gordon Ramsay tackling the Top Gear track.

The new hosts were signed up after the old team, fronted by Jeremy Clarkson, left after an infamous fracas between Clarkson and a producer.

Initial ratings for the episode will not be known until Monday morning.

However, Evans said earlier in the week he would be “disappointed” with anything fewer than five million viewers for the show’s first episode.

The presenter opened the show saying: “Welcome to Top Gear with our all-new, improved audience.”

Clarkson was fired from Top Gear in March last year after he punched a producer following a row about the provision of food late at night while filming on location.

Evans made a jibe about the incident at the start of the episode, adding: “We don’t make jokes about catering on this show any more.”

Another joke referencing Clarkson’s departure was made when Evans bragged he had “won custody” of masked driver The Stig.

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Actor Jesse Eisenberg was one of the first “stars in a rally cross car”

The revamp featured many of the same elements the show is best known for including a profile of a supercar and a head-to-head challenge between the presenters.

The Guardian’s Stuart Heritage commented on the similarities during a film profiling the new Dodge Viper ACR saying: “It’s well shot. It’s got the same unearned swagger. It’s presented by a man in a car comparing stuff to stuff, then leaving a pause, then accelerating, then shouting. It is identical.”

Unlike previous series, the “star in a reasonably priced car” segment was updated to feature two “stars in a rally cross car” compete on a new Top Gear track including an off-road dirt section, water section and a jump.

Eisenberg and Ramsay were the first to tackle the course, with Ramsay scoring the fastest time of the two.

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