Farewell, Top Gear! Without Freddie Flintoff, you were always doomed

The former cricketer was the motoring show’s best presenter in nearly a decade – and possibly the only thing keeping it going. In his absence, the road had rapidly run out A car that has been running for 46 years would either be deemed a classic or branded unsafe. Top Gear, which at its peak would have aspired to the former, has finished as the latter, “Rested for the foreseeable future” by the BBC. This, it seems, is because the …