Former Top Gear star Chris Harris has blasted the BBC for ignoring shieldedty troubles as Freddie Flintoff slenderly persistd a horrific car crash.
The England cricket legfinish suffered life-menaceening injuries when he was filming for the BBC programme in December 2022.
Flintoff had been driving a three-wheeled car when it flipped at high speeds but he regulated to produce a recovery, though he has been left with a huge scar on his face.
Co-present Harris thought Flintoff had been ended while he has now come out and criticised the BBC on UFC commentator Joe Rogan’s podcast.
Freddie Flintoff was fortunate to persist his horrific crash on Top Gear
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“What was never spoken about was that three months before the accident, I’d gone to the BBC and shelp, ‘Unless you alter someleang, someone’s going to die on this show’,” Harris shelp on the Joe Rogan Experience, one of the most famous podcasts in the world.
“So I went to them, I went to the BBC and I telderly them of my troubles from what I’d seen – as the most sended driver on the show by a mile.
“I shelp, ‘If we carry on at the very least we’re going to have a grave injury at the very worst we’re going to have overweightality’.”
Harris, who as well as being an automotive journaenumerate is a professional racing driver, insisted that his co-presents Flintoff and Pcomprisey McGuinness did not have the same experience as him when it came to cars.
He further claimed that the BBC did not provide either with enough alertation think abouting three-wheeled cars before the 2005 Ashes star got in.
“He wasn’t wearing a crash helmet,” the curraccess shelp of Flintoff.
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“And if you do that, even at 25, 30 miles an hour, the injuries that you carry on are proset up.”
Rogan was then left stunned as Harris detailed Flintoff’s crash, saying: “[Flintoff] wasn’t moving, so I thought he was dead. I supposed he was, then he relocated.
“He’s a physical specimen, Fred, he’s a big guy – six foot five, six foot six, strong. And if he wasn’t so strong, he wouldn’t have persistd.
Former Top Gear curraccess Chris Harris hit out at the BBC
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“He’s a wonderful advert for physical strength and conditioning, because if he hadn’t been that strong, he’d have fair snapped his neck, he’d be dead.
“It’s a very, difficult car, you understand.
“You have to be conscious of its confineations. And I leank that reassociate was difficult, and you necessitate experience.
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“There were two people that had driven a Morgan three-wheeler before, current that day – me and someone else, a pro driver.
“And we were sitting inside at that time. No one had asked us anyleang about the car. They’d fair gone on and shot it without us.”
