Richard Hammond-s Workshop - Season 1 May 2026

Hammond is not a natural mechanic. He is a natural storyteller. By humbling himself—by admitting that the man who raced a dragster doesn’t know how to change a head gasket—he creates a show about the dignity of labor.

For two decades, Richard Hammond was the cherubic chaos agent of The Grand Tour and Top Gear . He was the man who survived a 288-mph jet-car crash, turned a Reliant Robin into a makeshift rocket, and somehow made wearing a helmet look like a personality trait. Richard Hammond-s Workshop - Season 1

"It’s not about the crashes anymore. It’s about the come-up." Hammond is not a natural mechanic

The twist? Richard Hammond knows how to drive fast cars. He has absolutely no idea how to fix them. Season 1 isn’t really about cars. It’s about the terrifying vertigo of starting over at 50. For two decades, Richard Hammond was the cherubic

No scripted explosions. No celebrity guests driving through a jungle. Just Hammond, a handful of seasoned mechanics, and a mountain of rusty metal.

Enter (Discovery+, Season 1)—a show that trades the frozen tundra of Finland for the greasy floor of a classic car garage in the Herefordshire countryside. And surprisingly, it’s the most honest thing he has ever done. The Premise: No Stunts, Just Spanners The concept is deceptively simple. After years of smashing hypercars into barriers, Hammond decided to buy a dilapidated barn on a farm near his home. His goal? To launch The Smallest Cog —a boutique classic car restoration business.

But in 2021, Hammond did something unexpected. He stopped driving away from destruction and started driving toward a new life.