{"id":8282,"date":"2016-02-11T11:33:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T16:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/top-gear-sets-full-presenting-lineup\/"},"modified":"2016-02-11T14:15:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T19:15:37","slug":"top-gear-sets-full-presenting-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/top-gear-sets-full-presenting-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Gear Sets Full Presenting Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Four additional presenters, including German racing driver Sabine Schmitz, are joining Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc for the return of <em>Top Gear<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitz becomes the show\u2019s first female presenter in 15 years. Joining her are Formula 1 commentator Eddie Jordan, motoring journalist and YouTube petrolhead Chris Harris and car reviewer and TV presenter Rory Reid. The Stig is also coming back for the new season, which debuts in May.<\/p>\n<p>Evans said of the new <em>Top Gear<\/em> crew: \u201cWe really do have a bit of everything for everyone. A fellow lifelong petrolhead from the other side of the pond in Matt; a fearless speed-demon in the irrepressible and effervescent Sabine; the encyclopedic, funny and wonderfully colorful character that is EJ; Chris, one of the world\u2019s top no-nonsense car reviewers; and Rory, who simply blew me away in his audition and fully deserves his place on the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jordan commented: \u201cI\u2019m giddy with excitement to be joining Chris and the team. I have such enormous respect for all my fellow presenters and I politely ask that they go easy on these old bones. Cars are in my DNA and although I\u2019ve been fortunate enough to accomplish most things I ever aspired to in motorsport, presenting <em>Top Gear<\/em> is quite simply the icing on the cake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris said: \u201c<em>Top Gear<\/em> is the thing that helped shape my life with cars, my perception of cars and my obsession with cars, and I\u2019m raring to give it a go. I\u2019m also quite gobby and happy to get into trouble, so I&#8217;m hoping I can underpin the program with journalistic credibility\u2014but still cause some mischief. And if it all goes wrong, well, I can say I was once on <em>Top Gear<\/em>, and just head back to being that annoying small bloke off YouTube.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schmitz added: \u201cI grew up next to the Nurburgring, and have been racing for most of my life, so the chance to combine both driving and filming was too good an opportunity to pass up. I\u2019ve appeared on <em>Top Gear<\/em> a few times in the past, so I know we\u2019re going to have a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid commented: \u201cWhen I submitted my 30-second audition tape, I knew the odds were very firmly against me, as the auditions were open to absolutely everybody. To be the only person to make it through the open audition process makes me immensely proud. I&#8217;ve been a <em>Top Gear<\/em> fan for decades, but more than that, I live and breathe cars in a way that is perfectly compatible with the show. I&#8217;m looking forward to bringing my brand of knowledge, energy and humor to what promises to be a very exciting new series.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Four additional presenters, including German racing driver Sabine Schmitz, are joining Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc for the return of Top Gear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":8283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[375,430,431,376,432,433,377],"class_list":["post-8282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-chris-evans","tag-chris-harris","tag-eddie-jordan","tag-matt-leblanc","tag-rory-reid","tag-sabine-schmitz","tag-top-gear","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Top Gear Sets Full Presenting Lineup - 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