Top Gear new series: First look at Matt LeBlanc filming UK vs USA challenge with Chris Evans
The presenters are driving to Blackpool in Reliant Robins
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Your support makes all the difference.Matt LeBlanc and Chris Evans have been spotted filming one of the revamped Top Gear series’ first challenges - a race in Reliant Robins.
The Friends actor is seen wearing his nation’s colours in the challenge, Evans his own, with the pair’s cars emblazoned with the Union Jack and Stars & Stripes.
The presenters received their first challenge on BBC Radio 2, with David Baddiel telling them they had to travel to “the Las Vegas of Britain” - Blackpool.
"Each of you will defend your respective nation's motoring honour in a series of suitably gruelling and potentially godawful Top Gear challenges," he said. "Yep, it's the USA versus the UK.
"First, you've got to get there, which will involve the time-honoured Top Gear presenter initiation experience brought to you by the letters 'R' and 'R'.
"Waiting for you outside right now are a brace of British three-wheel beauties that the likes of Top Gear has never seen before. We are talking about ruthless Reliant Robins for 250 to Blackpool in Friday traffic."
Judging by the photos, it seems Evans has gotten over his reported car sickness.
Rory Reid, Sabine Schmitz, Chris Harris, Eddie Jordan and The Stig complete the presenter line-up for the show, which will be competing against Clarkson, Hammond and May’s new as-yet-untitled Amazon Prime offering.
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