I'm Richard Porter and this is on the other side of things, the Smith and Sniff spin-off in which

for this week, it's just me, answering your questions.

Yes, I'm on my own this week. Johnny is very busy filming for the late break show or

forming a plan to leave his Dodge Charger on Mallorca or something. So I'm afraid it's

just me. And since we get a few questions in about Top Gear or the Grand Tour, I thought I'll

just take a little whiz through some of those, since that's sort of my department, while Johnny's not

here. I'm going to start with one from a listener called Will,

who says, hello, you wonderful flutes. While watching a classic rerun of Top Gear on BBC IPlayer,

I had a thought run through my mind. What was the reason to have the parade of red cars on the

track at the start of the intro? I'm not sure if Richard has mentioned it previously. Also, where did the

cars come from? CMTMB will. That's a good question because, God, that was a long time ago.

That was the original titles. So from 2002 until some point when they were changed. So the

back story to that, as far as I can remember, is just that it was decided that there should be something.

And I think was there some original plan

that there was going to be like a Ferrari sort of hassling loads of other cars out of the way.

Some of that may even have been filmed.

But in the end, it was just that bit of them all going in a sort of unnaturally

tight snake around that bit of the test track. I guess they were all red because that just

looked visually the strongest against a grey airfield on camera. But what I remember is that I'm pretty sure that was shot on the morning that we recorded

the studio for episode one, which is really short.

Like you wouldn't do that now because like, I don't know.

What if something went wrong or then the card from the camera, I suppose it would have

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