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New Top Gear Could Feature Chris Harris and Sabine Schmitz as Chris Evans’ Co-Hosts

It’s a good news/bad news situation for Top Gear today. Earlier it was reported that the show’s new executive producer, Lisa Clark, left the team after just five months, leaving an important position unoccupied five months ahead of the scheduled relaunch.
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A few hours later, a new information emerged - this time only a report - saying that the BBC might have found the perfect co-hosts for Chris Evans. And not a minute too late, considering they only have a limited amount of time to film the new series.

The two names will be instantly familiar to those with an Internet broadband connection and a passion for cars: they are Sabine Schmitz and Chris Harris.

The former is a 46-year-old German professional racing driver best known for an appearance on Top Gear in 2004 - on which occasion she came out victorious in a race against Clarkson - but also for driving the BMW “Ring taxi” on the famous Nürburgring circuit.

In fact, during her 2004 appearance, Clarkson did joke about replacing Richard Hammond with Sabine Schmitz as she was “cheaper, much better looking, quicker and taller” than the British presenter. Oh, the irony.

But, with Clarkson gone, the show probably needed a new person who kills tires for pleasure, and apart from Ken Block and other professional drifters, nobody does it better than Chris Harris.

This second name on the BBC’s very short list should be instantly recognizable because after he wrote for publications such as Autocar, Chris became the host of a popular Internet car show called Chris Harris on Cars. If the rumor that he’s to join the Top Gear cast proves to be correct, he’d become a very good example of how becoming famous on YouTube can land you a very good job “in the real world.”

His knowledge on cars is beyond doubt and so is his charisma, the only possible explanation for the success of his online show. That and his driving skills.

The Telegraph further reports that David Coulthard’s name was among those quoted in relation to the new format, even though a certain degree of uncertainty still lingers regarding all these names. For one thing, none has been confirmed in any way, and then there’s Chris Evans saying that he might not be joined by co-hosts in every episode.

Well, as the song goes, “que sera, sera,” but these two latest names to be added to the list of possible co-hosts sound the best so far.
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"Boy meets car, boy loves car, boy gets journalism degree and starts job writing and editing at a car magazine" - 5/5. (Vlad Mitrache if he was a movie)
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