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Richard Hammond’s Workshop enters its second series in 2022, Richard set out to create a show which demonstrates all the difficulties of running and earning money through a classic car restoration business. Funded by his own money, Richard sold some cars from his collection in order to start-up a new workshop and take on the Greenhouse family into his venture. The show is very open about just how much every aspect of the business costs, which is one of the reasons that fans have taken to the show so well, and everyone also loves seeing Richard (one of the legendary three from Top Gear & The Grand Tour) back on screen!

The series is produced by Discovery Plus, Chimp Television and Krempelwood and is aired on Discovery Plus, for any car enthusiast, we highly recommend a watch.

During Series 2, Richard Hammond and his team at ‘The Smallest Cog’ decide that they want to integrate Motorsport into their classic car restoration business, as they believe it will be a good way to boost their business interest and also market themselves at the same time. The series aims to show off just how difficult it is to get into the classic motorsport realm and compete successfully and consistently, whilst keeping budgets to a minimum. The team decide to turn the last car Hammond ever drove on Top Gear, the MGB GT into a fully fledged racer.

Richard’s ‘The Smallest Cog’ team sought the help of the team here at Ric Wood Motorsport to help build the engine and later help run the car at its first racing event. The journey proved to be a difficult one as both the team and the drivers got used to the car.

You can find us currently, in the following episodes. We hope you enjoy.

Season 2 Episode 3

In this episode Richard Hammond pays a visit to the Ric Wood Motorsport workshop based in Stockport, Greater Manchester to have a look round and discuss the needs of the MGB GT’s engine. Before later on having Richard Hammond and his workshop team shadow the Ric Wood Motorsport team for the duration of the famous Goodwood 79th Members Meeting weekend. The crew followed as our Gitanes Group 1 Mark 3 Ford Capri competed once again in the Gerry Marshall Trophy races with BTCC’s Jake Hill and Ric Wood behind the wheel.

Season 2 Episode 4

We only play a small part in Episode 4, it see’s a phone call between Hammond and Ric about the return of the MGB GT Engine before the Prescott Hillclimb event that their team had been entered into. The Smallest Cog workshop sees the return of the engine and manages to get it fit in the car just in time for the event.

Season 2 Episode 10

Episode 10 concludes the 2nd Season of Richard Hammond’s Workshop. Ric discusses with Richard and his team what went wrong with the engine following a Donnington Park test day in an earlier episode. The Smallest Cog then went on to take part in their first race weekend in the MGB GT at Silverstone, Ric and Mark from our team went along helped out and oversaw the running of the weekend. Unfortunately, the car once again ran into teething problems.

If you wish find out more about the MGB GT, make sure to look out for it on the Drive Tribe social media channels where it regularly featured.