Grand Tour filming screeches to a halt head of new series launch – thanks to Jeremy Clarkson

MOTORMOUTH Jeremy Clarkson was trapped in a Soviet-made Formula One car — by his bulging belly.

Mechanics had to dismantle the speed machine around him piece by piece to free the embarrassed 63-year-old.

It happened during filming last year for The Grand Tour at the Poznan circuit in  Poland.

Jez had hoped to race co-stars Richard Hammond, 53, and James May, 60, in the cars.

In the scenes, the stuck star asks: “Is there a bigger one? I won’t be able to do it. What do you want me to do, be less fat?  I genuinely can’t get out.”

Guffawing Hammond taunts him: “You’re so fat.  They are going to have to dismantle the car around you.”

He adds later: “They’re peeling it off him like a diving suit!”

Clarkson, who has shed 3st since filming, told The Sun: “To my eternal shame I couldn’t get out the car. I was like Winnie the Pooh, completely stuck.” 

The hilarious scenes, shot at the Poznan race track in Poland, play out on the latest instalment of their Prime Video series, Eurocrash, which lands on June 16.

The film sees Clarkson, Hammond and James May take an epic 1400 mile road trip from Gdańsk through Slovakia, Hungary, and on to their final destination of Lake Bled in Slovenia.

The lads are hoping to race Soviet-made Formula 1 beasts at the famous track but the stunt suffers a series of setbacks, with May’s famously sluggish driving meaning he missed the start time altogether. 

Then Jeremy’s struggles with size began. 

In hysterics, Richard later laughs: “You're so ready to do things but you can't do things cause you're so fat.

“They've just popped your dignity in the workshop you can go and pick it up.”

Since wrapping filming in June last year, Jeremy has undergone a weight loss mission and has admitted to using celeb-favourite weight loss drug Ozempic. 

The special is the trio’s third road trip film for Prime Video, with a fourth in production now following the lads from Mauritania and Senegal. 

The one-offs follow three series that followed a format similar to the BBC’s Top Gear, which the men quit in 2015.