Richard Hammond-s Workshop - Season 1 May 2026

If you love cars, watch it for the metal. If you love people, watch it for the man learning to weld his shattered ego back together.

The series’ emotional anchor, however, is , Richard’s wife. Unlike the glossy magazine shoots of the past, we see the real tension at the kitchen table. Hammond has poured the family’s savings into a rusty workshop. Mindy is terrified. In one raw moment, she reminds him: “You nearly died. Twice. Do we really need this stress?” Richard Hammond-s Workshop - Season 1

Streaming now on Discovery+. "I used to drive into walls for a living," Hammond says in the finale. "Now I’m trying to build something that lasts. Terrifying, isn’t it?" If you love cars, watch it for the metal

We watch Hammond wrestle with imposter syndrome. He is surrounded by true artisans: Anthony (the paint whisperer), Andrew (the fabrication genius), and his long-suffering business partner, Neil. Hammond wants to be one of the lads; the lads just want him to make the tea and stop trying to use the angle grinder. Unlike the glossy magazine shoots of the past,

Hammond is not a natural mechanic. He is a natural storyteller. By humbling himself—by admitting that the man who raced a dragster doesn’t know how to change a head gasket—he creates a show about the dignity of labor.

For two decades, Richard Hammond was the cherubic chaos agent of The Grand Tour and Top Gear . He was the man who survived a 288-mph jet-car crash, turned a Reliant Robin into a makeshift rocket, and somehow made wearing a helmet look like a personality trait.

But in 2021, Hammond did something unexpected. He stopped driving away from destruction and started driving toward a new life.