{"id":96,"date":"2015-03-20T23:20:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T23:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autonews-mag.com\/autocopy\/2015\/03\/20\/top-gear-fans-drive-tank-to-bbc-to-deliver-save-clarkson-petition\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T23:20:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T23:20:50","slug":"top-gear-fans-drive-tank-to-bbc-to-deliver-save-clarkson-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autonews-mag.com\/top-gear-fans-drive-tank-to-bbc-to-deliver-save-clarkson-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Gear Fans Drive Tank to BBC to Deliver \u201cSave Clarkson\u201d Petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"text-align: justify; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Top-Gear-Petition-PLACEMENT.jpg\" alt=\"Tank delivers pro-Clarkson petition to BBC\" width=\"626\" height=\"382\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><br style=\"text-align: justify;\" \/><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blogger Guido Fawkes\u2019 online petition to \u201csave\u201d Jeremy Clarkson reached its goal of a million signatures, and to mark the occasion, they were ceremoniously delivered to the BBC in a rented tank, complete with a \u201cStig\u201d posed atop the turret.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe title=\"&amp;apos;The Stig&amp;apos; delivers Bring Back Clarkson petition\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Li_c2DpCnD8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just when you thought the \u201cfracas\u201d couldn\u2019t get weirder\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyhow, the BBC will release the findings of its investigation next week and detail the next steps then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A report also came out this week that said the BBC wanted to shoot and air the final episodes of this season\u00a0with just May and Hammond in studio, but the pair refused to do so without Clarkson, in a show of solidarity.<\/p>\n<div class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='share_buttons' data-app-id='16200039'><\/div>\n<div class='shareaholic-canvas' data-app='recommendations' data-app-id='16200360'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger Guido Fawkes\u2019 online petition to \u201csave\u201d Jeremy Clarkson reached its goal of a million signatures, and to mark the occasion, they were ceremoniously delivered to the BBC in a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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