The long-awaited new series of Top Gear airs on RTÉ2 on Sunday 29 May with new host Chris Evans and a new team of presenters.
Season 23 features actor and Friends star Matt LeBlanc, German racing car driver Sabine Schmitz, motoring and technology journalist Rory Reid, former F1 team boss Eddie Jordan, motoring journalist and former professional driver Chris Harris and The Stig.
Series 23, episode 1
In the first show of the new series, Chris Evans takes the Dodge Viper ACR to the home of Top Gun in Nevada, to battle Sabine Schmitz in a Chevrolet Corvette Z06. Matt LeBlanc tackles wildest Morocco in Somerset’s finest off-roader, the Ariel Nomad. Back on British soil, Evans and LeBlanc take a rather soggy road trip to Blackpool in a pair of roofless Reliant three-wheelers, whereupon they are tasked with defending the honour of their nations in a series of gruelling UKversus- USA challenges. Back in the studio, this week’s celebrity guests are Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg and Gordon Ramsey.