How to Watch 'Top Gear' with Sling Freestream
‘Top Gear’ fans can get their engines running with the 24/7 channel featuring the best episodes from the show on Sling Freestream.
Between the success of Brad Pitt’s F1 movie and a highly unpredictable NASCAR Playoff race, 2025 has been a banner year for motorsports. The season reaches its climax over the next month, with the NASCAR Championship scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 2 and the Formula One season wrapping up in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 7. If you can’t get enough of motorsports and/or are looking for some content to keep your engines revved up during the offseason, the British series Top Gear is sure to drive you wild.
The show features a variety of segments, including car reviews, power laps around a test track (driven by masked driver “The Stig”), the “Star in a Car” celebrity interview and timed lap, challenges and stunts, and presenter (the British term for “host”) races. As you might suspect, all of this is filtered through a distinctly English sense of self-deprecating humor. Since premiering in 2002, Top Gear has been one of the most popular British television exports, appealing to a much broader audience than just racing fans.
If you’re a Top Gear head, you’re in luck: Sling Freestream has a channel that features a nonstop marathon of the show’s best episodes. Here’s how to watch Top Gear with Sling Freestream.
Where to Watch ‘Top Gear’
The Top Gear channel on Sling Freestream, embedded above, is available without a subscription to Sling. To watch Top Gear on your computer or mobile device, follow the link, or visit the Sling Freestream page to create your free account and watch on your TV.
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How Many Seasons of ‘Top Gear’ Are There?
First off, in England, “Seasons” are called “Series.” There are currently 33 series of the show, from the first in October 2002 through the most recent one in 2022. All told, 240 episodes of the show have been produced, including three specials.
Meet the ‘Top Gear’ Cast
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As you might expect from a show with 30+ seasons…er, series, there have been many different hosts, sorry, presenters on Top Gear. After original co-host Jason Dawe was replaced following the first series, the show settled into what’s now considered to be its classic lineup: trio of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May. They hosted the show from series 2 to 22, before Clarkson was fired by the BBC, resulting in Hammond and May’s resignations (there’s a lengthy Wikipedia page devoted entirely to the show’s many controversies). From 2016 through its most recent series in 2022, Top Gear has cycled through a wide variety of presenters, from Chris Evans (not that one) to Matt LeBlanc (yes, that one) to its most recent hosts, Freddie Flintoff and Paddy McGuiness. After a terrible accident at the test course in December 2022 required co-presenter Freddie Flintoff to be airlifted to the hospital, the show has been on hiatus, although the BBC has not ruled out the show returning at some point.
Top Gear vs. The Grand Tour
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Soon after the trio of Clarkson, Hammond, and May left the BBC, they were signed by Amazon for a new series The Grand Tour. While it had to avoid certain similarities to Top Gear for legal purposes, the show followed a similar format and proved popular with both longtime fans and new viewers. The Grand Tour’s 13-episode first series premiered in November of 2016, but like a car running on fumes, it slowly petered out, with the final special airing in September 2024. Although Amazon has yet to issue an official release, a reboot starring YouTubers James Engelsman and Thomas Holland, along with social media star Francis Bourgeois, is rumored.