Richard Hammond speaks to ITV Calendar

Richard Hammond says he is excited about his new car show with former Top Gear colleagues Jeremy Clarkson and James May.

The trio have reportedly signed a £160 million deal with Amazon Prime to host the new programme. It comes after a turbulent year in which May and Hammond left BBC's flagship automotive show after Clarkson was fired.

TV host Richard Hammond has revealed in an interview with Calendar that he doesn't think he will be allowed to teach his daughter to drive.

Richard says his daughter Izzy has his genes:

"She drives tractors and can ride a motorcycle. I have taught her to drive on a lane on our property in a car with a clutch - it took about two minutes. She has inherited my genes but my younger daughter - if it isn't a horse, she's not remotely interested."

Nicknamed the Hamster, he says he's a good back seat driver as he has confidence in his wife Mindy’s skills behind a wheel. But it seems he is like any other exasperated parent driving long journeys with two youngsters in the back:

TV presenter Richard Hammond has told ITV Calendar the generosity of the public coupled with his wife's actions, helped to find £250,000 for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA).

As flowers flooded into the hospital for the critically-injured TV host, his wife Mindy asked that people donated to the YAA instead and this helped to buy the charity a second helicopter.

He paid a personal tribute to fundraisers at the charity's annual dinner recently.

"I am told I have done my bit to raise a few pounds, Just to be quite clear I am not doing that again!

Hammond, 45, was driving a jet-powered car at RAF Elvington in York in September 2006 when he careered off course and crashed.

Yorkshire Air Ambulance airlifted him within an hour - dubbed the vital time by medics to boost life saving chances - of the incident and flew him to Leeds General Infirmary.

TV presenter Richard Hammond has paid tribute to Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) and thanked them for saving his life following a horrific accident in 2006.

An emotional Hammond told ITV Calendar of his gratitude - thankful that YAA's work has allowed him to see his daughters grow up.

"For a lot of years, especially the first two, there wasn't a day, sometimes there wasn't an hour that went past without my thinking about it. I wouldn't have seen them grow up into the young ladies they are and looking forward to seeing them go on. One has just gone to big school and another has just finished school this year. All those milestones, I wouldn't have been there for."

Hammond, 45, was driving a jet-powered car at RAF Elvington in York in September 2006 when he careered off course and crashed.

Yorkshire Air Ambulance airlifted him within an hour - dubbed the vital time by medics to boost life saving chances - of the incident and flew him to Leeds General Infirmary.

Click here to read about the accident that changed Hammond's life