Skinner's character was not well received by the show's fans and he was scrapped from The Grand Tour before the second series premiered.
Skinner's played an exaggerated self-righteous American character on the show, who was critical of almost anything that wasn't American-made and had a particular vendetta against communism. Skinner logged a total of nineteen individual lap times around the Eboladrome during his tenure on The Grand Tour. Michael 'Mike' Skinner (born June 28, 1957), referred to on the show by his fictional character The American, is a NASCAR driver and was the resident racing driver for The Grand Tour for the duration of the show's first season, before he was replaced with British racing car driver Abbie Eaton. We shipped him to England and then we introduced him to the complicated procedure which involves turning right." -Jeremy Clarkson So we went to something called NASCAR? And we found one. Send us feedback." The thing is Amazon insisted that the racing driver in question should be from this side of the pond. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'grand tour.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2020 For the emperor’s third visit in 128, Hadrian was accompanied on his grand tour by his lover, Antinous, then in his late teens, and renowned for his beauty. 2021 After the grand tour, the spacecraft just kept going. Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Feb. 2021 Michel de Montaigne, arriving there on his grand tour in 1580, described Ippolito’s water organ with its toothed barrel arranging the melody. 2021 After serving as Givenchy’s design director, Chiapponi was on a grand tour of Italian fashion’s biggest names, holding top jobs at Gucci, Valentino, Miu Miu and Bottega Veneta before Della Valle came calling. Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Apr. Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2021 This week brings the third installment in our grand tour of tortillerías in San Antonio with a focus on downtown and the South Side. 2021 The infrastructure of the encyclopedic museum is built on the grand tour of the 1800s and literally extracting. Hampton Sides, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2021 Following the royal audience, Banks took Mai on a grand tour of the estates of various noblemen and the salons of his intellectual friends. Recent Examples on the Web Even so, Adams is aggressively fundraising for this nonelection, with a grand tour of New York City’s richest, most wonderful, and sometimes most awful people.Ĭhoire Sicha, Curbed, 21 Sep.
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