James May joined Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond for the second season of the BBC series Top Gear in 2003, and the trio became an (un)holy trinity of global car culture, connecting to people around the world with a universal language of internal combustion, humor, and occasional nuclear-grade controversy. Producer Andy Wilman, who's been with the show(s) since the very beginning, describes James May as “the viewer,” in the co-host dynamic. “It’s almost like he&r...
