Freddie Flintoff Takes On Car Bungee Jump For Top Gear, In The Swiss Alps!
Jan 27, 2020
2 min read
Edited in 2024
The crew at our brand UK Bungee Club were particularly excited for the return of BBC Top Gear Season 28.
Last Summer, after months of planning, calculating and testing, we bungee jumped Freddie Flintoff from a 500-foot dam in Switzerland in a Rover 100 convertible! We've bungee jumped a car before, we have even bungee jumped a formula one car, but this was on another level.
This Car Bungee for Top Gear was a visually stunning and epic piece of television. The episode had the stomachs of viewers churning and was described as one of the most “ludicrous stunts that has ever been performed on the show”.
Months of planning, equipment designs, testing, and location visits by UK Bungee culminated in us arriving at the Luzzone Dam in Switzerland to make the jump happen.
Although we knew our kit, systems, and procedures were 100% reliable and safe, presenter Freddie Flintoff was clearly nervous, as you would expect of anybody in his situation. Those who have jumped with us or worked with us know we are meticulous in our safety checks. Although it kept Fred waiting a while, the jump went off exactly as planned.
The stunt has attracted great reviews in the press with the UK’s Radio Times saying "the episode’s standout set-piece is the utterly outrageous stunt that has already been widely publicised and trailed – and understandably so. Flintoff bungee jumping off a 500-foot dam in a red Rover is both the funniest and most remarkable part of the episode” and "This might even be (whisper it) the best that Top Gear has ever been"
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