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TopGear TV Star dumps car to run 16 miles home

Richard Hammond dumped his car stuck in floods and ran 16 miles to be home for his daughter's birthday.

The Top Gear star completed the amazing run in two and a half hours in the middle of the night, reports The Sun.

It came just ten months after he suffered a serious brain injury in a horrific 288mph dragster smash.

It had taken Hammond, nicknamed Hamster, 13 hours to drive from West London to Gloucestershire, where he lives, in Friday's storms.

But the devoted dad was determined to be there for daughter Willow's fourth birthday.

He abandoned the Porsche 911 Carrera in Cheltenham at 3am and set off into the night, wearing a pair of old running shoes he found in the boot.

He jogged through back streets of Cheltenham to the A40 and followed the main road to a country lane leading to his home in a hamlet near Newent.

Richard, 37, arrived soaking and exhausted at 5.30 before Willow awoke.

He said: "There was no way I was going to miss it. Luckily I had my waterproof jacket with me in the car so I decided to run the rest of the way.

"It was pitch black but I just put my iPod on and went."