Top Gear's Chris Harris needed stitches for head wound

Top Gear's Chris Harris needed stitches for head wound



Top Gear presenter Chris Harris has been injured in a freak accident on a race circuit in Belgium.

The BBC TV motoring journalist sustained a bloody gash to the back of his head which required stitches, and tweeted about it online.

But the accident did not happen while he was driving out on the circuit at Spa, in Belgium, but while he was waiting quietly in the paddock.

Harris’s head was sliced open by the sharp edge of an aerodynamic wing of an F3 racing car being carried by a racing crew member.



Alongside a graphic photograph of the back of his head, he tweeted: ‘Solid race preparations: nearly getting brained by a delightful man carrying a poorly located F3 wing through the paddock!’

Later he tweeted a photograph of the medical team at Spa who gave him stitches noting: ‘Few stitches from the very wonderful Spa medical staff!’

Later Top Gear presenter Chris Harris posted another picture from the Spa circuit in Belgium, where a 24 hour GT supercar race is taking place this weekend.



He is listed as one of a four-man team taking part in the 24-hour race with the McLaren GT customer team called ‘Garage 59’.

He also tweeted the team's earlier qualifying performance.