The available court documents give new information about what is claimed to have taken place in the incident, which occurred at Top Gear’s test track at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey on 13 December 2022.
There were microphones in the car, and BBC Studios said Flintoff expressed concern at one point when the car’s front wheel lifted as he took a corner, but was reassured by Rees that it could not roll over.
Approaching the same corner again, Rees told Flintoff to “now turn right… now full power, full power”, BBC Studios’ defence filings said.
The document claimed that “a front wheel lifted and because on the claimant’s instruction the presenter continued to apply power the Morgan turned over”.
The court document also said: “At no time in the period after the accident did the claimant suggest that he had suffered any injury in the accident.”
