James May doesn't think Chris Evans is being totally honest with Top Gear fans.
The former co-host has accused his successor of playing up production problems in order to dampen expectations ahead of the new series.
Speaking to ITV's This Morning, May said: "That's my theory. To be brutally honest that's what I'd do. I would make out it was all going terribly.
"The picture of Chris supposedly being sick while he was driving a car. Was he being sick? I look a lot more contorted when I'm sick."
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Despite his comments, May says he'd still like to see Top Gear do well under Evans.
"I'd like to see Chris' version do well. It's a ballsy call to continue it," he said.
"I wouldn't want to be the one presenting it when we'd just finished, but there must be a way of reinventing it. We always said it would survive beyond us."
