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What was top gear?
Top Gear is a British motoring magazine, factual television series, conceived by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman, launched on 20 October 2002, and broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBCTwo.
Did Top Gear win any awards?
In November 2005, Top Gear won an International Emmy in the Non-Scripted Entertainment category.
Was there anything else interesting about top gear?
In 2006, Top Gear featured its first, feature-length, special edition episode, in which the presenters conducted a various challenges related to sporting events used in the Winter Olympics.
Was there any thing else interesting about Top Gear besides the Specials?
James May first co-presented the revived series of Top Gear in its second series in 2003, where he earned the nickname Captain Slow.

Question: How did he earn the nickname?
Self-contained rewrite: How did James May earn the nickname Captain Slow?