December 9th programme 9 PM

mike65

As the title says its an hour later as BBC did'nt want it stealing viewers from the piss-poor Sports Bore of the Year.

The highlight should be the Britcar 24 hour race at Silverstone using the trios home grown fuel. Someone crashes, wonder who?

Mike.

kaimera

Looking forward to this one.

Didn't know they were going to finally use the bio fuel. lol.

Was that a sarcastic "wonder who?" ? Twas mentioned in last weeks ep.

Guy:Incognito

Keith Allen savign the planet in his 3.2 jag.

GAAman

I want the big yellow shouty car!!

Guy:Incognito

I want to enter a 24hr race. I think boards needs to enter a car in one. 20 or 30 euro from every member will get us up and running.:)

GAAman

What a shocker richard "i like making total and utter ****e of cars" hammond wrecked the shop!

Guy:Incognito

HE seemed genuinly upset for letting the lads down.

kaimera

Brill ep. I was genuinely delighted the bmw made the finish. Epic indeed.

New fastest car, what a demon! Ascari A10.

Pld guys

mike65

Jezza, dry your eyes!

Those 24 races are the buisness, so much oppotunity for stuff to go wrong and changes in the weather. One here would be a race against the elements rather than other cars.

Mike.

BFassassin

Really enjoyed tonights episode. Another break now for the "Billiards" next week

skelliser

damn i missed it, when is the repeat or is there somewhere online i can watch it?

BFassassin

Its usually repeated wednesdays at 7.

pd101

Another class episode. The "my zip is broken" bit was hilarious, couldn't stop laughing.:D

Vegeta

GAAman wrote: »

What a shocker richard "i like making total and utter ****e of cars" hammond wrecked the shop!

he really is prone to crashing isn't he

bribren2001

i would of loved to seen how they would of got on if hammond didnt crash!
the stig was unbelievable, he got them up 10 places in no time at all until the car gave up on him i think... there was so much goin on in that episode that i cant rem it all! so funny with the stig, he is purely a machine! emotionless!

brilliant episode!!

vengeance52

I laughed my ass of at this bit.

Dont look if ya havnt seen it yet

http://img120.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=18462_TopGear_122_1095lo.jpg

Grim.

Great ep

Dregon

Very funny and entertaining episode, loved the 24 hour race.

vengeance52

wonder what there gonna do for the final ep now

the magician

vengeance52 wrote: »

I laughed my ass of at this bit.

Dont look if ya havnt seen it yet

http://img120.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=18462_TopGear_122_1095lo.jpg

Really funny alright, great episode.

vengeance52

my little homage to the 24hour race the lads did

Nightwish

Excellent episode as usual. Keith Allen was a bit of a prat but the Britcar race was hugely entertaining.

Beekay

What i think was interesting about the episode is that whoever was working in sign on for the race in silverstone that day knows who the stig is. He would have had to give in his motorsport licence etc. to take part in the race

prospect

Beekay wrote: »

What i think was interesting about the episode is that whoever was working in sign on for the race in silverstone that day knows who the stig is. He would have had to give in his motorsport licence etc. to take part in the race

Yes, that was certainly the most interesting part of the episode :rolleyes:

daveharnett

Beekay wrote: »

What i think was interesting about the episode is that whoever was working in sign on for the race in silverstone that day knows who the stig is. He would have had to give in his motorsport licence etc. to take part in the race

Did the race require motorsport licences? I thought hammond was the only one of the three presenters with a race lience?

It's always been a source of interest to me how they have managed to keep two stigs anonymous. A fair number of people must know. In this day and age, it's difficult to keep a secret this big off the internet. Fair play.

mike65

The Health and Safety report into Hammonds crash (the big one!) revealed the stigs identity as

Ben Foster

.

Mike.

Silverfish

If I check that out when I get home, and it's true, I'm deleting your post and crying for a while.

I think that was one of the best episodes yet, I really really want to do a 24 hr race now.

AND get my BMX out of the garage.


/EDIT: omg he was right :cryface:

He also said there was no Santa?

Beekay

mike65 wrote: »

The Health and Safety report into Hammonds crash (the big one!) revealed the stigs identity as

Ben Foster

.

Mike.

A motorsport licence would be needed to take part in the race. I read that health and safety report before. I also read on a motorsport forum that it wasn't the usual stig(they use two or three different drivers) that did the 24 hour race.

Where does it say

Ben Foster

? Only thing i can find in the report that would give an idea who the stig is this

Visit by Ben Collins (BC) to PTLE
37. The preliminary arrangements for the event had been made at arm’s length, with the result that, as the date of the Elvington shoot approached, no-one from Top Gear had actually met PTLE’s principals or seen their jet cars. The jet car feature was considered to be sufficiently unusual and hazardous for GW to ask BC, who worked closely with Top Gear as a high performance driver and consultant, to go and see PTLE and Vampire, and to prepare a briefing for RH. It was felt that, with his extensive motor sport experience, he would be able to confirm PTLE’s competence and the quality of their equipment, and be able to see through them if they were not genuine. (This was a significant step because Top Gear had not used BC in this way before.)
38. BC visited PTLE’s premises near Northampton on Monday 18th June. He seems to have been convinced of their bona fides. He telephoned PD to confirm his conclusions and prepared a briefing paper that he e-mailed to GW. This described Vampire’s controls and tried to prepare RH for the experience of driving the jet car.

Silverfish

Yeah, just noticed that there when I re-read it, I read it rather hurriedly in work.


So it's

Ben Collins? I'm still not convinced. By reading the article, it looks like he *may* have just been brought in for that episode, to advise on that car only?

Gwynston

BFassassin wrote: »

Its usually repeated wednesdays at 7.

What channel? I missed this episode (Sky+ went haywire) and can't find a repeat in any listings...

I really wanted to watch the 24h-race feature as an old friend of mine also competed (the lads in the Golf who started at the back and finished 9th) and was in the garage next to to the TG crew.

mike65

Snooker is on tonight so its usual repeat slot is gone.

Mike.

Gwynston

Yeah, that's what I've noticed Mike.
So when will it be on instead....?

I notice BBC1 shows it at 2:55am Friday Night/Saturday Morning, but it seems to be a couple of episodes behind, so maybe that's when I need to keep an eye out in a couple of weeks.....

pd101

I think they show repaets during the week on either BBC 4 or BBC 3 but I dont know how old they are.

Beekay

Silverfish wrote: »

Yeah, just noticed that there when I re-read it, I read it rather hurriedly in work.


So it's

Ben Collins? I'm still not convinced. By reading the article, it looks like he *may* have just been brought in for that episode, to advise on that car only?

But it also mentions how he has worked closely with top gear as a high performance. He has always been rumoured with being the main Stig. And i think the team manager of the British A1GP team said it was him to a reporter in an interview.

Silverfish

True. I just wanted the mystery

shanew

what happened at the end of the race ? my recording finished
as the Stig was driving what seemed to be the last stages
of the race...



S.

prospect

shanew wrote: »

what happened at the end of the race ? my recording finished
as the Stig was driving what seemed to be the last stages
of the race...



S.

They won it,

There was a big crash and The Stig made a lot of ground and then J.May hopped in and set a lap record and won the race.
He is now Captain Fast.

mike65

ALL LIES!

Mike.

vengeance52

shanew wrote: »

what happened at the end of the race ? my recording finished
as the Stig was driving what seemed to be the last stages
of the race...



S.

Clarky was last in the motor, he was ment to preserve his tyres but being clarkson he floored it. Last pit stop changed tyres, clarkson stayed in the driver seat and floored it. Came 3rd out of 5diesels. lads were pretty happy.

lostexpectation

can't remeber which episode it was but I note that the admitted there bike vs car things weren't really races just camera set ups for cool bits...

mike65

Repeat on BBC2 tonight at 7

Mike.

Gwynston

Thanks Mike. Will catch it later.

Mind you, I've been in contact with my old mate who was in the race and he says the Top Gear show is a fairly major fabrication of the real events. They actually used 3 Stigs apparently, and one of them had an off that caused the broken spoiler! The presenters themselves didn't actually do much driving and the car was built for them by a specialist company, and cost a lot more than the show claims.

Still it's supposed to be an entertaining show!

Rovi

A nice little report on the event from Thorney Motorsport-
http://www.thorneymotorsport.co.uk/tuning/Top_Gear_24_Hour.shtml