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December 9th programme 9 PM

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    #32
    Gwynston
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Gwynston


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

    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.....


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    #33
    pd101
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    I think they show repaets during the week on either BBC 4 or BBC 3 but I dont know how old they are.


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    #34
    Beekay
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    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.


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    #35
    Silverfish
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    True. I just wanted the mystery :/


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    #36
    shanew
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭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.


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    #37
    prospect
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    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.


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    #38
    mike65
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    ALL LIES!

    Mike.


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    #39
    vengeance52
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    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.


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    #40
    lostexpectation
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    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...


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    #41
    mike65
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    Repeat on BBC2 tonight at 7

    Mike.


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    #42
    Gwynston
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭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!


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    #43
    Rovi
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    A nice little report on the event from Thorney Motorsport-
    http://www.thorneymotorsport.co.uk/tuning/Top_Gear_24_Hour.shtml


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