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Tonight, I talk to a man in sunglasses. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:15 | |
James draws a square on a wall. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
And Richard plays with a soldier's chopper. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:00:25 | 0:00:29 | |
Hello, good evening. Thank you so much. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
Now, in the '60s and '70s the TV schedules were awash with detective shows like The Baron, | 0:00:38 | 0:00:46 | |
Department S, The Protectors, The Persuaders, The Saint, The Avengers. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:51 | |
You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you? | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
Let me explain. They were all basically the same. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
Every week a good looking man would run into a swanky hotel, punch | 0:00:56 | 0:01:00 | |
a swarthy looking man in a Fez and then go to bed with a pretty lady. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:04 | |
Anyone here old enough to remember that? Yeah, you, exactly. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:08 | |
The only difference was the cars they all drove, OK? | 0:01:08 | 0:01:12 | |
This is Brett Sinclair, Aston Martin DBS. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:15 | |
Steed had a Broadspeed tuned Jag. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
And there is The Saint with his Volvo P1800. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:23 | |
Now, the interesting thing is that almost none of them ever drove | 0:01:23 | 0:01:27 | |
the Jensen Interceptor, and I think there's a very good reason for that. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:31 | |
It looks fantastic, but it was built very badly by people who didn't seem to care what they were doing. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:44 | |
Let me give you one example. | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
When the people on the Jensen production line needed a new steering rack they'd go to | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
the steering rack factory and buy one, often without bothering to check what car it was for. | 0:01:53 | 0:02:00 | |
Some Interceptors were apparently sold fitted with steering racks designed for the Triumph Stag. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:06 | |
That, then, is why it wasn't very popular with the TV heroes of yesteryear. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:13 | |
It would never have worked properly. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
Now, though, a small company based here in the lungs of England | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
has launched an updated version, which does. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:30 | |
In the old car the big Chrysler engine turned petrol into noise, | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
but very little power was produced on the way, | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
so they've taken that engine out and thrown it away. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
In its place there's a 6.2 litre V8 from the modern day Corvette. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:57 | |
The rear suspension is modern, too, as are the brakes. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
But, critically, the body, that glorious Italian styling, that's untouched. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:08 | |
And it still has the best name ever put on a car... | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
..Interceptor. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:14 | |
What we have is much the same as that house over there. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
It's old and it's beautiful, but it has central heating, it has all the appurtenances of modern living. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:29 | |
And unlike that modern day E type we looked at the other day this doesn't cost £500,000. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:36 | |
This is 112,000. | 0:03:36 | 0:03:38 | |
I know that's a lot if you're on benefits, but it's not a lot if you're on Elton John. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:44 | |
I mean, if you are Elton John. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:46 | |
And it's really not a lot when you see what this car can do. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:51 | |
Thanks to 429 horsepower, 0 to 60 is dealt with in 4.5 seconds | 0:03:54 | 0:04:01 | |
and the top speed is 167. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:05 | |
It goes, then, like that other interceptor from the period, | 0:04:05 | 0:04:11 | |
the English Electric Lightning. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
However, it as thirsty as the jet, | 0:04:13 | 0:04:17 | |
and as noisy. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:19 | |
The engine in this, though, sounds fantastic...I think. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:26 | |
It's hard to be sure because there's so much wind noise | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
coming from here and everywhere else. | 0:04:29 | 0:04:32 | |
It's a reminder, really, that this car was built in the '70s | 0:04:32 | 0:04:36 | |
in the West Midlands and these words, | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
"West", "Seventies", "Midlands," they're not bywords for quality. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:44 | |
There are other period features I don't much care for either. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:50 | |
There's the air-conditioning. Two settings, | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
sauna or Turkish prison. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:55 | |
Then you've got the wipers, which are as good at removing water from the windscreen as a pair of pencils. | 0:04:55 | 0:05:01 | |
And then there's the steering system. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:04 | |
It's original, so it could be from a Triumph Stag or it could be from | 0:05:04 | 0:05:08 | |
a lawn mower, who knows? | 0:05:08 | 0:05:10 | |
What I do know is to make the car move that much | 0:05:10 | 0:05:14 | |
you have to do quite a lot of flailing at the wheel. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:18 | |
There are, however, some period features I love. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:24 | |
The traditional white on black dials are the sort you get in war films, that you tap | 0:05:24 | 0:05:28 | |
when they tell you bad news and then they tell you good news. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:32 | |
Oh no, I've got no fuel! | 0:05:32 | 0:05:34 | |
Oh, look, I've got a full tank! | 0:05:34 | 0:05:36 | |
I also like having the dim dip switch on the floor. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:41 | |
And, look at that radio! | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
'This is the BBC Home Service.' | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
It's from the James May collection. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:50 | |
So, how do we sum this car up? | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
Certainly it's more of a grand tourer than a raging | 0:05:54 | 0:05:57 | |
B road barnstormer, but I think that what it is most of all | 0:05:57 | 0:06:02 | |
is a time machine. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
In my head, right now this is not Top Gear and this is not 2011. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:10 | |
It's 1972, I have an enormous moustache and I am the star | 0:06:10 | 0:06:17 | |
of a new TV detective show. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:19 | |
Nice wheels. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
-Rock your head. -I would have done if you'd gone within a metre of me! | 0:06:31 | 0:06:34 | |
It was like you're swatting a fly. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:36 | |
-That was rubbish. -Did you see that? -Yeah, it was rubbish. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
We can't just go around pretending to punch each other. | 0:06:39 | 0:06:43 | |
-You need a sort of proper sequence. Nice wheels, by the way. -Isn't it just the best thing ever? | 0:06:43 | 0:06:48 | |
We need to sort this out. We need a plan. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
So, we adjourned to the Top Gear office to plan our Interceptor tribute show. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:57 | |
-Why don't we just make the title sequence? -Mmm. -Title sequence is a good idea because | 0:06:57 | 0:07:02 | |
-that tells the whole story. It sums up the atmosphere and the setting. -Exactly. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:06 | |
They're always very short and they often end with a freeze. | 0:07:06 | 0:07:10 | |
Exactly. And everyone turns like that. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:12 | |
There's always somebody doing karate chops on people. | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
-No, there's always a karate chop, shooting, car chase. -Explosion. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:19 | |
There was never any blood. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:20 | |
-No. -People were shot extensively. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
-Very close. -Very close, and they never bled. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
-If anything ever has a button on it or a light, they're massive. -Girls. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:30 | |
Do you remember that bit in The Persuaders? | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
Roger Moore, Tony Curtis, walking along, girl in | 0:07:33 | 0:07:35 | |
a bikini walks between them for no obvious reason and they both go... | 0:07:35 | 0:07:39 | |
The good thing about a karate chop is there's no blood. | 0:07:40 | 0:07:43 | |
you wouldn't need blood. The whole shooting and no blood. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
-Karate chop, no blood, you fall over. -There is karate. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
-You can do a karate chop. -It's just there always was. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:52 | |
-You get out of the car, karate. -There was a karate specialist. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
You could be a karate specialist. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
-Yeah. -Well, let's get out there and make a title sequence. | 0:07:57 | 0:08:01 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:09:08 | 0:09:10 | |
-Did you kick that girl in the crotch? -Yes, I did. | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
It was actually in her crotch? You could edit that out. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
Can I just ask...? | 0:09:17 | 0:09:19 | |
-Can I just ask, why don't we make that every week? -Yes, I know. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:23 | |
-I want to be a karate expert. -I want an Interceptor. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
-I want a moustache. -Well, there you go. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
-Who here would like us to stop making this rubbish and make that instead? -Yes! | 0:09:30 | 0:09:35 | |
Because think of the snogging! | 0:09:37 | 0:09:38 | |
And I tell you what, I know the girl we could have. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
Wendi Murdoch! Blam! | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
Apparently, according to one newspaper, so must be true, she growled when she hit him. Oh! | 0:09:45 | 0:09:49 | |
-LAUGHTER -Hammond likes a fighty girl. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
Anyway, before we do the news properly, there's something I need to explain. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:56 | |
Very, very keen viewers may have noticed that this | 0:09:56 | 0:09:59 | |
hour long programme, is sometimes 62 or even 63 minutes long. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:03 | |
But this week BBC Two have told us it must be 59 minutes, no ifs or buts, on the nose. | 0:10:03 | 0:10:09 | |
In fact, all the programmes on BBC Two tonight must be exactly to | 0:10:09 | 0:10:12 | |
length because they're going at 10.00pm live to the MotoGP race. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:17 | |
-Yes. -I'm not interested in bike racing. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:19 | |
Just because you're not interested | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
doesn't mean that the BBC should deny all the people who are the opportunity of seeing it. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:26 | |
Bike racing only works on YouTube. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
-What? -Well, you just see the crashes and then... -Oh, don't be sick! | 0:10:28 | 0:10:32 | |
Hands up if you want to see bike racing? Two... | 0:10:32 | 0:10:36 | |
So, about 8% of the population want me to get a move on. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:41 | |
Yes, they do, so we're going to press on and start with the news. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:44 | |
And we start with news you may have heard of this week, a new flying car has been announced. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:49 | |
It costs £150,000. Here's a shot of it in the air. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:51 | |
That's what it looks like as an aeroplane. And here's a shot of it on the ground. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:55 | |
It's just a crumpled aeroplane, isn't it? It just comes pre crashed. | 0:10:55 | 0:10:59 | |
There's an even bigger problem I've thought of. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:02 | |
Everybody knows, James, you do have a light aircraft, | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
-and before you take off you have to do pre-flight checks. -Well, a few, yeah. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:10 | |
-What are they? -Eh?! | 0:11:10 | 0:11:12 | |
You have to check the fuel... | 0:11:12 | 0:11:14 | |
Why do you check the fuel? | 0:11:14 | 0:11:15 | |
-So it hasn't got water in it. -How would water get into the fuel? | 0:11:15 | 0:11:19 | |
-Oh, we haven't got time for this! -No, I'm very interested. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:22 | |
-We haven't got time for this. -It's only bike racing. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
-Tell me more about your pre-flight checks. -No, just... -You know what? | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
Even I would rather watch bike racing than listen to James talk about his pre-flight checks. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:34 | |
-So get on. -I will. Now, there's a company in America called SSC | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
and they brought out a car called the Aero, which, | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
for a time, was the fastest car in the world, verified by Guinness. Faster than the Bugatti Veyron. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:45 | |
They've come up with another new car. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:47 | |
I've got a picture of it here. We have no details at all, but we do know its name. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:51 | |
It's called the Twatawahfur. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:56 | |
That's interesting. Is this going to be a rival for the new Pagani Huhurrua? | 0:11:56 | 0:12:00 | |
What? | 0:12:00 | 0:12:02 | |
The replacement for the Zonda, it's called that Hurh... | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
-Hurraher. -It's spelt H-U-A-Y-R-A. The Hurh... | 0:12:05 | 0:12:10 | |
Huayra. So, you've got a choice now, if you're a wealthy person, between the Twatawahurrr, | 0:12:10 | 0:12:15 | |
or the Hurwarrrrrrrr. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:17 | |
So, are car makers now naming their cars after the noises people make when they're punched in the stomach? | 0:12:17 | 0:12:22 | |
The Lamborghini Blurgha! | 0:12:22 | 0:12:25 | |
Mini recently announced a new car. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:30 | |
It's called The Mini Inspired By Goodwood. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
Stupid name, stupid price. £41,000. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:37 | |
-For a Mini? -For a Mini. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
41 grand. However, Aston has now gone one better, OK? | 0:12:39 | 0:12:42 | |
We've got this new car, it's called the Cygnet and Colette | 0:12:42 | 0:12:45 | |
-and that's £43,000. -Eh?! | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
43 grand for that! | 0:12:49 | 0:12:50 | |
And we should point out that that is a Toyota iQ. | 0:12:50 | 0:12:54 | |
Yes, it starts out as an 11 grand Toyota. | 0:12:54 | 0:12:56 | |
Aston Martin take the Toyota badges off, put Aston Martin ones on, the price goes up to 31,000. | 0:12:56 | 0:13:02 | |
They've now added the Colette badges, 43 grand. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:05 | |
So, what do you get for that extra 12 grand on top? | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
You need to look inside. Here they are, two cushions. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:11 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:13:11 | 0:13:12 | |
Wait a minute. What is the Cygnet AND Colette? | 0:13:13 | 0:13:17 | |
It sounds like a lap dancing duo from Leeds. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:20 | |
An ice skating duo, Cygnet and Colette. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:23 | |
No, to be honest, we know that the Cygnet part is an Aston Martin Cygnet. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:27 | |
It's the Colette thing. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:28 | |
What is Colette? It sounds like a feminine hygiene product. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:31 | |
Argh! | 0:13:32 | 0:13:34 | |
-What? -I made a mistake. -Did you? | 0:13:34 | 0:13:37 | |
You get more than just the cushions. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:39 | |
I do apologise. You also get quilted sun visors, some biscuits. | 0:13:39 | 0:13:45 | |
I'm just quoting what you get. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
"A guide to Paris, a plastic camera, an empty bottle | 0:13:48 | 0:13:52 | |
"and four compilation CDs featuring bands such as The Morning Benders." | 0:13:52 | 0:13:57 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:13:57 | 0:13:58 | |
So, basically they're selling you a small Toyota full of clutter. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:02 | |
Oh, now, the most important thing, obviously. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:05 | |
A couple of weeks ago I showed you all a bird deposit | 0:14:05 | 0:14:09 | |
-on my Range Rover. You may remember. -Yes. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:11 | |
And I invited viewers to send in pictures of bird dirt on their car that was more substantial. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:17 | |
-We've had some, I admit. -Oh, yeah. -Here's one from Africa. | 0:14:17 | 0:14:20 | |
-I think we know who did it! -This is a marabou stork. | 0:14:20 | 0:14:25 | |
God's cruellest joke, this bird. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:27 | |
wWe haven't really got time for one of your bird lectures. | 0:14:27 | 0:14:30 | |
You're getting it because this is more interesting than bike racing. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:34 | |
God knew that bird would live in Africa when he gave it bald legs. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:37 | |
Now, I'm sorry, but that's a bit unkind. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:39 | |
So, its legs get hot and sunburnt and the only way it can cool them down, | 0:14:39 | 0:14:43 | |
and I'm not making this up, is to wee on them constantly. | 0:14:43 | 0:14:46 | |
-Yeah, but, Jeremy... -So it wees on its legs. -Car show. | 0:14:46 | 0:14:49 | |
We're a car show. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:51 | |
A giant stork that wees on its knees is not strictly our kind of deal. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:55 | |
It is if it's standing on a Mitsubishi Lancer. | 0:14:55 | 0:14:58 | |
-No! -Which it is, so there's a car element to my story. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:01 | |
-Anyway there's... What? -That's a Galant. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:03 | |
What a cretin you are! | 0:15:03 | 0:15:05 | |
That could well be a Galant. It's a Galant! | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:15:08 | 0:15:10 | |
Remind me never to have him round for dinner. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:15 | |
How did you know it was a Galant, | 0:15:19 | 0:15:21 | |
you can only see the back of the television? | 0:15:21 | 0:15:24 | |
Anyway, I've just humiliated myself and will now commit suicide. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:28 | |
-If I do that you'll be able to watch the bike racing. -Yes, we will. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:31 | |
So, I won't, I shall keep going with another bird dirt picture. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:35 | |
Now, I don't think a bird did that. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:37 | |
I think that was a man and I think, if that's your car, you should report him to the police. | 0:15:37 | 0:15:42 | |
Not that you can because, of course, they've all resigned. But, anyway... | 0:15:42 | 0:15:46 | |
-And that's the end of the news. -It isn't, actually. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
-It is. -It isn't. -It is. I'm not going to waste time arguing. Move on! | 0:15:49 | 0:15:53 | |
I will move it on because I want to talk about sport. | 0:15:53 | 0:15:56 | |
You see, anyone can kick a football around and get an idea of what it would be like to be David Beckham. | 0:15:56 | 0:16:01 | |
Anybody can pick up a golf bat and get an idea of what it would like to be a Freemason. | 0:16:01 | 0:16:05 | |
-Let's get on with your point. -If you want to drive a Formula One car you have to be a Formula One driver. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:10 | |
An ordinary mortal can't just go into a Formula One factory and buy one, except now you can. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:16 | |
This is the new Lotus T125. | 0:16:29 | 0:16:34 | |
And straight away, an anorak would say, "that's not a Formula One car." | 0:16:34 | 0:16:39 | |
And that's right. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:42 | |
It isn't. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:43 | |
But it does come with a Cosworth V8, a sequential gearbox, | 0:16:43 | 0:16:48 | |
full downforce, a complicated steering wheel, | 0:16:48 | 0:16:51 | |
a hand-operated clutch and all the other F1 trimmings as well. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:56 | |
For instance, included in the price is Geoff, | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
who is a fitness instructor. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
Alfonso, who will cook for you and your friends, | 0:17:01 | 0:17:04 | |
and a team of mechanics who will accompany you | 0:17:04 | 0:17:08 | |
and your car to any race track in the world. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:11 | |
You also get a truck which is fitted with all the things you need, | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
including a Jean Alesi... | 0:17:14 | 0:17:16 | |
So let's just get this straight. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:20 | |
If I buy one of these cars, I get you, | 0:17:20 | 0:17:24 | |
a former Ferrari Formula One driver, to teach me how to drive it? | 0:17:24 | 0:17:28 | |
It is like that. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:30 | |
The only problem is that it is single seat. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
-When you are in, you are alone. -Well, exactly. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
You will have to follow my instruction. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
Jean's first job was to get me comfortable in the car. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:43 | |
The position is extremely important, because it is where you will | 0:17:43 | 0:17:47 | |
have the feeling and the feedback from what is happening. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:52 | |
Erm. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:53 | |
-Now, you see... -No, that is not the correct position. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:57 | |
-Well, it is the position that I... that's it. -It's my seat. | 0:17:57 | 0:18:02 | |
Because I was so...generously proportioned, | 0:18:02 | 0:18:05 | |
the only option was to remove the seat altogether. | 0:18:05 | 0:18:10 | |
-OK... -Well, I'm in. -Yeah. -But I am sitting on the floor. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:12 | |
-OK, but now, with the foam, we will feel... -With the foam? | 0:18:12 | 0:18:17 | |
-A special foam. -It's like being taught by Inspector Clouseau, this. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:20 | |
Is there going to be a "minkey" coming in a minute? | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
No, we have a special foam, and you will really feel at home. | 0:18:23 | 0:18:29 | |
The foam fitting was rather disturbing. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:32 | |
Why... what are you doing? You're in my actual anus. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:36 | |
That was my actual anus that you put your hand in. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:39 | |
It is a part of the programme! | 0:18:40 | 0:18:43 | |
Things that just happened that I didn't think would happen today - | 0:18:43 | 0:18:46 | |
Jean Alesi, who I used to hero-worship, is playing with my genitals. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:52 | |
-And Jean. -Yeah? | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
Compared to the Formula One cars of, I don't know, pick a period. | 0:18:54 | 0:18:58 | |
-'90s? Is this as fast as that? -I would say '90s, yes. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:02 | |
A lot faster. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:03 | |
This is faster than a '90s Formula One car? | 0:19:03 | 0:19:06 | |
Yes, because you have a lot more downforce. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:08 | |
We have a floor which guarantees 60% of the downforce. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:12 | |
-Really? So, it's got more downforce than even today's Formula One cars? -Definitely, yes. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:16 | |
-In terms of power, obviously it's down? -We have 640 horsepower. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:22 | |
Which is really enough for 600 kilo. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:26 | |
Soon, I was ready for my first ever taste of Formula One. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:35 | |
ENGINE REVS | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
ENGINE STALLS | 0:19:40 | 0:19:41 | |
Oh... No! | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
Erm... | 0:19:50 | 0:19:51 | |
Holy cow! Oh! | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
That's acceleration, and I'm not even going fully down on the throttle. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:04 | |
It's just terrifying. Oh, I can't turn the wheel! | 0:20:04 | 0:20:09 | |
My legs are in the way! God, this is quite horrible! | 0:20:09 | 0:20:14 | |
Unlike a Formula One car, which will rev to 17 or 18,000... | 0:20:15 | 0:20:20 | |
Ow! | 0:20:20 | 0:20:22 | |
..this is limited to just 10,500, and I'm glad about that! | 0:20:23 | 0:20:28 | |
I've lost all the temperature out of the tyres. Oh, I don't like this. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:37 | |
No, no, no. No, I don't want this. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:40 | |
Thank you. I've driven a car that's got this much power before, | 0:20:44 | 0:20:47 | |
and I've driven a car on slicks before, | 0:20:47 | 0:20:50 | |
and I drove a car that weighs as little as this before, | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
but I've never driven a car that has all of those things. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
Together. HE SIGHS | 0:20:56 | 0:20:58 | |
Nicer. HE LAUGHS | 0:20:58 | 0:21:01 | |
It wasn't nice. It had been terrifying. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:05 | |
And to explain why, I switched to my own car. | 0:21:07 | 0:21:11 | |
My mind tells me that it's OK to turn into the follow-through, | 0:21:11 | 0:21:16 | |
which is coming up now, at 90 miles an hour. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:20 | |
The thing is, in the Lotus, I have to tell my mind, | 0:21:23 | 0:21:27 | |
it's OK to go through that corner at 160 miles an hour. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:33 | |
And what's more, if I tried to do it in the Lotus at 90, | 0:21:36 | 0:21:41 | |
there won't be enough air going over the wings, so there won't be much | 0:21:41 | 0:21:45 | |
downforce, and the tyres will be cold, so there won't be much grip. | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
If I do it at the speed my mind says is safe, I will crash, | 0:21:50 | 0:21:54 | |
and I will be killed. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:57 | |
To stay alive, I have to go faster than my mind thinks is possible. | 0:21:57 | 0:22:04 | |
Then, there's the question of braking. | 0:22:05 | 0:22:08 | |
If I want to slow down enough at the hammerhead which is down there, | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
in this car which has enormous, ventilated discs, I would | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
have to start braking at this point, 140 metres from the corner. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:22 | |
But what if you braked the Lotus at this point? | 0:22:22 | 0:22:26 | |
So, he's come to a dead stop, never mind slowing-down enough, | 0:22:33 | 0:22:38 | |
60 yards from the corner. | 0:22:38 | 0:22:41 | |
So, what that means is, | 0:22:41 | 0:22:43 | |
when I'm driving the Lotus, I have to come past here, | 0:22:43 | 0:22:46 | |
with my foot buried in the loud pedal, still going like hell here, | 0:22:46 | 0:22:53 | |
still not braking, still not even thinking of braking | 0:22:53 | 0:22:56 | |
at this point, not here, | 0:22:56 | 0:22:58 | |
that would be stupid, I would look like an idiot. | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
My mind is now SCREAMING at me, stop! Stop! | 0:23:01 | 0:23:05 | |
You're going to be killed, but I'm still accelerating. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
And when I get to about here, then I'll brake. | 0:23:08 | 0:23:14 | |
And I don't think I've got the balls for that. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:17 | |
To spur me on, I unchained the Stig. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:25 | |
Unlike me, this is a man that drives as fast as a car will go, | 0:23:27 | 0:23:31 | |
not as fast as he thinks he can go. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:34 | |
And what he's doing now is setting a lap time on our short circuit | 0:23:34 | 0:23:39 | |
in V8 powered Ariel Atom, the fastest road car we've ever tested. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:44 | |
He did it in 36.2 seconds. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:50 | |
So, can a fat, frightened 51-year-old man | 0:23:52 | 0:23:56 | |
overcome the limitations of his own mind and beat that time? | 0:23:56 | 0:24:01 | |
-Wish me luck, everybody. -ENGINE STOPS | 0:24:02 | 0:24:04 | |
Oh, bloody hell! | 0:24:04 | 0:24:06 | |
Going a bit too hard through there! | 0:24:12 | 0:24:14 | |
I've got to get used to these brakes! | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
They just feel useless | 0:24:17 | 0:24:19 | |
until you stand on them! It's all over the place! | 0:24:19 | 0:24:23 | |
I am literally all over the place here! | 0:24:23 | 0:24:27 | |
-37.9, Jeremy. -37.9 seconds was my last lap! | 0:24:27 | 0:24:32 | |
The whole thing is jumping about like a wild animal! | 0:24:34 | 0:24:37 | |
Come on, Jeremy! Yes! | 0:24:40 | 0:24:43 | |
Oh, Jesus, no! | 0:24:43 | 0:24:45 | |
-Ballsed it up. -37.7. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:48 | |
37.7. Oh, no! | 0:24:48 | 0:24:53 | |
Oh, for crying out bloody loud! | 0:24:53 | 0:24:55 | |
Clearly it was time for another chat with Yoda. | 0:24:55 | 0:24:59 | |
Gears for the corners, Hammerhead, second? | 0:25:00 | 0:25:05 | |
-Second, for the first one, for the left. And first for the right. -First for the right?! | 0:25:05 | 0:25:09 | |
Yes, because otherwise, the car is pushing down, | 0:25:09 | 0:25:12 | |
-so you use the engine braking to make the back slide a little bit. -Yep. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:18 | |
-Then, you keep the 6th for the fast corner. -6th gear? -Keep the 6th. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:22 | |
-Then, second gear. -For the Chicago. Through the tyres. -Yes. -Yes. | 0:25:22 | 0:25:26 | |
And then... | 0:25:26 | 0:25:28 | |
With the noise curfew on our track fast approaching, | 0:25:29 | 0:25:33 | |
this was my last chance to beat 36.2 seconds. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
20 minutes. 20 minutes to try and beat that time. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:42 | |
Come on, now, come on! Come on! Come on! | 0:25:45 | 0:25:48 | |
Yes, finally, I have got the Chicago worked out. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:54 | |
Come on! | 0:25:54 | 0:25:56 | |
Feeling cramp in my hands! | 0:25:56 | 0:25:59 | |
-37.5, Jeremy. -37.5! | 0:26:02 | 0:26:04 | |
Oh, that's braking! And the neck! My neck is absolutely destroyed! | 0:26:12 | 0:26:19 | |
-That's 37 dead. -37. Come on! | 0:26:21 | 0:26:25 | |
Ow, my head! | 0:26:29 | 0:26:32 | |
Come on! Come on! Come on! | 0:26:34 | 0:26:36 | |
-35.8. -Yes! Yes! Yes! | 0:26:40 | 0:26:45 | |
35.8! 35.8! | 0:26:45 | 0:26:49 | |
Eat that, Stig! Yes, yes, yes! | 0:26:49 | 0:26:54 | |
I'm a Formula One driver! Yes! Yes! | 0:26:56 | 0:27:02 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:27:05 | 0:27:07 | |
-Well done. -Thank you. -Well done. -And I looked good. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:09 | |
-I looked good in that suit. -I am slightly. -What? -No, well done. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:14 | |
It was good. But I'm slightly confused by this. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:18 | |
So, if you buy one of these, you don't actually race it. | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
No, what you do is, you hire a track, you ring Lotus, | 0:27:21 | 0:27:24 | |
they bring your car to the track with the mechanics, the chef, all the things | 0:27:24 | 0:27:28 | |
I talked about there, and you drive it around | 0:27:28 | 0:27:31 | |
until your neck hurts and then you go home. | 0:27:31 | 0:27:33 | |
-How much does all this cost? -£650,000. | 0:27:33 | 0:27:36 | |
You see, that is quite a lot. Is it worth it? | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
Well, if you're one of the Scottish people | 0:27:39 | 0:27:41 | |
that won the Euro lottery millions, then, you know, it's probably worth it. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:45 | |
I mean, you'd have to lose a few pounds. | 0:27:45 | 0:27:47 | |
-LAUGHING AND GROANING -I don't mean that cruelly. | 0:27:47 | 0:27:50 | |
I genuinely don't mean that cruelly, and anyway, | 0:27:50 | 0:27:54 | |
people in glass houses. But, the fact is, it's agony. It really is. | 0:27:54 | 0:27:59 | |
I was going around Chicago, yet my head is just really, like it's being pulled off, | 0:27:59 | 0:28:03 | |
and you know you can't accelerate to go round to the Hammerhead, | 0:28:03 | 0:28:06 | |
-until you get your head upright and rested on the air box. -I know, | 0:28:06 | 0:28:09 | |
because when I drove that F1 car on the show a few years ago, | 0:28:09 | 0:28:14 | |
I could not believe how fast you had to go to make the thing work. | 0:28:14 | 0:28:18 | |
That car that you drove, came round here with the Stig at the wheel, | 0:28:18 | 0:28:21 | |
did a lap in 59 seconds, now we were very keen to find out | 0:28:21 | 0:28:26 | |
if this would go faster, so we brought it here and you won't believe this, | 0:28:26 | 0:28:29 | |
in the middle of July in a British summer, it was raining! | 0:28:29 | 0:28:32 | |
And in a show where we're already tight for a time, | 0:28:32 | 0:28:36 | |
there is no point entering a wet lap in this, what with that tell us? | 0:28:36 | 0:28:39 | |
So we'll get it back on a dry day and report back on how it does. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:42 | |
Now, it's time to put a star in our reasonably priced car. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:46 | |
Now, my guest tonight has long, straggly hair | 0:28:46 | 0:28:49 | |
and an incredible ability to heal the sick and feed the hungry. | 0:28:49 | 0:28:54 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, Jesus... | 0:28:54 | 0:28:56 | |
-it's Bob Geldof! -CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:28:56 | 0:28:59 | |
-How are you? -Have a seat. Sir Bob! | 0:29:03 | 0:29:06 | |
-Great to have you here. -Thank you. | 0:29:10 | 0:29:12 | |
You've topped what used to be called the hit parade, | 0:29:12 | 0:29:15 | |
you fed the world, but what a lot of people don't know, is that you built the M25. | 0:29:15 | 0:29:20 | |
I built the M23 and M25, Jeremy. | 0:29:20 | 0:29:25 | |
I didn't know you built the road to Gatwick. | 0:29:25 | 0:29:27 | |
If you know the Merstham interchange where you come off the 23 | 0:29:27 | 0:29:32 | |
onto the 25, that is more or less were I had my road digging career. | 0:29:32 | 0:29:36 | |
And that is Geldof Corner. I know you've got Gambon Corner, which I'm sure we'll see later. | 0:29:36 | 0:29:43 | |
Geldof corner is there, hence the tailbacks for miles on the M25. | 0:29:43 | 0:29:47 | |
It's one of the best corners on the motorway network. | 0:29:47 | 0:29:51 | |
-And you built that! -I built that. | 0:29:51 | 0:29:53 | |
Long before I could drive a car, they gave me the chance | 0:29:53 | 0:29:56 | |
to drive these immense machines which I think, it was 11 forward gears and six reverses. | 0:29:56 | 0:30:02 | |
Two engines. You've got two throttles, | 0:30:02 | 0:30:05 | |
you've got to sit like this with both feet on the throttles, | 0:30:05 | 0:30:08 | |
and a big bucket in the middle, which you drop. | 0:30:08 | 0:30:11 | |
-And is it hard? -It's hard. I was crap. Yes. | 0:30:11 | 0:30:14 | |
-LAUGHTER -And so you ran over a herd of cattle. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:19 | |
I ran over practically the same thing, a guy from the county council. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:23 | |
On the haul roads, as they're called, | 0:30:23 | 0:30:25 | |
there are no other vehicles allowed. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:28 | |
And the county council guy was nosing around there for some reason. | 0:30:28 | 0:30:31 | |
I came around the bend, and here he was in his Renault 4L, | 0:30:31 | 0:30:34 | |
and he just saw this huge thing and this 18-year-old without | 0:30:34 | 0:30:39 | |
a driving licence coming down the track. | 0:30:39 | 0:30:41 | |
And I slammed on the brakes | 0:30:41 | 0:30:45 | |
and these huge tyres just rolled over the front of the Renault, | 0:30:45 | 0:30:50 | |
the bonnet, and I saw the windscreen pull away from the top | 0:30:50 | 0:30:55 | |
and just flatten the engine and he was just like this. | 0:30:55 | 0:30:58 | |
I don't know what was happening in his pants, | 0:30:58 | 0:31:00 | |
but I saw his face | 0:31:00 | 0:31:02 | |
and I thought he was dead, I thought I'd killed him. | 0:31:02 | 0:31:05 | |
He got out. The foreman came gunning up on his Land Rover and just, I thought I was gone. | 0:31:05 | 0:31:12 | |
I was just on the way out, and he was just SCREAMING at this guy who got fired. | 0:31:12 | 0:31:17 | |
-The council official got fired? -Yes. -Well, that saved the council a few bob! | 0:31:17 | 0:31:22 | |
I read in your road building career | 0:31:22 | 0:31:24 | |
that your nick name on the site was Dublin. | 0:31:24 | 0:31:27 | |
Yes. | 0:31:27 | 0:31:28 | |
Wouldn't that apply to absolutely everyone, also working on the site?! | 0:31:28 | 0:31:33 | |
-No. -Hey, Dublin! 5,000 people! "What?!" | 0:31:33 | 0:31:38 | |
No, because there were two crowds, essentially, | 0:31:38 | 0:31:41 | |
building the roads, certainly with this construction company, | 0:31:41 | 0:31:45 | |
there was a West Country crowd and there were as an Irish crowd. | 0:31:45 | 0:31:48 | |
It was like, I landed in India, not that long back, | 0:31:48 | 0:31:51 | |
on an Air India flight, and there were three other Air India flights, | 0:31:51 | 0:31:55 | |
and this is in India, and there was a man at the barriers | 0:31:55 | 0:31:57 | |
with a sign saying, Mr Patel, and I thought, that's not going to work. | 0:31:57 | 0:32:01 | |
It's the same as Dublin on this site. What sort of driver are you? | 0:32:04 | 0:32:08 | |
Not good. Really, I'm not. | 0:32:08 | 0:32:09 | |
I've got a Previa, because I had 600 children. And, you know... | 0:32:09 | 0:32:15 | |
-And 900 names between them. -Yes. And all excellent. | 0:32:15 | 0:32:18 | |
And, you know, it's just, a superb thing. | 0:32:18 | 0:32:22 | |
You're up high. | 0:32:22 | 0:32:24 | |
You go like this and the wheel turns. | 0:32:24 | 0:32:27 | |
You've just got endless amount of power in the thing. | 0:32:27 | 0:32:31 | |
There isn't an endless amount of power in a Toyota Previa. | 0:32:31 | 0:32:36 | |
-It's a horrible car. -No, it's not, it's really not. | 0:32:36 | 0:32:38 | |
I'm Mr Big on Toyota. | 0:32:38 | 0:32:41 | |
I've got a Lexus, so I don't pay the congestion charge. | 0:32:41 | 0:32:44 | |
-Oh, the hybrid one. -And also, Jeremy, I think you should start now becoming a little | 0:32:44 | 0:32:50 | |
more environmentally aware. You know. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:54 | |
I am very aware of the environment | 0:32:56 | 0:32:58 | |
and I'm still not interested in it. | 0:32:58 | 0:33:01 | |
-You're a businessman now. -Sometimes. | 0:33:03 | 0:33:05 | |
And you've got a lot of TV production companies. | 0:33:05 | 0:33:08 | |
So, how much time do you have left for music? | 0:33:08 | 0:33:11 | |
As most of the time, I do music, so there's still a lot of | 0:33:11 | 0:33:16 | |
the time spent on the Africa stuff, business stuff, music | 0:33:16 | 0:33:20 | |
and the family, but the only thing I like doing, being specific, | 0:33:20 | 0:33:23 | |
-the only thing that I like doing is music. -Really? | 0:33:23 | 0:33:26 | |
-You're touring, soon, aren't you? -Yes. September and November here. | 0:33:26 | 0:33:31 | |
-So, North and South. -Because you had the album out, what...? | 0:33:31 | 0:33:35 | |
Three months ago. | 0:33:35 | 0:33:36 | |
-Which was Bob Geldof age, it's actually, what was it, 58 and three quarters? -58 and a half. | 0:33:36 | 0:33:41 | |
I was going to call it that, and then I saw a book called | 0:33:41 | 0:33:45 | |
How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell and I thought, that was more ironic. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:49 | |
It's a good title. | 0:33:49 | 0:33:50 | |
It doesn't fit on iTunes very easily, how to, oh, there we go. | 0:33:50 | 0:33:54 | |
-You released that three months ago. -You know how to use iTunes?! -I do! | 0:33:54 | 0:33:58 | |
-What do you listen to in the car? -What do I listen to? | 0:33:58 | 0:34:02 | |
-Rat Trap, I Don't Like Mondays. -Classics. | 0:34:02 | 0:34:06 | |
-Classics from the late '70s. -Yes. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:11 | |
-I presume you've got an iPhone thing. -No, I don't have that. | 0:34:11 | 0:34:14 | |
We spent about two hours before this extolling the virtues of the Nokia 6310. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:19 | |
-Does anyone remember the 6310? -Yeah. -Five days without a charge. | 0:34:19 | 0:34:23 | |
Well, that's how long I do, because I've got no friends, so nobody rings me up. | 0:34:23 | 0:34:28 | |
There's self-evident reasons. The jeans, being one. | 0:34:28 | 0:34:33 | |
-At least I put socks on! -No, he came here. | 0:34:33 | 0:34:36 | |
-Look, I'm wearing a sock! -But you don't have beautiful ankles. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:39 | |
A beautiful turned ankle is something that I admire in somebody. | 0:34:39 | 0:34:43 | |
Your lap, how did it go out there? | 0:34:44 | 0:34:48 | |
I am so crap at this. You start off, and you're really nervous. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:56 | |
I'm not a speed head, and then I start to enjoy it | 0:34:56 | 0:35:00 | |
and be able to focus on what Stig told me. And I slowed down. | 0:35:00 | 0:35:04 | |
-Who would like to see the lap? -Not me. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:08 | |
Come on, let's have a look, let's see how it went. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:11 | |
ENGINE REVS AND TYRES SCREECH | 0:35:11 | 0:35:13 | |
-Come on. -BLEEP. | 0:35:16 | 0:35:18 | |
Already, we need the bleep machine there. Right, first corner. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:23 | |
Where are we going? Nice, wide line, like the look of that. | 0:35:23 | 0:35:28 | |
-Might be time to change gear. -So slow. Go, go. | 0:35:30 | 0:35:33 | |
You've got to change up. Where are we going? | 0:35:33 | 0:35:36 | |
Oh, wide, you see, that's too fast. That's skidding wide. | 0:35:36 | 0:35:42 | |
Clarkson, Stig said it's raining now and the track is getting slippery, | 0:35:42 | 0:35:47 | |
so, that's going to slow me down, so shut up, I'm not making excuses. | 0:35:47 | 0:35:51 | |
Let's have a look at this torrential rain, yes, | 0:35:51 | 0:35:55 | |
I can see what the state means. That's pouring down out there. | 0:35:55 | 0:35:59 | |
Wait, I don't mean pouring down, do I? | 0:36:00 | 0:36:02 | |
It looks so slow yet feels so fast. | 0:36:02 | 0:36:05 | |
No, that is just quite slow. Change gear! | 0:36:05 | 0:36:08 | |
Take this extreme bend at full throttle, which is frightening. | 0:36:08 | 0:36:14 | |
-Oh, I say, that's good. -Your instinct tells you to slow down. | 0:36:14 | 0:36:20 | |
-Ooh! You managed to stay off the bumpy bit, there. -This is the worst. | 0:36:22 | 0:36:27 | |
-Gambon corner. -0h, it is the worst. Absolutely awful. This is Gambon. | 0:36:27 | 0:36:31 | |
And you're...a little bit too slow. | 0:36:31 | 0:36:33 | |
Didn't use all of the road, but never-the-less, | 0:36:33 | 0:36:36 | |
across the line! | 0:36:36 | 0:36:38 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:36:38 | 0:36:41 | |
-Last. -Where do we think? | 0:36:43 | 0:36:46 | |
-Third last. -Third last? -Yeah. | 0:36:46 | 0:36:51 | |
-What, Louie Spence speed? -Yeah. -1.53... No, that was wet. Yours was dry. | 0:36:51 | 0:36:56 | |
These are all wet. You need to be looking above them. | 0:36:56 | 0:36:59 | |
I know they are as people, but with regards to... | 0:36:59 | 0:37:03 | |
-So, anyway, Bob Geldof. -Don't say and I'll watch it at home. | 0:37:03 | 0:37:07 | |
-I'm embarrassed. Seriously. It was rubbish. -You did it... -Look at him! | 0:37:07 | 0:37:13 | |
You did it in two minutes... | 0:37:13 | 0:37:16 | |
-I'm joking. -I fully expect that. | 0:37:18 | 0:37:24 | |
He was going, "Mmmm? Mmmm, really?" One minute 40... | 0:37:24 | 0:37:29 | |
eight | 0:37:29 | 0:37:31 | |
point one. I don't think that is... | 0:37:31 | 0:37:36 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:37:36 | 0:37:38 | |
Faster than Jeff Goldblum! | 0:37:40 | 0:37:42 | |
Oh, God. Average at everything! | 0:37:42 | 0:37:46 | |
Well, not really. I was just thinking, you're - what are you, | 0:37:46 | 0:37:49 | |
-a Knight of the British Empire? -Mmm-hmm. | 0:37:49 | 0:37:52 | |
-You were nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. -Mmm-hmm. | 0:37:52 | 0:37:56 | |
And now, you are the 14th fastest celebrity ever to go round | 0:37:56 | 0:37:59 | |
-our track in a Kia Cee'd. -You could have walked faster than that. | 0:37:59 | 0:38:03 | |
Hands up those that think you could do...who could be in the top ten if you did it. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:10 | |
Come on, hands up if you think... | 0:38:10 | 0:38:12 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:38:12 | 0:38:14 | |
-Thank you. -Ladies and gentlemen, liars, Bob Geldof! | 0:38:16 | 0:38:22 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:38:22 | 0:38:24 | |
Well done. Thank you very much. Bob Geldof, everybody! | 0:38:24 | 0:38:28 | |
-How are we doing for time? -No, we're all right. We're all right. Just press on. | 0:38:33 | 0:38:38 | |
Now, the other day, | 0:38:38 | 0:38:40 | |
we received a challenge from the world demolition champions. | 0:38:40 | 0:38:44 | |
We're not actually making that up. There really is such a championship! | 0:38:44 | 0:38:47 | |
There is, and they said to us that they reckon they could knock down | 0:38:47 | 0:38:51 | |
a row of houses faster than we could. | 0:38:51 | 0:38:53 | |
So we were prepared to accept this challenge, | 0:38:53 | 0:38:56 | |
but first, we thought we'd do a bit of practice. | 0:38:56 | 0:38:59 | |
So we got in touch with our old friends in the Albanian Mafia | 0:38:59 | 0:39:02 | |
and asked them if they had anything that needed knocking down. | 0:39:02 | 0:39:06 | |
Luckily, they said, "Yes! | 0:39:06 | 0:39:07 | |
"There's a man who annoyed us very much indeed and it would be | 0:39:07 | 0:39:10 | |
"an enormous help if you would come over and smash his house to bits." | 0:39:10 | 0:39:14 | |
So, we did. | 0:39:14 | 0:39:15 | |
This is the poor chap's house. This is where he had obviously tripped up. | 0:39:18 | 0:39:24 | |
And these are the machines we'd be using. | 0:39:25 | 0:39:28 | |
That there is a digger. | 0:39:30 | 0:39:32 | |
That is a bulldozer. | 0:39:33 | 0:39:34 | |
And that is a big crane with the pecky thing on the end of it. | 0:39:35 | 0:39:38 | |
-Bagsy I have that, it's the biggest. -Bagsy I have the bulldozer. I'm having it. | 0:39:38 | 0:39:43 | |
'With our choices carefully worked out, | 0:39:43 | 0:39:45 | |
'Jeremy was keen to get cracking...' | 0:39:45 | 0:39:47 | |
Come on! Go, go, go! | 0:39:47 | 0:39:49 | |
'..but I thought it best we first examine the house.' | 0:39:49 | 0:39:52 | |
This building is basically a steel-reinforced concrete frame - | 0:39:52 | 0:39:56 | |
a series of uprights and then beams joining them together - | 0:39:56 | 0:39:59 | |
and then all the gaps are filled in with these things, which are pot bricks. | 0:39:59 | 0:40:03 | |
These are not structural. They're there simply to... | 0:40:03 | 0:40:08 | |
< DRILLING | 0:40:08 | 0:40:10 | |
OK... | 0:40:13 | 0:40:15 | |
Ye-e-e-s! You are history! | 0:40:15 | 0:40:20 | |
Oi! Not yet! | 0:40:20 | 0:40:23 | |
'Throughout the rest of the day, there were some issues. | 0:40:27 | 0:40:31 | |
'I, for example, was not that accurate with the digger.' | 0:40:31 | 0:40:34 | |
Oh, no, no! Hang on, hang on. | 0:40:34 | 0:40:39 | |
-CLUNK! -Oh, God! | 0:40:40 | 0:40:43 | |
'Jeremy nearly caused a power cut. | 0:40:43 | 0:40:46 | |
'And when Richard stopped off in town to buy some tea, | 0:40:49 | 0:40:53 | |
'he got a bit confused with all his lorry's levers.' | 0:40:53 | 0:40:58 | |
Do you do tea? English breakfast tea for workers. | 0:40:58 | 0:41:04 | |
'But the biggest problem we had was the house itself.' | 0:41:08 | 0:41:12 | |
Come on! | 0:41:15 | 0:41:17 | |
-May? -What? -It won't fall down. You try. | 0:41:19 | 0:41:23 | |
'If I'm honest, that wasn't a great suggestion. | 0:41:23 | 0:41:28 | |
'Everything else we tried failed as well.' | 0:41:33 | 0:41:37 | |
Back! Give it some welly. | 0:41:37 | 0:41:39 | |
THUD! | 0:41:41 | 0:41:43 | |
JEREMY SIGHS | 0:41:43 | 0:41:45 | |
'In fact, by the time Hammond got back from clearing up his mess, | 0:41:47 | 0:41:51 | |
'it was almost dark and the house was still pretty much intact.' | 0:41:51 | 0:41:55 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:41:59 | 0:42:02 | |
Baffling. Absolutely baffling. | 0:42:05 | 0:42:08 | |
Clearly, clearly, it wasn't our fault that the house was still standing. | 0:42:09 | 0:42:13 | |
No, which left us with two possibilities. | 0:42:13 | 0:42:16 | |
Either Albanian houses are built superbly well, | 0:42:16 | 0:42:19 | |
which seems unlikely, or those diggery things and the pecky thing, | 0:42:19 | 0:42:24 | |
that equipment was no good. | 0:42:24 | 0:42:27 | |
We very quickly concluded that it was the equipment that was no good. | 0:42:27 | 0:42:31 | |
So for our challenge with the experts, | 0:42:31 | 0:42:33 | |
we decided to use military equipment. | 0:42:33 | 0:42:36 | |
This is the Witham Army Disposal Yard in Lincolnshire. | 0:42:39 | 0:42:43 | |
It's a giant toy cupboard. | 0:42:43 | 0:42:45 | |
And everything you see here is for sale. | 0:42:49 | 0:42:53 | |
-Can we use this to demolish the house? -No, you can't use any weapons. Just the vehicle. | 0:42:54 | 0:43:00 | |
Hammond, the driving position has got you in mind in a Scorpion. | 0:43:00 | 0:43:03 | |
-Is that what this is? -Yeah. £30,000. That's what it costs. | 0:43:03 | 0:43:08 | |
Already, I'm seeing buildings just fall down of their own free will. | 0:43:08 | 0:43:13 | |
-Didn't James Blunt use one of these in Kosovo? -It's got peddles! | 0:43:13 | 0:43:16 | |
I thought he had a guitar. | 0:43:16 | 0:43:18 | |
-It's the Stormer. -Yeah, the Stormer. | 0:43:18 | 0:43:21 | |
-Come on. -20 grand, maximum. -Stormer! That's a good name. -£20,000. | 0:43:21 | 0:43:27 | |
So this, or a Ford Focus. | 0:43:27 | 0:43:29 | |
Inside, there was more. And soon, Hammond started to lose focus. | 0:43:29 | 0:43:35 | |
This is your absolutely bog standard British Army Land Rover, | 0:43:35 | 0:43:39 | |
cupboard for either, like, you know, parking ticket money or bullets. | 0:43:39 | 0:43:45 | |
-Oh, he's found a Land Rover. -94,000 gentle miles. In a war zone. | 0:43:45 | 0:43:52 | |
Richard...not really what we're looking for. | 0:43:52 | 0:43:55 | |
-Please don't look at Land Rovers. -OK. | 0:43:55 | 0:43:59 | |
That's the fuselage of a Harrier. | 0:43:59 | 0:44:02 | |
These are fantastic. | 0:44:02 | 0:44:04 | |
Oh, no. Oh, my God. | 0:44:04 | 0:44:07 | |
Come on, chaps. Yeah, there's nothing else to see in here. | 0:44:07 | 0:44:09 | |
HAMMOND SQUEALS | 0:44:09 | 0:44:11 | |
-Oh, my... -Bloody hell. -OH! -Hammond's found the helicopters. | 0:44:11 | 0:44:16 | |
-Gazelles. -Hey! -Oh! -Well, that's it. That's my life over. | 0:44:16 | 0:44:21 | |
'With both my colleagues now otherwise engaged, I went off on my own | 0:44:21 | 0:44:26 | |
'to find a vehicle that might be suitable for our demolition project.' | 0:44:26 | 0:44:32 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Saxon. | 0:44:34 | 0:44:38 | |
It has an eight-litre, six-cylinder diesel engine. | 0:44:38 | 0:44:42 | |
Top speed - 30 miles an hour. | 0:44:42 | 0:44:43 | |
Or 60 if the tyres haven't been shot through. | 0:44:43 | 0:44:48 | |
It has all the things you need - power steering, automatic gearbox, | 0:44:50 | 0:44:54 | |
selectable four-wheel drive, grenade launchers. | 0:44:54 | 0:44:58 | |
Side windscreen wipers. Oh, yes. | 0:45:00 | 0:45:03 | |
'James, meanwhile, had decided that a Willys Jeep would be ideal. | 0:45:04 | 0:45:08 | |
'Although he was finding it quite difficult to explain why.' | 0:45:08 | 0:45:12 | |
RATTLING | 0:45:13 | 0:45:16 | |
Argh! Oh! Argh! | 0:45:16 | 0:45:18 | |
ARGH! | 0:45:18 | 0:45:20 | |
Argh! Argh! | 0:45:20 | 0:45:22 | |
The problem is that while you could drive this through a hail of petrol bombs | 0:45:23 | 0:45:29 | |
and small arms fire and you'd be fine, | 0:45:29 | 0:45:32 | |
I'm not sure you could drive it through a building. | 0:45:32 | 0:45:35 | |
Oh, Hammond! | 0:45:35 | 0:45:37 | |
HAMMOND LAUGHS | 0:45:37 | 0:45:40 | |
This is a 1977 Westland Gazelle helicopter. | 0:45:41 | 0:45:44 | |
One of the fastest helicopters built. | 0:45:45 | 0:45:49 | |
Top speed - 193 miles an hour. | 0:45:49 | 0:45:51 | |
Ha-ha! We've got to get us one of these. We need one of these. | 0:45:51 | 0:45:57 | |
Eventually, I nailed some sense into my colleagues and we all selected | 0:45:59 | 0:46:03 | |
the vehicles we'd be using for the demolition challenge. | 0:46:03 | 0:46:07 | |
This is a 434 Armoured Recovery Vehicle. | 0:46:07 | 0:46:10 | |
I've gone for it in this spec because it's got a crane, | 0:46:10 | 0:46:13 | |
which could be very useful to us. | 0:46:13 | 0:46:16 | |
But if all else fails, it weighs 15 tonnes, | 0:46:16 | 0:46:19 | |
so I could just use it as a sort of battering ram. | 0:46:19 | 0:46:22 | |
As you would imagine, mine is much bigger than Hammond's. This is a CET - | 0:46:22 | 0:46:27 | |
a Combat Engineering Tractor. And they're all very encouraging words. | 0:46:27 | 0:46:31 | |
It has a bucket on the front and many other things besides. | 0:46:31 | 0:46:34 | |
Unlike James's, mine is white. It's also absolutely excellent. | 0:46:34 | 0:46:39 | |
The tiller on the front is used for mine clearance, | 0:46:39 | 0:46:42 | |
but it can also be used for pulling down houses. | 0:46:42 | 0:46:46 | |
In my mind. What? | 0:46:46 | 0:46:49 | |
-Why is it white? -United Nations. -Ah! | 0:46:49 | 0:46:52 | |
Yes, this very vehicle has just come back from the Middle East | 0:46:52 | 0:46:55 | |
where it cleared 100 anti-tank mines. | 0:46:55 | 0:46:59 | |
It's kind of focused on one thing, isn't it? Mine clearance. | 0:46:59 | 0:47:02 | |
It is a mine clearing... You aren't clearing mines. | 0:47:02 | 0:47:06 | |
We are knocking a house down. | 0:47:06 | 0:47:08 | |
You've focused on one thing and we are not doing that thing. | 0:47:08 | 0:47:10 | |
It's a very, very specialised piece of equipment. | 0:47:10 | 0:47:13 | |
This... Incredibly specialised - the cab is on hydraulic rams. | 0:47:13 | 0:47:17 | |
-Mmm. -It senses your weight, raises it to the correct height, | 0:47:17 | 0:47:20 | |
so that if there's a blast underneath, you're cushioned from that blast. | 0:47:20 | 0:47:23 | |
But it won't be, cos we're not clearing a minefield. We're knocking houses down. | 0:47:23 | 0:47:28 | |
You wait till you see what happens to a house | 0:47:28 | 0:47:31 | |
when it is presented with THIS moving at 400 rpm. | 0:47:31 | 0:47:34 | |
If the house explodes, you'll be OK, but that's about it. | 0:47:34 | 0:47:37 | |
-It just goes around doing this... -It's like a mechanical cat. | 0:47:37 | 0:47:41 | |
-It's a military machine with some white paint on it. -It isn't military! | 0:47:41 | 0:47:45 | |
It's for clearance and saving lives. Princess Diana had one of these. | 0:47:45 | 0:47:48 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:47:48 | 0:47:51 | |
The location for our demolition challenge was | 0:47:52 | 0:47:54 | |
the Christian Fields housing estate in Kent. | 0:47:54 | 0:47:58 | |
Each team would have to knock down six houses | 0:47:58 | 0:48:01 | |
and the professionals rocked up on the day | 0:48:01 | 0:48:03 | |
with a selection of conventional equipment | 0:48:03 | 0:48:06 | |
that we knew would not work. | 0:48:06 | 0:48:08 | |
As a result, they would be humiliated by Team Top Gear. | 0:48:10 | 0:48:15 | |
MILITARY MUSIC | 0:48:15 | 0:48:18 | |
HE HUMS | 0:48:26 | 0:48:28 | |
What a machine this is. | 0:48:32 | 0:48:34 | |
1,300 RPM. | 0:48:35 | 0:48:37 | |
I'm doing very nearly the top speed of six. | 0:48:37 | 0:48:40 | |
'The other machines were considerably faster, | 0:48:41 | 0:48:44 | |
'so in order not to keep the chaps waiting, | 0:48:44 | 0:48:47 | |
'I decided to take a shortcut.' | 0:48:47 | 0:48:50 | |
I think he thought, "The things on the front go round and smash everything. | 0:48:50 | 0:48:54 | |
"I work for the United Nations." | 0:48:54 | 0:48:55 | |
-He failed to work out it'll be the slowest.. -BANGING | 0:48:55 | 0:48:58 | |
You don't suppose by any chance that... | 0:48:58 | 0:49:00 | |
CRASHING | 0:49:00 | 0:49:02 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, Jeremy Clarkson, sometimes known | 0:49:04 | 0:49:07 | |
-as the silver-tongued cavalier of the Cotswolds. -I hope that was...to come down. | 0:49:07 | 0:49:12 | |
'Before starting, the professionals had a pre-demolition briefing.' | 0:49:12 | 0:49:17 | |
All the works today are going to be carried out under BSEN 6187 demolition code of practice. | 0:49:17 | 0:49:23 | |
Richard, can you hand out the method statements to all the guys | 0:49:23 | 0:49:26 | |
-and the risk assessments? -Yup. | 0:49:26 | 0:49:29 | |
'Mostly, they talked about health and safety, so we thought we should, too.' | 0:49:29 | 0:49:33 | |
-Don't have an accident. -Don't have an accident. | 0:49:33 | 0:49:36 | |
If you DO have an accident, remember it was an accident. | 0:49:36 | 0:49:39 | |
'Briefing over, we got on with discussing the job.' | 0:49:39 | 0:49:43 | |
-Why don't you do those, James? -OK. | 0:49:43 | 0:49:46 | |
Hammond, you do the cream ones, and I'll do this lot. That make sense? | 0:49:46 | 0:49:51 | |
-Two houses each then, effectively? -Effectively. | 0:49:51 | 0:49:54 | |
'With all the complicated maths out of the way, it was time to begin.' | 0:49:54 | 0:49:59 | |
KLAXON BLARES | 0:49:59 | 0:50:01 | |
OK. Brace, Brace, brace. We're going in. | 0:50:10 | 0:50:14 | |
Look at his... He's concentrating like mad. | 0:50:14 | 0:50:17 | |
He looks like an orangutan when he concentrates. | 0:50:17 | 0:50:19 | |
Firing up the rotors! | 0:50:21 | 0:50:24 | |
Oh God! | 0:50:28 | 0:50:30 | |
Ooh-hoo hoo-hoo-hoo! | 0:50:30 | 0:50:32 | |
Woah! | 0:50:32 | 0:50:34 | |
Ha-ha! | 0:50:34 | 0:50:35 | |
Why didn't we have this in Albania!? | 0:50:37 | 0:50:39 | |
Goodbye, lavatory! | 0:50:41 | 0:50:42 | |
Bricks flying everywhere. | 0:50:44 | 0:50:45 | |
This is bloody brilliant. | 0:50:45 | 0:50:48 | |
Stop there, stop there! Jeremy, the roof's going to land on it. | 0:50:49 | 0:50:54 | |
'This was no problem because my destroyer of worlds | 0:50:54 | 0:50:59 | |
'had a special device for protecting the driver.' | 0:50:59 | 0:51:01 | |
-Is that...a remote control for that? -Yes, it is! | 0:51:02 | 0:51:08 | |
-You can drive the whole thing from there? -Yes. -From there? -Yes. | 0:51:08 | 0:51:11 | |
-Do you know how to? -No. But how hard can it be? | 0:51:11 | 0:51:14 | |
ENGINE STARTS | 0:51:14 | 0:51:16 | |
-Woo-hoo-hoo. Look at that. -Oh, my God! | 0:51:16 | 0:51:18 | |
-Now, stand back a bit. -Really? Do you think? -Good idea. | 0:51:18 | 0:51:22 | |
Ooh. Argh, argh, argh! | 0:51:22 | 0:51:24 | |
'At the other end of the estate, the professionals were working methodically. | 0:51:27 | 0:51:31 | |
'First removing all the rooves. | 0:51:31 | 0:51:33 | |
'And I thought I'd do the same thing with my army tank.' | 0:51:33 | 0:51:38 | |
Mounted on the back of my 434 is a big harpoon. I'll fire that over | 0:51:40 | 0:51:44 | |
with a cable attached, connect the cable up, | 0:51:44 | 0:51:46 | |
drive this way, pull the roof off, get on with it. | 0:51:46 | 0:51:50 | |
Live and, well, go. | 0:51:50 | 0:51:53 | |
Brilliant. | 0:51:58 | 0:52:00 | |
Let's begin. | 0:52:00 | 0:52:01 | |
The grappling hook will catch on the roof. That's it. It's caught it now. | 0:52:03 | 0:52:07 | |
Yeah. Here it comes. Pulling the roof off. | 0:52:07 | 0:52:09 | |
Let's have a look. | 0:52:13 | 0:52:14 | |
It's not off. | 0:52:16 | 0:52:17 | |
'On the plus side, though, the house now had another upstairs lavatory.' | 0:52:17 | 0:52:22 | |
Why have you pulled a portaloo over a building? | 0:52:25 | 0:52:27 | |
-It was supposed to pull the roof off. -This isn't demolition, this is just stupid. | 0:52:28 | 0:52:32 | |
-Yahoo! -'Whilst Hammond persevered with his idiotic roof-removal system, | 0:52:35 | 0:52:40 | |
'James was busy drawing a diagram.' | 0:52:40 | 0:52:43 | |
The four walls are pre-cast pieces of concrete | 0:52:43 | 0:52:47 | |
and then in the middle we have this, which is the chimney breast. | 0:52:47 | 0:52:50 | |
Then there are steel RSJs running across, like that. | 0:52:50 | 0:52:53 | |
Everything else in between is just wooden floorboards. So, if we knock out that bit there, | 0:52:53 | 0:52:59 | |
which is holding the house up, the roof and everything else will fall into a neat pile in the middle. | 0:52:59 | 0:53:04 | |
'My plan involved pulling the chimney breast out, using | 0:53:05 | 0:53:08 | |
'both my winch and the sheer power of my combat tractor. | 0:53:08 | 0:53:12 | |
'But it was hard to concentrate with the orangutan around.' | 0:53:12 | 0:53:15 | |
It's got a mind of its own. | 0:53:17 | 0:53:19 | |
'Having got in everyone's way, he then started throwing | 0:53:20 | 0:53:23 | |
'massive lumps of road over the houses and into the next street.' | 0:53:23 | 0:53:27 | |
-What have you done? -I hit a water main! | 0:53:34 | 0:53:37 | |
Well, you're an idiot. | 0:53:37 | 0:53:39 | |
'As noon approached, our rivals were scything through their houses. | 0:53:42 | 0:53:47 | |
'But now my ingenious cable solution would put us back in the running.' | 0:53:47 | 0:53:52 | |
Here we go. | 0:53:52 | 0:53:53 | |
Oh! Oh, it's so close. | 0:53:56 | 0:53:58 | |
Yes. Yes! Ha-ha ha! | 0:54:02 | 0:54:04 | |
'But despite this success, let's not forget we still had Jeremy on our side.' | 0:54:05 | 0:54:11 | |
I've lost control completely now. | 0:54:17 | 0:54:19 | |
'In the spirit of teamwork, I decided to clear up his rubbish | 0:54:22 | 0:54:26 | |
'while Hammond set about finishing off my house.' | 0:54:26 | 0:54:30 | |
I think I'll need to give this the beans. Let's not mess about here. In we go. | 0:54:30 | 0:54:34 | |
Oh! The roof came open. I didn't expect that. | 0:54:43 | 0:54:45 | |
Hammond, what's happened here, mate, is you are now the foundations of the house. | 0:54:45 | 0:54:50 | |
Um, I think I might be a bit stuck. | 0:54:50 | 0:54:53 | |
Hang on, Hammond. I'm coming. | 0:54:53 | 0:54:55 | |
Where are you going? | 0:54:57 | 0:54:59 | |
BANGING AND CRASHING | 0:54:59 | 0:55:03 | |
Oh dear. | 0:55:05 | 0:55:07 | |
That felt nasty. What happened then? | 0:55:09 | 0:55:11 | |
James crashed into the corner of the house and now you've got a whole house on your head. | 0:55:11 | 0:55:15 | |
ENGINE STARTS | 0:55:17 | 0:55:18 | |
Engine running. | 0:55:18 | 0:55:19 | |
'May then winched Hammond's tank out... | 0:55:21 | 0:55:25 | |
'but Hammond himself was still trapped inside. | 0:55:25 | 0:55:28 | |
'Happily, though, as I'd finally house-trained my machine...' | 0:55:28 | 0:55:32 | |
Walkies. Yes! Good digger. | 0:55:32 | 0:55:36 | |
'..I was able to mount a rescue.' | 0:55:36 | 0:55:39 | |
BLEEP! | 0:55:40 | 0:55:42 | |
Bad digger! | 0:55:42 | 0:55:43 | |
Oh! I've scratched me tank. JEREMY LAUGHS | 0:55:48 | 0:55:52 | |
'By now, the professionals had pulled out an enormous lead. | 0:55:54 | 0:55:58 | |
'So, to try and catch up, I decided to dig even deeper | 0:56:00 | 0:56:04 | |
'into the military toy box.' | 0:56:04 | 0:56:06 | |
-Guys. -What...? -What on Earth is that? | 0:56:06 | 0:56:10 | |
I put some explosives in the house. | 0:56:10 | 0:56:12 | |
You might want to stand back. | 0:56:12 | 0:56:15 | |
Because now I'm going to do... the long walk. | 0:56:15 | 0:56:18 | |
Is that the suit or his piles that's making him walk like that? | 0:56:24 | 0:56:27 | |
FIRE IN THE HOLE! | 0:56:30 | 0:56:34 | |
You've only blown the bloody door off! | 0:56:40 | 0:56:43 | |
'After that failure, | 0:56:43 | 0:56:45 | |
'we decided just to use our machines as battering rams.' | 0:56:45 | 0:56:49 | |
DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS | 0:56:49 | 0:56:51 | |
Come on. Let's just get this job done. | 0:56:51 | 0:56:53 | |
Not going to use the rotavator. It's just TOO perilous. | 0:56:59 | 0:57:04 | |
Bloody hell fire! Ha-ha! | 0:57:07 | 0:57:11 | |
Argh! | 0:57:11 | 0:57:12 | |
DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS | 0:57:12 | 0:57:14 | |
Go on. In you go. | 0:57:19 | 0:57:20 | |
ARGH! | 0:57:23 | 0:57:25 | |
'Finally, we were really getting somewhere.' | 0:57:25 | 0:57:28 | |
Attack! | 0:57:28 | 0:57:30 | |
KLAXON BLARES | 0:57:30 | 0:57:32 | |
Oh, my God! | 0:57:32 | 0:57:35 | |
'The professionals had finished. They had knocked everything down. | 0:57:35 | 0:57:39 | |
'Whereas we...sort of hadn't.' | 0:57:39 | 0:57:43 | |
-Why don't we present them with a prize, OK... -Yeah... | 0:57:44 | 0:57:48 | |
-..standing just there? -Yes. -That's a good idea. -And then give them a really loud round of applause. | 0:57:48 | 0:57:53 | |
-A thunderous, "WELL DONE, WELL DONE!" -And throw the thing over... | 0:57:53 | 0:57:56 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:57:56 | 0:57:57 | |
Well done. You beat us fair and square. Well done. | 0:57:57 | 0:58:02 | |
Can we just point out something very important? | 0:58:03 | 0:58:07 | |
-Well, as long as you're quick, bike race. -I know, I know, I know. | 0:58:07 | 0:58:10 | |
-Now you're wasting time saying, "I know". -I know. I know. -Say it. -Listen... | 0:58:10 | 0:58:15 | |
OK, you may have noticed during that whole sequence of knocking the houses down, | 0:58:15 | 0:58:19 | |
not one of us was wearing a high-visibility jacket, a hard hat or substantial shoes | 0:58:19 | 0:58:23 | |
-and I think I'm right in saying that none of us was killed. -LAUGHTER | 0:58:23 | 0:58:27 | |
-And that is an excellent bombshell on which we could end, so... -No. | 0:58:27 | 0:58:30 | |
No, no, no. I want to talk more about the machine. | 0:58:30 | 0:58:33 | |
No, I said in the film that this very machine, in fact, | 0:58:33 | 0:58:37 | |
had cleared 100 anti-tank mines. You're thinking, | 0:58:37 | 0:58:39 | |
-"How does it survive?" -No. | 0:58:39 | 0:58:41 | |
I'm going to explain anyway, OK? This is one of the blades as it comes out the factory, yeah? | 0:58:41 | 0:58:46 | |
This one hit an anti-tank mine, | 0:58:46 | 0:58:49 | |
a mine designed to blow up a tank, | 0:58:49 | 0:58:52 | |
and that is the only damage that it did. | 0:58:52 | 0:58:56 | |
This is an astonishing piece of British engineering, I think. | 0:58:56 | 0:58:59 | |
-It is. We really must finish. -What are they going to do? Cut us o...? | 0:58:59 | 0:59:03 | |
Oh, they have. | 0:59:03 | 0:59:05 | |
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