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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:00:22 | 0:00:26 | |
Hello, and welcome to Top Gear. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
Thank you! Thank you, thank you, thank you... | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
And thank YOU in particular, yes. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
All right, we are back | 0:00:33 | 0:00:34 | |
and we have been busy driving a whole lot of cars. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
Here's what we've got coming up for you in this series. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
Who says we don't do serious car reviews? | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
Here! | 0:00:52 | 0:00:53 | |
Noooo! | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
Whoohoo! How good is that?! | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
-Scare me! -Scare you?! | 0:01:02 | 0:01:03 | |
-Scare me! -I'm trying! | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
That's what I'm talking about! | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
Yahoo! | 0:01:13 | 0:01:14 | |
That, my friend, is panache. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
CAR ALARM WAILS | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
Imola! | 0:01:25 | 0:01:27 | |
Incoming car. | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
Come on! | 0:01:35 | 0:01:36 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
All that to look forward to over the next six weeks, OK? | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
But first up, | 0:01:47 | 0:01:48 | |
you ask any car lover what their favourite noise in the world is, | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
and they will immediately say... | 0:01:52 | 0:01:54 | |
The V8 engine. | 0:01:54 | 0:01:55 | |
Exactly. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:56 | |
And with this year being, as you all know, | 0:01:56 | 0:01:58 | |
the 116th anniversary of the V8 car... | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
The big 116! | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
..we decided it was time for a little celebration. | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
Yeah, so the producers told us three each to pick a new V8 sports car | 0:02:07 | 0:02:11 | |
that could do anything. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:12 | |
And head to America's Wild West for a mystery road trip. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
The United States - | 0:02:19 | 0:02:21 | |
spiritual home of the V8 and land of the great American road trip. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:26 | |
Ours would begin at a remote location in Utah, | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
where we'd been told to show up with the best all-around sports car | 0:02:31 | 0:02:34 | |
we could find, powered by that most iconic of all engines. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:38 | |
ENGINE PURRS | 0:02:38 | 0:02:39 | |
Yeah, baby. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
And since I had the home advantage, | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
I took the producer's brief and... well, I nailed it. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:48 | |
The Ford Mustang. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:54 | |
The original American V8 performance icon, huh? | 0:02:54 | 0:02:59 | |
And this isn't just any Ford Mustang - | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
no, no, no, no, no, no. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
This is the raciest Mustang Ford makes, the GT350R. | 0:03:03 | 0:03:08 | |
Carbon fibre wheels, a 5.2-litre V8 motor that makes 520 horsepower. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:13 | |
Only this one...doesn't. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
Because in the finest Mustang tradition of taking a fast thing | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
and making it even faster, | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
this particular GT350R | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
has been lightly enhanced by a man from Texas. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
A man called Mr Hennessey. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
DISTANT ENGINE Oh. Ssh, ssh. OK, here we go. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
And while I had embraced the V8 brief and used my imagination... | 0:03:36 | 0:03:40 | |
Oh, yeah! That's right. | 0:03:40 | 0:03:41 | |
..it appeared Rory...hadn't. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
The Jaguar F-Type SVR. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
-Yeah. -Yeah, isn't this great? | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
I mean, you brought a V8 muscle car, I brought a V8 muscle car. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:53 | |
No, no. No. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:54 | |
No, I brought a V8 muscle car, you brought... | 0:03:54 | 0:03:58 | |
..a Jaguar. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:00 | |
Well, this is Britain's answer to the muscle car. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:02 | |
We had a look at your rough sketch and we refined it. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:06 | |
This is muscle car 2.0. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:08 | |
How much power does it make? | 0:04:08 | 0:04:10 | |
575 horsepower. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
-Wow, impressive! -Yeah. -Wow! | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
How about yours? | 0:04:15 | 0:04:16 | |
I don't know, really. I don't know. Mustang... | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
What do you mean you don't know? | 0:04:19 | 0:04:21 | |
This is a supercharged version. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:23 | |
Wait a minute - is this the Hennessey? | 0:04:23 | 0:04:24 | |
-Is it? -This thing makes 850 horsepower! | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
Does it?! | 0:04:27 | 0:04:29 | |
Ooh! | 0:04:29 | 0:04:31 | |
Lucky me! | 0:04:31 | 0:04:32 | |
Then along came Chris... | 0:04:35 | 0:04:37 | |
Well, well, well. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:38 | |
..with HIS idea of a great all-rounder. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:41 | |
Absolute shambles. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
4 million miles of paved road in America, | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
and they tell us to meet in a pit full of rocks. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
Worse still, it sounded like a 1980s arcade. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:54 | |
DOOR CHIMES | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
Gentlemen! Behold the McLaren 570GT. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:06 | |
How's the, er, ground clearance? | 0:05:06 | 0:05:07 | |
Absolutely terrible. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:09 | |
When they said "road trip," | 0:05:09 | 0:05:10 | |
I thought it might involve actual roads. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
Chris, this is the Wild West. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
You've got to be prepared for anything! | 0:05:14 | 0:05:16 | |
Well, I suppose I am, | 0:05:16 | 0:05:17 | |
because this is basically two cars for the price of one, isn't it? | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
On the one hand, it is still a proper supercar, crazy fast. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:24 | |
But it's also a comfortable GT car. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:25 | |
In fact it's three cars - check this out... | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
It's also an estate car! | 0:05:28 | 0:05:30 | |
Look at this! | 0:05:30 | 0:05:31 | |
-Wow. -You could seriously fit a couple of sheets of A4 in there. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:36 | |
And not that flimsy stuff, I'm talking about the thick... | 0:05:36 | 0:05:38 | |
The stuff you use, like, for a cover page, the good stuff? | 0:05:38 | 0:05:42 | |
We're supposed to be celebrating the evolution, OK, | 0:05:42 | 0:05:46 | |
-of the V8 sports car. -Right. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:48 | |
You've brought a car that desperately wants it to be 1965. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
-Yeah. -And you've also brought a car | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
that desperately wants it to be 1965. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
-So...? -I'm in the present day, you're in the past, | 0:05:55 | 0:05:57 | |
as is confirmed by your shirt. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
Right. What are you laughing at? Let's not get on shirts! | 0:06:00 | 0:06:02 | |
LAUGHTER Let's not get on shirts! | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
-I look good! -You do look good. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:07 | |
-You look... You're on fire. -I've never seen a label | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
riveted to a T-shirt before. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:10 | |
That's remarkable, that is. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
But before we could get to the bottom of who looked least awful, | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
a local turned up in an old Ford pick-up. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
Ooh, that sounds a bit V8-y, what's that? | 0:06:18 | 0:06:20 | |
They do burble nicely, V8s, don't they? | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
Burble, burble. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:23 | |
-How are you? -Here you go. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
Oh, thank you. Nice ride. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
OK. "You and your V8 sports cars will now drive | 0:06:31 | 0:06:34 | |
"to America's fastest race track on the Nevada border. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:38 | |
"Along the way, you will undertake a series of challenges | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
"to discover which of your V8s is best." | 0:06:41 | 0:06:44 | |
So, with the Nevada border a couple of days ahead of us, | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
we had some road to cover. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:52 | |
But, of course, first, that meant finding it. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:54 | |
This is the quintessential American V8 right here, the Mustang. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:04 | |
HE WHINNIES | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
Oh, yeah! | 0:07:07 | 0:07:09 | |
Buying it is just the start. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:12 | |
Then you get busy giving it more power, bigger brakes, | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
probably even more power. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:17 | |
It's the American way! | 0:07:17 | 0:07:19 | |
The 570GT is the most relaxed car that McLaren makes, right? | 0:07:21 | 0:07:25 | |
It's got softer suspension and it's quieter on the road - | 0:07:25 | 0:07:29 | |
or at least it would be if I was on a road! | 0:07:29 | 0:07:31 | |
-CLATTER -Oh! | 0:07:31 | 0:07:33 | |
Oh-ho-ho! | 0:07:36 | 0:07:37 | |
ENGINE ROARS | 0:07:37 | 0:07:39 | |
There is a very good reason why I chose the Jaguar F-Type SVR. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:43 | |
I chose this because it has all-wheel drive, | 0:07:45 | 0:07:47 | |
and that means it's ready for anything. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:50 | |
It's unflappable. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:51 | |
Suave. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:53 | |
Like me. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:56 | |
But soon, it was time to find out | 0:07:58 | 0:07:59 | |
just how unflappable our V8s really were... | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
..because getting out of this valley would take a bit of a climb. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:08 | |
This looks like a very bad idea. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:12 | |
Dear Lord! | 0:08:12 | 0:08:13 | |
One mistake up here, and you're looking at | 0:08:15 | 0:08:18 | |
a very, very painful accident. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:20 | |
Look at the remnants of that car there! | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
But none of that seemed to trouble the cowboy and his Mustang. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:32 | |
Careful, Matt, what the hell are you doing?! | 0:08:35 | 0:08:37 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:08:37 | 0:08:39 | |
Coming round the top, boys! | 0:08:43 | 0:08:45 | |
Whoo! | 0:08:45 | 0:08:47 | |
Supposed to be a road trip! | 0:08:47 | 0:08:48 | |
God, look what we've just come up! | 0:08:50 | 0:08:51 | |
That would be a beautiful death! | 0:08:53 | 0:08:55 | |
With the valley behind us, waiting at the top... | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
Hey, a paved road! Look at this! | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
Yes! | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
Finally, our V8s could stretch their legs. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
This is where the real test begins. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:17 | |
Ho-ho! | 0:09:18 | 0:09:20 | |
Whoo! | 0:09:22 | 0:09:23 | |
ENGINE ROARS | 0:09:23 | 0:09:26 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:09:27 | 0:09:28 | |
Do you hear that, boys? | 0:09:31 | 0:09:32 | |
That is the sound of an American V8 in the wild - | 0:09:32 | 0:09:36 | |
the greatest noise in the world! | 0:09:36 | 0:09:38 | |
I don't mean to be pernickety here, | 0:09:40 | 0:09:42 | |
but that's not an American V8, really, | 0:09:42 | 0:09:45 | |
is it, Matt? Because that's a flat-plane V8 sound, | 0:09:45 | 0:09:48 | |
and most American V8s are cross-plane V8s, | 0:09:48 | 0:09:52 | |
so what you've got there is a European V8 | 0:09:52 | 0:09:54 | |
in an American body shell. | 0:09:54 | 0:09:56 | |
That's about as American as Silvio Berlusconi! | 0:09:56 | 0:09:59 | |
Who is she? | 0:10:00 | 0:10:02 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:10:03 | 0:10:04 | |
This is the coupe version of the car that I drove from Coventry to Geneva | 0:10:09 | 0:10:13 | |
a couple of years ago. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:14 | |
At the time, I said that was the fastest Jaguar ever, | 0:10:14 | 0:10:17 | |
but that's not quite true, | 0:10:17 | 0:10:19 | |
because THIS is the fastest Jag ever. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
This will do 200mph. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
The fixed roof actually improves top speed by 5mph. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:30 | |
It's the same reason Chris Harris is so fast. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
It's all down to his dome! | 0:10:32 | 0:10:34 | |
Most supercars, they're a pain to live with, they really are. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:39 | |
But the 570GT, it just isn't. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
This car is supple, it's comfortable, | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
it's practical, and on this road... | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
I'm in the firm suspension setting now - if I go to comfort... | 0:10:48 | 0:10:51 | |
Oh, yes! Oh, yes! | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
Whoa! | 0:10:59 | 0:11:00 | |
Oh, that McLaren is quick! | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
Hey, Chris, what's the 0-60 on that? | 0:11:05 | 0:11:06 | |
About three and a half seconds. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:08 | |
About the same as mine. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:09 | |
-Matt? -Yeah, about three and a half seconds maybe. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
Maybe less, I don't know, | 0:11:12 | 0:11:13 | |
-right around there. -OK, OK - how about a shoot-out? | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
-A what? -Take the next left. Next left. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:21 | |
And suddenly we were off-road again. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
Oh, you're going to love this. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:27 | |
There's nothing about this I'm going to love. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:30 | |
Right, here's how this is going to work. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
Quickest on the draw, like in those old cowboy films. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:39 | |
When I say go, you two head off, | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
opposite directions, slow as you can, | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
but no touching the brakes. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
When I come on the radio and say draw, | 0:11:46 | 0:11:48 | |
spin around and head back. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:50 | |
First one across the line is the winner. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
This is completely childish. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:55 | |
You don't have to play. | 0:11:55 | 0:11:57 | |
Oh, I'm going to play. | 0:11:57 | 0:11:58 | |
Yeah, I'm going to win as well. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:00 | |
Buffalo LeBlanc, you ready? | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
Ready. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:06 | |
Crazy Eyes Harris, are you ready? | 0:12:06 | 0:12:09 | |
Crazy Eyes, who has...? | 0:12:09 | 0:12:10 | |
Stupid nicknames. Yeah, I'm ready! | 0:12:10 | 0:12:12 | |
Three, two... | 0:12:16 | 0:12:19 | |
..one... | 0:12:19 | 0:12:21 | |
Go! | 0:12:21 | 0:12:22 | |
He's not even moving! | 0:12:24 | 0:12:26 | |
Two can play at that game, LeBlanc. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:33 | |
I saw brake lights, Harris. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:37 | |
No brakes. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:38 | |
A duel in the dirt - | 0:12:42 | 0:12:44 | |
this is basically what this car was designed to do. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:46 | |
He's got a locking differential. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:50 | |
He can turn on a sixpence if he just does a little half-doughnut, | 0:12:50 | 0:12:52 | |
whereas I can't. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:53 | |
Curse you, McLaren, and your lack of locking differentials! | 0:12:54 | 0:12:58 | |
V8 muscle car is a tool, as good or as bad as the man handling it. | 0:13:00 | 0:13:05 | |
Remember that. | 0:13:05 | 0:13:06 | |
SPITTOON PINGS | 0:13:06 | 0:13:08 | |
Yeah. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:14 | |
I'm going to get over to one side now. | 0:13:16 | 0:13:18 | |
Wait for it. | 0:13:18 | 0:13:20 | |
Wait for it. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:21 | |
Come on, come on, come on, come on, say it, say it, say it! | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
Draw! | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 | |
Ho-ho! | 0:13:34 | 0:13:36 | |
Whoo-hoo-hoo! | 0:13:38 | 0:13:39 | |
Yes, baby! | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
-Chris is the winner! -Ha-ha-ha! | 0:13:45 | 0:13:47 | |
Damn it, he got me! | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
Oh! | 0:13:50 | 0:13:51 | |
-Oh! -Chris has taken it! | 0:13:51 | 0:13:53 | |
Chris, in the McLaren! | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
-Well done, mate. -HE COUGHS | 0:13:56 | 0:13:57 | |
Thanks for that! Cheers! | 0:13:57 | 0:13:59 | |
HE SPLUTTERS | 0:13:59 | 0:14:00 | |
So, with the Mustang out of the game, | 0:14:03 | 0:14:06 | |
would the Jag be any quicker on the draw? | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
OK, Crazy Eyes Harris, are you ready? | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
-I'm ready. -Rory... | 0:14:12 | 0:14:14 | |
Odd Taste In Clothing - are you ready? | 0:14:14 | 0:14:16 | |
Never been readier! | 0:14:18 | 0:14:20 | |
Three, two, one... | 0:14:20 | 0:14:24 | |
Go! | 0:14:24 | 0:14:25 | |
OK, we're off. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:29 | |
Oh, he's had to creep away faster than me. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
Man, this is so counterintuitive. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:34 | |
I've got 570-odd horsepower | 0:14:34 | 0:14:37 | |
and I can only use about three right now! | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
Who will it be? | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
Four-wheel drive, a massive advantage for him | 0:14:46 | 0:14:48 | |
when it comes to heading back towards the finish line. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:52 | |
But I'm not convinced that he can turn as well as me, | 0:14:52 | 0:14:57 | |
cos I can spin turn, and he can't. | 0:14:57 | 0:15:00 | |
All right, come on, Reid, come on, come on, come on. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:02 | |
-He's moving to one side... -Get ready, get ready, get ready. | 0:15:04 | 0:15:08 | |
And draw! | 0:15:08 | 0:15:09 | |
Come on! Come on, baby! | 0:15:14 | 0:15:16 | |
Made it! | 0:15:23 | 0:15:24 | |
Oh-ho-ho! | 0:15:24 | 0:15:25 | |
Whoo! Come on! | 0:15:25 | 0:15:28 | |
Oh, I think I got duffed up there. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:29 | |
Rory by a mile! | 0:15:29 | 0:15:31 | |
I think, yes, an actual mile! | 0:15:31 | 0:15:33 | |
-Oh! -Ha-ha! | 0:15:33 | 0:15:35 | |
That, gentlemen, is what you call a spectacular win. | 0:15:37 | 0:15:42 | |
-Here it comes. -I just beat a McLaren, in a Jag! | 0:15:42 | 0:15:46 | |
I didn't stand a chance. | 0:15:46 | 0:15:47 | |
All-wheel drive Jag - wasn't going to beat that. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:50 | |
You were gone. | 0:15:50 | 0:15:51 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:15:51 | 0:15:53 | |
Are you doing the dance IN the car? | 0:15:53 | 0:15:55 | |
Yeah, a little bit. A little bit. | 0:15:56 | 0:15:58 | |
Just to confirm, er, I'm not done winning. | 0:16:02 | 0:16:05 | |
Right. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:06 | |
So, as Rory took winning the challenge he'd just made up | 0:16:07 | 0:16:11 | |
with his typical good grace... | 0:16:11 | 0:16:12 | |
Oh, it feels good to be a winner! | 0:16:12 | 0:16:15 | |
..we got back on the road. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:18 | |
The Jaguar F-Type. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:24 | |
Know what that says about you, Rory? | 0:16:24 | 0:16:26 | |
What does it say about me? | 0:16:26 | 0:16:27 | |
-It says you couldn't afford an Aston Martin. -Oh! | 0:16:27 | 0:16:31 | |
HE CHUCKLES | 0:16:31 | 0:16:32 | |
Soon, we were told to head to a mystery location | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
for our first proper tribute to the V8. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
What is this place? | 0:16:42 | 0:16:44 | |
I don't know. But it looks kind of creepy. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:48 | |
-Who's he? -It appears to be a challenge, gentlemen. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:55 | |
Thank you. It says here, | 0:16:55 | 0:16:57 | |
"The V8 sports car can trace its roots back to the prohibition era, | 0:16:57 | 0:17:02 | |
"when moonshine runners needed speed and performance to evade the police. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:06 | |
"To prove the speed and performance of your V8s, | 0:17:06 | 0:17:08 | |
"you will now each run a crate of moonshine to the state line." | 0:17:08 | 0:17:13 | |
So, this tribute to the V8 moonshine runners of old | 0:17:14 | 0:17:18 | |
would be a chase through a sprawling industrial complex, | 0:17:18 | 0:17:21 | |
finishing at a hastily knocked together... | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
..border post. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:27 | |
"PS - get a move on. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:29 | |
"As soon as Officer Block finishes his doughnut, | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
"he'll be in hot pursuit." | 0:17:32 | 0:17:34 | |
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Officer Block? | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
Ken Block?! | 0:17:38 | 0:17:40 | |
Yes. Because no chase would be complete without a bit of company, | 0:17:42 | 0:17:45 | |
we'd be pursued by legendary Sheriff of the Slide, | 0:17:45 | 0:17:49 | |
Ken Block. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:51 | |
My buddy! | 0:17:51 | 0:17:52 | |
Me and Ken, we go way back! Yeah! K-Dog! K-Money! Big-K... | 0:17:52 | 0:17:56 | |
Special-K is what I call him. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
Very heart-warming story, Matt, | 0:17:58 | 0:17:59 | |
but Officer Block appears to have turned to the dark side. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:02 | |
He's a member of the law now. Let's load up and get out of here, OK? | 0:18:02 | 0:18:05 | |
-Copy that. -Shine time! | 0:18:05 | 0:18:06 | |
Go, go, go, go, go! | 0:18:09 | 0:18:10 | |
-Are you ready? -Hit it! -Go! | 0:18:11 | 0:18:13 | |
POLICE SIREN | 0:18:15 | 0:18:17 | |
Which way are we going? | 0:18:27 | 0:18:29 | |
This is sketchy. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:30 | |
He's coming! | 0:18:32 | 0:18:33 | |
He's right behind you, Rory! | 0:18:35 | 0:18:37 | |
With the pursuit gathering momentum, | 0:18:40 | 0:18:42 | |
it seemed like a good opportunity to assess our cars' handling. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:46 | |
Ah, this four-wheel drive is perfect for this! | 0:18:49 | 0:18:53 | |
This thing just grips! | 0:18:53 | 0:18:54 | |
I can throw it into a corner, get on the power super early... | 0:18:54 | 0:18:58 | |
..and it just goes! | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
God, this thing is so fast. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:05 | |
But it's small and it's nimble. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:08 | |
That's what McLaren is all about, it's about handling. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:10 | |
I've got handling to spare here. | 0:19:10 | 0:19:12 | |
One-handage! One-handed shine escape! | 0:19:13 | 0:19:16 | |
Whoo-hoo-hoo! | 0:19:22 | 0:19:24 | |
BOTTLES CLINK | 0:19:24 | 0:19:25 | |
It's got so much grip! | 0:19:28 | 0:19:30 | |
And the steering is like a razor. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:31 | |
So aggressive. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:34 | |
OK... | 0:19:36 | 0:19:37 | |
I mean, I don't like running from the law, but... | 0:19:37 | 0:19:40 | |
..this is awesome! | 0:19:42 | 0:19:44 | |
Whoa! | 0:19:47 | 0:19:48 | |
-Go, Chris - go, go, go! -He's right behind me! | 0:19:49 | 0:19:52 | |
SIREN WAILS | 0:19:52 | 0:19:54 | |
Man, this guy really wants my moonshine! | 0:19:56 | 0:19:59 | |
All right, we've got to lose him, you guys. | 0:19:59 | 0:20:01 | |
We need to split up. Rory, you go right, we'll go left. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:03 | |
-Go right, go right. -Good idea, good idea. | 0:20:03 | 0:20:06 | |
No, no, no, no. Bad idea, bad idea! | 0:20:08 | 0:20:11 | |
How do I get out, how do I get out? | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
Argh! | 0:20:15 | 0:20:16 | |
Hey, Ken. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:21 | |
You know what rhymes with block? C... | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
-Oh-ho-ho... -Harris, where are you going? | 0:20:37 | 0:20:39 | |
SIREN WAILS | 0:20:44 | 0:20:45 | |
Relentless. | 0:20:49 | 0:20:52 | |
REVERSE ALARM BEEPING | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! | 0:20:54 | 0:20:55 | |
Hey, buddy! | 0:20:57 | 0:20:58 | |
Whoa! | 0:21:03 | 0:21:04 | |
That's not friendly at all. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:07 | |
How far have I got to go? Where is he? | 0:21:09 | 0:21:11 | |
Oh, my Lord. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:22 | |
He's so much quicker than me. He can go across the grass, I can't. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:32 | |
Oh, my God! | 0:21:48 | 0:21:49 | |
Oh, ho-ho! | 0:21:56 | 0:21:57 | |
I can see a border! | 0:22:03 | 0:22:04 | |
Oh, it's sketchy, the tyres are going. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:14 | |
Get through the border, get through the border... | 0:22:16 | 0:22:19 | |
Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! | 0:22:20 | 0:22:21 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:22:28 | 0:22:32 | |
OK, we'll pick that up later in the show. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
But now it's time to put a star in our reasonably fast car. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:40 | |
He's one of Britain's best loved comedians, | 0:22:40 | 0:22:42 | |
he's had a number one hit single, | 0:22:42 | 0:22:44 | |
and, most impressively, | 0:22:44 | 0:22:45 | |
once owned a Mitsubishi Carisma. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
And earlier today, he got some training out on the track | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
with Mr Charisma himself, | 0:22:51 | 0:22:53 | |
Chris Harris. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:54 | |
-Yeah, I've missed you. -Ladies and gentlemen, | 0:22:54 | 0:22:56 | |
please welcome to the sofa Rob Brydon. | 0:22:56 | 0:22:59 | |
Hello. Hello. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:04 | |
-Nice to see you. -Hello. -How are you, buddy? | 0:23:06 | 0:23:07 | |
-Nice to see you, Rob. -Great to meet you. -Welcome, welcome. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
Cheers. Thank you. Thank you. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:12 | |
All right. Now you've driven round the track here before, | 0:23:12 | 0:23:16 | |
how did you like the new GT 86? | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
Before we say anything else, | 0:23:18 | 0:23:20 | |
it's soaking wet. | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
It is wetter than the worst day | 0:23:23 | 0:23:27 | |
of Noah and Mrs Noah when they're saying, | 0:23:27 | 0:23:30 | |
"Have we got enough wood?" That is so wet. It was wet, wasn't it? | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
-It was wet. -So, the time is not going to be great, Matt. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:37 | |
So you're saying it's wet. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:38 | |
It was moist! | 0:23:38 | 0:23:40 | |
OK. And how was Chris as a teacher? | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
He's, yeah, I mean, an acquired taste, you know. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:47 | |
-You know that saying? -Oh, you don't have to tell me! | 0:23:47 | 0:23:49 | |
Yeah. No, he was good. He was good. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:51 | |
Right. OK. Well, let's take a look at how the training went, | 0:23:51 | 0:23:53 | |
what do you think? | 0:23:53 | 0:23:55 | |
I've never noticed before, at the start... | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
-Yeah? -You see the ambulance and the fire thing. | 0:23:57 | 0:23:59 | |
We always keep those there just to remind you | 0:23:59 | 0:24:02 | |
-of the importance of your own safety. -All right, count me down. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:04 | |
OK. Three, two, one, go. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:08 | |
It's a great launch. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:09 | |
And we're going to the left of those tyres. Left, left, left, left. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:13 | |
-What? Oh, -BLEEP. -Left of those tyres there. -What? LEFT of those tyres? | 0:24:13 | 0:24:17 | |
Yeah, right now, right now, right now. | 0:24:17 | 0:24:18 | |
-What are you talking about? -Right! Go right there. -Where? | 0:24:18 | 0:24:21 | |
-Right there. -There?! -Yeah, turn... -What, by the...? | 0:24:21 | 0:24:24 | |
-By the aeroplanes? -No, no, before the aeroplanes. | 0:24:24 | 0:24:27 | |
Did you do the medical before you came on? | 0:24:27 | 0:24:29 | |
-Shut up. -Left here now, left here. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
-There's, there's your two white lines. And then to the right. -Oh! | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
-Now it's coming back. -Now it's flowing. | 0:24:34 | 0:24:36 | |
Oh, Lord Almighty, we're fast. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:38 | |
OK, left here, left here. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:39 | |
-Oh, oh, oh! -HE CHUCKLES | 0:24:39 | 0:24:41 | |
Fourth. Fourth, fourth, fourth. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:43 | |
-Fourth. -That's sixth. That's sixth. -Really, you want to be fourth here? | 0:24:43 | 0:24:46 | |
-That's sixth, that's sixth, that's sixth. -Oh. -That's second. | 0:24:46 | 0:24:48 | |
-LAUGHTER -That's fourth! | 0:24:48 | 0:24:51 | |
-We've got to fourth. -That's good, you've got some feel for this now, | 0:24:51 | 0:24:54 | |
-haven't you? -Oh, lordy. -But can you feel... -Whoa! | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
I'm not sure you know how close you are | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
-to a massive accident. -ROB LAUGHS | 0:24:59 | 0:25:02 | |
-But let's just go through here... -Oh, sugary! | 0:25:02 | 0:25:04 | |
Oh. I don't like that. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:06 | |
That is scary. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:08 | |
Full beans, full beans, over the line. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
-Over the line! -That is so frustrating. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:12 | |
I want your honest opinion... | 0:25:12 | 0:25:13 | |
-Yeah... -..on the level of support you've received | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
-during your training. -Very poor. Very poor. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:18 | |
I would say my coach is more interested in himself | 0:25:18 | 0:25:22 | |
than in his young... | 0:25:22 | 0:25:25 | |
his young apprentice. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:26 | |
Well, I don't know. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:33 | |
Looks like you did pretty good considering it's a lake out there. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
But cars are in your blood, your dad sold cars? | 0:25:36 | 0:25:38 | |
Yeah, my dad was a car salesman. So when I grew up in south Wales, | 0:25:38 | 0:25:43 | |
in Port Talbot, he'd often bring different cars back every day. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:46 | |
So I got used to seeing these different ones | 0:25:46 | 0:25:48 | |
coming back and forth to the house. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:49 | |
And then years later, he worked for Mitsubishi. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:53 | |
Hence the Carisma. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:55 | |
-Ah, there it is. -Is that known as being a very bad car, then? | 0:25:55 | 0:25:59 | |
-Oh, it's terrible. -Is it? | 0:25:59 | 0:26:01 | |
-Yeah. -Oh, is that it? | 0:26:01 | 0:26:02 | |
-That's it right there. -Look at the way the indicator on the left | 0:26:02 | 0:26:05 | |
isn't flush with the headlight, but the one on the right is. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:08 | |
You see? I mean, they couldn't even be bothered | 0:26:08 | 0:26:10 | |
to get a good one for the press photo. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:11 | |
I think, I think what you're encountering here | 0:26:11 | 0:26:13 | |
for the first time, Chris, | 0:26:13 | 0:26:15 | |
is called perspective. | 0:26:15 | 0:26:16 | |
Ah! | 0:26:16 | 0:26:18 | |
You know how on the left side, it looks bigger? | 0:26:18 | 0:26:20 | |
Yeah, it's just closer. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:21 | |
OK. And what do you drive now? | 0:26:23 | 0:26:25 | |
At the moment, I have a Jaguar XJ, and a Land Rover Discovery. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:30 | |
-Oh, dear. -The new one? -Oh, dear. -Yeah, what's the problem? | 0:26:30 | 0:26:33 | |
-What have I done now?! -The new Discovery? | 0:26:33 | 0:26:35 | |
-Yeah. -So you've seen it? -Oh, boy. | 0:26:35 | 0:26:36 | |
-You've seen it from the outside? -Oh, you're talking...? | 0:26:36 | 0:26:38 | |
-I know, I noticed. -You've opened a can of worms... -The back of it. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:41 | |
I'm talking about all of it. Let's start with the sides. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:43 | |
-We'll leave the worst bit till last. -The sides are OK. | 0:26:43 | 0:26:45 | |
-What's wrong with that? -Look how much metal there is | 0:26:45 | 0:26:47 | |
-above the rear wheel. Look at it. -Is that an issue for normal people? | 0:26:47 | 0:26:50 | |
-It is! -LAUGHTER | 0:26:50 | 0:26:52 | |
Let's move round to the back. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:54 | |
Now, look at the lack of symmetry here. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:56 | |
-Yeah, I agree. -So, they designed the whole thing, | 0:26:56 | 0:26:58 | |
at the last minute someone's run in and gone, | 0:26:58 | 0:26:59 | |
"We've got to put the number plate somewhere!" | 0:26:59 | 0:27:01 | |
So they've just slapped it there. | 0:27:01 | 0:27:03 | |
And the design inspiration for it, here we go. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:27:06 | 0:27:09 | |
It's designed as an homage to Geoffrey Boycott's mouth. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:13 | |
It... It is curious, but sometimes innovation startles us at first. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:18 | |
-It does, it does. -Where do you stand? | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
Er... Well, I think it's hideous. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
-The Trip. Let's talk about The Trip. -Yes. Yeah. Tell us about The Trip. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:29 | |
Oh, I'm a huge fan. Who's a fan of The Trip here? | 0:27:29 | 0:27:31 | |
-AUDIENCE: -Yeah. | 0:27:31 | 0:27:32 | |
-It's fantastic. -Thank you very much. Thank you. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
-Very funny. -We drove... -Does that bring back good memories? | 0:27:34 | 0:27:37 | |
Yeah, that was The Trip To Italy, which was the second one. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:39 | |
Why choose a Mini Cooper convertible? | 0:27:39 | 0:27:42 | |
Oh! The Mini was... That was lovely. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:44 | |
Especially, you know, you had a lot of windy country roads, | 0:27:44 | 0:27:48 | |
especially on the Amalfi coast. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:49 | |
It was lovely to drive. In fact, I liked it so much, | 0:27:49 | 0:27:52 | |
I actually bought one when we came back. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:54 | |
-Ooh. What?! -What's wrong with that? | 0:27:54 | 0:27:56 | |
Why would you do that? Cos it was... It was a really nice drive. | 0:27:56 | 0:27:59 | |
Was it like that rose you have when you go on holiday? | 0:27:59 | 0:28:02 | |
You know, the four euro rose. | 0:28:02 | 0:28:04 | |
And it's great when you're there... | 0:28:04 | 0:28:05 | |
And you crack a bottle open three weeks later back in the UK, | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
-and it tastes like vinegar. -It's not... It's not quite the same | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
driving it around Twickenham, | 0:28:11 | 0:28:13 | |
or, you know, as it was on the Amalfi coast, | 0:28:13 | 0:28:15 | |
-but no, look, I'm going to... It was a lovely car. -One question. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:18 | |
-Do you still own it? -No. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:22 | |
How long did you own it for? | 0:28:22 | 0:28:23 | |
I don't know, I had it for a year and a bit, something like that. | 0:28:23 | 0:28:26 | |
Why so long? | 0:28:26 | 0:28:27 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:28:27 | 0:28:29 | |
I think it's time to see your lap. | 0:28:29 | 0:28:31 | |
-Ah. -Let's move on to that. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:33 | |
-Can I... Did I mention it was wet? -You did mention it was wet. | 0:28:33 | 0:28:35 | |
-But you had fun? -Oh... | 0:28:35 | 0:28:37 | |
-It's a blast, right? -It's fantastic. -It's really fun. | 0:28:37 | 0:28:39 | |
OK, let's take a look. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:40 | |
Hey, you know what, why don't you commentate on it? | 0:28:40 | 0:28:42 | |
OK, all right. Here we go. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:45 | |
Well, perfect conditions for the youthful Rob Brydon. | 0:28:45 | 0:28:48 | |
It's a nice start. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:50 | |
Oh-ho-ho-ho! | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
Something is flashing on the dashboard. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:54 | |
I don't know what it means. | 0:28:54 | 0:28:56 | |
That classic Roman profile gripping the wheel with assuredness | 0:28:56 | 0:29:00 | |
and a strange sensuality. | 0:29:00 | 0:29:02 | |
And he takes that corner with ease. | 0:29:02 | 0:29:04 | |
Look at the way he's going. | 0:29:04 | 0:29:07 | |
And have you noticed it's wet? | 0:29:07 | 0:29:10 | |
Ooh, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo... | 0:29:10 | 0:29:11 | |
Difficult corner, difficult corner, | 0:29:14 | 0:29:16 | |
difficult to see the white lines there, | 0:29:16 | 0:29:19 | |
but he's done it beautifully. | 0:29:19 | 0:29:21 | |
The inquest heard that although he took the corner smoothly, | 0:29:21 | 0:29:25 | |
Brydon hadn't anticipated the... | 0:29:25 | 0:29:29 | |
..group of nuns visiting the aerodrome. | 0:29:29 | 0:29:32 | |
He took out six of them. | 0:29:33 | 0:29:35 | |
Thoughts with the families. | 0:29:35 | 0:29:37 | |
Yes, you don't want to hear the word "inquest" in your head | 0:29:37 | 0:29:41 | |
when you're doing this lap. | 0:29:41 | 0:29:43 | |
I have to say, Gav, it's a lot quicker than the Picasso. | 0:29:45 | 0:29:49 | |
This bit, now, I think I got speed up here, and look at that. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:54 | |
That's not bad, is it? | 0:29:54 | 0:29:56 | |
This looks narrower... | 0:29:56 | 0:29:57 | |
..every time you go through it! | 0:29:57 | 0:30:00 | |
BLEEP! | 0:30:00 | 0:30:02 | |
Oh, bloody hell. That was scary. | 0:30:02 | 0:30:05 | |
Oh, Robert! There's no need for that sort of language, | 0:30:05 | 0:30:08 | |
-you -BLEEP -idiot. | 0:30:08 | 0:30:10 | |
Oh, you...! Damn it. | 0:30:10 | 0:30:12 | |
And he comes now to his jinx, his nemesis, this penultimate... | 0:30:12 | 0:30:15 | |
Oh, no, he didn't. That was the end! | 0:30:15 | 0:30:17 | |
CHEERING | 0:30:17 | 0:30:19 | |
That shows you how well I know the course, right? | 0:30:19 | 0:30:21 | |
-That's wet. -Ah. | 0:30:24 | 0:30:26 | |
I've never seen it that wet. | 0:30:27 | 0:30:29 | |
That's monsoon conditions. | 0:30:29 | 0:30:31 | |
I've never seen it that wet. | 0:30:31 | 0:30:32 | |
Well, there we are, then, whatever the time was... | 0:30:32 | 0:30:34 | |
-Well, I have it right here. -Ah. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:36 | |
-What do you think? -I just want to beat Tinie Tempah, really. | 0:30:36 | 0:30:38 | |
-You do? -I just feel in the world of rap, | 0:30:38 | 0:30:40 | |
I feel Tinie is always, you know, | 0:30:40 | 0:30:42 | |
threatening my territory. | 0:30:42 | 0:30:43 | |
So, I just want to let him know. I'm a big rap star in this country, | 0:30:43 | 0:30:48 | |
you wouldn't know this, Matt, but, er, I want to beat him. | 0:30:48 | 0:30:51 | |
It was definitely wetter for you than it was for Tinie. | 0:30:51 | 0:30:54 | |
I think we're going to call your time, not just with a W, | 0:30:54 | 0:30:56 | |
we're going to put a VW. | 0:30:56 | 0:30:58 | |
-VW, thank you. -Very wet, yeah. | 0:30:58 | 0:30:59 | |
-Thank you. -OK, Rob Brydon, are you ready? | 0:30:59 | 0:31:02 | |
-Mmm-hmm. -You went around the track in one minute... | 0:31:02 | 0:31:05 | |
..50... | 0:31:05 | 0:31:06 | |
Oh, for heaven's sake, so I'm already down the bottom section. | 0:31:06 | 0:31:10 | |
..point...five. | 0:31:10 | 0:31:13 | |
-So I'm just...! -Oh! It's tough! Sorry, boss. | 0:31:13 | 0:31:19 | |
-Great effort. -Yeah, well, I tried. -It was very wet. | 0:31:19 | 0:31:22 | |
-I tried. -It was very, very wet. Ladies and gentlemen, Rob Brydon. | 0:31:22 | 0:31:25 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:31:25 | 0:31:28 | |
-Fantastic, thanks so much. -Ah... | 0:31:28 | 0:31:30 | |
Earlier on, you remember we were celebrating the V8 engine | 0:31:32 | 0:31:35 | |
with a classic American road trip. | 0:31:35 | 0:31:37 | |
We'd escaped from a big pit, | 0:31:37 | 0:31:39 | |
staged a good old-fashioned Wild West shoot out | 0:31:39 | 0:31:41 | |
and had a run-in with the law. Standard road trip stuff. | 0:31:41 | 0:31:45 | |
Now it's time to head back to Utah and pick up the story. | 0:31:45 | 0:31:48 | |
The next morning, we were back on the road again. | 0:31:53 | 0:31:56 | |
And heading towards our destination on the Nevada border, | 0:31:59 | 0:32:03 | |
we had time to reflect on what we were really here to celebrate. | 0:32:03 | 0:32:06 | |
There's a personality about the V8 | 0:32:08 | 0:32:10 | |
that no other engine configuration can match, OK? | 0:32:10 | 0:32:14 | |
A V12 is the most exotic engine configuration. | 0:32:14 | 0:32:18 | |
If you say I've got a V12, | 0:32:18 | 0:32:19 | |
you think of the most expensive, exotic Italian supercars. | 0:32:19 | 0:32:23 | |
If you think, got a V6, you're better than ordinary, | 0:32:23 | 0:32:26 | |
but ultimately you're not the really fast model. | 0:32:26 | 0:32:28 | |
If you say your car's got a V8 | 0:32:28 | 0:32:30 | |
it automatically makes it sound like it's... It's the one you want. | 0:32:30 | 0:32:35 | |
Petrol engines are dying out, there's no debate about that. | 0:32:38 | 0:32:41 | |
And I can see pros and cons to that. | 0:32:41 | 0:32:44 | |
But it really would be a shame to lose the V8. | 0:32:44 | 0:32:47 | |
For me... | 0:32:47 | 0:32:48 | |
..the V8 is sacred. | 0:32:48 | 0:32:49 | |
I remember when I was a kid, I was 16 and a half, and my cousin, | 0:32:53 | 0:32:57 | |
he had saved up his money to buy a car. | 0:32:57 | 0:33:00 | |
And he bought a 1968 Chevy Camaro with a 327 V8 in it. | 0:33:00 | 0:33:05 | |
So I had my license before him, | 0:33:05 | 0:33:07 | |
and he really wanted to drive the car but he couldn't. | 0:33:07 | 0:33:09 | |
So I talked him into, "Well, let's take the car out. | 0:33:09 | 0:33:12 | |
"I'll drive." | 0:33:12 | 0:33:13 | |
It was like my first experience with a V8. | 0:33:13 | 0:33:17 | |
That thing was great. | 0:33:17 | 0:33:19 | |
By the time he got his licence, the transmission needed a rebuild | 0:33:19 | 0:33:22 | |
-cos I beat the -BLEEP -out of it. | 0:33:22 | 0:33:23 | |
You're welcome. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:28 | |
Eager to continue our V8 celebration, | 0:33:30 | 0:33:33 | |
we were told to head to a local racetrack. | 0:33:33 | 0:33:35 | |
Rocky Mountain Raceways. | 0:33:37 | 0:33:40 | |
An oval circuit, which could only mean one thing... | 0:33:40 | 0:33:43 | |
..Nascar. | 0:33:44 | 0:33:45 | |
Wow! You know where we are? | 0:33:56 | 0:33:59 | |
-Where? -It was 1957, | 0:33:59 | 0:34:03 | |
the final race of the Nascar season. | 0:34:03 | 0:34:05 | |
Bubba Passwater's got to finish third to secure the title. | 0:34:05 | 0:34:09 | |
OK, on the last lap, he's third coming out of the final corner, | 0:34:09 | 0:34:12 | |
right over there. As he gets onto the straightaway, he gets tapped, | 0:34:12 | 0:34:15 | |
he corrects, clips the wall - boom! | 0:34:15 | 0:34:19 | |
The car goes up in a ball of flames. | 0:34:19 | 0:34:21 | |
He is out of control. He spins across the line backwards, | 0:34:21 | 0:34:24 | |
takes the title by a single point. | 0:34:24 | 0:34:26 | |
-Really? -No, I have no idea where we are. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:28 | |
Luckily, a local man on a golf buggy did. | 0:34:30 | 0:34:33 | |
Here we go. | 0:34:33 | 0:34:34 | |
-Hello. -Hello. -Hello. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:38 | |
-There you go. -Thank you very much. | 0:34:38 | 0:34:40 | |
ENGINE STRUGGLING | 0:34:40 | 0:34:42 | |
Ooh... Ooh! | 0:34:42 | 0:34:43 | |
It's a challenge. "In a tribute to America's favourite motorsport, | 0:34:47 | 0:34:51 | |
"you will each attempt to set the fastest time over five flying laps." | 0:34:51 | 0:34:55 | |
And we'd each get some help from the real deal. | 0:34:55 | 0:34:58 | |
Born back in the '40s, | 0:35:00 | 0:35:02 | |
when moonshine runners took their outlaw V8s | 0:35:02 | 0:35:04 | |
and started to race them... | 0:35:04 | 0:35:05 | |
..70 years on, | 0:35:07 | 0:35:08 | |
Nascar remains America's most popular V8 motor sport. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:12 | |
Big on noise... | 0:35:13 | 0:35:15 | |
..if a little short on variety. | 0:35:17 | 0:35:20 | |
Wait, wait, so let me get this straight. | 0:35:20 | 0:35:22 | |
We just go up there, take a left... | 0:35:22 | 0:35:24 | |
-There. -And then what, it's a left? -Over there. | 0:35:24 | 0:35:27 | |
-Rory... -And then left... -..these are simple people, OK? | 0:35:27 | 0:35:29 | |
-You've met Matt. Let's go. Come on. -He's right. | 0:35:29 | 0:35:32 | |
That's cold. | 0:35:34 | 0:35:35 | |
For this Nascar-inspired test, | 0:35:44 | 0:35:46 | |
we would each be timed over five laps of the track. | 0:35:46 | 0:35:49 | |
For the first two laps, | 0:35:49 | 0:35:51 | |
we would pick up some extra speed by slipstreaming the pace car | 0:35:51 | 0:35:54 | |
before overtaking for a three-lap sprint to the finish. | 0:35:54 | 0:35:57 | |
I'll try and explain it. | 0:35:58 | 0:36:00 | |
The car in front is bashing a great big hole in the air, OK? | 0:36:00 | 0:36:04 | |
So you nudge in behind that car, you get the benefit of that hole. | 0:36:04 | 0:36:07 | |
So you've got less air resistance, ergo, you travel faster. | 0:36:07 | 0:36:10 | |
-That's quick. -That's loud. THEY LAUGH | 0:36:15 | 0:36:18 | |
I've got to judge when to duck out to get my maximum aero advantage. | 0:36:22 | 0:36:26 | |
Time it right, and it's called the slingshot. | 0:36:28 | 0:36:32 | |
I'm going! | 0:36:32 | 0:36:33 | |
It's quite physical. | 0:36:38 | 0:36:39 | |
You have to really brace yourself. | 0:36:39 | 0:36:41 | |
Whoa! | 0:36:47 | 0:36:49 | |
That...is tiring. | 0:36:49 | 0:36:51 | |
So, with Chris having demonstrated the theory... | 0:36:51 | 0:36:54 | |
..Rory was up next. | 0:36:56 | 0:36:58 | |
I'm following a Nascar. | 0:37:02 | 0:37:03 | |
Dear Lord. | 0:37:05 | 0:37:06 | |
When Jaguar developed the F-type SVR, | 0:37:09 | 0:37:12 | |
do you think they thought about bringing it to an oval in Utah? | 0:37:12 | 0:37:15 | |
Probably not. | 0:37:15 | 0:37:16 | |
Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it. | 0:37:16 | 0:37:19 | |
-And once he cleared the pace car... -NOW! | 0:37:19 | 0:37:22 | |
..Rory found driving round in circles | 0:37:22 | 0:37:25 | |
much more difficult than he thought. | 0:37:25 | 0:37:27 | |
OK, late apex, late apex. | 0:37:27 | 0:37:29 | |
That's got to be the secret, right? | 0:37:29 | 0:37:31 | |
Oh, that's too high. | 0:37:31 | 0:37:33 | |
Turn it in, turn it in, turn it in. | 0:37:33 | 0:37:35 | |
He's just added about a quarter of a mile to his lap there. | 0:37:35 | 0:37:38 | |
But what he lacked in technique... | 0:37:39 | 0:37:41 | |
Bravery, bravery, bravery. | 0:37:41 | 0:37:43 | |
..he made up for in recklessness. | 0:37:44 | 0:37:46 | |
That is close to the wall! That is close to the wall. | 0:37:46 | 0:37:49 | |
Whoa! | 0:37:49 | 0:37:52 | |
Yes! | 0:37:52 | 0:37:53 | |
Oh, my God! | 0:37:56 | 0:37:57 | |
Now I'm no mind-reader, | 0:37:58 | 0:38:00 | |
but it seemed like he was pleased with his run. | 0:38:00 | 0:38:03 | |
That was quite a proficient doughnut. | 0:38:07 | 0:38:09 | |
Finally, it was time to unleash the 850-horsepower beast. | 0:38:09 | 0:38:14 | |
Which was a bit of a handful. | 0:38:16 | 0:38:18 | |
The thing has got so much power that I don't dare pin it | 0:38:19 | 0:38:24 | |
until I get it straightened out. | 0:38:24 | 0:38:26 | |
All right, here he goes, I'm going. | 0:38:30 | 0:38:31 | |
-That sounds fantastic. -Mega. | 0:38:36 | 0:38:38 | |
The grip in the front end of this thing is awesome. | 0:38:43 | 0:38:46 | |
It's like King Kong. | 0:38:46 | 0:38:47 | |
-Well, it sounded good. -It did. | 0:38:53 | 0:38:55 | |
I mean, look at him. He's just been following a Nascar, | 0:38:57 | 0:38:59 | |
he's in a hopped-up Mustang, in Utah, on a short oval - | 0:38:59 | 0:39:04 | |
he's basically in American heaven, isn't he? | 0:39:04 | 0:39:06 | |
Give that man a foot-long wiener and he's complete. | 0:39:06 | 0:39:10 | |
Ah, this must be the times! | 0:39:16 | 0:39:18 | |
-Here we go. -Bring it. | 0:39:18 | 0:39:19 | |
Thank you. Yeah, go back that way, it's easier. | 0:39:19 | 0:39:23 | |
"Matt LeBlanc. You did it in one minute... | 0:39:25 | 0:39:29 | |
"30.6. | 0:39:29 | 0:39:31 | |
"Rory. You did it in one minute... 30... | 0:39:31 | 0:39:35 | |
"..one..." | 0:39:37 | 0:39:38 | |
It might get better. "..point four." | 0:39:39 | 0:39:41 | |
-So, it doesn't. -You got closer to him. | 0:39:41 | 0:39:43 | |
-I gotcha. -But you did have 200 more horsepower than me, but well done. | 0:39:43 | 0:39:46 | |
Oh, God, here we go, here we go. | 0:39:46 | 0:39:48 | |
-Yeah, yeah. "Chris Harris." -Come on. | 0:39:48 | 0:39:50 | |
-"You did it..." -Come on. | 0:39:50 | 0:39:51 | |
"..in one minute..." | 0:39:51 | 0:39:53 | |
-Come on. -What do you want to do for dinner? -Just...! | 0:39:55 | 0:39:58 | |
"Chris Harris, you did it in one minute..." | 0:39:58 | 0:40:00 | |
Yep, next word, next word. | 0:40:00 | 0:40:02 | |
-"..20..." -Yes! -"..8.1." | 0:40:02 | 0:40:05 | |
-Congratulations. -Yes! -Way to go. | 0:40:05 | 0:40:07 | |
-You see? -Mr McLaren. -Upholding Woking's honour. | 0:40:07 | 0:40:11 | |
Said no-one ever. | 0:40:11 | 0:40:12 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:40:12 | 0:40:15 | |
-Well done, well done. -Thank you. | 0:40:15 | 0:40:16 | |
-Congratulations. -I'm pleased with that. -Now... "Your prize | 0:40:16 | 0:40:20 | |
"is to take part in one of America's most exciting race events..." | 0:40:20 | 0:40:23 | |
Do I get to drive that? | 0:40:23 | 0:40:24 | |
"..chain car figure of eight racing." | 0:40:24 | 0:40:27 | |
-What? -What? -Chain car figure of eight racing. | 0:40:27 | 0:40:30 | |
-Says it right there. -What's that? -How do I know? | 0:40:30 | 0:40:32 | |
Let me see those times. I don't want to do it. | 0:40:32 | 0:40:35 | |
-But you have to. -I don't want to. | 0:40:35 | 0:40:36 | |
-But you have to. -Well, I don't want to. | 0:40:36 | 0:40:38 | |
-But you have to. -So I have to... I don't HAVE to do anything! | 0:40:38 | 0:40:40 | |
I'm sitting in a 1977 Pontiac | 0:40:43 | 0:40:47 | |
wondering why on earth I tried to win that last challenge, | 0:40:47 | 0:40:50 | |
cos this is not a prize, this is a punishment. | 0:40:50 | 0:40:52 | |
Yes! Figure of eight racing - | 0:40:53 | 0:40:56 | |
the greatest motorsport we'd just heard of. | 0:40:56 | 0:40:59 | |
Three cars chained together | 0:40:59 | 0:41:01 | |
racing around a track shaped like the number eight. | 0:41:01 | 0:41:05 | |
Which, of course, means a crossover in the middle. | 0:41:05 | 0:41:08 | |
Better still, with Harris in the rear car, | 0:41:09 | 0:41:12 | |
only controlling the brakes, | 0:41:12 | 0:41:14 | |
and the middle car just an empty shell, | 0:41:14 | 0:41:17 | |
the driver in the front car would be in charge of both the steering | 0:41:17 | 0:41:21 | |
and the acceleration. | 0:41:21 | 0:41:23 | |
So, it was essential that Chris had a responsible, | 0:41:23 | 0:41:26 | |
safety-conscious team-mate. | 0:41:26 | 0:41:29 | |
-SABINE: -Hey, buddy! | 0:41:29 | 0:41:30 | |
-Oh, God, no. -Let's smash some stuff! | 0:41:33 | 0:41:36 | |
No, let's not smash some stuff, Sabine! | 0:41:36 | 0:41:39 | |
Lining up on the grid, | 0:41:41 | 0:41:43 | |
and with Chris still adjusting to his new role... | 0:41:43 | 0:41:46 | |
Brake, Harris! Yeah. | 0:41:46 | 0:41:48 | |
-Oh, boom. -Sorry. | 0:41:48 | 0:41:50 | |
..Team Top Gear would be starting at the back of the field. | 0:41:50 | 0:41:53 | |
This is ridiculous, it really is. | 0:41:54 | 0:41:56 | |
One of those cars is a hearse! | 0:41:58 | 0:42:00 | |
Perfect. SHE LAUGHS | 0:42:00 | 0:42:03 | |
She just sounds demented. | 0:42:05 | 0:42:07 | |
-Woohoo! -It's on! | 0:42:18 | 0:42:19 | |
Go, go, go, go! | 0:42:19 | 0:42:21 | |
Apparently it would be a six-lap race, | 0:42:23 | 0:42:25 | |
assuming, that is, they'd last that long. | 0:42:25 | 0:42:28 | |
Whoa, Harris! | 0:42:28 | 0:42:29 | |
What's she doing? | 0:42:29 | 0:42:30 | |
Oh, my God! | 0:42:30 | 0:42:32 | |
-Whoo! -I've been in a car with Sabine, | 0:42:33 | 0:42:36 | |
and it was one of the scariest things I've ever done, | 0:42:36 | 0:42:39 | |
but I think this tops it. | 0:42:39 | 0:42:40 | |
Oh! Ow! Ow! | 0:42:42 | 0:42:45 | |
Nevertheless, by the end of the first lap, | 0:42:45 | 0:42:47 | |
Sabine had somehow dragged them up to fifth place. | 0:42:47 | 0:42:50 | |
-Yeah! -You're all right, Chris, hang in there. | 0:42:50 | 0:42:52 | |
It looks like she knows what she's doing. | 0:42:52 | 0:42:55 | |
-No, we don't know. -We don't. | 0:42:55 | 0:42:56 | |
But then... | 0:42:56 | 0:42:58 | |
-Oh, my... -SABINE SCREAMS | 0:42:58 | 0:43:00 | |
Ow! | 0:43:01 | 0:43:03 | |
Whoa! | 0:43:03 | 0:43:04 | |
Scheisse! | 0:43:07 | 0:43:08 | |
Snared up by another chain car, | 0:43:08 | 0:43:11 | |
the rest of the field started to pull away. | 0:43:11 | 0:43:13 | |
And by the time Sabine broke them free... | 0:43:13 | 0:43:15 | |
Yeah! | 0:43:15 | 0:43:19 | |
Nice move, Sabine, way to go! | 0:43:19 | 0:43:22 | |
..the rest of the pack were half a lap ahead. | 0:43:22 | 0:43:25 | |
Which, in figure of eight racing, is a bit of a problem. | 0:43:25 | 0:43:28 | |
Ow! | 0:43:30 | 0:43:32 | |
Whoo! | 0:43:32 | 0:43:33 | |
Ow! Oh, my God. | 0:43:33 | 0:43:37 | |
This is the worst thing I've ever done. | 0:43:37 | 0:43:40 | |
Unfortunately for Chris, though, | 0:43:40 | 0:43:42 | |
Sabine is no quitter. | 0:43:42 | 0:43:44 | |
Brake, Harris. | 0:43:47 | 0:43:49 | |
Whoo! Yeah! We got them! | 0:43:49 | 0:43:51 | |
Go, go, go, go, go, go! | 0:43:52 | 0:43:53 | |
Ow! Oh, my God! | 0:43:56 | 0:43:59 | |
And by now, the competition were having problems of their own. | 0:43:59 | 0:44:03 | |
-Oh! There's a wreck up there. -Whoa, Harris! | 0:44:03 | 0:44:05 | |
I can't see anything. | 0:44:07 | 0:44:08 | |
This is terrifying. | 0:44:08 | 0:44:10 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:44:10 | 0:44:13 | |
With two laps to go, Sabine had clawed them back up to fourth. | 0:44:15 | 0:44:19 | |
But things were about to get uglier. | 0:44:23 | 0:44:25 | |
-Ow! -Chris, where are you? | 0:44:27 | 0:44:30 | |
BLEEP! | 0:44:30 | 0:44:32 | |
Oh, not again. | 0:44:32 | 0:44:34 | |
Ow! This is carnage. | 0:44:34 | 0:44:37 | |
This is awesome! | 0:44:37 | 0:44:38 | |
Entering the final lap, Sabine could sense a podium finish. | 0:44:44 | 0:44:48 | |
Yeah! I do! I do! I do! | 0:44:48 | 0:44:51 | |
And with just the final corner left, | 0:44:51 | 0:44:53 | |
she'd go through the hearse to get it. | 0:44:53 | 0:44:55 | |
-On three! -Not through there, Sabine! | 0:44:55 | 0:44:57 | |
Not through there! | 0:44:57 | 0:44:59 | |
Whoo! Yes! | 0:44:59 | 0:45:01 | |
Push, push, push! | 0:45:04 | 0:45:06 | |
-Yeah! Way to go! Way to go! -Whoo! | 0:45:06 | 0:45:08 | |
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go! | 0:45:08 | 0:45:11 | |
Yeah! Woohoo! | 0:45:11 | 0:45:14 | |
Chequered flag. You're in third. Way to go! Way to go! Way to go! | 0:45:18 | 0:45:23 | |
Woohoo! Yee-ha! | 0:45:23 | 0:45:25 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:45:25 | 0:45:27 | |
CHRIS GROANS | 0:45:27 | 0:45:28 | |
Chris, good job! Are you still there? | 0:45:28 | 0:45:30 | |
Just. | 0:45:32 | 0:45:34 | |
You total lunatic. | 0:45:34 | 0:45:36 | |
SHE LAUGHS | 0:45:36 | 0:45:39 | |
With Chris choosing not to stick around | 0:45:41 | 0:45:43 | |
to see what the prize for third place was, | 0:45:43 | 0:45:46 | |
we got back on the road. | 0:45:46 | 0:45:48 | |
I think the greatest thing America has given to planet Earth | 0:45:51 | 0:45:55 | |
is chain car racing. That was great. | 0:45:55 | 0:45:57 | |
It's one of our proudest moments, really. | 0:45:57 | 0:45:59 | |
Sensing Chris didn't wholly agree, | 0:46:06 | 0:46:07 | |
and I hate seeing the little guy upset, | 0:46:07 | 0:46:10 | |
I had an idea to cheer him up. | 0:46:10 | 0:46:12 | |
Hey, you know what? I've got a game we could play. | 0:46:12 | 0:46:15 | |
It's called Nascar or Nas-can't. | 0:46:15 | 0:46:17 | |
So, I'm going to say a name and you tell me if it's a real Nascar driver | 0:46:19 | 0:46:24 | |
or just someone that I've made up. | 0:46:24 | 0:46:26 | |
OK? | 0:46:26 | 0:46:28 | |
OK. | 0:46:28 | 0:46:30 | |
How about Lake Speed? | 0:46:30 | 0:46:32 | |
That sounds more like a place than a person. | 0:46:32 | 0:46:35 | |
That's a real Nascar driver. | 0:46:35 | 0:46:37 | |
Lake Speed is Nascar driver? | 0:46:37 | 0:46:40 | |
Yes, it is. How about Dick Trickle? | 0:46:40 | 0:46:43 | |
THAT'S a real Nascar driver. | 0:46:45 | 0:46:47 | |
He's real, yeah. OK, here's another one. | 0:46:47 | 0:46:50 | |
-Patty Grossman. -Yeah, he sounds very Nascar. | 0:46:50 | 0:46:53 | |
That's my mother! | 0:46:53 | 0:46:55 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:46:55 | 0:46:57 | |
With Harris feeling better, soon we all had a reason to smile. | 0:47:01 | 0:47:05 | |
Because our goal at the Nevada border... | 0:47:07 | 0:47:09 | |
..was finally within reach. | 0:47:10 | 0:47:12 | |
Oh, I know where we're going. | 0:47:17 | 0:47:20 | |
I think I know where we're going too. | 0:47:21 | 0:47:23 | |
Yeah... | 0:47:24 | 0:47:26 | |
Where are we going? | 0:47:26 | 0:47:28 | |
I think we're headed to Bonneville. | 0:47:29 | 0:47:31 | |
America's fastest race track. | 0:47:32 | 0:47:34 | |
For over a century, pilgrims of extreme speed | 0:47:36 | 0:47:39 | |
have been drawn here from all over the world... | 0:47:39 | 0:47:42 | |
..to 46 square miles of pristine unbroken salt flats. | 0:47:43 | 0:47:48 | |
This is where the 300, the 400, the 500, | 0:47:49 | 0:47:54 | |
even the 600mph land speed barriers were broken. | 0:47:54 | 0:47:58 | |
This...is Bonneville. | 0:48:00 | 0:48:02 | |
I can't believe I'm here. | 0:48:04 | 0:48:06 | |
As we pulled onto the salt, though, | 0:48:06 | 0:48:09 | |
the dry lake bed did have a bit of a problem. | 0:48:09 | 0:48:12 | |
Oh, no. | 0:48:14 | 0:48:16 | |
Well, this is...moist. | 0:48:16 | 0:48:19 | |
Freak rain had blown in, flooding the flats | 0:48:19 | 0:48:23 | |
and washing away any chance of a top speed run. | 0:48:23 | 0:48:26 | |
What the hell? | 0:48:28 | 0:48:29 | |
I'm absolutely gutted. | 0:48:33 | 0:48:35 | |
I've waited 30-odd years to come to the Mecca of speed | 0:48:36 | 0:48:40 | |
and when I finally get here | 0:48:40 | 0:48:42 | |
it's a lake. | 0:48:42 | 0:48:43 | |
What are we going to do? | 0:48:45 | 0:48:46 | |
Hi. | 0:48:51 | 0:48:53 | |
-How are you? -Good. -Thank you. | 0:48:53 | 0:48:55 | |
-Sorry. -Hey, it's not your fault. | 0:48:55 | 0:48:58 | |
Or is it? | 0:48:58 | 0:48:59 | |
-No, no. -OK. "Chin up. | 0:48:59 | 0:49:02 | |
"Your celebration of V8s isn't over yet. | 0:49:02 | 0:49:05 | |
"Just up the road is a race track | 0:49:05 | 0:49:06 | |
"where your new final challenge awaits." | 0:49:06 | 0:49:09 | |
But it's not Bonneville, is it? | 0:49:09 | 0:49:10 | |
Well, yeah, but it's a racetrack, so at least we'll be able to go fast. | 0:49:10 | 0:49:13 | |
Well, it's got to be better than this. | 0:49:20 | 0:49:22 | |
Yeah. Come on. | 0:49:22 | 0:49:23 | |
Really? So that was Bonneville? | 0:49:23 | 0:49:25 | |
35 years waiting, and I stand in front of a puddle and go again. | 0:49:25 | 0:49:29 | |
Well, you can get in if you want. | 0:49:29 | 0:49:31 | |
Gutted. | 0:49:35 | 0:49:37 | |
I suppose I've now got | 0:49:40 | 0:49:41 | |
one of the worst Bonneville stories of anyone I know. | 0:49:41 | 0:49:44 | |
Rory, how are you feeling about it? | 0:49:44 | 0:49:46 | |
Yeah, I wanted to smash through that 200mph barrier in this thing, | 0:49:46 | 0:49:51 | |
-but it wasn't to be. -What is the top speed of that car, Rory? | 0:49:51 | 0:49:55 | |
Just over 200. | 0:49:55 | 0:49:56 | |
-How about you? -What is it exactly? | 0:49:56 | 0:49:58 | |
200. | 0:50:00 | 0:50:03 | |
So, how exactly were you going to "smash through" the 200mph barrier? | 0:50:03 | 0:50:08 | |
I was hoping for a bit of a tailwind. | 0:50:08 | 0:50:11 | |
Good answer. | 0:50:11 | 0:50:12 | |
But then, just up the road... | 0:50:14 | 0:50:16 | |
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Look at this. | 0:50:16 | 0:50:18 | |
..Chris spotted an opportunity. | 0:50:18 | 0:50:20 | |
I'm turning in here. Follow me in here. Come on. | 0:50:21 | 0:50:24 | |
Dude, the sign says "no trespassing." | 0:50:28 | 0:50:31 | |
An open gate is an invitation, | 0:50:31 | 0:50:32 | |
and I have an itch to scratch. | 0:50:32 | 0:50:36 | |
Oh, yeah. | 0:50:36 | 0:50:37 | |
We'd stumbled across a very quiet, very long runway. | 0:50:37 | 0:50:42 | |
This looks great. | 0:50:42 | 0:50:44 | |
All right, so what are we thinking? | 0:50:46 | 0:50:47 | |
-Drag race? -Yes, please! | 0:50:47 | 0:50:50 | |
It's time to let the big dog eat. | 0:50:50 | 0:50:52 | |
Here we go. Here we go. | 0:50:53 | 0:50:55 | |
How much power have you got again? | 0:50:55 | 0:50:57 | |
850 horsepower. | 0:50:57 | 0:51:00 | |
You may have 850, but I want to know how much you can use in the first | 0:51:00 | 0:51:03 | |
-three gears. -What are you saying? | 0:51:03 | 0:51:05 | |
You can use more of your power than I can use of mine? | 0:51:05 | 0:51:08 | |
I can use all of my power in the first three gears. | 0:51:08 | 0:51:10 | |
I don't think you can use even a small percentage of yours, | 0:51:10 | 0:51:13 | |
and hopefully by the time you get going, I'm gone. | 0:51:13 | 0:51:16 | |
I'll tell you what, Chris, | 0:51:17 | 0:51:19 | |
you pull out yours and I'll pull out just enough to beat you. | 0:51:19 | 0:51:23 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:51:23 | 0:51:25 | |
All right, are we doing this, or what? | 0:51:29 | 0:51:31 | |
OK, I'll call it. We go on "go." | 0:51:32 | 0:51:35 | |
Three, two... | 0:51:35 | 0:51:38 | |
..one, go. | 0:51:39 | 0:51:41 | |
Oh, the Jag is gone! | 0:51:45 | 0:51:48 | |
I'm winning! I'm winning! | 0:51:48 | 0:51:50 | |
Whoo! I'm winning! | 0:51:51 | 0:51:53 | |
OK, no, I'm not. | 0:51:53 | 0:51:54 | |
Bye-bye, Mr Reid. | 0:51:55 | 0:51:57 | |
Where's the yellow car? | 0:51:57 | 0:51:59 | |
That's the one that's worrying me. | 0:51:59 | 0:52:01 | |
There's the red one. | 0:52:01 | 0:52:02 | |
Oh! | 0:52:03 | 0:52:05 | |
OK, 160. | 0:52:05 | 0:52:07 | |
I still can't see the yellow car. | 0:52:07 | 0:52:09 | |
170. | 0:52:09 | 0:52:11 | |
Come on! Hya! Hya! Hya! | 0:52:11 | 0:52:14 | |
199. 201. 203 over the line. | 0:52:16 | 0:52:20 | |
Damn it! | 0:52:22 | 0:52:24 | |
This is the baby McLaren. | 0:52:24 | 0:52:26 | |
This is the Ford Fiesta of the McLaren range | 0:52:26 | 0:52:30 | |
and it just did 203 and smoked an 850-horsepower Mustang. | 0:52:30 | 0:52:35 | |
Boy, that McLaren is fast. | 0:52:35 | 0:52:37 | |
So, as we hurried on our way again, | 0:52:40 | 0:52:43 | |
our impromptu drag race had taught us | 0:52:43 | 0:52:46 | |
that naturally my McLaren is devastatingly quick, | 0:52:46 | 0:52:49 | |
that Matt's Mustang can't actually use 850 horsepower, | 0:52:49 | 0:52:54 | |
and that Rory had his own unique take on the result. | 0:52:54 | 0:52:57 | |
Chris and Matt, do you know what the speed limit is in the UK? | 0:52:59 | 0:53:03 | |
-Yes. -It's 70mph, | 0:53:03 | 0:53:06 | |
and I'd like to point out that in that drag race up to 90mph | 0:53:06 | 0:53:12 | |
the F-Type SVR was in the lead, | 0:53:12 | 0:53:14 | |
therefore, in real-world situations, | 0:53:14 | 0:53:17 | |
this car is quicker than the McLaren | 0:53:17 | 0:53:20 | |
and an 850-horsepower Mustang. | 0:53:20 | 0:53:24 | |
Even by your standards, Rory, you're fumbling around for a false glory. | 0:53:24 | 0:53:28 | |
No, no, no, no, no. I'm about 300 kilos heavier than that McLaren, | 0:53:28 | 0:53:31 | |
and about the same thing as that giant fridge on wheels | 0:53:31 | 0:53:34 | |
that you're driving. But I think I acquitted myself pretty well. | 0:53:34 | 0:53:37 | |
This is a great all-round car. | 0:53:37 | 0:53:38 | |
Yeah, I think I drove by you | 0:53:38 | 0:53:40 | |
like you forgot where the accelerator was. | 0:53:40 | 0:53:42 | |
Listen, guys, come on, I think this car did surprise you a little bit. | 0:53:42 | 0:53:47 | |
You might look at this car and think, | 0:53:47 | 0:53:49 | |
it's no McLaren, it's no Hennessy, but it's hanging in there. | 0:53:49 | 0:53:53 | |
I wasn't thinking that, no. | 0:53:55 | 0:53:56 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:53:56 | 0:53:59 | |
And before Rory could come up with more ways | 0:53:59 | 0:54:01 | |
in which his Jag wasn't as quick, | 0:54:01 | 0:54:04 | |
we reached our V8s' new final playground. | 0:54:04 | 0:54:07 | |
I see flags. I see flags. | 0:54:07 | 0:54:10 | |
Yeah, I see grandstands. I see grandstands. | 0:54:10 | 0:54:13 | |
Could this be the scene of another McLaren victory? I hear you ask. | 0:54:13 | 0:54:16 | |
Could this be the scene of another McLaren victory? I hear you... | 0:54:21 | 0:54:24 | |
Now we're talking. | 0:54:34 | 0:54:36 | |
Whoo! | 0:54:36 | 0:54:38 | |
Look at the view. | 0:54:38 | 0:54:39 | |
Oh, yeah, look at that! | 0:54:42 | 0:54:44 | |
That is a GT40. | 0:54:44 | 0:54:46 | |
-Yeah. -That is beautiful. | 0:54:46 | 0:54:48 | |
Yes, the GT40. | 0:54:49 | 0:54:51 | |
1960s icon, | 0:54:51 | 0:54:53 | |
and ground-breaking, Ferrari-beating, | 0:54:53 | 0:54:56 | |
Le Mans-winning masterpiece. | 0:54:56 | 0:54:58 | |
That is a legendary V8, right there. | 0:55:00 | 0:55:02 | |
Hey, how are you? Oh, cool. Right on, thank you. | 0:55:02 | 0:55:05 | |
"For your final challenge, you will now take on | 0:55:06 | 0:55:09 | |
"one of the greatest V8s of all time." That's true. | 0:55:09 | 0:55:11 | |
That is really true. Which won't be a problem, I don't think, | 0:55:11 | 0:55:14 | |
because we've got more power, better brakes, better... | 0:55:14 | 0:55:18 | |
Uh-oh. That changes things. | 0:55:18 | 0:55:21 | |
Does he have the correct visa? | 0:55:21 | 0:55:23 | |
Is he allowed to be here? | 0:55:23 | 0:55:25 | |
Unfortunately, he was. | 0:55:27 | 0:55:29 | |
That is a magnificent sound. | 0:55:33 | 0:55:35 | |
Wow. | 0:55:35 | 0:55:36 | |
The Stig would set a time for six laps of the circuit, | 0:55:38 | 0:55:42 | |
a time which we would have to then beat as a team. | 0:55:42 | 0:55:47 | |
Pros and cons. | 0:55:47 | 0:55:48 | |
We have more power, more modern tyres and brakes. | 0:55:48 | 0:55:51 | |
-Cons... -He has him. -Yeah. | 0:55:51 | 0:55:54 | |
And all too soon, Stig's six laps were up. | 0:55:55 | 0:55:58 | |
10 minutes 11.4. | 0:56:01 | 0:56:04 | |
OK, that's the combined time to beat. | 0:56:04 | 0:56:07 | |
So, to pit our V8s against the GT40 | 0:56:07 | 0:56:10 | |
we'd be running a relay of two laps each. | 0:56:10 | 0:56:13 | |
And with a standing start for the first leg, | 0:56:15 | 0:56:18 | |
we needed the best car for pure off-the-line acceleration. | 0:56:18 | 0:56:23 | |
All right, Rory, are you ready? | 0:56:23 | 0:56:24 | |
Never been readier. | 0:56:24 | 0:56:26 | |
Three, two... | 0:56:26 | 0:56:29 | |
..one, go! | 0:56:29 | 0:56:31 | |
Whoo! | 0:56:33 | 0:56:34 | |
Sounds quick. | 0:56:38 | 0:56:39 | |
All-wheel drive... | 0:56:43 | 0:56:44 | |
..for the win. | 0:56:44 | 0:56:46 | |
Spot your apex, Reid. Spot your apex. | 0:56:50 | 0:56:52 | |
There she is. | 0:56:52 | 0:56:54 | |
On that power. Oh, that's good. | 0:56:54 | 0:56:57 | |
So good. | 0:56:57 | 0:56:58 | |
The engine is still making noise. | 0:57:00 | 0:57:01 | |
-That's a good sign. -This means that he's not rolled it. | 0:57:01 | 0:57:04 | |
Yes! Yes! | 0:57:06 | 0:57:08 | |
Oh, that's messy, Reid. Come on, tidier, tidier. | 0:57:11 | 0:57:15 | |
All right, so, I need a 1:42 average lap time. | 0:57:15 | 0:57:19 | |
-Yeah, he's kind of missed that one. -He's overcooked that one. | 0:57:20 | 0:57:24 | |
Oh, no, this is looking like a 1:45. | 0:57:24 | 0:57:27 | |
Argh! | 0:57:27 | 0:57:28 | |
-Focus, Rory. Focus. Focus. Focus. -I'm focusing! I'm focusing! | 0:57:32 | 0:57:36 | |
Come on, Rory. Here he comes. | 0:57:37 | 0:57:39 | |
You should get in the car, maybe. | 0:57:39 | 0:57:41 | |
-Oh. -I don't know if this is good enough. | 0:57:41 | 0:57:45 | |
I don't know. | 0:57:45 | 0:57:46 | |
Come on, guys. Come on, guys. | 0:57:52 | 0:57:53 | |
-Here we go. -Come on. | 0:57:56 | 0:57:59 | |
Go, go, go, go, go! | 0:57:59 | 0:58:01 | |
Push, Harris! Push! | 0:58:01 | 0:58:02 | |
Two laps down, and Rory's run in the Jag | 0:58:04 | 0:58:07 | |
had left us six seconds off the pace. | 0:58:07 | 0:58:10 | |
To beat the GT40... | 0:58:10 | 0:58:12 | |
Smooth, Chris. Smooth! | 0:58:12 | 0:58:14 | |
..Chris and his McLaren needed their A-game. | 0:58:14 | 0:58:16 | |
This is a car that was doing 200mph in a straight line | 0:58:19 | 0:58:22 | |
but it's now agile and fast here. | 0:58:22 | 0:58:26 | |
Oh, good line through there. Nice. | 0:58:28 | 0:58:30 | |
Nice! Nice! | 0:58:30 | 0:58:32 | |
Just floor it. | 0:58:32 | 0:58:33 | |
Push, push, push! | 0:58:36 | 0:58:37 | |
OK, that's a 1:38. | 0:58:39 | 0:58:40 | |
-We've got a shot here. -OK, that's good. | 0:58:40 | 0:58:43 | |
I'm buying us some time now. | 0:58:43 | 0:58:45 | |
Now just three seconds behind... | 0:58:48 | 0:58:49 | |
All right, Chris, one more clean one. One more clean one. | 0:58:49 | 0:58:52 | |
..we were back in the hunt. | 0:58:54 | 0:58:56 | |
OK, we're at 5:58, 5:59, six minutes. | 0:58:56 | 0:58:59 | |
Chris, come on. Push, push, push! | 0:58:59 | 0:59:01 | |
Let's do it for America. Don't let me down, girl. | 0:59:03 | 0:59:06 | |
Go on, Matt. Go on, Matt. | 0:59:07 | 0:59:10 | |
Come on, Matt. Launch it! | 0:59:10 | 0:59:11 | |
All right, here we go. Here we go. | 0:59:17 | 0:59:20 | |
This was it, the last leg. | 0:59:20 | 0:59:22 | |
And however this tribute to the greatest of all engines would end... | 0:59:24 | 0:59:27 | |
..at least one thing was certain. | 0:59:29 | 0:59:31 | |
That's it. That's the stuff. | 0:59:32 | 0:59:34 | |
The V8 engine is a fighter, and one that still packs a serious punch. | 0:59:34 | 0:59:38 | |
-Where are we at? -7:30. 7:30. | 0:59:41 | 0:59:43 | |
-Are we ahead of time, or..? -We're on the edge. | 0:59:43 | 0:59:46 | |
Come on, baby. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. | 0:59:46 | 0:59:48 | |
Come on. | 0:59:48 | 0:59:49 | |
Oh, it's got so much freaking power. | 0:59:51 | 0:59:54 | |
Come on! | 0:59:56 | 0:59:57 | |
All right, last lap. | 0:59:59 | 1:00:01 | |
He's got to do the lap of his life. | 1:00:02 | 1:00:04 | |
Come on, Mustang! | 1:00:04 | 1:00:06 | |
Come on, LeBlanc, give it your best. I want your best. | 1:00:06 | 1:00:09 | |
Come on, Matt. Push! | 1:00:14 | 1:00:15 | |
There we go. Come on. | 1:00:16 | 1:00:18 | |
That's it, that's it, that's it. | 1:00:19 | 1:00:21 | |
OK, here we go. | 1:00:21 | 1:00:22 | |
Come on! | 1:00:26 | 1:00:27 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 1:00:33 | 1:00:37 | |
So, the big question - | 1:00:38 | 1:00:40 | |
did our exquisite array of state-of-the-art V8 sports cars | 1:00:40 | 1:00:44 | |
open up a can of whupass on the old days? | 1:00:44 | 1:00:47 | |
Well, we'll never know. OK, on next week's show... | 1:00:47 | 1:00:49 | |
-Hold on, Matthew. -What? What? | 1:00:49 | 1:00:51 | |
-What? -You've got to give them the answer. | 1:00:51 | 1:00:53 | |
No, I don't got to give them the answer. | 1:00:53 | 1:00:55 | |
That's why they're here. They want to know the times. | 1:00:55 | 1:00:57 | |
Come on! Yes. | 1:00:57 | 1:01:00 | |
OK, fine. | 1:01:00 | 1:01:01 | |
We were two seconds slower. | 1:01:01 | 1:01:04 | |
And I'm very disappointed in you, Chris. | 1:01:04 | 1:01:06 | |
-I was quicker than him. -Yeah, but I don't expect anything from him. | 1:01:06 | 1:01:08 | |
What?! OK, that's fair. | 1:01:08 | 1:01:10 | |
-Fine. -Yeah. -But what we're telling the viewers | 1:01:10 | 1:01:13 | |
is that the best V8 sports car money can buy | 1:01:13 | 1:01:15 | |
is a 50-year-old V8 sports car that's not actually for sale? | 1:01:15 | 1:01:20 | |
Exactly, yeah. | 1:01:20 | 1:01:21 | |
And on that essential piece of consumer advice | 1:01:21 | 1:01:24 | |
we must end the show. | 1:01:24 | 1:01:25 | |
-See you next week. Goodnight. -Goodnight. | 1:01:25 | 1:01:28 |