Top Gear!

[Bezza]

Fiona Bruce is immense!

[Dave B]

The second they started the Bullet Train race this week, Susy and I both predicted "Jeremy will win by about a minute and James will make his pocket translator say 'oh cock' in Japanese". Who knew, eh?

[Hazell B]

Who knew, eh?

Sounds like my house .....

[306 Cosworth]

Didn't watch this weeks episode as I was too enthralled in an online battle on Battlefield 2 :

Not really surprised to hear Jezza won the race though, which is slightly annoying, and abit unrealistic I think as the bullet train should have easily won!

[Dave B]

Despite our cynicism the producer, Andy Wilman, insists that the races aren't fixed:

Lots of people ask lots of questions about the races - how do you shoot them so nicely if you're in a race? Are the results fixed? - that's two popular ones.

Well, what we do is shoot the race in real time - car on the road, camera car alongside, no stopping for extra shots - get the result, and then the director and camera crew spend another two days after the race going back over the route to get the pretty shots.

You have to do this because a race shown on telly with just the shots you get on the move during the actual race will look ****, and you and us deserve better than that.

And in answer to the second question, no, the result is the result. If the car wins the car wins and vice versa.

People get suspicious because the results always go to the wire, but what we do is plan the route beforehand, and we always make sure that mathematically both journey times will be close.

It's not rocket science, you just need average motorway speeds and train times etc. After that the presenters are on their own.

If something goes wrong for them - say they get lost, the camera crew can't dive in and help them, because they're only recording the race, not taking part in it.

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Do we believe?

[Andrewmcm]

In fairness the car didn't win the race across London....

[Drew]

Do we believe?

That depends, is the cynacism based on anything or just based on the fact that Jeremy Clarkson (and the car) almost always win?

Unless a sceptic can provide evidence to prove that it's faked, I think that's pretty much it :

[Rallyst3ve]

Jeremy should go on Public Transport next time
They should do Land's End to John O G'roats

[Mark]

They should do Land's End to John O G'roats

That would be a good one! But having thought about it for more than a minute, I think the car would win easily. It has to be something where theoretically they will make the journey in the same time.

[Rallyst3ve]

Mark
I think the car would win easily.

Probably
May could fly a plane again that would give them a chance