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Originally Posted by Gregor-y

At heart Clarkson is an F1 fan boy and not rally enthusiast, plus they filmed the Col de Turini before. I still would have preferred more of that to the scavenger hunt, however.

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You obviously haven't seen Top Gear before then. Clarkson likes motorsport, the Lancia segment a series or two ago shows that Clarkson likes rallying.

I have indeed; remember the most recent Evo/STI comparison and his attitude toward rallying. It's not safe to believe anything on the show has genuine emotion behind it other than entertaining the viewers. There's no lap board for non-F1 drivers, and if you look back to the early seasons - I don't remember which one - you see Richard Burns wasn't given much air time or respect despite having won the championship. This is why I say while he may or may not dislike rally Clarkson does not go far out of his way to highlight or praise it.
But of course most people are probably bigger fans of F1 than rally. I certainly was, growing up.

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Originally Posted by henners88

A very good friend and avid follower of both Richard Burn's who was his neighbour and Colin McRae when they were both alive. I remember the episode where Clarkson dedicated a segment to Burn's shortly after his death and he very nearly broke down in tears as he socialised frequently with Burns and his family and he stated in his newspaper article that his death hit him and his wife hard. I believe Clarkson enjoys F1 but Rallying is his preferred sport. I also saw Clarkson at Prodrive a few years back at an open day.

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When were you at the open day? I went to one back in 2007 :)

I didn't enjoy this week's episode. The mid-segment with May and that Range Rover almost put me to sleep. One of the most boring segments ever in Top Gear. Vettel was meh.

What was interesting though was the first segment, with the amazing new Mclaren MP4-12C, of course ruined by Clarkson's Ferrari ass kissing. It looked, drove and sounded better than the Ferrari. What else do you want? Goo-Ferrari soul, passion, horse-goo. Idiot.

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Originally Posted by CaptainRaiden

I didn't enjoy this week's episode. The mid-segment with May and that Range Rover almost put me to sleep. One of the most boring segments ever in Top Gear. Vettel was meh.

What was interesting though was the first segment, with the amazing new Mclaren MP4-12C, of course ruined by Clarkson's Ferrari ass kissing. It looked, drove and sounded better than the Ferrari. What else do you want? Goo-Ferrari soul, passion, horse-goo. Idiot.

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funny that... May and Vettel saved the show for me. :)
The MP4 vs F458 was much better 2 weeks ago on fifth gear, where both potato and needle arrived at the very same conclusion. Traitors eh? :p

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

funny that... May and Vettel saved the show for me. :)
The MP4 vs F458 was much better 2 weeks ago on fifth gear, where both potato and needle arrived at the very same conclusion. Traitors eh? :p

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It's Potato and Tiffany Dell :p

I also quite liked the bit with May and the Range Rover and also with Vettel.

And Féttle is pronounced Vet-L :p

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Originally Posted by christophulus

Great show tonight. This series has been good so far, big improvement over the last few.

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Yup. Really enjoying this season. They seem to have made an effort to do something different this year, with a distinctly less prating about, and, if the trailer for the next episode (train cars) is anything to go by it could be the best episode since the original aqua car episode.

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

funny that... May and Vettel saved the show for me. :)
The MP4 vs F458 was much better 2 weeks ago on fifth gear, where both potato and needle arrived at the very same conclusion. Traitors eh? :p

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Probably I was snoring by the time May got to Vegas because I'm not interested in how nicely the Range Rover handles different terrains or how many rocks it can climb. Vettel's lines seemed to be rehearsed, so there was some obvious lack of chemistry. Besides Clarkson really didn't grill him like he did poor ole' Barrichello. :D So, it was all a bit vanilla and meh for me. ;)

On a side note, I watched it at the end of a very grueling work day, thoroughly exhausted and mind-bleeped, so that probably also played into it. :p