Fantastic to see TG do a serious piece. After the tosh with Hammond in the Toerag I was a bit miffed but that was a really nice piece about Senna.
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Fantastic to see TG do a serious piece. After the tosh with Hammond in the Toerag I was a bit miffed but that was a really nice piece about Senna.
Awesome episode tonight, best one ever I think! All then features were just brilliant. How good was Tom Cruise in that Kia too!
Senna film was just mesmerising :up: Top Gear at its very best!
Fixed. I couldn't think about anything else when the star in a reasonably priced car results came up. Blatantly fixed they stuffed up their gear changes for a start, just to please their big egos, grrrrrr. </rant>
The footage shown for their lap times isn't taken from just 1 lap, they do several laps and add the best clips together. They don't have 5 or 6 cameras out covering the track, usually only 1 or 2.
So you're saying when they show the final lap, that isn't actually their final lap? I still think its fixed, either way.Quote:
Originally Posted by 306 Cosworth
Pretty much.
Can't believe that Tom Cruise did the lap faster than Rubens. Think they cut off a second because Tom otherwise won't participate or for not getting sued by scientologists.
About the Senna part, it's brilliant, and I just wish we ever see F1 as good as it was back then
A great piece on Ayrton Senna. Showing some classic clips, some good little interviews with F1 drivers. I like Lewis Hamilton trying out that 80s McLaren and Martin Brundle's insight was great.
Before anyone thinks Cruise wouldn't have turned a fast time, he did a few racing schools and raced a little. When Shooting the "Colour of Money" with the late Paul Newman, Cruise was turned on to racing by PLN and apparently he was not bad at it...but of course, likely didn't want to keep doing it bad enough.
So maybe he is pretty fast.
I haven't seen this episode yet....I have to watch My Top Gear in the most odd places...lol
Rubens did a lap in the Suzuki, Cruise was in the Kia. I think that the Kia is about 4-5 seconds per lap quicker.Quote:
Originally Posted by shurik
Loved it. Slightly sceptical about the lap times, but they were great guests, a lot better than some of the ones they get on.
F1 hogs the limelight enough as it is. I Wonder if TG have done a feature on Colin McCrae's title winning Scooby? Autocar and Chris Harris recently did features.
Remember hearing a similar thing with Cameron Diaz.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
Who's Colin McCrae?Quote:
Originally Posted by wedge
Hate it when people can't even spell someones name right, particularly someone as well known as Colin McRae!
I wonder if that Colin McCrae is related to Colin McRea?Quote:
Originally Posted by 306 Cosworth
It's ok, you should see all the threads about "McClaren" on the F1 forum :erm:
Not sure if anyone else has been there but while on holiday I went to Beaulieu National Motor Museum (it's in Hampshire on the edge of the New Forest), they have just opened a new exhibition of the Top Gear cars. The cars are just how they left them after filming.
Please see my photostream below (sorry the pics aren't the best as I've got a new camera and didn't quite get the settings right)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2837212...7624537431425/
It's well worth a visit and we were surprised at how recent the cars were.
Wow, you must be a perfect at touch typing and remembers to proof read.Quote:
Originally Posted by 306 Cosworth
What do you want? Medal? certificate?
Colin McCrae is not likely to be a typo though... given you capitalised the second C?
:uhoh: :pQuote:
Originally Posted by wedge
It seems I must be the only one who can do retarded things when trying to type quick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfa Fan
Take a few tokes bud :s mokin:Quote:
Originally Posted by wedge
Dude, it's not me who needs a few tokes.Quote:
Originally Posted by 52Paddy
I'm not the one being anal over an error. It's not as if I defecated on Colin McRae's grave.
Seems that The Stig is wanting the publish an autobiography, but the BBC is trying to block it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11139252
We all knew anyway that one of the Stigs was Ben Collins.
The BBC have just lost the case, and Collins' identity is out in the open - not that it was ever in doubt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11151777
Well there's a surprise...
Now when Perry McCarthy revealed himself as the first Stig he was effectively sacked and replaced with Ben Collins, I wonder if they will do the same again?
The Stig is dead, long live the Stig - that sort of thing...
Meet the new Stig, same as the old Stig?
I'm not normally one to criticise the BBC, being as it is a great institution, but I think this court case represents an astonishing waste of licence-payers' money, even if the sum involved is a drop in the ocean.
Of course we all knew who it was. Ben Collins book will be a best seller this Christmas. I'd buy it.
I vote for Green Stig next series. :)
Maybe the next Stig should actually be Stig, as in Blomqvist.....
Surely there would be a clause in his contract that states if he reveals himself, the BBC can sack him? Or something similar. The whole point of the Stig is that remains anonymous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
Meh bound to happen sooner or later. Any idea when the next series starts? I have heard a rumour about the next special challenge show they do.
What's the problem?
Just hire a new Stig.
Which is what will most likely happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by gloomyDAY
Ben Collins would know fine well what happened to Perry McCarthy after he published a book, does he know something we don't about the future of Top Gear?!
Hopefully, in pink suit, helmet and fluffy tailQuote:
Originally Posted by gloomyDAY
We all knew it was Ben, but the least he could have done is waited until the series was done, or left the show and THEN went public....
The fun of the Stig for me was really being able to suspend belief that he was Ben Collins and he was instead some mythical gear head who did all what was described. Silly? YES..but entertaining...
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...t-not-out.html
Clarkson has confirmed that the current Stig will not feature in the new series of Top Gear - unsurprisingly.
No word if it'll just be a new Stig or something entirely different.
Ben Collis isn't/wasn't the only Stig. They've always had more than one person playing the part.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
Wasn't it Tom Chilton who drove the Bugatti as it was his daddys car?Quote:
Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1