Formula 1 - 2008 Season
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Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
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I love Top Gear, they are bonkers. Putting Hamster in a F1 car? Hilarious.
Neither May nor Clarkson would have fit in the car.
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To be fair Stig's time was on a dry track, and Hamilton's was on a wet and oily one.
Despite that, they were so close that when Hamilton comes back for a dry lap, I have no doubt he'll beat the Stig. To be .03 of a second off Stig's laptime on a wet and greasy track is pretty amazing.
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Yebo .. Hamilton really impresses me more and more.
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Only 0.3 sec slower than Stig. Hope he can make it back for the dry run.
than Stig. Hope he can make it back for the dry run.US
I know, but putting May in there would be even crazier. And Clarkson would just destroy the engine because he wouldn't give a crap about what the engineers told him to do.
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I couldn't believe it when they gave May the Bugatti Veyron for the "can it really do 200 mph" report they did a few months back. Put Captain Slow in the fastest car in the world and tell him to do a 200 mph drag.
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Yebo .. Hamilton really impresses me more and more.Only 0.3 sec slower
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and when Clarkson asked him if he has any pubic hair yet.... LOL!
It's annoying that they haven't been able to have The Stig run that car on their track.I couldn't believe it when they gave May the Bugatti Veyron for the "can it really do 200 mph" report they did a few months back. Put Captain Slow in the fastest car in the world and tell him to do a 200 mph drag.
Also, someone on another forum speculated that The Stig was indeed Richard Hammond, but I think after seeing him in the R25, we can lay those rumors to rest.
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It's annoying that they haven't been able to have The Stig run that car on their track.
Also, someone on another forum speculated that The Stig was indeed Richard Hammond, but I think after seeing him in the R25, we can lay those rumors to rest.
The Stig is some incognito proper racing driver. There was a strong rumour a couple of years back that one of the Stig's incarnations was Jason Plato.
Oh, really? I would never have guessed, I thought it was obvious that he wasn't incognito.
If Buggati thought it would be top they'd let them. I guess they enjoy Top Gear making out it's the best car ever than have them prove it's not
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If Buggati thought it would be top they'd let them. I guess they enjoy Top Gear making out it's the best car ever than have them prove it's not
Its not only about bugatti, or rather VAG, being scared the car doesnt make the #1 spot (which it probably doesnt, no matter what 2tons wont corner as good as a light weight car) but they probably cant be botherd by it. Ferrari never lend TG the Enzo either.
Its not only about speed, the veyron as as much about being able to do 400kmph in a car that is still ''very'' comfortable at those speeds.
Just watched the new topgear show btw, I dont believe hamilton did that lap so fast in the dry. The F1 drivers are much more limited by the car than their skill, I dont believe hamilton can be 3sec faster than webber in the wet and only be 0.2 behind the stig in the dry, thats just impossible as the car just hasnt got the speed to do that.
Webber is an average driver, Hamilton is a good one, possibly great.
Rain is a great leveler in F1 and in 2 of the 3 wet races last season Hamilton was thrashing everyone by miles (until his tyres went off in China).
The stig is also an average driver. (he's Ben Collins by the way - Found that out today)
Rain is a great leveler in F1 and in 2 of the 3 wet races last season Hamilton was thrashing everyone by miles (until his tyres went off in China).
The stig is also an average driver. (he's Ben Collins by the way - Found that out today)
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Well he is. If you've seen the program, it's easily possible to overdrive the car, especially in the wet where the tyres won't stick the car to the road very well. If you saw Jennifer Saunders the previous week, she never once looked out of place or even that she was going that fast, but she was the second fastest (non-F1) star-in-a-reasonably-priced-car because she nailed every corner perfectly, and at the exact right speed to carry momentum to the next part of the track.
If you listen to the commentary, at one point Clarkson says Hamilton takes the same line around some of the corners that the Stig takes, where most F1 drivers take a different line which apparently is "wrong". The F1 drivers take a different line, and Hamilton naturally takes the same line as the Stig uses. I guess that's one of the reasons why Hamilton is naturally a very fast driver.
If you watched the report all the way to the end, Hamilton gets invited back to try again on a dry track, so then you can "not believe it" when he beats the Stig's time.
http://www.autosport.com/news/grapevine.php/id/64231
Edit: Full comments here: http://www.topgear.com/blogs/planettopgear/087-hanging-with-hamilton/
They've also posted uncut videos of the interview: http://www.topgear.com/content/videos/
tongue_of_colicab
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Uhm the different between a good driver and a average driver doesnt make for a 3 second difference in a normal road car. Hell, even in F1 it doesnt make for a 3 second difference per lap and Hamilton even has the faster/better car in that case.
As I said above we are talking about F1 drivers, all these guys know what they are doing. One isnt so much better that he makes a 3 second difference and even is faster than the dry lap times, not in a car so limited as they have on TG.
Well dont forget TG is british and hamilton is their newest british idol, you can bet on it they are atleast exaggerate things a little bit.
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