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Absolutely, women need to know their place.
Not quite sure what the point of this statement is
Maybe there was no sub-text other than one of the very fast youngsters is a talented young woman. I don't follow grass-roots motorsport but I expect that talented women are reasonably rare on a grid even in these enlightened times.
The series was mostly still a miss for me, some good bits but a lot of chuff to but I'll give them a pass this time due to the lockdown constraints. Since JC and crew departed it's always been something that I have to record then watch so I can fast-forward through a lot of it (The Gadget Show is the same).
One of the Saxo drivers was streets ahead of the others, looked like they were all about a 1/4 lap behind the Monaro except him
Yeah, I noticed that. Bit weird.
Do FF and PMG do their own driving on the track / rally stages?
Harris,I can believe, but when they were ragging those Escorts through Grizedale and FF was racing the jet pack man there were some serious driving skilz on display.
Watched last week's show and seriously wondered whether that was really them being towed behind their cars? Seemed like a lot of potential for injury!
Maybe there was no sub-text other than one of the very fast youngsters is a talented young woman.
Crying with laughter emoji was an odd choice if that was the intent.
Watched last week’s show and seriously wondered whether that was really them being towed behind their cars? Seemed like a lot of potential for injury!
Thought the same. Letting go, catching foot etc,. at 90MPH is not going to end well.
The third bike was a Giant. Probably a Revolt
It was a Revolt 0.
Thought the same. Letting go, catching foot etc,. at 90MPH is not going to end well.
The view from the rear facing camera on the cars seemed to capture their faces, and the sparks.
90mph along smooth tarmac isn’t that dissimilar to what a crashing moto GP rider might experience, before walking off.
Thought the same. Letting go, catching foot etc,. at 90MPH is not going to end well.
Not sure how many remember him, but there was a lunatic Finn used to ride a Kawasaki Z1300, would pull massive wheelies past vertical and smash the taillight, then push the front wheel back down again, and also wind the bike up, jump off the back wearing wooden clogs, grab the pillion grab-handle, and get pulled along by the now riderless bike, with the clogs smoking and catching fire, before hauling himself back aboard!
Finns, eh?
Oh, discovered something about Top Gear Grand Tour today, apparently (I’ve never actually watched it) they do car testing, and where their track is set up is also fairly local to me, sort of; it’s at Wroughton airfield, south of Swindon, where the Science Museum stores all the big stuff it can’t get into the London building.
The reason I’ve found this out is because it’s now become another off-site storage place for all the cars that have been cluttering up our place not selling for the last year or so, making life difficult for us, so a couple of of our logistics team have been up there organising things, until we can get new land procured and developed. Don’t know if I’ll get a chance to wangle a trip up, I’m usually too busy with all my despatch checks on the cars already on the bit I’m in charge of!
I like Chris Harris, but miss the set pieces between Harris and Leblanc. Matt had just enough driving chips to be a decent match for Harris in some situations.
I personally, and speaking as a northerner, don’t like the current line-up. The other two just aren’t car guys like the old TG crew were and Leblanc was.
Still, better than Chris Evans and Eddie Jordan.
I enjoyed the midlife crisis cars, especially seeing them driving around my local roads and right past my house.
Maybe there was no sub-text other than one of the very fast youngsters is a talented young woman. I don’t follow grass-roots motorsport but I expect that talented women are reasonably rare on a grid even in these enlightened times.
I couldn’t find the news report about the young lady in question, sadly, but it was making exactly that point, there just aren’t enough women in any form of motorsport, the Saxo challenge I think has two, but there just aren’t enough in motorsport generally.
On the odd occasions when I’ve been to Castle Combe I doubt if there were more than five or six out of the entire meeting! Rallying? Drag Racing? I can remember one all-female rally team, and one, maybe two female top dragster drivers, and very few in lower classes like Street, Sylvia Hauser is the only British driver I can remember, driving a Dodge Challenger.
Olivia Martin is her name, and unfortunately the only item I can find is the Daily Wail Online one I read. It does makes the point that in British motorsport only 5% of racers are female. Olivia certainly has talent, and looks like she’s already moving into higher profile forms of the sport. No bad thing, either, hopefully she might encourage more youngsters to take part.
https://www.****/sport/othersports/article-9434599/Meet-remarkable-17-year-old-Gear-star-heading-throttle-career-motor-sports.html
Just watched the Sabine tribute.
..and their can be no argument that that is the best episode of Top Gear ever.
...and there can be no argument that that is the best episode of Top Gear ever.
No argument from me. What a personality, and what a wonderful person.
One of the Saxo drivers was streets ahead of the others, looked like they were all about a 1/4 lap behind the Monaro except him
Its almost as if it was edited to make it more entertaining for the viewers.
[strong]thepodge[/strong] wrote:
Its almost as if it was edited to make it more entertaining for the viewers.
Oh you great big cynic you! (I thought exactly the same 🙂 )
When I used to be a stage builder at festivals if it rained we'd hang onto the back of a flat bed lorry and rag around about 50mph with out feet skimming along on the grass. If a cable or bit of tarmac was coming up we'd jump up and rest our feet on the bumper on then fist horn blast then jump onto the grass on the second horn blast. Tarmac and steel plates easy peasy.
harris on e
That explains the E-Tron in the background a few weeks back.
Sorry for the Daily Mail link - but more info on the motor museum opening in Derbyshire. Quite exited to visit this as I can see it from my back garden! 🙂
I'm going to the museum just to see into Muffin Mans garden....
Some lovely cars there but some shockers too. Allegro and Maestro in particular should be consigned to the scrapheap of history where they belong!
Allegro and Maestro in particular should be consigned to the scrapheap of history where they belong!
Au contraire, if we don't learn from the mistakes of history, we are doomed to repeat them.
Both feature in my list of childhood family cars 🤦♂️
My old mans Maestro had the key stuck in the ignition. It had broken off in such a way it couldn’t be removed. I remember it was nicked from outside the pub one night. He started walking home to find it abandoned 2 streets later 😀 tells you all you need to know really!
I had a similar thing with a shabby old 1100 MG Midget about 48 years ago - came out of house to find car gone. set off to nearby police station to report it and saw car at bottom of next street. It had a acquired a full tank of fuel, siphon tube was left on passenger seat! Same car, 2 weeks later, got in to go to work with a stinking hangover, not taking too much notice of anything. After about 2 miles I realised that the nice fresh breeze was due to the fabric roof being missing.