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  • čas přidán 14. 06. 2023
  • Guy Martin bids to transform an ancient East German Trabant into a race car, for a low-speed showdown at Brands Hatch. In last part of the episode, Guy finally takes to the track at Brands Hatch in his newly refurbished Trabant alongside some other famous Trabant Racers.
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  • @liamcook6950
    @liamcook6950 Před 11 měsíci +6

    The man is a national treasure. He reminds me so much of Fred Dibnah, hard working, enthusiastic about everything and a very nice bloke. Absolutely amazing man that I would love to meet one day for sure!

    • @bostonbikebits6539
      @bostonbikebits6539 Před 11 měsíci +1

      I had the pleasure of meeting Guy once - it was at the Lincoln steam rally a few years back. I was looking round a stall and my Mrs tapped me on the back and pointed out that I was stood right next to him but facing the wrong way. Like an excited schoolgirl I asked to shake his hand and like the gent he is he agreed. I would never normally ask but this man is a true hero of mine and I couldn't stop myself. We exchanged pleasantries and each went our own way. I kind of felt bad for interrupting his day but it meant so much to see the man in person and tell him how much I love his work. The bloke is a total legend.

  • @elijahstine3459
    @elijahstine3459 Před 2 měsíci

    Oui guy Martin you lot I am a half brittish American who likes your accent and is very much a big fan of your channel I've seen the one with submarine spitfire

  • @grenallum425
    @grenallum425 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Living in Lincolnshire I would love to meet Guy! He`s a man after my own heart when it comes to building race machines of any kind! Total legend!

  • @jmaudsley6544
    @jmaudsley6544 Před 11 měsíci +13

    Better to have fought and lost than never fought at all. Long live the Trabby

  • @MercuryCircuit
    @MercuryCircuit Před 11 měsíci

    Guy Martin is such an amazing man. Fame has not changed him one little bit. How many celebrities can you say that about? Always stay the same Guy. Top Man :)

  • @byronbailey9229
    @byronbailey9229 Před 11 měsíci

    My ex-wife grew up in Prague - they had a Trabant which they went out on weekends and she said it was a great little car. Love the smell of two strokes.

  • @js7127
    @js7127 Před 11 měsíci +7

    Thinking the race officials could have given the three Trabants a winner take all lap after the end of the race. What would it have hurt n believe the crowd would have appreciated the little angry bees!!!

  • @reginald8228
    @reginald8228 Před 6 měsíci

    Give this man a Knighthood already

  • @plaggy7
    @plaggy7 Před 11 měsíci +57

    Think the race officials should have put more thought into the race before hand. Pretty poor show of organization. Bloody cool little cars though.

    • @martiniv8924
      @martiniv8924 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Agree 100% 👍🏻

    • @js7127
      @js7127 Před 11 měsíci +3

      Possibly a three lap exhibition race between the three

    • @edwardfletcher7790
      @edwardfletcher7790 Před 11 měsíci +1

      How were they meant to know how slow they are ? They've never raced in the UK before....

    • @Beer-can_full_of_toes
      @Beer-can_full_of_toes Před 11 měsíci +7

      @@edwardfletcher7790the cars have known statistics on paper. Plus inspection for entry and qualifying. That word alone should have been enough for the officials to know what call to make before letting them race at all.

    • @stephenhewitt5835
      @stephenhewitt5835 Před 11 měsíci

      As usual, Lions led by Donkeys

  • @andrewmcgill6659
    @andrewmcgill6659 Před 11 měsíci +7

    Would love to see Guy in a time attack race. Or building a car and racing through the different classes.

    • @g-3409
      @g-3409 Před 10 měsíci

      He built the fastest van in the world, or wait, the van did not finish a race, or set a record. And still he made a documentary about accomplishing nothing.

  • @keithquestedelectrical9785
    @keithquestedelectrical9785 Před 11 měsíci

    Brilliant

  • @leostile8857
    @leostile8857 Před 11 měsíci

    Legend

  • @brucebenioff
    @brucebenioff Před 11 měsíci +4

    Guy took it really well. Those toy cars made me laugh. Funnest race I've ever watched. Those smoky little cars are cool.

    • @richardt.4224
      @richardt.4224 Před 11 měsíci +3

      lol, not a toy, when you're racing it's not a toy!

  • @christopherbalchin6066
    @christopherbalchin6066 Před 11 měsíci +3

    Needs a Millington Diamond stuck in it 😀

  • @aaronstonebeat
    @aaronstonebeat Před 11 měsíci +45

    That is silly, to let them start and then pull them out. One could easily calculate the speed difference beforehand,

    • @_zzpza
      @_zzpza Před 11 měsíci +8

      It's almost as if they made a mistake in working out the handicap and thought the best way to fix the problem once it was obvious was the screw over the Trabants.

    • @ATEC101
      @ATEC101 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@_zzpza They called the FIA and ACO.

    • @aaronstonebeat
      @aaronstonebeat Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@_zzpza Yes, who will ever know? I also wonder why after seven months of work they couldn't have a 600cc two stroke engine produce more than a measly 60hp.
      Guy must have ridden bikes with engines of comparable volume that had twice the power and a quarter of the weight of that Trabant.
      Quite disappointing.

    • @jfoz7602
      @jfoz7602 Před 11 měsíci

      Well it wouldn’t have been a TV show if they didn’t let them race

    • @luckybenny83
      @luckybenny83 Před 11 měsíci +1

      What a BS decision!

  • @lyndonhamby7432
    @lyndonhamby7432 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Go Guy go 😂😂😂😂👍

  • @ShadowzGSD
    @ShadowzGSD Před 11 měsíci +7

    Nippy little thing, somehow made it look cool as well.

    • @blamb42
      @blamb42 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Guy's yellow and black paint job makes me think of a tiny little Checker taxi.

  • @zweispurmopped
    @zweispurmopped Před 11 měsíci +15

    A joke told in Germany just after the wall came down and Trabants started flooding west German streets:
    A Trabant stops next to a cow pat. The cow pat asks "What are you then?" The Trabant replies: "I'm a car!"
    "If you are a car, I'm a pizza!"

    • @DaveOBrien
      @DaveOBrien Před 11 měsíci

      My cousin lived in Germany at that time. One of the big driving hazards was that a Trabant would try to join the autobahn, despite 100+kph differences in speeds.

    • @zweispurmopped
      @zweispurmopped Před 11 měsíci

      @@DaveOBrien Back then cars with that speed limit were not not _that_ uncommon. There still were quite a few Citrôen 2CV and Fiat 126 about and many transporters that barely made it to 110kph. It's a myth that all cars here are speeding, most will go at around 120kph. Maybe 1% really go 200+
      Me, I did less than 1000Km of my some 150000Km driving at such speeds.
      The real problem with the Trabant was that it was the abomination it just was. In a crash test in 1990 one just literally fell apart on hitting the barrier. In a car vs. car crash test, a contemporary car just drove through the Trabant. It was a death trap.

    • @monikamichaelis-iw3to
      @monikamichaelis-iw3to Před 11 měsíci +1

      The joke was at the time in East Germany that you could get a sporty Trabant, it had a pair of running shoes in the trunk.

  • @ianatkinson8464
    @ianatkinson8464 Před 11 měsíci +1

    😎👍

  • @andrewprettyquick2070
    @andrewprettyquick2070 Před 11 měsíci

    sCARred for life.

  • @maschina4
    @maschina4 Před 11 měsíci

    Liebe Grüße aus Pulsnitz Ostdeutschland:-)

  • @Blazs120gl
    @Blazs120gl Před 11 měsíci

    That narrator voice is just legend.

  • @mikewilson631
    @mikewilson631 Před 11 měsíci +1

    As they were pulled out whilst still in the lead.......

  • @bazzingabomb
    @bazzingabomb Před 11 měsíci

    If the wind was blowing the right way i reckon guy would of had them.

  • @andrewprettyquick2070
    @andrewprettyquick2070 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Whats that zappophets car from the ukes. other side of the iron curtain.. same side... different though. zappophets.... It was in TETRIS I think.

    • @mikewilson631
      @mikewilson631 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Zaporozhets. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZAZ_Zaporozhets

  • @hedning003
    @hedning003 Před 11 měsíci +2

    do something fun whit that thing- shohorne a gsxr 1300-engine in to it😎

    • @DaveOBrien
      @DaveOBrien Před 11 měsíci

      You'd lose the two-stroke feel of it. Put a turbo-charged RD350LC engine in there. Should be mental enough.
      If you want to get a small car with a fast bike engine, Honda Beat or most of the Japanese Kei cars are the thing for you.

    • @hedning003
      @hedning003 Před 11 měsíci

      @@DaveOBrien better to go whit a cr500 and a fan om that,if the two stroke feel is something to strive after..

  • @TheKyvin
    @TheKyvin Před 11 měsíci

    Surely That Was Guy’s Slowest Race Pace in His Life!! And The Safest!! 😅 That’s a First for Him!!

  • @Mike.hobbies
    @Mike.hobbies Před 11 měsíci +3

    That is a shame, you can't tell me that no one thought the trabant wasn't going to pissed all over by twin cam escorts, that folks is a joke..someone should be held responsible for that decision

  • @vozanderson8665
    @vozanderson8665 Před 11 měsíci

    60.112

  • @henrikcarlsen1881
    @henrikcarlsen1881 Před 11 měsíci

    This is an old video, isn't it?

  • @Stickleback
    @Stickleback Před 11 měsíci

    Guy Martin - MBE!

  • @Biffo1262
    @Biffo1262 Před 11 měsíci

    Bloody dangerous. It should never have been allowed.

  • @mikeskidmore6754
    @mikeskidmore6754 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Should put something like a Yamaha R-1 engine with a Turbo in it ..

  • @herpderp3131
    @herpderp3131 Před 11 měsíci

    Mafia call

  • @andih.5818
    @andih.5818 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Nurmalso fürs Protokoll. Es gab Renntrabbis die sind 170-180km/h gefahren. By the way. 😎

    • @esztnezdmeg
      @esztnezdmeg Před 11 měsíci

      Ja. Und es gab einen vergasermotor mit 72 pferdestärke.

  • @martiniv8924
    @martiniv8924 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Bit daft putting them in with some of those cars 🙈

  • @mkuehn5450
    @mkuehn5450 Před 11 měsíci +8

    i'll say it because no one else has. the track officials made a mistake in handicapping. i fail to believe they would condescend that the drivers were not skilled to handle new conditions. "it's too dangerous" is a direct reflection of their opinion of the drivers. or someone must have complained. "after three laps"? makes them look incompetent.
    they were concerned for the safety of the Trabant drivers. not known for collision safety.
    anyone else notice Guy taking the outside of turns to allow room for faster cars?

  • @andrewnorgrove6487
    @andrewnorgrove6487 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Perhaps they will let you pop the BMW RR Motor in now

  • @MrEiswerk
    @MrEiswerk Před 11 měsíci

    😂😂😂

  • @user-hz2pn8ro6t
    @user-hz2pn8ro6t Před 11 měsíci +1

    На прогулку выехал. Гай ваще в курсе что гонка идет?😂

  • @andrewprettyquick2070
    @andrewprettyquick2070 Před 11 měsíci

    who ever went from bikes to car racing.... might make histry.

    • @cdp9633
      @cdp9633 Před 11 měsíci +2

      I think John Surtees raced cars and bikes,

    • @douggreen9433
      @douggreen9433 Před 11 měsíci +3

      ​@@cdp9633 He was World champ at both.

    • @geoffmesser5091
      @geoffmesser5091 Před 11 měsíci +1

      John Surtees for sure but what about Greg Handsford? Rode 250 and 350 cc with 2nd in 250 cc and 3rd in 350 cc World Championship in both 1978 and 79 before switching to driving V8 touring cars, Mazda RX7s and RS500 Sierras in Australia. Died in 1995 due to injuries sustained in a crash in a Ford Mondeo in Supertouring race at Phillip Island.

    • @douggreen9433
      @douggreen9433 Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@geoffmesser5091 Good call Geoff , that's a name I haven't heard for a very long time.

    • @mr8I7
      @mr8I7 Před 11 měsíci +1

      Stoner did the feeder series for the Aussie V8s and Rossi is now in GT3 racing.

  • @esztnezdmeg
    @esztnezdmeg Před 11 měsíci

    The large and wide wheel holds the Trabant back.

  • @andrewprettyquick2070
    @andrewprettyquick2070 Před 11 měsíci

    They drove to chernobyl iokllegakl in the zappophets. look it up guy. decent laugh.

  • @user-qt2wj8nl1l
    @user-qt2wj8nl1l Před 11 měsíci

    Оце ти мчавв, здрасте

  • @mistersimple1986
    @mistersimple1986 Před 11 měsíci

    Here is a fast example of that species 👉🏻 czcams.com/video/a6e7qcP4Ej4/video.html

  • @monikamichaelis-iw3to
    @monikamichaelis-iw3to Před 11 měsíci

    What dinky little cars.

  • @andrewprettyquick2070
    @andrewprettyquick2070 Před 11 měsíci

    illegally* wtf happened there
    ?

  • @m.anejante1687
    @m.anejante1687 Před 11 měsíci

    put a proper gearbox and try again

    • @thesausage351
      @thesausage351 Před 11 měsíci

      Gearbox doesn’t have much to do with it being slow. It’s only got 60hp and an old design of inefficient motor.

    • @m.anejante1687
      @m.anejante1687 Před 11 měsíci

      @@thesausage351 If you know nothing about something, avoid talking about it, you will only prove it.

    • @thesausage351
      @thesausage351 Před 11 měsíci

      @@m.anejante1687 haha, if you only knew champ.

    • @m.anejante1687
      @m.anejante1687 Před 11 měsíci

      ​@@thesausage351 Is not me the one who needs to know.

    • @thesausage351
      @thesausage351 Před 11 měsíci

      @@m.anejante1687 Well, I’m not sure what your issue with the gearbox is. It’s a traditional 4 speed manual gearbox. I assume you’re thinking this car has the semi auto style gearbox, which it doesn’t, as Guys car has a clutch, so again, unless you’re referring to the weird shift pattern, what is your problem with the conventional clutch and 4 speed manual gearbox?

  • @lewisgilbertson7506
    @lewisgilbertson7506 Před 11 měsíci

    Damn i thought this was all new content, little did i know this clip is just a segment from like 2 years ago… disappointing

  • @robxal
    @robxal Před 11 měsíci

    Old footage. Getting boring

  • @mikadavies660
    @mikadavies660 Před 11 měsíci

    Sorry race officials, but you guys are ridiculous. Why even let that happen at all? A child would have known one was way slower than the other.

  • @klausbecker8898
    @klausbecker8898 Před 11 měsíci

    Das ist auf keinen Fall ein echter Renntrabant . So wie der am Anfang qualmt ist schon ersichtlich das da etwas nicht stimmt. Ist der Motor überhaupt mit 2 Vergasern ausgestattet worden?

    • @mkuehn5450
      @mkuehn5450 Před 11 měsíci

      Erklären Sie bitte, was ein Auto zu einem „echten Rennwagen“ macht. es raucht, weil es nicht sein Motor ist, er muss ihn schützen.
      Änderungen sind möglicherweise nicht zulässig oder es fehlt die Zeit für ordnungsgemäße Tests.