Breaking the Scalextric Speed Record | James May's Top Toys | BBC Studios
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- James May wants to set a new world land speed record for wheel driven vehicles in Scalextric. Taken from James May's Top Toys.
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the girl does 696.9 I can't be the only one to notice that's both hilarious and impressive.
nice
I would like this comment, but it has 69 likes.
this is the way@@bonbon3215
4 months later and same @@bonbon3215
unless one didn't notice - the kid at 0:42 makes it absolutely clear that this is in Britain!
Thomas Bögel and 1:36
The Porshe 'Thingy' :)
photonic1970 what colour is it
wet
I can follow her - might have started as a 919, but being heavily modified, the number doesn't make sense anymore.
I have a Partner chainsaw, which started as an S55, but now has an S65 crankshaft, S7000 cylinder and P70 brake. And a 1633 top cover. We just talk about it as "The Thing"!
They don't even show the cars to us!
At 696.9
How good
ugh, that kid in the front at 0:10.
Jon Edwards love your profile pic
lol glad im not to only one who cringed
Jon Edwards d
Wouldve been satisfying to backhand him while he was posing like that haha
I'd say he's actually pulling it off, hats off to him
Lots of fun had by all, well done James + producers, great to see yet another slot car event.
I'm assuming that's scale speed?
actually there alot of variables that determine the sound barrier like ambient temp barrometric pressure etc. but generally it's in that ballpark
still_guns You don't happen to watch FailRace do you?
Joe Stinton I do
still_guns
He did say himself that's nearly the sound barrier
I love watching James May doing James May stuff (like this and Man Lab and Cars of the People)
I also love watching Richard Hammond doing Richard Hammond stuff (like Engineering Connections), and Jeremy Clarkson doing Jeremy Clarkson stuff (like Meet The Neighbors and The Greatest Raid Of All and Clarkson's Car Years).
Just not quite as much as I like watching them all together doing the stuff they get up to when they are all together.
@IngLouisSchreurs Oh yeah because the new version of Top Gear is soooo much better.
Don't forget total wipeout
696.9 hmm that girl went straight for it
tornadohand she wanted James's sausage
Dirty minds
hahahaha
Nice
Dacia Advertisement before the video starts. Oh the irony.
The Stig's German Cousin What? But Dacia is the second best Eastern European car!
The Stig's German Cousin I got an amazon prime advert no joke
The Stig's German Cousin the dacia sandero.Hope you get that
galam Gigul I got thelegend27 advert
gorgeous & perfect racer inventors
congrats
I remember this going out, but now it looks so old
what an amazing speed for a toy car! i would have guessed maybe 50 - 60 mph, but 700 mph WOW!
it's relative to the cars size, and not the factual speed. Quote "the fastest person in the 1 to 32 world"
Divide it by 32, then you'll have the actual speed
Just to point that out: this is not the official WR.
Google has all the infos we need:
The fastest slot car was a Scalextric Honda F1 replica, which reached a speed of 983.88 scale mph (1,583.4 scale kph) when it was controlled by Dallas Campbell (UK) of The Gadget Show at the Chatsworth Rally Show, Chatsworth, UK, on 6 June 2008. "Scale MPH" is the standard measurement for speed records on slot cars. Since the majority of cars are built to a 1/32 scale, their speed is measured over a distance that is 1/32 of a mile (165 feet). In standard speed terms, this car managed an impressive 30.94 MPH - meaning it would be breaking the speed limit in residential areas in the UK!
With the porsche thingy
Congratulations Meg.
I'll be honest. I was not expecting them to reach even a fraction of those speeds. But I suppose it makes sense. Almost 700mph! That's mental.
It looks much faster than 22 mph, if thats the actual speed.
Whisper Cars should be yes
That is the speed of the car if human's are scaled down to the car's scale to real life counterpart
its scaled speed lol the car doesnt go 700mph
the cars are going about 15 mph
lol 696.9 xDDDD
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and a girl too. *LOL*
it's scaled speed not the actual speed lol thats almost mach 1 just about 150mph away
the cars are going about 15 mph
Bobo That's not the point😅
I MISS YOU JAMES MAY
James May is doing good thing for this world
Mayyyyyyyy
I’m so disappointed that it wasn’t a mini bottle of champagne.
Nice top speed
2:06 Nice!
I just miss Top Gear
Different show but how well...
5FaLlEn5 This isn't Top Gear
Nice.
Any plans for races against Gauge 1 (1:32 but for trains)?
Good to see that girl was sensible enough not to drink the champers on screen!
Dude at @0:29: that's, uh, quite a convincing toupee you've got there!
I know him and he's still got it 😆
Is the beautiful blonde girl his Daughter ?@@conalwalters5387
No one else gonna comment that her speed was 696.9? 6969696969
rgaergaergaehr yeeees 😏
one more like to get 69 likes also
I had to make it 69 likes :D
I would like this comment but I can't
Yes, tons of people have made that comment, before and after you.
This is the man that went 400+ km/h in a veyron
First place went to a girl that didn't even known the model of her Scalextric.
Oh well.
What did she say when James asked her what color it was? He acted like he was repeating her when he said white, but there is no chance that white was what she actually said.
whlack
She said "whaite". It's her accent.
Wha
Would it have gone even faster if it was red?
Wet
Whats the name of the song in tge background at the beginning.?
The first song is called little sister by queens of the stone age
James looks so young
can't ignore the kids leaning on that beautiful Ford GT...
Oh well
was the speed scaled down as well?
Yeah, the actual speed of the winning car would be about 17 mph(696.9mph) on a 1:43 scale car
1:32
yeah
696.9
69 69 🤔😄
scaled speed not real lol
the cars are going about 15 mph
Mr “I’ve got an Indianapolis car” adnoid nerd didn’t make the podium lol
Shake it girl!
Anyone else had this randomly pop up in their recommended??
696.9 mph/32 = 21.8 mph. Sounds a lot less impressive when you find the actual, rather than scale, speed of the car. But actually for something like that that's still pretty quick.
good
696.9
If you know what I mean
Yes, that was the highest speed achieved in the video. Congratulations on having the cognitive capacity and motor skills to read something and then write it down, a skill learnt by infants.
Dont be so dirty minded
@@caitthenerd7470 put me in the woosh!
@@charliejohnson9090 the number 69 is a meme nothing to do with what ur talking about
@@timestampguy7292 Yeah nah past me was a fuckin idiot who thought she was smart...
Is that queens of the Stone age? I think that's Little sister by QOTSA.
What is Jeremys car doing there:)
2:00 696.9 HA!
The song was Queens of the stone age Little Sister.
0:25 is that a diy grinder powered by a corroded D- battery with leads soldered on?
min. 0.32 Italia!!
would be cool if they broke the sound barrier.
696mph is faster than the speed of sound. Didn't you hear the faint 1/32th sonic Boom? :-)
music was too loud
+Daniel Murillo yup that would be cool my friend! sound barrier is 767 mph so that was mighty close :)
Nowhere near close enough - it was a scale speed, so only 21.75mph ;)
Unfortunately, the sound barrier does not scale down...
so 22 mph
DO A SHOEY!!!
What does it multiply by? 10 times the speed? Probably 100
They said it was 1/32 scale so I'm assuming that.
its like 20 odd miles per hour.
Basically because it is a 1/32 of the size of a real car, you multiply by 32 to get the speed if it was a real car(although this speed is impossible with these cars irl).
I'd like to be there with James. I'm 11 and I'd probably end up hugging him
The sound barrier?
song in 0:52?
Jezza would approve calling a Porsche a thingy..........
Final result without scale is 21,78 mph (=35,04 Km/h)
So I guess that's about 22mph. The 32nd scale speed sounds a lot more impressive!
yes that's scale speed
that's mach 1
Yes so at 1/32nd scale that's almost 22 mph
I am beside myself that there was a stunning blonde attending the event. Perhaps she thought it was actual auto racing.
Did anyone else notice she got 696.9 mph?
0:31 Doesn’t that woman sort of look like the one in Series 10 of Top Gear when she sat in that vibrating chair. Except without the long hair.
V8 rocking chair xD
Wasn't that Clarkson's Ford GT at the end?
+Martynas Andriušis Think he had a blue one. And probably sold it
no, it's alarm wasn't going off :P
No, it wasn't all crash-damaged
2:04 😏😏😏
yES
Bruh imagine one of them goes supersonic
its scale speed so theyre going around 20 mph really
In 1/1 scale speed it is only going 20-21 MPH
Still quick
Young Gwneth Paltrow
Id be tempted to show up with a car powered by a model airplane engine. A real rocket car would need a wing to stay on the track.
pretty sure she had a Porsche 962C.
if it was then im not surprised that she won.
Unlike real cars, slot cars have different bodies, but utilize the same basic motor, gears, and chassis. So the fact it was a model of a Porsche made little, if any difference, in the performance.
There is no way a tiny car went over 600 mph
Why did anyone one make a Concorde
696.9 . yeah . right XD
when was this filmed? James has grey hair now.
I think this was at least a few years ago,it's an old one,I remember I watched this on CZcams
None of the Scalextric still don't come any closer to sonic the hedgehog speed average 765MPH
There's no way that slot car is going 700 mph.
***** lol
21.7mph I'm assuming? They are 1/32 cars
There's no way you understand what scale speed means
Scale speed
Some years later Meg has her record challenged on The Gadget Show: czcams.com/video/jHoAOeve7X0/video.html
Then they had to take the bottle away from her.
She doesn't look the right age for drinking champagne.
That's not real world speed right? There's no way those things were even going 100mph.
Am I the only one concerned about the kids having their heads so close to an object moving at almost the speed of sound?
+Evoletization 696.6 mph / 32 (because its 1:32 scale) ist about 22 mph in "real" speed.
seems to me as the cars dont have gears they would have reached their top speed after say 20 feet ..
I refuse to believe those slot cars were traveling at speeds up to 600 MPH. No way. I know that these kinds of shows like to dramatize things, but that's absurd.
And this is coming from a long time James May fan.
It’s scale speed, in reality their going 20 mph
0:40
Casey Neistat?
did she get the Ford as a prize?
sorry that belongs to Top Gear
mmmm 696.9
Race that against a formula one car
WHY IS EVERYONE SO DIRTY MINDED
Because we're guys
Bring clarckson back to may....May, maybe, seems to sad without clarckson
"you're a girl" - bloody hell, the sheer perception.
696.9? sounds staged tbh lmao
The winner could best her own time with a few drops of rubbing alcohol in the motor.
dem girl like 6969
Hammond would have crashed after three feet.
She was sagging her pants a little.
First comment
Is this another proof that James is still a child?
I liked first
Reason is treason by kasabian in background