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Top Gear 13 Epic Race
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- čas přidán 19. 09. 2010
- "This series sees Richard go to Abu Dhabi to test the new Lambo Murcielago LP640-4 SV; the boys buy three £1,500 rear-drive sports cars and somehow find themselves entered in a terrifying French ice race. Elsewhere, Jeremy and James attempt to understand what makes a great Volkswagen advert -and then try to film some of their own. Rather predictably, it doesn't go well. And in a television-first, the mysterious Stig takes off his helmet to reveal just who he really is...
Celebrities taking a turn in the 'Stars in the Reasonably Priced Car' include Olympic Gold Medal winning Usain Bolt, Sienna Miller (Alfie, Layer Cake) who has just passed her driving test; and Jay Leno -- in Jeremy's own words --'the biggest petrolhead in the world'." Buy it on DVD at bit.ly/topgear13dvd
For me this was the race that stuck in my mind. Usually I want the car to win but that steam train is just a class above in every way. Top Gear was really at its pinnacle when they produced this.
I love the surprise and disbelief jeremy had throughout the race about the power of beautiful Tornado
One of my absolute favorite Top Gear races. However, had Jeremy been given a handicap to account for the fact that the A roads that James and Richard drove on, although not motorways, were clearly improved over the original roads they would have driven on in 1948, then he would have won hands down.
That's not the major factor why he lost. It the railway kept the water troughs in place then the train wouldn't have to stop for water, it'd only stop for coal. This was why he lost.
Imagine if it was the A3 or A4 speeds.
Also the end of the race wasn't exactly at the train station, so he had to run.
And the fact that in service A1s were capable of at least 90 if not 100mph - here they were limited to slightly faster than motorway speeds. Combine that with the fact that many parts of the A1 basically are motorway (giving May in particular a massive assistance) and that the 1940's rail infrastructure could allow trains to pick up water on the go (infrastructure long since removed) as you guys mentioned, the train should have won by at least an hour if not more had the race actually taken place in 1949.
Still, the whole race is an excellent piece of cinematic art. Amazing work by all involved - these trivial historical details can be justifiably overlooked (it is a car show after all!) to make an piece of cinematography this excellent.
@@chrisoddy8744 at least it wasn't lost down to Jeremy's turns at stoking the engine fire.
they also had a passenger train in front of them I believe?
This engine did 85 on the Plymouth to London rail tour back in 2013
That A1 is magnificent.
However, that 3.8 litre Jag is straight up pornography.
Limeddäsch no, a1 is better by far. 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃
LOL Richard trying to kick the Black Shadow in the guts.
And Jeremy knew he'd done a day's work that day.
I think Jeremy should have known that the A1 locomotive trust was not going to let him drive their steam engine at the start of the race because there was people behind the engine who had paid to ride on the steam train?
“Why don’t we do 100 they’ll never know” lol
"Are there speed cameras?" "YES."
In most of their races, I’d pick the car. Usually because the cars are beautiful, fast and so expensive I’d never get to drive them in real life unless in a situation like this. Also because their competition is typically some obscure, uncomfortable, tiring, back breaking method of transport.
However, I’d gladly spend eight hours throwing my back out, killing my arms and sweating like a dyslexic on Countdown if it meant getting a chance to go full-tilt in that train.
i'm with you on that
Doing over 90 instead of 75, although I’d rather they used a Deltic.
@@bjoe385 not quite the same in a Deltic haha
I would drive the car too. People at school compared to James May, Connor to Jeremy Clarkson and Russell to Richard Hammond. The car is beautiful and it is easy to drive. I can’t ride a motorbike to Scotland or drive a steam locomotive.
i watched this episode of top gear and i feel that Jeremy's time as a spare firemen on the new Peppercorn A1 4-6-2 was better spent than James and Richard's time they spent driving their vintage motor bike and car.
Definitely better than Richard's
That Train That Music That Was The Best episode of Top gear
I still remember Thomas's race with Bertie the bus.
@Ian Turner wow good for you. It was quite epic if I do say so myself.
For the record . . . (Traincrew here) . . . Tornado probably could go a fair bit faster than 75mph, but it looks like she's hauling a rake of Mk I coaches, and they're definetly limited to 75mph.
And of course Tornado proved that wasn't her limit...not even a decade later
Love this race. The Tornado is a gorgeous loco and Hammonds bike is just *devious* i hope we see The Black Shadow again 😂
I stll remember the time when Thomas had a race with Bertie the bus.
That Vincent is just stunning.
Hooray for Tornado!!!! The greatest engine ever!!!!!
I was rooting for the train and I am a car lover.
i love it when may and hammond get road rage
to me at 0:28, it pretty much sounds like "ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN!"
The Black Shadow belongs to a pal of mine - he met Bob Dylan and Pauline Boty in front of a fire at a Hootananny in a derelict building during the winter of 1963. That impressed me as much as whipping off the cover to reveal the Black Shadow.
God how much I would have paid to be in the cab of the a1 tornado
remember watching this on tv
Why don't we Go 100 mph, We'll never know:
5 years later
I think the Hamster forgot a bike ride that far is bound to create some discomfort. But him playing the super hero 'Black Shadow' is a tad funny.
I'm planning to do a road trip on my 125 from abaden to north Hampton at some point, small 500miles each direction
Where can I watch this full episode
Dam I remember this, absolute epic!
It’s the tornado
Spark plug trick
Him and the king
1:31 or as my mom likes to call it, "Vertically Challenged"
LOL i love top gear
I love steam trains. EV's no, not so much. Remember the London trolley buses. They were replaced by the motor car. I don't miss them either but I do miss the steam trains. It must be my age 76 and counting.
Seems odd that James May wasn't in the train (he loves trains) and Jeremy Clarkson wasn't in the Jag.
There's a bit before where they draw lots to decide who goes in what and James is disappointed that Jeremy drew the train
@@JangoFett220 Actually, I believe Jeremy chose himself to take the train. I seem to recall the editor of a rail magazine once mentioned that Jeremy was a bit of a secret 'gricer', just he never showed the railways any love publically
@@JangoFett220 James got the last laugh though. He won the race!
To be fair, and I'm sorry to say this, but I think Jezza was the only one there who could keep shovelling for the whole 393 mile journey and survive. James may have wanted to go by the train but I think he'd have preferred to stay in the Jag if he knew that he had to tend the firebox for that long....
It's strange, but Clarkson hugely supported the Tornado Project because he considered it a great example of British engineering.
Why the absolute fuck wasn’t James the one on the train?
I know it starts straight away listen to it
BBC channel but the video is distorted. So typical.
Should have put Clarkson and May on the train, the Stig in the car and Hammon on the bike.
I would’ve had Jeremy Clarkson in the car and James May on the steam train
Does anyone know the name of the song at 0:28?
Who notices the Austrian motorway vignette on the Vincent motorcycle?
How can this thing be on CZcams? That steam train + the 1940s jaguar should be considered porn.
Doese anyone know the song's name at 0:25
8 tonnes o’ coal?
Did he really drive that or was that someone else?
the stoker counts as the crew in the old days but he technically didn't drive the train
This is the stuff the Americans should be getting into.
I would love to run a race in a car across the continental U.S. against a train and motorcycle.
@Ethan Schmid If the train would be an #844, what would the car and the bike be?
@@JoRgEChavez-to2xd You're talking roughly 3,000 miles! The train would have to change crews!
More stops at the gas stations for the car and the bike, and the DOT regulations on driving for a certain amount of hours!
@Ethan Schmid An ALCO FEF-3 like UP #844 would actually be an equivalent match to a Doncaster Peppercorn A1, so I'd say that's a good choice.
@@carlbirtles4518
Car: Shelby AC Cobra.
Bike: A classic Indian of some sort.
Driving who then tell them
(Lords) yes
ROFL, bump start it hampster ur on a hill
Yes there’s camera what do you think it is your gone
Aku mau jadi pembalap motor
The man who hates manual labour :-ends up shifting 8 tons of coal into the burner.
@attackRus me 2
Top speed of an A1 is 70? Guess this driver's not heard of The Flying Scotsman, who was in his A1 build when he broke the record of 100 MPH
+connor kennell, the driver is right ( he said 75mph); the top speed today on the mainline for steam is LIMITED to 75, barring one occasion when an A4 bittern did 92.
Different A1 Pacifics. Scotsman when built was a Gresley A1 but Tornado is a Peppercorn A1. Besides in the modern era steam locos are limited to 75MPH on the mainline no matter what the top speed is.
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Tornado actually reached 100 mph. But they only did it once
The problem is not the engine, are the coaches
The sperm bank he has planned and animals this is why you know in the mind the change your heart it’s a big (yes)
Richard Hammond is Jewish and so in 1949 it would have only been 4 years since the Nazis liberated him and Richard Hammond is either half or quarter Spanish. The Nazis did take Spanish Jews to concentration camps. Jeremy Clarkson and James May would’ve just fought in the war.
Jewish? Nawh, he's from Birmingham...