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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May travel across the world to meet different automobile manufacturers and drive cars made by them.
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May travel across the world to meet different automobile manufacturers and drive cars made by them.
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00:01:03Thank you so much.
00:01:04Hello.
00:01:05Hello, everybody.
00:01:06Hello.
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00:01:11Thank you so much.
00:01:13Wow.
00:01:15Wow.
00:01:16Thank you so much.
00:01:17Welcome, and in this edition of the world's most exciting motoring show.
00:01:23A maroon Skoda.
00:01:25A silver car of some sort.
00:01:28And an elderly German man says, I don't like jumps.
00:01:32I don't like jumps.
00:01:34A lot.
00:01:35There's a lot.
00:01:36A good one.
00:01:37There's a lot.
00:01:38A good one.
00:01:39There's that diarrhea-colored Audi as well, isn't there?
00:01:43Yeah.
00:01:44Yeah, there's that.
00:01:45And you kill a Chinese person.
00:01:48But we start with Lamborghini.
00:01:51They've just launched a more hardcore, more exciting version of the Huracan,
00:01:56and Richard Hammond was very keen to try it out.
00:01:59I was.
00:02:00He was.
00:02:01So, we put the air ambulance on standby, and off he went.
00:02:16Here it is.
00:02:19It's called the Huracan Performante, and whereas the standard Huracan costs £155,000,
00:02:27this version comes in at £208,000.
00:02:32So, what do you get for the extra £50,000?
00:02:45Well, to be honest, on paper, not a lot.
00:02:49You only get 29 more horsepower up from 602 to 631.
00:02:55And 30 more torques.
00:03:01So, while the original tops out at 202 miles an hour,
00:03:06this can do, um, the same.
00:03:09And the 0-60 time goes down by a whopping two tenths of a second,
00:03:16from 3.1 to 2.9.
00:03:20Now, admittedly, we are starting from a very high baseline,
00:03:23and you have probably just seen some pictures of a car going very fast.
00:03:28But 55 grand more?
00:03:31When do you start seeing something for your money?
00:03:34Fortunately, in quite a few places.
00:03:41For starters, some proper work has gone into making the Performante look more dramatic than a normal Huracan.
00:03:49This car has much more of the get-your-camera-phone-out appeal you expect from a Lamborghini.
00:03:55I particularly like the material this wing's made from.
00:04:01It's actually chopped-up carbon fibre bonded in a resin.
00:04:04So not only does it look rather good, it's also very light.
00:04:07And because they've used it all over the place,
00:04:09they've shaved 40 kilograms off the weight of the car.
00:04:13And you would notice that on a mountain road.
00:04:18And then we come to the soundtrack.
00:04:21Again, if we compare to the standard car,
00:04:24the Huracan makes an okay noise.
00:04:26But the Performante comes with a new exhaust and that!
00:04:32Oh-ho!
00:04:35That is awesome, that is!
00:04:39I love the sound of a V10.
00:04:45I like having 10,000 volts at your back.
00:04:48But there's more to the Performante than just animalistic howling.
00:05:01The car is also equipped with something called Aerodynamica Lamborghini Ativa, or ALA for short.
00:05:07And what it claims to be is a very clever aerodynamic system.
00:05:11Basically, you have moving flaps in the front spoiler,
00:05:16and moving air ducts at the back that control the airflow to the rear wing.
00:05:22Now, if you want to go fast in a straight line, you need less downforce.
00:05:26So the ducts open so they direct more air under the wing.
00:05:30Right, so fast in a straight line.
00:05:34That's as good an excuse for a gratuitous drag race as we've ever had.
00:05:38It's just a shame there isn't some local motorist out for a drive in a Ferrari 458 Speciale.
00:05:46Or something... something that...
00:05:49Oh, what a stroke of luck!
00:05:50Morning.
00:05:51How'd you see you here?
00:05:52Yeah.
00:05:53Well, to be honest, I was just out for a drive and I stopped to sort of, you know, marvel at the mystery and wonder of God's creation.
00:06:03Yeah.
00:06:04Well, I don't know if you're aware, but you happen to have pulled up on the start line of a drag race.
00:06:09Have I?
00:06:10Yeah.
00:06:13Seeing as our cars are so similar, would you mind accompanying me to the other end of this runway in a drag race type fashion?
00:06:22Yeah, alright.
00:06:23Excellent.
00:06:24Good.
00:06:25It's just worked out that way today.
00:06:27That's blind luck that that man happened to be in the logical competitor for this car.
00:06:39That arrow now doing its business to make this thing as fast as possible.
00:07:09And then a straight line.
00:07:10Dear God!
00:07:11Oh, no!
00:07:12I beat the local man in his 458 Speciale by some considerable margin.
00:07:28But the Lambo's clever aero system is equally impressive when you get to the end of a straight and arrive at a corner.
00:07:36Oh!
00:07:37As I go into a corner, I need more downforce to give me more grip.
00:07:43So the flaps and ducks are adjusting to do just that.
00:07:44It's pressing down.
00:07:45It's giving it grip.
00:07:46More than that, it can operate individual sides so it can work individual wheels mid-corner to dial up the grip.
00:07:50That's clever.
00:07:51Very, very clever.
00:07:52That's clever.
00:07:53Very, very clever.
00:07:54Oh!
00:07:55And let me give you some highlights.
00:07:56Oh!
00:07:57Oh!
00:07:58Oh!
00:07:59Oh!
00:08:00Oh!
00:08:01Oh!
00:08:02Oh!
00:08:03Oh!
00:08:04Oh!
00:08:05Oh!
00:08:06Oh!
00:08:07Oh, oh!
00:08:13Oh, oh, oh!
00:08:17and let me give you some hard evidence of just how clever the Porsche 918 my favorite out of
00:08:28this world hypercar went around the Nürburgring in six minutes and 57 seconds this thing five seconds
00:08:35quicker as a driving machine the performante is one hell of an experience but there's even more to it
00:08:50than that what Lamborghini have done with this is hit a real sweet spot it can corner like a race car
00:08:57and shatter trees with its engine noise but it hasn't been turned into some hardcore track day
00:09:03abomination I've got aircon and Apple connecty stuff in here in the comfort sense it's very much
00:09:08like driving a standard Huracan and that last point is why this car is so special a lifetime ago on a
00:09:20car show in a galaxy far far away I reviewed the original Huracan and was left feeling a bit sad
00:09:27because it lacked that drama that drill delivery system that a Lamborghini should have and be
00:09:34well finally it's here the whole package is complete this is what the Huracan should have
00:09:42been from the start
00:09:43it's brilliant
00:09:47I actually um I drove a performante the other day and it's a
00:10:07when it's some punches car, and when they provide the car, they win.
00:10:13I actually, um, I drove a Performante the other day,
00:10:17and I pulled out to overtake Peugeot, put my foot down,
00:10:20and the noise was so enormous,
00:10:22I genuinely believed the engine had actually exploded.
00:10:26I've never heard a sound like it.
00:10:28It is pretty loud.
00:10:29No, it's not pretty loud, it's incredibly loud.
00:10:32It can't possibly pass any, you know, regulations.
00:10:35Well, there's no need to be, it's Italian.
00:10:36It is Italian, it's true.
00:10:37It's also, it's also fantastic.
00:10:40I think I'm right in, you know, I know I'm right in,
00:10:42in saying it's currently my favourite supercar of the moment.
00:10:45Oh, it's definitely mine, supercar.
00:10:47Absolutely adorable, it really is.
00:10:49Anyway, we must now find how fast it goes round the Ebola-drome.
00:10:55Come on, let's have it.
00:10:57And she's off.
00:10:59A searing start and a ferocious howl
00:11:02as the hurricane powers onto the Izzan Strait.
00:11:05Grabbing at the gears to keep that amazing V10 on song
00:11:09and carrying some serious speed to there.
00:11:13No let-up as she drives down towards your name here.
00:11:18Despite being the hardcore model,
00:11:21the Performante is still four-wheel drive like the standard Huracan.
00:11:24And that clearly translates into serious mechanical grip.
00:11:28Now unleashing all 631 horsepower for the blast back down the Izzan.
00:11:35You really can't beat a normally aspirated engine
00:11:37for sheer visceral wailing.
00:11:40It's superb.
00:11:42Old lady's house, grip and that active aero trickery
00:11:46staving off understeer on the bumpy run down to substation.
00:11:51Is it going to be OK through there?
00:11:52Yep, absolutely no problem.
00:11:55Working the carbon ceramic brakes.
00:11:57Floys round field to sheep and across the line.
00:11:59That looks good.
00:12:01That looks good.
00:12:02That looks bad.
00:12:03Is it now?
00:12:04So, yeah, that's it.
00:12:07That was properly dirty.
00:12:09Anyway, we must now find out how far up the board the Huracan goes.
00:12:16Oh, I know.
00:12:17Oh, hang on.
00:12:18Oh-ho!
00:12:19Yeah.
00:12:20168, that's the fastest road-legal car we've ever had round there.
00:12:27It's not road-legal.
00:12:29It's Italian.
00:12:29Same thing, doesn't it?
00:12:30Everything in Italian is road-legal.
00:12:32Anyway, it is now time for us to plant some daffodils of opinion
00:12:36on the roundabout of chat at the end of Conversation Street.
00:12:47Sorry.
00:12:50That's the best thing that's going to come out of your mouth for the next seven days.
00:12:57LAUGHTER
00:12:58Ouch!
00:12:59So, conversation sticking with supercars.
00:13:03Many new ones have arrived recently, and we'll have one here.
00:13:07If you have a look, that is the Devil 16.
00:13:10Now, that's a 12.3-litre V16 quad-turbo engine.
00:13:14It's two Chevy engines glued together, and it has a top speed,
00:13:18according to the makers, of 320 miles an hour.
00:13:23Really?
00:13:24320?
00:13:25That's what they say.
00:13:26Well, you can test that one, Hammond.
00:13:27LAUGHTER
00:13:28220.
00:13:29That's what they say.
00:13:30Anyway, look, if you don't fancy the Devil 16, you could try the
00:13:34the Ikea Formula IFO 2 RDS, the Apollo Intensa Emozioni, the Della Stradale, the Aspark Owl.
00:13:47What?
00:13:48Owl?
00:13:49The Aspark Owl.
00:13:50Yes.
00:13:51You can't call a car an owl.
00:13:52The Vences Soth, the Aranera Husaria, the Mazanti Avantra Milcavali, and the Hennessy Venom.
00:14:01No, I'm sorry, this is just ridiculous.
00:14:03Seriously, they're all new supercars.
00:14:04They're all new supercars.
00:14:05That's absurd.
00:14:06And then, from America...
00:14:07Oh, God.
00:14:08There's the Glickenhaus SCG004S.
00:14:13And from Denmark, the Zenvo TS1 GT.
00:14:17Right, we've got the idea.
00:14:18Every single person in the world has suddenly decided, you know, I can make a supercar myself.
00:14:22Yeah, it looks our way, yeah.
00:14:23The problem I've got with all of this is, it's not like we're spoiled for choice already.
00:14:27I mean, you've got Ferrari, Lamborghini, you've got Bugatti, McLaren, Ford, even Audi.
00:14:33Yeah, but what if you want a supercar with no heritage that's built in someone's shed?
00:14:38That's what you really want.
00:14:39And that you can't get serviced anywhere.
00:14:42Does any car there appeal to anyone here?
00:14:45You'd all rather have a Lamborghini Performante than anything there.
00:14:50So that's total failure for all those people.
00:14:52Yeah, what you've just looked at there is 27 future bankruptcies.
00:14:56Now, we have always argued that women, whatever they say, are impressed,
00:15:02when a man performs a perfectly executed handbrake turn.
00:15:06Oh, it's absolutely true.
00:15:07We've all been watching Sir Attenborough's fish programme, haven't we?
00:15:10Yeah?
00:15:11Yeah, the blue planet, unbelievable, OK?
00:15:13Now, the thing is, every single week, you see, OK, man fish comes along,
00:15:16there's lady fish there.
00:15:17Man fish can make his face swell up.
00:15:19It's huge, like a satellite dish.
00:15:21Lady fish, like, I'm not bothered, I'm not bothered.
00:15:24But she is.
00:15:25She is.
00:15:26And then she's going, I like his huge face.
00:15:28And then they do such, oh, whatever fish do.
00:15:31And then they have babies.
00:15:32Now, that massive face that a fish can do,
00:15:34that's basically the same as the handbrake turn.
00:15:37All those birds that dance about, we've got the handbrake, birds can dance about.
00:15:41It's all part of nature's dance of love.
00:15:43Exactly.
00:15:44But the problem has been, of course, most modern cars now have electronic handbrakes.
00:15:48Yeah.
00:15:49You can't do a handbrake turn with one of those.
00:15:51Yes.
00:15:52That's why Tinder's become so big.
00:15:53Yeah.
00:15:54Yeah.
00:15:55You have to swipe right, because you can't slide left anymore.
00:15:57Yeah.
00:15:58That's what's going on.
00:15:59Well, so that's been the problem.
00:16:00With electronic handbrakes, we can't conduct this mating ritual.
00:16:03Ford have noticed this, given it some thought, and they've come up with this.
00:16:07It's an aftermarket part that you fit to your car.
00:16:09They call it the drift stick.
00:16:11Ooh, they ought to call it the love handle.
00:16:13Yeah.
00:16:14But the point is, what it does, it overrides the ABS, and you can actually perform proper
00:16:19handbrake turns in that.
00:16:20Girls are going to say, if you pull that, that was ridiculous and you frightened me.
00:16:24What they actually mean is, I'm hot.
00:16:25Yeah.
00:16:26Come on.
00:16:27Admit it.
00:16:28You're impressed by a handbrake turn, aren't you?
00:16:30I just thought of it.
00:16:31If you say no, that's just part of it.
00:16:33You've never been in a car with someone who's about a handbrake turn?
00:16:37Oh, hello.
00:16:38Who?
00:16:39Are you together?
00:16:43What are you doing, man?
00:16:44What are you doing?
00:16:45What's wrong with you?
00:16:46What is wrong with you?
00:16:47How did you...
00:16:50You drove here today, huge fields everywhere, and you didn't think, well, just give it some
00:16:59of that.
00:17:00Get out of there.
00:17:01What?
00:17:02On the way out, just mind the sheep.
00:17:04Right, listen.
00:17:05Bentley has announced a new version of the big 4x4, the Bentayga, okay?
00:17:09Yeah.
00:17:10It's a new version, which they say is for shooting enthusiasts.
00:17:12We've got a picture here.
00:17:13Look, it's got this kind of chest in the back, which has, you know, space for your guns and
00:17:17refreshments and so on.
00:17:18However, I know that whoever designed that has never been shooting in their lives.
00:17:24How do you know?
00:17:25Well, because if we examine the refreshments that have been photographed here, you will
00:17:29find that they have fitted it with rose lemonade and elderflower juice.
00:17:35Now, I'm sorry to say, no, I'm sorry to have to say this, but has anyone here been shooting
00:17:40ever?
00:17:41Yeah.
00:17:42You have.
00:17:43As you will know, a shooting day is an armed drinks party.
00:17:45There's no place for shit like that.
00:17:48You turn up with elderflower juice at a shoot and the host will shoot you.
00:17:52What?
00:17:53What?
00:17:54Middle Eastern Market.
00:17:55Middle Eastern Market.
00:17:56Oh, she might have a point with that.
00:17:57Could be.
00:17:58Don't come here with your bloody sensible rational views.
00:18:01No, actually, it's funny you should mention the Middle Eastern Market, because they've
00:18:04also done one for fly fishing, which happens in the Yemen.
00:18:07Yeah.
00:18:08It does.
00:18:09And he gets better.
00:18:10And falconry.
00:18:11And falconry's really big in the Middle East.
00:18:12What about dogging?
00:18:13What about dogging?
00:18:14Well, why don't they do one for dogging?
00:18:15It's a countryside pursuit and more people do that than do falconry, don't they?
00:18:31Well, yeah, you're probably right.
00:18:33Well, they should.
00:18:34Well, what would you have in a dogging Bentayga?
00:18:38Well, you'd open the drawers and they'd be like...
00:18:41Wet wipes.
00:18:42Wet wipes.
00:18:43Wet wipes.
00:18:44Straight away.
00:18:45Wet wipes.
00:18:46Good one.
00:18:47Condoms.
00:18:48Yeah.
00:18:49Condoms.
00:18:50Maybe like a camera and a whip or something.
00:18:53No, I reckon on the basis of Bentley thinking that's a shooting chest, that a Bentley dogging
00:18:59Bentayga, they would literally have a blanket, a bowl and a lead.
00:19:06Now, two US Navy aircrew people have been in trouble for using the vapour trail from the
00:19:13back of their fighter jet to paint pictures in the sky.
00:19:17They've got a shot of their work here.
00:19:20Oh, that's good work.
00:19:21It's very neat.
00:19:22It's neatly done.
00:19:23It is neatly done.
00:19:24Now, Vice Admiral Mike Shoemaker, obviously from the US Navy, is not happy about this.
00:19:30He says, immature acts of a sexual nature have no place in naval aviation.
00:19:36Well, I'm sorry, but the plane they were flying when they did that is called the F-18 Growler.
00:19:45If the US Navy is going to call its plane a growler, they can't really complain when the
00:19:51pilots go and make pictures like that in the sky, can they?
00:19:55Well, I know, and to be clear, if you're American and you don't know why we're laughing, it's the same as
00:20:00US troops in Iraq laughed when British soldiers were being transported around in what we call
00:20:06a snatch land room.
00:20:09Hey, you're in a snatch!
00:20:10Yeah, and you're flying around in a growler, so shut up.
00:20:13Anyway, if those two US aircrew do get fired and are bored, you are more than welcome to
00:20:18come on this show any time.
00:20:19We'd love to see you.
00:20:20Yes, you are.
00:20:21We like immature acts of a sexual nature, is that right?
00:20:24We do, yeah.
00:20:25And that's it for Conversation Street this week.
00:20:35Now, there are many unpleasant aspects to modern motoring, such as Peugeots, speed cameras,
00:20:41drive-by shootings, but by far the worst of them, we think, is having to stop to fill up
00:20:46with fuel.
00:20:47No, it is.
00:20:48Yeah, it is.
00:20:49It is a worse thing.
00:20:50It's particularly annoying if the person at the pump in front of you fills and then goes
00:20:53inside to do a weekly shot for a family of seven.
00:20:56Yes.
00:20:57Now, we did some scientific research on this and we discovered that the average motorist
00:21:01spends 36 days of their life filling up with fuel.
00:21:06And that got us thinking, what if you didn't have to stop for petrol at all?
00:21:14In order to crack this problem, we've come here.
00:21:19To the Grand Tour Special High Intensity Test Track.
00:21:23And it's here that we've come up with our ingenious solution to ending the misery of Fuel Stop Fill-Ups.
00:21:33Allow me.
00:21:34Yes, welcome everybody to the world's first vehicle-to-vehicle refueling vehicle.
00:21:46To create this incredible machine, we've taken our inspiration from the world of air-to-air refueling.
00:21:52And it will, quite simply, make petrol stations obsolete.
00:22:01Now, the driver sits up here as normal, but this is where the fuel pump attendant, which in this case is me,
00:22:08sits with all the controls, everything you need for a spot of car-to-car refueling.
00:22:12Absolutely, and we are so pleased with our creation that we are going to let the machine itself do the talking.
00:22:19With a real world.
00:22:21World first.
00:22:23First ever.
00:22:24Yeah, we got that.
00:22:25Inaugural demonstration.
00:22:27Okay, so here I am, on the motorway.
00:22:39Oh no, I need petrol.
00:22:41I'll have made contact with James' refueling vehicle, probably via an app.
00:22:45Or something, there's always an app.
00:22:47We'll get a kid to do that.
00:22:50And there he is now.
00:22:53Here comes my first customer now, down the motorway.
00:22:55I'm going to know it's him who needs my services.
00:22:57There'll be an app or something for that.
00:22:59I've got a range of fuels.
00:23:00Unleaded, super unleaded, diesel.
00:23:03Here we go.
00:23:07Bringing down the fuel-o-meter arm.
00:23:11Now, this tells Richard Hammond how much fuel he's taking on board and how much it's costing.
00:23:16And just as importantly, it gives him a marker where to pull up in relation to the van.
00:23:21It's all been carefully calculated using science and stuff.
00:23:27Pivoting, pivoting.
00:23:30Coming into open filler flap.
00:23:34Already the heady fumes of success are filling my nostrils.
00:23:47Think about it. You're on your way to that meeting.
00:23:49You're not stuck in a petrol station queue.
00:23:51Oh no, because you are a winner.
00:23:53You are going to make that meeting.
00:23:54This is the key to your success.
00:24:00Sorry, think of it as a business opportunity.
00:24:03Car-to-car window replacement.
00:24:05Oh, brilliant.
00:24:09Hold steady, finger extending again.
00:24:19I've got it.
00:24:20Oh, cocking Nora.
00:24:23Yeah, we're nearly there.
00:24:25Having successfully opened the filler flap, it was time for phase two.
00:24:31Unscrewing the fuel cap.
00:24:37Passengers would love this. Think of the kids.
00:24:40I mean, they would love watching this.
00:24:42Fuel cap is removed.
00:24:45Extending fuel nozzle.
00:24:46Holding as steady as I can.
00:24:57Back a little bit.
00:25:01Yeah, there it is.
00:25:05We are pumping.
00:25:07Yeah, we are pumping gas.
00:25:10Oh yeah.
00:25:12It works.
00:25:14Oh shit!
00:25:19What's happened?
00:25:21Hammond Wright, you're on fire!
00:25:23Mail out!
00:25:25Oh no!
00:25:30James, you bloody idiot!
00:25:33Clearly, this system had a couple of issues.
00:25:36So, we reconvened a few days later with a new solution.
00:25:45Okay, second time lucky.
00:25:47We think the problem with the car-to-car refuel was there was a bit too much tech.
00:25:52Too much to go wrong.
00:25:54So, we've scaled back on that front.
00:25:57And there's James now.
00:25:59Red light on.
00:26:01Activating door release.
00:26:07Now, what we're using here is Chinese acrobats from the circus.
00:26:14Circuses get a lot of down time, so that's a win-win all around.
00:26:18They are going to refuel Hammond's car.
00:26:20Watch this.
00:26:22Green lights.
00:26:23Green lights.
00:26:32He's on.
00:26:37I'm not stopped.
00:26:38I just carry on.
00:26:40Look at that.
00:26:41It's like being refuelled by Spider-Man.
00:26:44The genius of this is we've made the petrol pump attendant mobile rather than the petrol pump itself.
00:26:51Much cheaper.
00:26:52It's safer.
00:26:54Right, that chap's pretty much exhausted his supply.
00:26:57Time to send the second man.
00:27:02Okay Hammond, pull up for acrobat number two, please.
00:27:05Righto.
00:27:06Oh.
00:27:08Clearly there were also some flaws in this method.
00:27:23So we went back to the drawing board.
00:27:26And a few days later...
00:27:27Okay, we have had a total grassroots rethink.
00:27:36And, well, fingers crossed, the third time lucky.
00:27:40Check this out, viewers.
00:27:41What this is, is one of those specialist airport vehicles that normally goes around doing, you know, airport-y type stuff.
00:27:56But it also, as you can see, makes a perfect platform for a mobile fuel station.
00:28:01This really is genius.
00:28:06This time.
00:28:09Here we go.
00:28:13Oh, yeah.
00:28:14Ramps going down.
00:28:20Ready to commence docking.
00:28:21Right.
00:28:22I've never done this.
00:28:23I don't know if it's going to work.
00:28:24I'm hoping it does.
00:28:33I'm on!
00:28:35I haven't been killed!
00:28:37There you go.
00:28:38You see no exploding acrobats, no cars having to keep perfect station or anything.
00:28:43Hammond can refuel at leisure.
00:28:45You can even have a cup of coffee.
00:28:49So that's it.
00:28:50My car is refuelled and I haven't stopped my journey.
00:28:53I'm still on my way.
00:28:54Thank you for using fuel port.
00:28:57Please continue to enjoy your journey.
00:29:01Ready for disembarkation.
00:29:03Now, this is a bit tricky.
00:29:10This precision's stuck.
00:29:14Oh, God.
00:29:15Good job Hammond's not the sort of person who has accidents.
00:29:19OK, here we go.
00:29:25And we're off!
00:29:27It only works!
00:29:29Yes!
00:29:33We did something and we did it well!
00:29:36Motorists of the world, you may have your lives back.
00:29:49Welcome.
00:29:50Save the world.
00:29:52Oh, yeah.
00:29:55And I have to say, what staggers me is that even without me helping,
00:30:00because I was in hospital at the time, you managed to get something that worked.
00:30:05No, it worked because you were in hospital.
00:30:08Whatever, you've gifted everybody here another 36 days of life.
00:30:13And not even the baby Jesus could manage that.
00:30:15So, well done you.
00:30:17But we did kill a Chinese man, sorry.
00:30:18Yes, and I think we should take a moment now to remember his sacrifice.
00:30:22And if you killed a man, you can't be impatient.
00:30:23Sorry, I just...
00:30:25I did it.
00:30:27It was all right, we'll gloss over it, we'll gloss over it.
00:30:29It was a short sacrifice, wasn't it?
00:30:30Anyway, listen, it's time now for Celebrity Face Off!
00:30:34Once again, we are asking a big question.
00:30:36And it's this.
00:30:37And it's this.
00:30:38I, I, I, I did it.
00:30:40It was all right, we'll gloss over it, we'll gloss over it.
00:30:42It was a short sacrifice, wasn't it?
00:30:43Anyway, listen, it's time now for some Liberty Face-Off!
00:31:00Once again, we are asking a big question.
00:31:03And it's this.
00:31:05Who is the fastest person in the world who earns a living
00:31:09from punching and strangling other men?
00:31:12To help us find out, please welcome
00:31:14Anthony Joshua and Bill Goldberg!
00:31:24How are you?
00:31:26How the hell are you?
00:31:28How are you?
00:31:29Very well, how are you?
00:31:30How are you, sir?
00:31:31Oh, very well.
00:31:32It's the land of the jobs!
00:31:40Oh, look at that!
00:31:41You can feel the oestrogen, can't you?
00:31:43It's like loose women.
00:31:45Right?
00:31:46And for the first time in my life, I actually feel like a midget.
00:31:50Yeah.
00:31:51Just, no, I mean, this guy, he's, well, you're, but he's...
00:31:55Massive.
00:31:56He's a unit.
00:31:57How tall are you?
00:31:58A unit.
00:32:00He's a unit.
00:32:01He is, but you're what, six?
00:32:02Six-six.
00:32:03Yeah, I think that's just ridiculous, personally.
00:32:05Why?
00:32:06See, I've been hitting the head with chairs too many times.
00:32:08I used to be six-six, I'm only six-three now.
00:32:10The make-up girl was saying she's never seen a head with more scars on it.
00:32:13I'll take that as a couple.
00:32:16I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here, champs, because boxing and wrestling are not,
00:32:21I'm not really an expert in either, so I hope you can guide me through some of the things.
00:32:26You're obviously the boxist, we do know that.
00:32:29One thing that really interests me is, you get hit, obviously.
00:32:32Yeah.
00:32:33How much does it hurt?
00:32:35Do you know what it is?
00:32:36What I've learned, and I was thinking about this the other day.
00:32:39It's like, you know, as an athlete, you can look amazing, be in the best shape,
00:32:44you can be the tallest, the strongest, but it's when you start getting hit,
00:32:47then you start questioning, do I really want to do this?
00:32:49You've fought on with a broken nose, though, haven't you?
00:32:51Yeah, my last fight.
00:32:53My last fight, stronger I am.
00:32:55But it wasn't planned, it's never happened before.
00:32:58You know?
00:33:01Can you break my nose in the second round?
00:33:03Yeah, I thought the ref was going to give me at least five minutes to get myself together,
00:33:06but nah, you all right?
00:33:07Yep, carry on.
00:33:08And that was it.
00:33:09And if I don't carry on, then I lose my titles and so on.
00:33:12You went on and won the fight with a broken nose.
00:33:14Yeah.
00:33:15Just say yes.
00:33:16Yes, I won.
00:33:17I batted him.
00:33:18We had wrestling here, and anyone in the audience who's my age will remember it,
00:33:29and it was largely a sort of fat woman called Shirley would sit on another man's face,
00:33:34and the old women would jump up and down and shout in the audience.
00:33:37It hasn't changed a bit.
00:33:38Is it pre-planned?
00:33:40It's pre-determined.
00:33:41Yes, it is.
00:33:42Yes, it is.
00:33:43Well, I said that on...
00:33:44Hey.
00:33:45Hey, I said that on...
00:33:48I said that on Leno 20 years ago.
00:33:50Okay, okay, okay.
00:33:52But, you know, I like to tell people it's pre-determined, okay?
00:33:55You know who's gonna win.
00:33:56You know who's gonna lose.
00:33:57You know how long the match is supposed to be.
00:33:59But when I wrestled the giant, the big show, he weighed 525 pounds.
00:34:05Yeah.
00:34:06And when I picked him upside down, it didn't mean since it was pre-determined that he was any lighter.
00:34:12It didn't mean when he picked me up and threw me through the ground that it was gonna be softer.
00:34:17Yeah.
00:34:18You know what's gonna happen, but it doesn't decrease the pain.
00:34:21So, you can strangle people, can't you?
00:34:23You can do pretty much anything you like in wrestling.
00:34:24Yeah, that's the best part.
00:34:25I can actually do that in public, too, and get away with it.
00:34:28Whereas you...
00:34:29And I'm like...
00:34:30You can only hit and bite.
00:34:32I can't bite, because the Tyson bit...
00:34:34Tyson bit?
00:34:35He was a bitey person.
00:34:37The Luis Suarez.
00:34:38He was an exception, though.
00:34:39He was in a league of his own.
00:34:40He was an animal.
00:34:41He was an animal.
00:34:42Now, one of the things that fascinates me about both your disciplines of fighting is the amount you have to eat, the amount of calories you have to bung in every day.
00:34:49When I got the phone call last year to go back to wrestling for the first time in 12 years, I had to cover a lot of ground very quickly.
00:34:56So, I had to eat as much as humanly possible, and I had to train as much as humanly possible.
00:35:01I'd eat 15,000 to 20,000 calories a day, and I'd train three times a day.
00:35:05But 15... I mean, the thing is, we've got some...
00:35:07That's a lot.
00:35:08Do you eat that much?
00:35:09I can't compete with that.
00:35:10That's amazing.
00:35:11That's dedication in the sense.
00:35:12A request from the girls in the office, actually, for photographs of you without clothes on, basically that.
00:35:16I eat a lot, but I don't look like that.
00:35:20LAUGHTER
00:35:22I was explaining to the girls in the office, though, that you've both got penises like button mushrooms, so...
00:35:27LAUGHTER
00:35:29How'd he know?
00:35:31LAUGHTER
00:35:32Just really.
00:35:33Can we talk about cars?
00:35:35This being a car show.
00:35:36Yes.
00:35:37Please.
00:35:38Now, you both started with General Motors.
00:35:41You, I think we've got a picture of it, with a Pontiac Trans Am.
00:35:45Is that what you started with?
00:35:46Yes, yes, yes.
00:35:47That's what he started with.
00:35:48And you started with a General Motors car, which was a Vauxhall Astra.
00:35:51LAUGHTER
00:35:52Nice!
00:35:53You like it?
00:35:54It's almost like if somebody said, what's the difference, then, between America and Britain?
00:35:58I mean, you speak the same language.
00:35:59Well, there it is.
00:36:00There it is.
00:36:01The Astra and the Trans Am.
00:36:02There it is.
00:36:03And you both modified cars.
00:36:05To a certain degree.
00:36:06To a certain degree.
00:36:07To an extreme degree.
00:36:08It was one of yours.
00:36:09He put an 800 horsepower NASCAR motor in.
00:36:11Anthony, you modified your Astra because you put a DVD player in it.
00:36:15LAUGHTER
00:36:17This is slightly different.
00:36:19And then, after that...
00:36:21What I can say is, if he beats me on the lap, I'm killing myself by jumping through that window.
00:36:26Just to say, after that, you really haven't got anything in common with cars at all.
00:36:30I mean, it's just, it's extraordinary.
00:36:32It really is.
00:36:33Have either of you ever crashed?
00:36:34Have you crashed?
00:36:35Oh, yes, absolutely.
00:36:36A few times.
00:36:37Maybe.
00:36:38What's your best crash?
00:36:39There is an old story about since we drove a Jaguar today.
00:36:42My brother is a car collector.
00:36:45And he had an XKE that I just absolutely love.
00:36:47But he wouldn't let me drive the XKE a lot.
00:36:50And back in 85, when Fort Lauderdale, Florida was the place to go for spring break,
00:36:56he leaves one night and says, whatever you do, don't take the Jag to Fort Lauderdale.
00:37:01Well...
00:37:02What do you think I did, ladies and gentlemen?
00:37:04LAUGHTER
00:37:05Fast forward a little bit, we're looking for a parking space,
00:37:07and the buddy in the back seat proceeds to open the door to jump out and find a parking space,
00:37:12and simultaneously a motorcyclist came by and flipped over the door and bent it backwards.
00:37:17And so...
00:37:18That serves them right for being on a motorcycle.
00:37:20LAUGHTER
00:37:21So, have you ever crashed one?
00:37:23It's not as crazy as that.
00:37:25Just me and my cousin, you know, I went and got my little DVD player from Wembley Market,
00:37:29if anyone knows that, you know.
00:37:30A little £50 DVD player, but it was life to me, so we bought the CDs that you just...
00:37:35You could watch your little hip-hop music videos and stuff, so we're cruising,
00:37:40and mysteriously, someone placed a car in front of me at a traffic light.
00:37:44LAUGHTER
00:37:46How did that happen?
00:37:48I've looked down for a split second.
00:37:50Yeah.
00:37:51LAUGHTER
00:37:52Bang.
00:37:53Straight into the back.
00:37:54Yeah, but the DVD player on the insurance form wasn't on, was it?
00:37:57It wasn't on, that was fine.
00:37:59It definitely wasn't on.
00:38:00But we lived to tell the story.
00:38:01It definitely wasn't on.
00:38:02Now, I'm afraid, and we're going to part you, Anthony, just for a second,
00:38:05because your collection of cars now, Bill, is simply unbelievable.
00:38:09I mean, I've got the list.
00:38:11Let me see.
00:38:12We're not talking about, you know, we're not talking about mini-Metros here.
00:38:15LAUGHTER
00:38:16I mean, we start back in 1946 with the Willis Jeep, the Chevy Biscay,
00:38:19the Ford Thunderbird, Dodge 330, the Cobra Replica, Mercury Truck,
00:38:24Plymouth GTX, Plymouth GTX Convertible, Dodge Heavy Charger,
00:38:27Chevy Blazer, GTO, Pontiac Trans Am Pro Tourer racing car,
00:38:31Dodge Ram, Cadillac Escalade, F250, Dodge Challenger Hellcat,
00:38:35Charger Hellcat.
00:38:36Why haven't you got any European cars, which are vastly superior?
00:38:39There's a Porsche 911 Turbo.
00:38:41Oh, yes, there is.
00:38:4292 Turbo.
00:38:43I've had a couple Ferrari.
00:38:44So you've got a Volkswagen Beetle and no other European cars.
00:38:48LAUGHTER
00:38:49But I think you're just being racist, frankly, with your choice of cars here,
00:38:52because this is just so American.
00:38:54Right, we're going to talk about your laps.
00:38:56How was it out there?
00:38:57It's not easy.
00:38:58It was fun, though.
00:38:59You say it's not easy.
00:39:00Would anyone like to see a clip of Anthony finding it not easy?
00:39:04LAUGHTER
00:39:05OK, this is the last corner.
00:39:06It's a 90 right, OK?
00:39:08And here comes Anthony not making it look easy.
00:39:10Oh, great.
00:39:11That is a wide line through there, Anthony.
00:39:12So you saw what I did and tried to copy it, right?
00:39:14Yeah.
00:39:15Well, it's funny you should say that.
00:39:16APPLAUSE
00:39:17You know they say everything is bigger and more impressive when it's American than if it's British.
00:39:33Would you like the clip?
00:39:34Yes, exactly.
00:39:35That's a serious piece.
00:39:38Oh, no!
00:39:40Yes!
00:39:41That is, um...
00:39:51Screw up, screw up big time.
00:39:53Oh, that was a...
00:39:54But it's interesting that both of you went off on that.
00:39:56Nobody's had trouble with that corner before.
00:39:57Nobody's had trouble with that corner before.
00:39:58No, but then both of you.
00:39:59It's like...
00:40:00It was the only last corner to make up time for all our screw-ups.
00:40:03It is.
00:40:04I'm trying to work out whose lap we're going to see first.
00:40:06I think let's start off with, let's see Bill's.
00:40:09Let's have a look at Bill's lap.
00:40:11Ugh.
00:40:12Anthony Joshua, you're next, motherfucker.
00:40:14LAUGHTER
00:40:15And there he goes.
00:40:20He is underway.
00:40:22Looking good.
00:40:23Ooh, cutting the corner nicely.
00:40:25Now, I should slow through here a little bit.
00:40:27First time I've ever been on the right-hand side, by the way.
00:40:29The correct side.
00:40:30And now, as we go onto the gravel, it starts to get very loose here as you enter the...
00:40:34First time I've ever been on the gravel, also.
00:40:36Yeah.
00:40:37Yeah.
00:40:38That's actually very tightly dunked off.
00:40:40Drive like a f***ing old lady around here.
00:40:43LAUGHTER
00:40:44Yeah, and...
00:40:45Oh, actually, it's not particularly quick through there.
00:40:47I was told you were very fast on the tarmac, but not brilliantly quick on the gravel.
00:40:52Well, I could have told you that.
00:40:53LAUGHTER
00:40:54Now it gets really slippery when you rejoin the tarmac.
00:40:58That is an amazing line through there.
00:41:00It's actually probably quite sensible.
00:41:02Amazingly good or bad?
00:41:03Yeah, well, I think that's quite a good idea, because you get more speed into that corner.
00:41:05Now we're on the straight.
00:41:06Let's see if I got some balls and stay in this.
00:41:09Oh, that's quick.
00:41:11Are we quick?
00:41:12That does look flat through there.
00:41:14And now coming up to the tricky last corner.
00:41:16Well, tricky for you two.
00:41:17LAUGHTER
00:41:18And, yep, there he is, and across the line, everybody!
00:41:22That was nice.
00:41:23APPLAUSE
00:41:29Who'd like to see Anthony's lap?
00:41:31Yeah!
00:41:32Let's have a look.
00:41:37Was there any ice out there with your ground?
00:41:38Right, that sound.
00:41:39Come on!
00:41:40Give me some power.
00:41:42They've all been dry pretty much so far.
00:41:44You see?
00:41:45It looks nice and smooth round there, but trust me.
00:41:47Yeah, it is with you driving.
00:41:48You're going fast round there.
00:41:50Right, now we're about to head on to the gravel.
00:41:53You see, you pick up speed here all of a sudden, for no reason that anyone can understand.
00:41:58Exuberant through there.
00:41:59Oh!
00:42:00No!
00:42:01Yes!
00:42:03You look like you're enjoying yourself.
00:42:05That's what matters.
00:42:06Yeah, and he's enjoying himself through there as well.
00:42:09Kicking the tail out to go into the difficult bit too.
00:42:12And again!
00:42:13God, this is impressive stuff.
00:42:14Cars looking very tidy, got to be honest.
00:42:17And now...
00:42:19Yep!
00:42:20Tighter line.
00:42:21Tighter line through there.
00:42:22Now on the left, and then we're back on the straight.
00:42:25And it's supposed to be front all the way to the last corner.
00:42:28Yeah!
00:42:29Let's go!
00:42:32Looking quick, looking very...
00:42:33Oh, my God!
00:42:34That was leaning on it.
00:42:35It was leaning on it there.
00:42:36And now we're coming up to the last corner.
00:42:38Yes!
00:42:39And there we are, everyone!
00:42:40He's made it too!
00:42:41APPLAUSE
00:42:42That's brilliant.
00:42:43Right.
00:42:44I have the times.
00:42:45Act like you don't care.
00:42:46I'm in anticipation.
00:42:47Bill Goldberg.
00:42:48Oh!
00:42:49One.
00:42:50Twenty.
00:42:51Point four.
00:42:52So that's...
00:42:53Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:42:54Sorry.
00:42:55No.
00:42:56No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:42:57No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:42:58No.
00:42:59Well, there's one who doesn't care.
00:43:00Don't care.
00:43:01I mean to say…
00:43:0220.4 so that's
00:43:07good thing about you two is you're not competitive Anthony Joshua 1 18
00:43:32right now over the years there have been many titanic battles in the world of
00:43:57motorsport many great duels you've had hunt versus laudy you've had
00:44:01prost versus seni you've had the ford gt40 versus the ferraris at le mans but my
00:44:07favorite battle of them all is this one
00:44:21back in 1977 audi was developing this four-wheel drive vehicle for the german military
00:44:29but they had a bit of a thought they wondered if its four-wheel drive system could be made to work
00:44:36in an ordinary family car
00:44:42and so under the cover of darkness at a quarry in a remote corner of germany
00:44:47they began secret tests
00:44:49and straight away it was obvious that with all four wheels being driven the family car had an
00:44:56enormous amount of grip
00:45:00this meant it could go around corners on loose surfaces like that much faster
00:45:06and that they reckoned would make it good at rallying
00:45:15but there was a problem what i've got here is the 1979 motor racing rule book it's the most boring
00:45:23book in the world but whatever here on page 8 million article 2 says that in rallying four-wheel drive
00:45:31cars will not be admitted
00:45:36audi however had thought about that and dispatched a man to paris to a meeting of the sports governing body
00:45:43to try and get the rule changed
00:45:47he was very clever because he waited for the meeting to be finished everyone
00:45:51pulling on their hats and coats and then he went oh god sorry one more thing um
00:45:55um this rule about um four-wheel drive being banned in rallying is it okay if we uh
00:46:00we get rid of that and everyone said well obviously he wants to enter his
00:46:04silly little army lorry and something or other so they all went yes yes whatever
00:46:08and went home three years later this is what happened
00:46:18the four-wheel drive quattro is all-conquering and the audi has been proved master of all conditions
00:46:24superior power and traction with a turbocharged four-wheel drive audi is too much
00:46:29beyond valdegaard has wasted no time improving the dominance of the four-wheel drive quattro
00:46:34hanu mikkula has scored a tremendous victory
00:46:38quattros hold all the aces first second and third
00:46:44audi won the world championship in 1982 with this very car actually and from that moment on
00:46:50everyone knew that to win in rallying you had to have four-wheel drive well when i say everyone
00:47:06this was lancia's answer to the quattro the two-wheel drive 037
00:47:21i've got a bit of a soft spot for all old lanciers but in this it's not soft
00:47:35this is everything i was expecting it to be pops bangs lumpy petrol a dashboard dominated by this
00:47:52enormous and very well used ashtray completely italian
00:48:01honestly it is dainty as a dandelion seed caught in a summer breeze and as agile
00:48:08as a water boatman i mean that was oh that was just glorious through there glorious
00:48:17it feels highly strung feels like a thoroughbred it's fast as well
00:48:29oh wow what a thing this is
00:48:34on a dry track then or in a beauty contest the 037 would thrash the quattro any day of the week
00:48:42but in the rough and tumble crash bang wallop world of rallying not a chance
00:48:50what's more audi was backed by the industrial might of volkswagen
00:48:55it was efficient and organized this was the team boss roland gumpers look at it a hands-on bearded german
00:49:04doctor of engineering
00:49:09lancia's team boss meanwhile well he was a bit different
00:49:15his name was cesare fioreo and he liked girls and powerboat racing
00:49:20also he was running a team staffed by italians
00:49:24on a shoestring
00:49:25and then there were the drivers
00:49:29audi had hanu mikkola and stig blongfist and michelle newton
00:49:36who had won 21 rallies between them
00:49:39quattro was the car on everybody's lips you know in rally business
00:49:45and of course we were developing the car all the time it was getting better and better
00:49:49with a well-funded you know and that time it was a big team
00:49:57lancia meanwhile had marco alan and walter rawl who was brilliant but said he didn't want to
00:50:03compete in every event and didn't want to be world champion i told him listen i want
00:50:11to win monte carlo i like corsica i like acropoli i like new zealand i like uh sanremo i only do
00:50:24this five or six beautiful rallies and nothing more i am not interested to win any more the world
00:50:31championship title i want to be a normal man not something special and and if we are always in the
00:50:38in the newspaper and everywhere of course you never you're never alone because people standing in
00:50:43front of a house and and i don't like so audi had four-wheel drive a proven car a team staffed by
00:50:53germans a hands-on boss and a squad of world-class drivers who are motivated and on it lancia meanwhile
00:51:02had a budget of three pound 75 two-wheel drive a powerboating playboy at the helm and a part-time
00:51:09driver and didn't want to be world champion however lancia did have one ace up its sleeve they'd been
00:51:20in rallying for ages they'd won the championship four times with cars like the fulvia and then the
00:51:26stratos so although their powerboating team boss looked like a playboy he knew all the tricks
00:51:35for example the rules said that before you could enter a car in a rally you had to build at least
00:51:40400 examples which could be sold as road cars to customers
00:51:48now obviously when officials from the sports governing body turn up to check you've done that
00:51:54they are going to notice if you've only made 200
00:52:01so you say yes but you see this car park was full so the other 200 are in a car park on the other side
00:52:10of town and then you say let's go and count those now and on the way why don't we stop off for a spot
00:52:18of lunch you then make sure the lunch goes on for a very long time you have a starter a main course
00:52:27so turn it into candles for three days got into poor pudding cheese well when i say reverse career
00:52:34backwards mints more cheese shame to waste the bottle and then afterwards you take them to another car
00:52:43park which contains miraculously the other 200 cars
00:52:50then you have the cars themselves the rules say they must be fitted with roll cages but roll cages are
00:52:58heavy they'll slow you down so why not use something like this instead it looks like a roll cage it would
00:53:04pass a visual inspection every day of the week but actually it's made from cardboard look
00:53:16i'm not saying lancia actually did that but if you examine these crashed 037s you can see they weren't
00:53:23exactly strong my family and my friends around me said listen why you signed for lunch this car is so
00:53:36dangerous if you see these thin tubes and these plastic things if you if you went off then it's maybe
00:53:44the last accident you have and i answer listen i i am not planning to have an accident however despite
00:53:52lantia's experience and jazari's cunning no one expected them to do well in the first round of the
00:53:581983 championship which was held in the freezing mountains above monte carlo
00:54:07we were very much afraid about this rally because you can find a lot of snow ice slippery conditions
00:54:15where of course a mid-engine car with real wheel traction is not the best idea so whilst audi prepared
00:54:25for the event by fettling its cars lancia got ready by going to the supermarket
00:54:33here they bought all the salt they could lay their hands on
00:54:37they then sprinkled this on the difficult corners so that by the time their car came along
00:54:45the ice was gone
00:54:49and they weren't finished there we have been also pushing local authorities taking care of the french
00:54:57roads say oh there's a lot of ice on that road it's very dangerous for spectators and for the
00:55:03drivers with all this ice oh yes and so they went and they and they cleaned up the the the route that
00:55:10was fantastic they also had another trick up their sleeve after the icy stages were over the lancia
00:55:21stopped in the middle of the stage so the winter tires could be changed
00:55:25now there was nothing in the rules that said you could do this but critically there was nothing that
00:55:33said you couldn't if you want to compete in motorsport you must know the rules you have to face
00:55:40the gray zones of the rules and it's always a big fight but you must try to be a bit clever
00:55:49the result in monte carlo then was the exact opposite of what everyone had been expecting
00:55:55four-wheel drive and 340 turbocharged horsepower are just not enough it's audi sadness lancia joy
00:56:03the two-wheel drive lance is on a rally famed for its slippery conditions finished first and second
00:56:14for the next event of the year in sweden there wasn't enough
00:56:19it's not enough salt in the world to get rid of all the snow and ice so lancia solved the problem
00:56:29by simply not turning up at all
00:56:35audi therefore scored a one two here and three weeks later they did the same thing again in portugal
00:56:43and after more successes in east africa it looked like audi were running away with it
00:56:52but then the whole circus moved to corsica where almost all of the stages are held on dry smooth
00:56:59tarmac everyone expected the nimble two-wheel drive lancius to pick up a load of points here
00:57:06but nobody could have predicted how many they were going to pick up
00:57:13usually lancia turned up at an event with two or three cars but here they arrived with four
00:57:20which meant that if they ran faultlessly which they did the best audi could hope for was fifth
00:57:26and thanks to mechanical failures they didn't even get fat
00:57:35with our speed it's just like holiday
00:57:39so lancia with its salt and its tire changing antics and its
00:57:43flexible approach to how many cars were in the team was back on top of the leaderboard
00:57:49but then the whole circus moved to the roughest and toughest event on the european calendar
00:57:57greece
00:58:00here everyone knew the rough roads would cause mechanical issues
00:58:04there would be breakdowns and there were but amazingly they were all loudies
00:58:10for lancia it's an impressive victory roll is again driven superbly
00:58:21and i won acropoli in the lancia it was a result i never expect that we even can come to the finish
00:58:29because i was thinking maybe the lancia is too too light to to stay in one piece for for for greece
00:58:35the year wore on with both teams always in contention for the championship
00:58:45but then it was time for everyone to head for the bumpy hell of finland
00:58:49and lancia had a problem walter roll refused to go
00:58:55i didn't like to go to finland because i i don't like jumps
00:59:00because you know if i want to fly i would be a pilot but not sitting in a car that's no way
00:59:16because of his no-show audi won easily
00:59:29however with only three rounds left it was mathematically possible for lancia to win
00:59:34the world championship in san remo
00:59:37and that's something they really wanted to do because san remo well that's italy they'd be winning
00:59:45it in front of their home crowd to do that they'd have to deal with the main feature of the san remo rally
00:59:54dust it's thrown up by a car and a minute later when the next one comes along
01:00:00it's still there which makes seeing where you're going a bit tricky
01:00:06to try and make everything better they fitted a team van with brushes and sent it up the course
01:00:13but this didn't really work so the drivers came up with a cunning alternative
01:00:22on one stage a minute after the german car had set off and the lancia was supposed to go
01:00:27so it didn't move
01:00:32so the starter went over to see what was wrong i'm really sorry my belt it's i don't know how
01:00:38it's happened it's come undone i know i should i should have done this before we came to the star
01:00:43line it's my bad really oh no they've all come undone i feel like such an idiot i just need to
01:00:48by the time the problem had been solved the dust luckily had all gone all right we're good to go now
01:00:54oh no the door oh there it is annoyingly the officials quickly put a stop to this boss hoggery
01:01:06so if lancia was going to win here on gravel it would all be down to the skill of the driver
01:01:12and boy did walter rawl rise to the occasion looking back in my career it was maybe my best really in
01:01:21my life i have done it was just like like a dream when i was just thinking i want to to cut this corner
01:01:32don't lose 10 centimeters of road the car was going exactly on this point and it was flowing it was just
01:01:43nobody can beat me and then there was the magnificent o37 itself
01:01:49driving a launcher it's a perfect thing because it it's doing exactly what you want it's like my like
01:01:59my my shoe it fits so perfectly if i just think it should do this one it has done it
01:02:08with man and machine in such perfect harmony rule won a staggering 33 of the 58 stages the team scored a
01:02:19one two three and as a result they won the world championship
01:02:26david had beaten the four-wheel drive goliath and no two-wheel drive car would ever do that again
01:02:38so
01:02:58great story really good story
01:03:02what i'm just wondering though did
01:03:04did a lancia driver win the drivers world championship that year well no because walter
01:03:10roll didn't want to no no the other bloke no marco allen mathematically he could have won the
01:03:14driver's championship but after they won the constructors championship in san remo there lancia
01:03:20then they didn't bother going to the last two events they just didn't go so he couldn't win that
01:03:24must be pretty frustrating if you're a if you're a professional racing driver it would be the same as
01:03:28mercedes formula one team winning the constructors championship last year in texas and then say we're not going to go to the last
01:03:34three races there's got lewis hudson well i'm sorry we've won and that's all we're bothered about but
01:03:38i tell you what makes me sad is that the way that lancia has pretty much vanished oh i know audi is
01:03:45now enormous and lance is shriveled up to the point where it only makes one pretty terrible car if we're
01:03:50honest and it only sells it in italy it is it's heartbreaking and on that terrible disappointment and
01:03:55for once it really is a terrible disappointment it's time to end thank you so much for watching goodbye
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