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In Season 15 Episode 5, the presenters face off in unique challenges: a sports car drag race against snowmobiles, and a special tribute to the late Ayrton Senna, exploring his legacy in motorsport. Guest Tom Cruise appears as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
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00:00:00Tonight, Cameron Diaz in our reasonably priced car.
00:00:15I repeat, Cameron Diaz in our reasonably priced car.
00:00:20Size dick totally f***ing up.
00:00:22And she's brought Tom Cruise along.
00:00:30Hello, hello and welcome.
00:00:37That is later.
00:00:39That is later.
00:00:40But now, we start once again with a letter.
00:00:45It's from some Swedish youths and it says,
00:00:48Dear Top Gear, we are some Swedish youths
00:00:51and we've been given the run of a whole ski resort for a weekend.
00:00:57Do you erase fancy having?
00:01:00Plainly, this was a job for Richard Herring.
00:01:07This is Rick Scranson, the world's northernmost ski resort,
00:01:13120 miles inside the Arctic Circle.
00:01:17It's so far north that the ski season doesn't finish here until June,
00:01:22when the rest of us are on the beach.
00:01:24I'm here to defend the honour of the car against some extreme snowmobilers
00:01:29who are so extreme, they're still in bed.
00:01:33Still, meanwhile, let's meet the car I've chosen to take them on with.
00:01:36It's the Volkswagen Touareg, a big off-roader that for many years we've absolutely hated.
00:01:48We tested it when it first came out, seven years ago.
00:01:51And we didn't like a lot of things about it.
00:01:53We didn't like the ride.
00:01:54We didn't like the gear box.
00:01:57We didn't like the fact that you couldn't see out of the back.
00:02:00We didn't like the ridiculous thirst.
00:02:01And we didn't like the fact that some of the design felt like they'd done the most un-German thing possible.
00:02:07A half-assed job.
00:02:08But this is the brand-new Touareg.
00:02:15And already I can report many improvements.
00:02:18You can, for instance, see out of the back.
00:02:21The ride is much smoother.
00:02:24The gearbox, the old one, changed according to a geological timescale.
00:02:29This new eight-speed affair is a big improvement.
00:02:32The Touareg also looks more golf-like than the old one.
00:02:39And besides the full off-road hardware, standard kit includes sat-nav, electric leather seats, climate control, and a 10-speaker stereo system.
00:02:51But we've come here to race, so none of that's important right now.
00:02:56What is important is that the new Touareg weighs 200 kilograms less than the old one.
00:03:03Which makes it altogether more sprightly.
00:03:07This is a 3.5-litre V6 turbo diesel.
00:03:11Costs 37,000 pounds.
00:03:12Not a 60 in 7.8 seconds, so it's faster than the old one.
00:03:17Top speed, 136 miles an hour, so you're better off there too.
00:03:20All in all, I think this is the machine to take the snowmobilers on in a big race.
00:03:28Which, as they're still in bed playing computer games, will happen tomorrow.
00:03:32So, race day.
00:03:43And I'll confess, I went to bed last night full of confidence.
00:03:46And then, in the middle of the night, I sort of got cold feet about it.
00:03:50So I got up, got dressed, came downstairs, and I made this.
00:03:54It's still a Touareg, but one built to take on the infamous Dakar, the toughest rally in the world.
00:04:04With a carbon fiber body, bionic suspension, and a twin-turbo 300 horsepower diesel engine,
00:04:11it can do 130 miles an hour over just about any terrain.
00:04:17It's also the first diesel ever to win the Dakar.
00:04:21Which is odd, given that I built it only last night.
00:04:24But no matter.
00:04:27I think this is probably the better tool to see off those snowmobilers,
00:04:31who have finally emerged.
00:04:36They are Daniel Bodine and Dan Lang.
00:04:40Local snowmobile legends, whose racing skills have won them silver medals at the X Games.
00:04:49Best let them get it out of their system.
00:04:51Eventually, the teenagers calmed down long enough for me to explain the race route across the ski resort.
00:05:00Right, we're going to start from here, and then we're going to move around here, sweep around there, down there,
00:05:05and then eventually we'll end up, I thought we'll finish with a sprint across the ice lake.
00:05:09End up, finish line at the ski shop.
00:05:12So, that's 12 grueling miles down ski slopes, through forests, and across frozen water.
00:05:22Yeah? Happy?
00:05:24Yeah.
00:05:24Okay.
00:05:24Fire with up.
00:05:25Good.
00:05:25Um, where is here, exactly?
00:05:28It's up there.
00:05:29All right, fair enough.
00:05:46Well, um, I guess, three, two, one, go.
00:05:50All right, come on.
00:06:020 to 60 in this.
00:06:04How about six seconds?
00:06:06This thing has more torque than a Lamborghini Gallardo.
00:06:10Have they got that?
00:06:11No.
00:06:11We plunged out of the clouds, neck and neck.
00:06:20I have taken the precaution of fitting it with studded snow tyres.
00:06:25Obviously, I did that.
00:06:31Come on, find the grip.
00:06:36Finally, where are they?
00:06:38The snowmobile has promptly vanished, because whilst I had to stick to the ski runs, they didn't.
00:07:03Come on, you've crossed the desert, you can do this.
00:07:05As it turned out, the Dakar was as fast on snow as it would be on sand.
00:07:14Oh, yes, that worked.
00:07:17All right, thank you.
00:07:18So when I hit the lower slopes, we were still neck and neck.
00:07:22I then decided to take a shortcut, which went well.
00:07:37Oh!
00:07:38Oh!
00:07:39This is going to cost me time!
00:07:45Move, move, move!
00:07:46Despite my cock-up, I was just ahead as we entered the forest stage.
00:08:01Yeah-ha-ha!
00:08:03Keep up with that, then, boys!
00:08:06But the teenagers were able to whiz off between the trees.
00:08:10Oh!
00:08:11Come on!
00:08:12Come on, where the hell are they?
00:08:18Which meant they had the lead as we reached the final part of the race.
00:08:25A six-mile dash across the frozen lake.
00:08:30Oh, treat.
00:08:32Come on, come on!
00:08:33Yes!
00:08:36Yes!
00:08:37Finally!
00:08:38I've got a top speed of the best part of 130 miles an hour.
00:08:42This is where I have the advantage.
00:08:46But up ahead, the snowmobilers could still hit 90 miles an hour.
00:08:50So I'd have to give it everything to close the gap.
00:08:53Come on!
00:08:57This is where the races weren't all lost.
00:09:01This has got some grip.
00:09:03With less than four miles to go, the snowmobilers were still ahead.
00:09:19But then, joy of joys, the snow on the ice started to thin out.
00:09:26Their machines will have problems on this, because the belts themselves overheat running
00:09:35on straight ice, so they can't give it everything.
00:09:39And sure enough, they started slowing down.
00:09:42I'm going to catch them!
00:09:47That's them!
00:09:50That's them!
00:09:51Oh yes!
00:09:52Oh yes!
00:09:53What do you think of that?
00:09:55The snow on the lake thickened again, and the snowmobilers were back in the game.
00:10:08But now the Tuareg had the edge.
00:10:10That, I think, is the finish line.
00:10:13That's it!
00:10:14This thing has conquered sand and deserts, now it's conquered snow, mountains and frozen
00:10:20lakes.
00:10:21I'm going to win!
00:10:23Yes!
00:10:24Yes!
00:10:25Yes!
00:10:26Ha ha!
00:10:27Ha!
00:10:28Ha!
00:10:29I did it!
00:10:30It's run through!
00:10:32What a machine!
00:10:33You've got to be...
00:10:40What?
00:10:41Did you win that?
00:10:42Yes!
00:10:43Did you, did you win that?
00:10:53Yes, yes, I'll admit they did finish with a bit more of a flourish thing there, but I won.
00:10:59I'm not really interested in whether you won or not, I'm interested in that bit where
00:11:03they said that their tracks on their snowmobiles got hot because they were running on ice.
00:11:08Yes.
00:11:09And they told you that.
00:11:10Yeah, they do, it's the friction, ice generates a lot of friction,
00:11:13so they heat up, but if you slide over ice in your clothes, they'll actually burn off you.
00:11:18Did they also tell you things like Jimi Hendrix was in ABBA?
00:11:21No, it's, did they say that a Volvo 244 holds the lap record at the Nürburgring?
00:11:27No, no, stop it, it's true, and you know full well it is, let's just do the news, okay?
00:11:31No, because what I'm going to do now is put a piece of ice down the front of your trousers
00:11:34to see, to see if it sets fire to your gentleman's sausage.
00:11:37No, I'm not saying that ice is hot, it's just ice can create a lot of friction.
00:11:43This is science, and you don't understand that, so leave it, it's true, okay?
00:11:49Yes.
00:11:49Yeah.
00:11:50Anyway, let's do the news.
00:11:51Oh, now, hey, this is an important piece of news, I really want to bring this up.
00:11:54A lot of people imagine the most dangerous time of year to drive is November, or perhaps
00:11:59February, dark nights, fog, ice, but we were talking about this the other day, and we think
00:12:04the most dangerous time to drive a car is round about now, sunny skies, light breezes,
00:12:10girls wearing short skirts.
00:12:12It's dangerous, very dangerous.
00:12:14Because the thing is, you can't not look.
00:12:16No, I mean, you actually can't.
00:12:17You can't physically not look.
00:12:19You have no choice.
00:12:20Other things you can choose not to do, it's easy not to use your mobile phone, it's easy
00:12:25not to drive home when you've had 18 pints of lager, but you're driving along and there's
00:12:29a gun, mustn't look, mustn't look, I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm still looking.
00:12:33Do you have any idea what we're on about?
00:12:36I drove through Soho the other night, honestly, you know Linda Blair in the air, she's just
00:12:41spinning round, crashing into lampposts and letterboxes and other cars.
00:12:46But it's impossible not to.
00:12:48The thing is, we know that Jermaine Greer is actually an avid viewer of Top Gear.
00:12:52Is she?
00:12:53No, she really is.
00:12:54She really is.
00:12:55In your mind.
00:12:56No, she is.
00:12:57Anyway, so you will be annoyed about this, but the fact is, what we're trying to say
00:13:00is that we can't help it.
00:13:01It's natural.
00:13:02I mean, in the last three days, I've nearly had two quite serious accidents on the back
00:13:06of a taxi.
00:13:06Even James May is susceptible to it.
00:13:08Even though, you know, it was.
00:13:10That's brilliant.
00:13:10Yeah, but it was road work as he was looking at.
00:13:14Actually, do you not think there is here a case for the Birkin?
00:13:18Ah.
00:13:18Because the problem goes away.
00:13:20No, no, no, no, honestly, honestly, the Birkin doesn't work.
00:13:23It doesn't work.
00:13:24Because I was in a cab in Piccadilly the other day, okay?
00:13:26A woman in a full burka crossing the road in front of me, or in front of the cab, tripped
00:13:30over the sort of pavement, went head over heels.
00:13:33Face over apex.
00:13:34Yeah.
00:13:34And up it came, red G-string, stockings.
00:13:39Mate, that did not happen.
00:13:41I promise.
00:13:43No, it didn't happen.
00:13:43Did you see this incident on DVD or pay-per-view?
00:13:49Because it didn't happen.
00:13:51The taxi driver will back me up on that.
00:13:55He was in the cinema with you.
00:13:58That never happened.
00:13:59It did.
00:14:00Next week, Jeremy visits a hospital, and a nurse's top falls off.
00:14:03In Jeremy's mind.
00:14:07Now, normally, okay, normally I wouldn't bring this up, but Citroen UK has appointed a new
00:14:12sales director, okay?
00:14:14And his name is Charles Peugeot.
00:14:17No, it isn't.
00:14:18No, then what?
00:14:20I have photographic proof from Citroen, Charles Peugeot.
00:14:24It is.
00:14:25What were they thinking?
00:14:27What's his email address going to be?
00:14:28Charles.peugeot at Citroen.
00:14:32Stupid.
00:14:33Hang on, hang on.
00:14:34What if there are lots of people called Charles Peugeot working in Citroen, so he ends up
00:14:38being Charles...
00:14:39Charles.peugeot405.
00:14:45Sorry, it wasn't worth it.
00:14:53Hey.
00:14:53Hey, now, as we know, there's a lot of chat around at the moment about cars that can run
00:14:58on biofuels, or on electricity, or on hydrogen, okay?
00:15:04But we were wondering, I wonder if it'd be possible to make a car that ran on cheese and
00:15:08onion crisps, corned beef salad.
00:15:12And do you know what?
00:15:13We've found a Porsche, or rather, Hammond has, that can.
00:15:18This is it.
00:15:19And the first thing you'll notice is it's covered in this space-age foil stuff.
00:15:25Back here, there's this massive wing, all very traditional Porsche.
00:15:29But under here, nothing.
00:15:33Because this is the first mid-engine 911.
00:15:37And what an engine it is.
00:15:38So right now, it's running on Frosties and one of those chocolatey croissant things.
00:15:58And a half a cup of coffee.
00:15:59But it could equally run on fish and chips I had last night, or a big bag of quavers.
00:16:04Really, anything that the driver can eat.
00:16:09Okay, first corner coming up.
00:16:12Good thing about this, of course.
00:16:14Plenty of time to be precise about your lines.
00:16:16It's amazing.
00:16:22It's absolutely superb.
00:16:25Fabulous.
00:16:26It is a completely convincing 911, isn't it?
00:16:30It was made in Austria.
00:16:31Sadly, it is a one-off.
00:16:33It lives in a museum now.
00:16:34But it's fabulous, and I did do a whole rap in it.
00:16:37And what was your time?
00:16:38Well, I did it in 18 minutes and 37 seconds.
00:16:43Yeah, I did that.
00:16:45Go, go.
00:16:47Oh, go, go, go.
00:16:50It's down here.
00:16:52It's down here.
00:16:53Yeah.
00:16:54Well done.
00:17:00Now, since we're on the subject of the lapboard,
00:17:01we thought we would take a moment to share some happy memories of an old friend.
00:17:13If you look back at all the amazing things we've done with the Bugatti Veyra,
00:17:19you could be forgiven for thinking it's the fastest car on the planet.
00:17:24The fact is, though, it isn't, you see,
00:17:30because this car will do 253 miles per hour.
00:17:34But there's now a car in America called the Shelby Ultimate Aero
00:17:38that will do 256 miles per hour.
00:17:43So that, officially, is the world's fastest production car.
00:17:47Not this old knocker.
00:17:49The Germans are not pleased.
00:17:51So, behind closed doors in the Bugatti skunkworks,
00:17:59they've created this.
00:18:07It's called the Supersports.
00:18:09It's the Veyron's last hurrah,
00:18:12and it's been built with just one purpose.
00:18:15To be the undisputed fastest production car ever made.
00:18:26On this car, the 0-60 time is the same as it is on the standard Bugatti Veyron,
00:18:312.5 seconds.
00:18:32But after that, all is utterly changed.
00:18:360-100 miles per hour now takes just 4.5 seconds,
00:18:40which is the same as the 0-60 time of a Porsche 911 GT3.
00:18:46And this will go on to an alleged top speed of 258 miles per hour.
00:18:53Naturally, that means the Supersports has more power.
00:19:02Now, the standard Veyron famously has 1,000 horsepower.
00:19:06This Supersports version has 1,200 horsepower.
00:19:10So why, you might wonder,
00:19:12does it need the power of a Golf GTI added to it
00:19:15just to do another 5 miles per hour?
00:19:18Well, the reasons are quite complicated,
00:19:21and I've been barred by the producer from explaining them properly.
00:19:25So here instead is the primary school explanation.
00:19:34Well, the issue is the air,
00:19:36which has genuine substance once you're trying to move through it.
00:19:42The faster you go, the thicker the air effectively becomes.
00:19:46At 100 miles an hour, it's like aerosol whipped cream.
00:19:49But at 200 miles an hour, it's more like a very thick treacle.
00:19:54And at 250 miles an hour,
00:19:56it's like trying to drive through a fruitcake.
00:20:04And cutting through the fruitcake requires more than just brute force,
00:20:09which is why this Veyron has a new super-slippery body.
00:20:16And a new super-high price,
00:20:20up from 1 million to 1.6 million pounds.
00:20:26Anyway, big, fast, Shelby-American car thingy,
00:20:30your gauntlet has now been picked up
00:20:32by the one they call Der Langsamer,
00:20:35the slow one.
00:20:37Captain Slow to you.
00:20:38The setting for this Judgment Day run
00:20:42is Volkswagen's top-secret test track
00:20:44at Eirelesien,
00:20:47a massive complex built in a former Cold War no-fly zone
00:20:51near the old East German border.
00:20:54At its heart is this 13-mile oval-shaped track,
00:20:59which includes this 5.5-mile arrow-straight straight.
00:21:04It's one of very few places on Earth
00:21:08where you can actually max a Bugatti Veyron.
00:21:17Nothing was left to chance by the Bugatti boffins.
00:21:20We even had to wait until the middle of the day,
00:21:23when the air was at its thinnest,
00:21:25before I was finally given the all-clear to run.
00:21:29There's one small thing making me very slightly apprehensive.
00:21:32I said, how long do the tyres last at 258 miles an hour?
00:21:36And they said, well, we know how long they last
00:21:38at 248 miles an hour, it's 37 miles.
00:21:42I said, yeah, but what about 258 miles an hour?
00:21:44And, well, what they actually said to me was,
00:21:46ask an admiral how deep his submarines can really go.
00:21:51He doesn't know until they try it.
00:21:53As I ventured onto the track,
00:22:00I was quite glad that they aren't ordinary tyres,
00:22:03but ones that cost £20,000 a set.
00:22:07I do feel a nervousness about that extra 5 miles per hour.
00:22:13It takes me beyond the known borders of car performance.
00:22:19I'm hanging my ass over the ragged edge, like Chuck Yeager.
00:22:25Anyway, concentrate.
00:22:28The super-accurate speedo read in kilometres,
00:22:31so the magic number we'd be looking for
00:22:33is 414 kilometres per hour.
00:22:37If I reach maximum speed,
00:22:38I will be drinking fuel at the rate of 1.7 gallons a minute.
00:22:42The radiators will be sucking through four tonnes of air an hour.
00:22:46However, just before the five and a half miles straight
00:22:49is some steep banking,
00:22:51which I'd have to enter at exactly 125 miles an hour.
00:22:57And then I have to change down
00:22:59as I pass a series of bollards,
00:23:01ready to give it the beans as I come out the other end.
00:23:05Here we go, here's the banking.
00:23:09Here comes the first bollard.
00:23:12Change down one.
00:23:13Here's a bollard.
00:23:17Change down two.
00:23:20Here's a bollard.
00:23:22Change down three times.
00:23:25Godspeed, Captain Slow.
00:23:30Whoa-ho!
00:23:31Bloody hell, look at the speed of that.
00:23:35I'm doing 258, 200,
00:23:37I'm going faster than I can speak.
00:23:39300, 320.
00:23:40That is amazing.
00:23:43It's so stable.
00:23:45I'm already up to 340.
00:23:50Bloody Nora.
00:23:54It's unbelievable.
00:23:55Look how fast everything's going past.
00:23:59There's 400.
00:24:00In Queen's English,
00:24:01that's 248 miles per hour.
00:24:04Come on, come on, come on.
00:24:11I'm past my old record.
00:24:13Now we were into the unknown.
00:24:17Come on!
00:24:20Slightly twitchy.
00:24:28Come on, come on!
00:24:30Yes!
00:24:32Buzz, Chuck, think I may have walked your ass.
00:24:37Woo-hoo!
00:24:38And the speedo kept climbing.
00:24:54470!
00:24:56Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
00:25:03Ha ha ha ha ha!
00:25:07Woo-hoo!
00:25:10Bloody hell, that was exciting.
00:25:20Oh, no, no way!
00:25:24No!
00:25:25I'm sorry.
00:25:28Are you seriously suggesting
00:25:30that now
00:25:31we open the Guinness Book of World Records
00:25:33next to you
00:25:34and it says,
00:25:34Fastest man on earth,
00:25:36James May?
00:25:39Not exactly.
00:25:40What do you mean, not exactly?
00:25:42Well, after I'd done my run,
00:25:44Bugatti sent their test driver out
00:25:46because he thought he'd like a crack at it.
00:25:48And this is what happened.
00:25:51So there he goes.
00:25:51He's got to do a run in each direction
00:25:53and take an average.
00:25:54There's my old record,
00:25:55already going for a Burton.
00:25:58As we can see,
00:25:59the speedo is still climbing.
00:26:03There's him celebrating.
00:26:04I added my congratulations
00:26:05soon afterwards.
00:26:07Damn him!
00:26:11So, he obviously did it both ways,
00:26:12which you have to do.
00:26:13Yep.
00:26:14And what was his average then?
00:26:17431 kilometers an hour.
00:26:19And what's that in Church of England?
00:26:23267.
00:26:24In a car with windscreen wipers.
00:26:28And a CD,
00:26:28CD player.
00:26:30In a road car.
00:26:31That's staggering.
00:26:32Um,
00:26:33we ought to find out really how fast
00:26:34this goes around the track.
00:26:35Does anybody want to see that?
00:26:37Yes!
00:26:38Okay,
00:26:39well,
00:26:39that of course
00:26:40means handing it over
00:26:41to our tame racing driver.
00:26:43Some say
00:26:44the Scottish released him
00:26:46a little bit too soon.
00:26:51And that he spent
00:26:52all week
00:26:54pushing an effigy
00:26:55of Rubens Barricello
00:26:56through his desk fan.
00:26:59All we know is
00:27:00he's called the Steg.
00:27:01And he's off.
00:27:06And just look
00:27:07how fast that thing
00:27:08fires off the line
00:27:09smoking all four tyres.
00:27:11Okay,
00:27:11first corner
00:27:12simply flies into there.
00:27:14It's almost cartoonishly fast.
00:27:17It's just sensational.
00:27:21And in the midst
00:27:23of this ferocious speed
00:27:24still has a stereo
00:27:25to listen to.
00:27:26Takes it gently
00:27:27round Chicago.
00:27:29Now popping off
00:27:30the limiter,
00:27:30hammerhead,
00:27:31airbrake goes
00:27:32vertical generating
00:27:330.7G of braking.
00:27:35Same as the actual
00:27:36brakes of a Fiesta.
00:27:3850 kilos lighter
00:27:39than the original
00:27:40Veyron,
00:27:40but still a heavy car.
00:27:45Your brain
00:27:46honestly could barely
00:27:47take in how fast
00:27:48this thing is.
00:27:49What's really weird
00:27:49is it hardly makes
00:27:50any noise.
00:27:51Listen.
00:27:53Just staggering.
00:27:54Two corners to go.
00:27:56That is,
00:27:56here we go.
00:27:57Using all the grip
00:27:58of those 20 grand tyres.
00:27:59This is the Stig
00:28:01on maximum attack
00:28:02and there he is
00:28:03across the line.
00:28:12Here's the elbow run.
00:28:13Look,
00:28:13118.3.
00:28:16We're expecting this
00:28:16to be a little bit faster.
00:28:18Yep.
00:28:18But is it fast enough?
00:28:20Well,
00:28:21look at these.
00:28:21These are the 117s,
00:28:23the Gump,
00:28:23the Escory and so on.
00:28:24Well,
00:28:25this one,
00:28:25the Supersport,
00:28:26did it in one...
00:28:2916.
00:28:304.8.
00:28:32Fastest car ever,
00:28:35ever to go around
00:28:37our track.
00:28:40Now it's time to put a star
00:28:41in our reasonably priced car.
00:28:44We had a bit of a problem,
00:28:45if we're honest,
00:28:46because we had Jedward booked
00:28:48and at the last minute
00:28:50they pulled out.
00:28:51So we rang Cameron Diaz
00:28:54and we said,
00:28:55no,
00:28:55no,
00:28:55we did,
00:28:55and we said,
00:28:56would you mind awfully
00:28:57coming on the show?
00:28:58And she said,
00:28:58sure,
00:28:58love to.
00:28:59But only if I can bring
00:29:00Tom Cruise.
00:29:04So,
00:29:04ladies and gentlemen,
00:29:05here on this
00:29:06pokey motoring show
00:29:08on BBC Two,
00:29:10Cameron Diaz
00:29:11and Tom Cruise!
00:29:18How are you?
00:29:20How are you?
00:29:22How are you, mate?
00:29:24Oh, that's...
00:29:29Do you have a seat.
00:29:35That's a bit of a reaction.
00:29:36I know, it was a lot of fun.
00:29:37Can I just say,
00:29:38what staggers me
00:29:39is sitting here,
00:29:40it's almost like
00:29:41I've been joined
00:29:42by the genetic blueprint
00:29:44for the human race
00:29:45with these two.
00:29:46Just,
00:29:47if you're going to design
00:29:48the point,
00:29:48then evolution
00:29:49will reach a point
00:29:50where they look like this.
00:29:52Because how do you know
00:29:54you embark on axing
00:29:55when you're in your late teens.
00:29:57How do you know
00:29:58that later on in life
00:30:00you aren't going to become,
00:30:02well...
00:30:03Well, I mean,
00:30:04for instance, Tom,
00:30:05why don't you have ear hair?
00:30:07Next time I come on the show,
00:30:08I'll be like this.
00:30:09Yeah, just...
00:30:10What's happening here?
00:30:11And then it'll go at the back.
00:30:12I'll be curling it.
00:30:12Because it's not like
00:30:15you've taken care of yourself
00:30:16on either of you.
00:30:17You've broken every bone
00:30:18in your body over the years
00:30:19pretty much.
00:30:20I've broken my nose
00:30:21a couple of times
00:30:22and fingers
00:30:23and my leg
00:30:25and toes
00:30:25and ribs.
00:30:27And you do your own stunts,
00:30:29I mean,
00:30:29you are proud of the fact
00:30:30that you do a lot
00:30:31of jumping up and down
00:30:32and falling off things.
00:30:34Yeah,
00:30:34I kind of do most of them.
00:30:35Do they hurt?
00:30:37Yeah.
00:30:37Some of them really hurt.
00:30:41And you,
00:30:42as well,
00:30:43you'd have thought
00:30:43you'd have looked in a mirror
00:30:44when you were getting to,
00:30:45you know,
00:30:46and thought,
00:30:46you know,
00:30:47I'm quite good looking,
00:30:48I better take care of this.
00:30:50How many times
00:30:51have you broken your nose?
00:30:52Well,
00:30:52it started very early.
00:30:53It started when I was 11.
00:30:55I broke my nose
00:30:55four times since I was 11.
00:30:57So...
00:30:57Four?
00:30:58Yes.
00:30:58Four times.
00:30:58Four times.
00:30:59Sh** finds my face.
00:31:02It just does.
00:31:03Can you say that
00:31:04on television here?
00:31:05Sorry.
00:31:06Let me tell you.
00:31:07Paul King.
00:31:09Paul King.
00:31:18Now,
00:31:18the new movie,
00:31:19Night and Day,
00:31:20okay?
00:31:21My kind of film,
00:31:21I have to say,
00:31:22everything explodes,
00:31:23lots of close-ups of Cameron,
00:31:25and you're funny.
00:31:27So,
00:31:27is this comedy,
00:31:28is this a new,
00:31:29obviously not for you.
00:31:30Yeah,
00:31:30she's so funny.
00:31:32I've done a few comedies.
00:31:33You have the gentleman juice
00:31:35in your head,
00:31:35don't you?
00:31:35What's that?
00:31:35The gentleman juice.
00:31:37Yes,
00:31:37I did,
00:31:37the gentleman juice.
00:31:38That's one of the great
00:31:39comedy moments of our time.
00:31:40It didn't take very long
00:31:41for it to get there,
00:31:42either.
00:31:43It just was a very quick...
00:31:45What I meant was...
00:31:49No,
00:31:49no,
00:31:49it was...
00:31:50Okay.
00:31:51See,
00:31:51this is why I love Cameron,
00:31:52though.
00:31:54It's so much fun
00:31:55working with her.
00:31:56Yeah.
00:31:57No,
00:31:57but I love comedy.
00:31:58That's good to say,
00:31:58the comedy stuff.
00:31:59I started out risky business
00:32:00and I've always had
00:32:02comedic elements
00:32:02and different characters,
00:32:03but I've,
00:32:04you know,
00:32:04I've had some intense films
00:32:06over the years
00:32:06and I went,
00:32:07you know,
00:32:07I really want to do
00:32:08some comedy now.
00:32:09Anyway,
00:32:09we put a trailer together,
00:32:10okay?
00:32:11Okay.
00:32:11So let's play that,
00:32:12have a look at it.
00:32:13I want to talk about this guy.
00:32:15He was some sort of secret agent.
00:32:20No, no, no, no, no, okay.
00:32:22Hi, June.
00:32:23Who are you?
00:32:23This is the guy.
00:32:24I'm a guy.
00:32:24This is the guy.
00:32:25I'm the guy.
00:32:27Please,
00:32:27for your own safety,
00:32:28whatever happens,
00:32:29please stay in the booth.
00:32:30What are you talking about?
00:32:31No one follows us
00:32:32or I kill myself
00:32:33and then her.
00:32:34Rodney,
00:32:34Rodney!
00:32:35Shot you through and through.
00:32:36No bone,
00:32:37nowhere near the film maraudery.
00:32:38It's all good.
00:32:39I get a promotion.
00:32:40Good?
00:32:43Out there on your own,
00:32:48your life expectancy
00:32:48is like here.
00:32:49If you're with me,
00:32:50it's here without me,
00:32:51with me,
00:32:51without me.
00:32:55Max!
00:32:59On three.
00:33:00Ready?
00:33:00Uh-huh.
00:33:01One.
00:33:06Sorry,
00:33:07I panicked.
00:33:07What number would you like?
00:33:08Three.
00:33:09Yeah,
00:33:09let's just stick with three.
00:33:10It's good.
00:33:11Okay.
00:33:13I'm sorry about this,
00:33:22okay?
00:33:22You're great in it
00:33:23and I'm not gonna say it,
00:33:24but the thing is,
00:33:26in the movie,
00:33:27you restore muscle cars
00:33:28for a living.
00:33:30This is pornography.
00:33:31What?
00:33:31What is it you have to check in
00:33:37at the airport?
00:33:38Can you remember?
00:33:39A triple deuce.
00:33:40A triple deuce.
00:33:41It was a carburetor,
00:33:42a triple deuce carburetor.
00:33:43Yeah, I know.
00:33:44Do you find this as well,
00:33:45when girls start talking about it?
00:33:46You know about cars
00:33:47and engines.
00:33:48Oh,
00:33:48oh,
00:33:48oh,
00:33:49oh,
00:33:49oh,
00:33:49oh,
00:33:49oh,
00:33:49oh,
00:33:49oh,
00:33:50oh,
00:33:50oh,
00:33:50oh,
00:33:50oh,
00:33:51oh,
00:33:51oh,
00:33:51oh,
00:33:51oh,
00:33:52oh,
00:33:52oh,
00:33:52oh,
00:33:52oh,
00:33:53oh,
00:33:53oh,
00:33:53oh,
00:33:54oh,
00:33:54I'm actually having a crisis.
00:34:02Can I just ask,
00:34:06do you put a lot of effort
00:34:07into choosing the cars
00:34:09that you use in movies?
00:34:11So, for example,
00:34:12in this movie,
00:34:13was there a lot of effort
00:34:14went into the cars
00:34:15that were used,
00:34:16or is it just whoever gets...
00:34:18No, no, no, no,
00:34:18we all sit around
00:34:19and talk about which cars
00:34:20and motorcycles.
00:34:23You know,
00:34:23we look at the terrain
00:34:24and we line up
00:34:25a bunch of bikes
00:34:26and kind of look at the stunts
00:34:28that we're going to develop
00:34:28and what we're going to do
00:34:29if there's going to be
00:34:30a lot of jumps
00:34:30and stuff like that.
00:34:31And that's what we did
00:34:32with the Ducati on this one.
00:34:33Yeah, because,
00:34:33well, you were doing
00:34:34on cobbled streets,
00:34:35so...
00:34:35We were on cobbled streets
00:34:36and we needed
00:34:36a lighter motorcycle
00:34:37and I also needed something
00:34:38that I could pull Cameron around.
00:34:40That's a stunt
00:34:40that I've been wanting to do
00:34:41for many, many years.
00:34:42So I was like...
00:34:43Well, have Cameron...
00:34:44Have Cameron, you know...
00:34:46Because, no,
00:34:47it's not just you in this.
00:34:48I mean,
00:34:48you were doing your own stunts
00:34:49as well, obviously.
00:34:50Because there's this great scene
00:34:51with the GTO,
00:34:53the daddy of muscle cars,
00:34:55isn't it?
00:34:55Yes.
00:34:56And you're flicking it around
00:34:57all over the place.
00:34:57It's a lot of fun.
00:34:58And one of the things was,
00:34:59of course,
00:35:00you often see actors
00:35:02coming on saying,
00:35:03yeah, yeah,
00:35:03I did my own stunts.
00:35:04So I thought it would be
00:35:05a good idea earlier on today
00:35:06to say, okay, then,
00:35:06come on, Cameron,
00:35:07take me out on the track.
00:35:08Yeah.
00:35:08Anybody want to see?
00:35:10I do.
00:35:12Let's have a look at this.
00:35:17Well, this is just about
00:35:18as good as life gets,
00:35:19isn't it, really?
00:35:20It's going.
00:35:23You've got it.
00:35:27Beautiful.
00:35:37All I'm doing is,
00:35:38all you've got to do
00:35:40is go like this
00:35:40and ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:35:42How much fun is it?
00:35:44I was vomiting.
00:35:46So what cars do you
00:35:48actually drive to the shops in?
00:35:49If you're just going around
00:35:50and at home,
00:35:50what are your normal,
00:35:51everyday cars?
00:35:52Right now, I'm mostly,
00:35:53I drive a lot of motorcycles
00:35:55right now.
00:35:55Bollocks.
00:35:56Recently, a lot of motorcycles.
00:35:57He does.
00:35:57So what have you got?
00:35:58Let's run through them.
00:35:59I have a 34 Indian,
00:36:011934,
00:36:02that my wife bought me
00:36:04that used to belong
00:36:05to Steve McQueen.
00:36:06There you go.
00:36:07That's actually it, is it?
00:36:08Yeah.
00:36:08That was Steve McQueen's
00:36:09old Indian.
00:36:10Yeah.
00:36:10And then,
00:36:11what I'm interested in,
00:36:12this virus,
00:36:13which I brought along,
00:36:14I did actually say,
00:36:15it looks the most incredible
00:36:17bike I've ever seen.
00:36:18It is incredible.
00:36:19That bike is beautiful.
00:36:20Where's it made?
00:36:21What country?
00:36:21Italy.
00:36:22It is?
00:36:22Yeah.
00:36:22And you have to be measured
00:36:23for this, do you?
00:36:24Yes, they do your measurements
00:36:25and they build it
00:36:26to your specifications.
00:36:27My weight and height
00:36:28and how I like to ride.
00:36:29Really?
00:36:30So it's a tailored bike?
00:36:32Yeah, it's a tailored bike.
00:36:33Do you ride bikes, Cameron?
00:36:35No, I don't.
00:36:35I ride on the back of them
00:36:36very well.
00:36:38It's a good way
00:36:39of dealing with a paparazzi
00:36:39if you've got...
00:36:40The helmet on.
00:36:41A helmet on,
00:36:41you don't get bothered,
00:36:43do you?
00:36:43I wear a helmet
00:36:43when I drive my Prius.
00:36:45You've got a Prius?
00:36:47I love the Prius.
00:36:51I heard that was
00:36:52your favourite car.
00:36:53It is my favourite.
00:36:54You pop around
00:36:55in town with that, right?
00:36:56Is that where you drive in
00:36:56in and out of town?
00:36:57They expect it.
00:36:58I'm married to my Prius.
00:37:02Love it.
00:37:05I discovered you had a...
00:37:06It's a Mustang Saleen,
00:37:08isn't it?
00:37:08The tuned Mustang.
00:37:10The other Mustang
00:37:11that I'm interested in
00:37:13of yours, though,
00:37:14is your P-51.
00:37:15Yeah.
00:37:15Which, of course,
00:37:16is a Second World War fighter
00:37:17rather than a car.
00:37:19You know, I just love...
00:37:20I've always...
00:37:20I grew up and we travelled a lot
00:37:22and then every time we travel
00:37:23I had a picture of a Spitfire
00:37:24and a P-51.
00:37:26And I remember being
00:37:27a little boy
00:37:27and just falling asleep
00:37:28and just looking at
00:37:29the pictures of these
00:37:30airplanes on my wall
00:37:31and I always wanted
00:37:32to fly it.
00:37:32And so years later
00:37:34I got my licence
00:37:35and I immediately started
00:37:36flying aerobatics
00:37:37and Pitses
00:37:38just to train on tail draggers
00:37:40so that one day
00:37:40hopefully I could fly a P-51.
00:37:42Have you ever been
00:37:43in the fast jets
00:37:44that you flew in Top Gun?
00:37:45Yeah, you flew in the F-15.
00:37:4715, yeah.
00:37:47I flew in the F-14.
00:37:49Yeah, the Navy one.
00:37:50Yeah, and I flew also
00:37:51in the F-16.
00:37:52Really?
00:37:53Yeah, in Korea.
00:37:54Can I just ask?
00:37:55I know this is really embarrassing
00:37:56because it's Tom Cruise
00:37:57and it's the big...
00:37:58Did you puke?
00:38:01Yes, I did.
00:38:02They had three flights
00:38:06in one day
00:38:06and we were actually...
00:38:07When you see the film
00:38:08where actually some of the shots
00:38:09are when I'm in the airplane
00:38:10and we were doing
00:38:11heavy air combat maneuvers.
00:38:13My pilot's name was Bozo
00:38:15and we were flipping around
00:38:16and I had the bag right there
00:38:17so I quickly leaned down
00:38:19to fill the bag
00:38:19and as I leaned down
00:38:21he pulled up.
00:38:22He went right up
00:38:23and pulled it.
00:38:24So my spine,
00:38:25my head was on the floor
00:38:27and I'm trying to,
00:38:28you know,
00:38:28to hit the mic
00:38:29and I'm going,
00:38:30Bozo, Bozo!
00:38:31I'm down here like this
00:38:33and my head is banging
00:38:34on the floor
00:38:35as we're pulling up.
00:38:37You know,
00:38:37and I finally came up
00:38:38and I held the bag
00:38:39and I said,
00:38:39what are you doing?
00:38:40You know,
00:38:40I was doing...
00:38:41He says,
00:38:41well,
00:38:41they don't call me Bozo
00:38:42for nothing.
00:38:46Anyway,
00:38:47obviously,
00:38:48you came here
00:38:49to see how fast
00:38:51you could drive
00:38:51our reasonably priced car
00:38:52around our train.
00:38:53Absolutely.
00:38:54Your 33 films,
00:38:55your 30,
00:38:56I think this is the peak
00:38:57of your career now.
00:39:00I'm thinking
00:39:00of maybe
00:39:01Cameron's lap
00:39:03first of all.
00:39:05Yeah,
00:39:05ladies first,
00:39:06good idea.
00:39:06Yeah.
00:39:08Okay,
00:39:09let's do it.
00:39:13So we're off
00:39:14and that's a good start.
00:39:16That's a good look.
00:39:17There we go.
00:39:19How do you manage
00:39:20to suit a helmet?
00:39:22Nobody looks good
00:39:23in a helmet.
00:39:23I know she looks great
00:39:24in a helmet.
00:39:24She does look great
00:39:25in a helmet.
00:39:26So...
00:39:26Nice.
00:39:27Fat.
00:39:29Fat.
00:39:29Pretty.
00:39:30That's perfect.
00:39:31I mean,
00:39:31basically.
00:39:33Oh,
00:39:33that's fit.
00:39:36English gears.
00:39:40They're Korean,
00:39:41actually,
00:39:41to be well honest,
00:39:42they're Korean gears.
00:39:44Sorry,
00:39:48Stig,
00:39:48totally
00:39:49it up.
00:39:52He's never heard
00:39:53that word.
00:39:53He doesn't know
00:39:54it exists.
00:39:55Now,
00:39:55this is the...
00:39:56Can you keep it
00:39:56in the lines?
00:40:00The lines.
00:40:01Poetry,
00:40:02in essence.
00:40:02Poetry.
00:40:05Corner.
00:40:05Some of this
00:40:11is broadcastable.
00:40:13And then...
00:40:14Was that flat out
00:40:16through there?
00:40:18Were you flat out?
00:40:19You didn't lift off?
00:40:19No, it was flat out.
00:40:21Flat out.
00:40:22And then,
00:40:23that's a beautiful line
00:40:24through there.
00:40:26The traditional
00:40:27C apostrophe D
00:40:28understeer.
00:40:29And there we are
00:40:29across the line.
00:40:33Very good.
00:40:35I think we'll look
00:40:45at Tom's lap
00:40:46before we show it.
00:40:50Who wants to see
00:40:51Tom's lap?
00:40:53Let's have it on.
00:40:58Nice start.
00:41:01And coming up
00:41:03now to the first
00:41:03corner.
00:41:05That's a serious
00:41:05looking face.
00:41:06Yeah, I'm going,
00:41:07is this third here?
00:41:08That's what I kept
00:41:08doing.
00:41:09That's quite an
00:41:10interesting line
00:41:10through there.
00:41:11The Formula One
00:41:12driver's come out
00:41:13really wide,
00:41:13but that was...
00:41:14I think that's right.
00:41:15Let's see if I get
00:41:16this turn right.
00:41:19Let's have a look.
00:41:20Ooh, that's...
00:41:21That's kind of a
00:41:23lesson in how to do it.
00:41:24It's very nice.
00:41:25Now, Hammerhead,
00:41:26this is the hardest
00:41:26corner of the lot.
00:41:28If you stay in the
00:41:29lines,
00:41:29like Cameron did,
00:41:31no.
00:41:32No, you see Cameron,
00:41:33you can grin there.
00:41:34Now, we're flat out here
00:41:37on the way to the end,
00:41:38yeah?
00:41:40What is that?
00:41:41Nice care box.
00:41:42Is that what care
00:41:43am I in?
00:41:45Flat through there.
00:41:47Yeah, and flat
00:41:47through the next bit.
00:41:50That's so much fun,
00:41:51right, though?
00:41:51It is good.
00:41:52And this one's really
00:41:53fun, too.
00:41:54And then...
00:41:56This is awesome.
00:41:58You've got it right
00:41:58that time.
00:42:01Holy cow!
00:42:03What a quarter!
00:42:09What if we've killed you?
00:42:16What if we've
00:42:17actually killed you?
00:42:18I felt the wind
00:42:20come underneath it.
00:42:21I was feathering the
00:42:22trail.
00:42:22I was like,
00:42:23this is like a kite here,
00:42:24you know?
00:42:24It's on two wheels.
00:42:26Well, thank God
00:42:27he managed to get it
00:42:27back on all four wheels
00:42:28again.
00:42:28It's great fun.
00:42:29So, what do we think?
00:42:30Fastest man's a wizard.
00:42:31Look, Rupert Grint
00:42:32at 1.45.5.
00:42:34Slowest of the dry laps,
00:42:35and you both did it
00:42:36in the dry.
00:42:36Nick Robinson,
00:42:37who is a political
00:42:38editor for the BBC,
00:42:40he did it in 1.49.9.
00:42:42So, Cameron,
00:42:43ladies first.
00:42:45This is the piece of paper.
00:42:46The time's on it.
00:42:47Excuse me.
00:42:48Thanks, buddy.
00:42:50Cameron Dears,
00:42:51you did it in 1.
00:42:5540.
00:42:595.
00:43:052.
00:43:15Oh, what an amazing
00:43:17job.
00:43:22Well done, you.
00:43:29That's so good.
00:43:30Yeah.
00:43:31This is nice.
00:43:36Now, that's a very
00:43:37magnanimous face,
00:43:38but let's be honest,
00:43:39you're quietly
00:43:39crapping yourself up.
00:43:401.45.2.
00:43:46I don't.
00:43:46Yeah.
00:43:48Oh, just give it over.
00:43:51Give it over.
00:43:52Give it to him.
00:43:53Even Tom Cruise
00:43:53leans forward.
00:43:54That's right.
00:43:55This is so good.
00:43:56You know, I'm not interested.
00:43:57I'm not interested.
00:43:58Tom Cruise.
00:44:01Yes, yes.
00:44:01You did it in 1.
00:44:0540.
00:44:06Okay.
00:44:07I did you live in the
00:44:07way or two.
00:44:094.
00:44:104.
00:44:11New Americans.
00:44:22New Americans.
00:44:22The two wheels is obviously the fastest.
00:44:31I mean, you are a man who likes racing,
00:44:35but that's quick.
00:44:50When the two wheels were going through,
00:44:52I thought, you know what?
00:44:53Because I'm not going to come off,
00:44:55and they said, this is it.
00:44:56So I was thinking,
00:44:56if I go through,
00:44:57does it time on the side?
00:44:58Does it time to pass?
00:45:01It was a breathtaking thing.
00:45:03My whole day has just been,
00:45:05it's been just such an honor to meet you,
00:45:07Tom.
00:45:07I mean,
00:45:08it was the best day.
00:45:09Thank you very much for making me sick.
00:45:12Thank you for making me feel sick.
00:45:14Oh, you are so welcome.
00:45:16Ladies and gentlemen.
00:45:17It's my pleasure.
00:45:17Thank you so much.
00:45:19Tom Cruise.
00:45:28Thank you so much.
00:45:43Anyway,
00:45:44slight change of mood.
00:45:46Had he lived,
00:45:48Ayrton Senna would have celebrated
00:45:49his 50th birthday earlier this year.
00:45:52Yeah, and the other weird thing is, is I was talking about this to my 14-year-old son the other day,
00:45:57and he went, oh, yeah, Ayrton Senna, was he that racing driver that got killed?
00:46:00God, that makes me feel really old.
00:46:01I know, it's awful, but the thing is, I said to him,
00:46:04if you'd seen his funeral, you'd know he was a bit more than that.
00:46:11One of the world's greatest motor racing drivers, Ayrton Senna,
00:46:14has died after a crash at this afternoon's...
00:46:16Ayrton Senna, three times a world champion, suffered massive head injuries.
00:46:19A million people find the streets of his home city.
00:46:25The Brazilian government accorded full military orders.
00:46:27We felt in Brazil that his home country has declared three days of mourning.
00:46:33I think I was nine years old, and I was racing that weekend.
00:46:37I just came in from a heat or a practice session,
00:46:42and my dad's working away on the car, and I remember him telling me,
00:46:45I remember going round to the back of the car and just bawled my eyes out.
00:46:49In nine years, I remember it, like it was yesterday.
00:46:52I remember exactly where it was, what spot.
00:46:54I could take you there right now.
00:46:57In Brazil, they remember Ayrton Senna as a sporting hero
00:47:01who gave away millions to help underprivileged children.
00:47:05Elsewhere in the world, though, we remember him best for this.
00:47:08And Senna goes through.
00:47:18And Senna goes through again.
00:47:20It cannot be sounding true, but I start with four years old in go-kart.
00:47:26I am just 22 years old, and there is plenty of time to get Formula One,
00:47:34if I will get there.
00:47:36Ayrton Senna did race in Formula One from 1984 to his death at Imola in 1994.
00:47:43Ayrton Senna wins at Morocco.
00:47:45And in that time, he won the world championship three times.
00:47:52The figures suggest that Schumacher and Fangio were better,
00:47:57but the people who know, they tell a different story.
00:48:01I think Senna, I will put him in number one.
00:48:06For me, Senna is number one.
00:48:08For me, he was number one.
00:48:10I will put Ayrton Senna as number one.
00:48:13For me, Ayrton Senna undoubtedly was the number one.
00:48:16I will put him number one.
00:48:17You know, he was definitely the greatest driver.
00:48:19If you ask me, I put Senna as well in number one.
00:48:24Martin Brundle, who raced against the Brazilian for 11 years,
00:48:27is well-qualified to explain why Senna was the ultimate driver's driver.
00:48:33He had a God-given talent that I haven't witnessed anywhere else.
00:48:37A sick sense of where the grip was before he turned into a corner.
00:48:42If you look at this lotus here,
00:48:44even when it's going in a straight line, it is dancing.
00:48:48Absolutely.
00:48:48And there.
00:48:50You look at these and you think, I can't do that.
00:48:53I think Senna's ability to be able to drive completely on the limit,
00:49:00some of the laps he did, we know were unbelievable.
00:49:10This is just...
00:49:11This is manic.
00:49:12Look at this.
00:49:13How he reads those two guys is absolutely on it, isn't he?
00:49:16Look at that.
00:49:17Senna was so good at Banzai last-minute qualifying laps
00:49:21that in his Formula One career,
00:49:23he won an incredible 65 pole positions.
00:49:27He had this gift to just go and find...
00:49:30We could all find a tenth or two.
00:49:32The really great drivers can go and find a half a second
00:49:35or three quarters of a second.
00:49:38However, Senna could do even better than that.
00:49:41In Monaco in 1988,
00:49:43he out-qualified his team-mate, the great Alain Prost,
00:49:47by a scarcely believable one and a half seconds.
00:49:50Nobody in the end wanted to spoil Senna's pole lap.
00:49:58And when you saw the Dayglo McLaren
00:50:02Nobody in the end wanted to spoil Senna's pole lap.
00:50:12When you saw the Dayglo McLaren and the very bright helmet of Ayrton Senna,
00:50:18he would come through and we literally jumped out of the way.
00:50:21You didn't want to be the one they all talked about as having blown the lap
00:50:25that the whole of the Grand Prix venue was looking forward to.
00:50:28But it wasn't just out-and-out speed that made Senna special.
00:50:35He was so good because he was working so hard on details.
00:50:40I improved the car also there and there, but he went in fine details.
00:50:45That's why it was fantastic.
00:50:47The worst is here.
00:50:49The worst is the second chicane and the third chicane.
00:50:53But it's because the asphalt goes like this in the third chicane and it's like this.
00:50:58The second chicane is becoming bumpy.
00:51:02And if I think back to when I was his test driver at the beginning of the 1994 season,
00:51:06after the second day he had a small incident and tweaked his neck and that was it.
00:51:11The test was over as far as he was concerned.
00:51:13I came in the following day and he was there in the morning and I thought,
00:51:16oh, okay, he must have made a miraculous recovery.
00:51:18But in actual fact he was just there to listen to what I was saying to the engineers
00:51:22to work out whether he could trust my feedback.
00:51:24And when I compare that to Nigel Mansell when I was his test driver,
00:51:27he would set a lap time and then he would bugger off to the golf course.
00:51:30Another weapon in Senna's armoury was his utter ruthlessness.
00:51:37Senna's having a look and Senna's crowding him into the pit wall.
00:51:41Schumacher trying to take Ayrton Senna.
00:51:43Now let's see if the Brazilian moved across. Indeed he did.
00:51:47He often used to put us in a position that you were going to have an accident
00:51:53and he would leave it up to you to decide whether to have that accident or not.
00:51:57Martin experienced this psychological warfare first of all
00:52:01when racing against Senna in Formula 3.
00:52:04Well, look, I've got a great big lead here and he launches in from nowhere
00:52:08and then parks his Rolt on my shoulder.
00:52:12I couldn't get out of the car until they lifted his car off the top of mine.
00:52:16So when he wanted to overtake, he'd go on the inside and put the car in a place.
00:52:20If you tried to take the corner, you're going to hit him.
00:52:23Yes, he would put you in a compromising position
00:52:25and then leave you to make the decision.
00:52:27And if you didn't run into him, then psychologically you were buried and finished.
00:52:31He would then know that every time after that he showed you a wheel,
00:52:34you'd jump out of the way.
00:52:36He's got mantle. He's coming all over him. He has no reason to stay out.
00:52:40Even the giants from Senna's era respected his toughness.
00:52:44I don't think there was any qualifying session or any race he went into
00:52:48that he wasn't prepared to put it on the line.
00:52:50He was the toughest driver and the most ferocious driver to protect his area or space.
00:53:01Senna, all his skills involved.
00:53:04He's got a much, much slower car.
00:53:07Very clapped out tyres on his car.
00:53:09Mansell's got fresh rubber on.
00:53:11All the grip in the world.
00:53:13Senna blocking away and sliding a lot.
00:53:16Senna knocking it down.
00:53:18Mansell weaving this way and that way.
00:53:21But Senna won't let him past.
00:53:23He's got the racing line. He's going to keep it.
00:53:25This will to win reached its peak at the Japanese Grand Prix in 1990.
00:53:31Here, Senna would be world champion, providing his arch-rival Alain Prost,
00:53:35now at Ferrari, failed to finish.
00:53:38So, at the first corner, he made sure Prost failed to finish.
00:53:43Alain Prost has taken the advantage.
00:53:45Senna is trying to go through on the inside.
00:53:47And it's happened immediately.
00:53:49This is amazing.
00:53:50Senna goes off at the first corner.
00:53:52Yes, and that makes Senna world champion this year.
00:53:55He doesn't even try to break.
00:53:57No, no, no.
00:53:58I mean, at that point, when they're back there,
00:54:01Senna, if he wanted to stay in the race,
00:54:03you'd have seen two puffs of blue smoke from his front tyres.
00:54:06That gap was always going to disappear.
00:54:09He was driving into a disappearing wedge.
00:54:12After the crash, he showed absolutely no contrition.
00:54:16When there is a gap, you either commit yourself
00:54:21as a professional racing driver that is designed to win races,
00:54:25or you come second, or you come third, or you come fifth.
00:54:28And I'm not designed to come third, fourth or fifth.
00:54:31I race to win.
00:54:32And if you no longer go for a gap that exists,
00:54:35you're no longer a racing driver.
00:54:37Strangely, Senna had a big heart.
00:54:40He was a devout Christian capable of extraordinary compassion.
00:54:44When fellow racing driver Eric Comas crashed at Spa in 1992,
00:54:52Senna stopped and risked his own life running across the track to help.
00:54:57You see, that's the paradox of Ethan Senna, isn't it?
00:54:59In that he was clearly a fantastic human being.
00:55:03And he cared about people in Brazil.
00:55:06He cared about racing drivers.
00:55:08I mean, he was mortally hurt when Ratzenberger died,
00:55:13the day before he died.
00:55:14But then he would crash Alan Pross off the race track
00:55:18and put both their lives at risk.
00:55:20As a man then, Senna was hard to fathom.
00:55:24But when it rained,
00:55:26it was easy to spot his talents as a driver.
00:55:29And Senna is a wet weather master.
00:55:37This is Donington in 1993.
00:55:40The track is wet and Senna in an inferior McLaren is in trouble at the start.
00:55:45Well, Senna is crowded out and is down to fifth position.
00:55:49And Wendlinger is up into third place ahead of Schumacher.
00:55:52Crossed leads to kill second.
00:55:54And Ayrton Senna is up to fourth position ahead of Schumacher.
00:55:57And challenging Wendlinger as they go round the right-hander into the old hairpin.
00:56:02Senna is up to third.
00:56:03Quite brilliant couple of corners by Ayrton Senna.
00:56:06Tremendous stuff.
00:56:07He muscled his way back into the contention at Redgate.
00:56:10He's going inside Damon Hill.
00:56:12And Senna into second place already.
00:56:14So, two retirements already.
00:56:16And Senna goes through into the lead.
00:56:19He's passed Alain Prasso.
00:56:21And that was it.
00:56:22One lap.
00:56:23Fifth to first.
00:56:24Yeah.
00:56:25If you want to have 40 seconds of what is Ayrton Senna the racing driver all about,
00:56:30there it is in a nutshell.
00:56:31Yeah.
00:56:32After the race, though, he was completely calm.
00:56:35Driving with slicks in damp and really slippery conditions was tremendous.
00:56:43Conditions like this is gambling.
00:56:45And it's taking chances.
00:56:47That pays off.
00:56:48And I think we gamble good.
00:56:50And, of course, you have to remember that Senna was doing his gambling in cars that were like wild, ferocious animals.
00:57:03This McLaren MP44 in which he won eight races and his first world championship had very little downforce.
00:57:10A manual gearbox and 1,200 horsepower.
00:57:15450 more than the F1 cars of today.
00:57:19It is the last of the turbocharged monsters.
00:57:23One of the greatest racing cars ever made.
00:57:26And today, it's going to rumble again in the hands of Senna's number one fan.
00:57:37There it is.
00:57:38Woo!
00:57:40I can't believe that I'm...
00:57:43Oh, jeez.
00:57:45You've just got back from the Canadian Grand Prix this morning.
00:57:50Yeah.
00:57:51I couldn't sleep.
00:57:52Really?
00:57:53I slept like an hour or so on the flight.
00:57:54I couldn't get to sleep.
00:57:55I'm just...
00:57:56Because you get to drive Senna's MP4.
00:57:57Yeah, I just can't imagine what it's going to be like.
00:58:00I just have this sound in my head of the car roaring and going through Monaco streets when he's one-handed.
00:58:08I'm just going to go one-handed round and just see what it's like round one of the corners.
00:58:14Let's go.
00:58:15Let's go.
00:58:16Let's go.
00:58:17Can I go?
00:58:18Holy .
00:58:21Oh, yeah.
00:58:22Oh, yeah.
00:58:23Oh, my God.
00:58:24The racing back in the mid-'80s was...
00:58:28I mean, there's an incredible scene, I think, with Nelson Piquet overtaking Senna on full opposite lock.
00:58:35I mean, very little in the way of safety, very little in the way of aerodynamic grip.
00:58:42Manual gearbox of 1,200 horsepower.
00:58:43Yeah.
00:58:44And the cockpit, you could almost punch through it.
00:58:45Yeah.
00:58:46So you think, jeez, you know, you'd be driving around at a low speed, your wheel falls off,
00:58:48the mechanic makes a mistake, you're dead.
00:58:49It's phenomenal, and I can't even contemplate what it would have been like.
00:59:20That's why I think you have even more respect for the guys that did it back then.
00:59:23I mean, you have to be back in the 80s.
00:59:27Crazy.
00:59:28A little bit of minus here.
00:59:29You know, you've got your Mansells, Piquets, Prost.
00:59:38The drivers were incredible, and do you think that shining out from all of those drivers
00:59:44in that great era, Senna rose to the top?
00:59:47Senna rose to the top.
00:59:49I don't want to go in.
00:59:52Let's do another lap.
00:59:55I love the fact that he would fight for his own, what he truly believed in.
01:00:00It's just everything.
01:00:01He puts everything into getting that lap, and he had no fear.
01:00:05That's what I loved about it.
01:00:08I love this car.
01:00:13I love it.
01:00:15Come on.
01:00:17That's amazing.
01:00:19It's so much, it's nothing like the car I drive nowadays.
01:00:23But just to know the commitment and to get used to driving this car on the limit,
01:00:28I just couldn't imagine it then.
01:00:35It's one of the best days of my life.
01:00:37I just feel so blessed, you know.
01:00:39I dreamed my whole life of driving that car.
01:00:42My whole life.
01:00:45I just ticked off one of my dreams.
01:00:58You know, I'll be honest with you.
01:01:00I was never a Senna fan.
01:01:03I always thought Gilles Villeneuve was the greatest racing driver of them all.
01:01:07But to make this film, I've watched hours and hours and hours of footage.
01:01:13And the thing is, Villeneuve was spectacular on a number of occasions.
01:01:22Senna, he was spectacular every single time he got in a car.
01:01:26There's an amazing film coming out on Ayrton Senna next year.
01:01:47I urge you all to go and see it.
01:01:49It's fantastic.
01:01:50But for now, good night.
01:01:59Brand new drama coming up next tonight here on BBC HD.
01:02:02Benedict Cumberbatch is Sherlock in just a few moments.
01:02:05And then at 10.30, join us as we head to the coast.
01:02:08And then we head to the coast.
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