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In Season 18 Episode 1, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May head to Italy for a thrilling supercar road trip. They drive the Lamborghini Aventador, McLaren MP4-12C, and Noble M600 through the Nardo test track and on to the streets of Rome and Imola to decide which supercar reigns supreme. Guest star: will.i.am takes on the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car segment.
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00:00:00Thank you so much. Hello, hello and welcome. Thank you everybody. Thank you. Now, even
00:00:27we will know this programme has taken a terrible battering in the newspapers in recent weeks
00:00:33and months. We have made every effort we possibly can to make sure this series is unaffected.
00:00:39Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks very much. So, coming up now is a montage of what
00:00:47you can expect over the next seven weeks.
00:00:5157 miles to the gallon. So, spacious and economical. Going through the first corner here now.
00:01:03And that is how a camshaft works.
00:01:07That is the tape we sent to the newspapers in the hope they'd be fooled into thinking that's
00:01:20what we're doing. What we're actually doing is this.
00:01:25Oh no, that's not what I wanted to see in the mirror. Heading for the tyres.
00:01:36There he is. There he is. Turning left into a Cajun Avenue. Over there. Over there. Go over there.
00:01:48He's the Stig's Chinese cousin. Hold on to your spine. Johnson makes a good start.
00:02:05And alive. We're getting some shots here. Thank you. Just browsing. Stretch it. Stretch it. Stretch it. Come on.
00:02:21He he he. Ow. Well, how's that possible?
00:02:27That was beautiful. Thank you. All of that is to come. But we kick off tonight with this.
00:02:45Yes, because this is important. Let's say you want a mid-engine supercar, but for some reason
00:02:51you don't want a Ferrari 458. What is best for you?
00:02:57Now, naturally, of course, us three could not agree on a solution to this.
00:03:01So the producer said we had to settle our differences with a road trip across Italy.
00:03:11The meeting point was the beautiful town of Lecce in the heel of Italy.
00:03:16And I was the first to arrive.
00:03:20This is the McLaren MP4-12C.
00:03:28It's a car made with an almost psychotic attention to detail. It's very technical.
00:03:33It's why I think it probably suits me quite well.
00:03:37Then Jeremy arrived in a car that suits him quite well.
00:03:41Morning, Shrinking Violet.
00:03:48This is a Lamborghini Aventador.
00:03:56What I love most of all about this is that Audi did all the sort of boring engine and wiring bits
00:04:02and then let Lamborghini go mad with the styling.
00:04:05It looks better than yours and therefore it is better.
00:04:09I agree. As a poster, as Lamborghinis always have been, it is superb. It looks great.
00:04:14But it's a bit of a dinosaur, to be honest.
00:04:16It is?
00:04:17It is. It's too big, it's too wide.
00:04:19I'm sorry?
00:04:20This, you just know, all they ever talked about was G.
00:04:23They were sitting going, how can we make it go round a corner a little bit faster?
00:04:27It's a super car.
00:04:28It's a super car.
00:04:29So we give it guns. Let's give it guns. Space rockets.
00:04:34This, they will have had seven years of meetings to get to that windscreen wiper.
00:04:39So it works properly?
00:04:40Yes.
00:04:41What's wrong with that?
00:04:42Lamborghini would have said, why don't we just use like a laser?
00:04:45Why don't we have lasers shooting heat onto the windscreen to get rid of it?
00:04:48That's why I love Lambos. They're all mental.
00:04:50Have you had a lot of pop today, Jeremy?
00:04:53At that moment, Hammond arrived in an oval M600.
00:04:57Oh, yeah.
00:04:58So, Hammond.
00:04:59Morning.
00:05:00Let's just get this straight.
00:05:01You think there are people in the world who are going to say,
00:05:05no, I don't want something Italian and exotic. I don't want a Ferrari.
00:05:09I want something built on a light industrial unit in Leicestershire.
00:05:13No, because...
00:05:14No, no, no, wait a minute. Sorry.
00:05:16You buy this, I think, because it's got the engine from a Volvo XC90.
00:05:20Yes, he does.
00:05:21It does.
00:05:22Yes, the engine may be from a Volvo, but it's made by Yamaha.
00:05:24Oh, Yamaha.
00:05:25It's a twin engine. It's absolutely magnificent.
00:05:27And this car, above all else, is light.
00:05:30Comparing these is like... It's like comparing me with you.
00:05:33The power-to-weight ratio is insane.
00:05:36541 brake horsepower per tonne in there.
00:05:39That's Bugatti Veyron territory, and you know it.
00:05:42This is going to crush you guys like Beatles under its feet.
00:05:47Soon, our cars started to draw a bit of a crowd.
00:05:52So, the producers said we should leave the town
00:05:55and go for a little drive in the country.
00:06:00Bloody hell, fire.
00:06:02Why good?
00:06:10You are probably sitting there thinking,
00:06:15well, hold on, why would I spend £228,000 on a car
00:06:19with no airbags or anti-lock brakes made in Leicester?
00:06:22But that's missing the point.
00:06:24If I were to ask those two what the best supercar ever made is,
00:06:28I know what they'd answer.
00:06:30Ferrari A40.
00:06:32There's something of the Ferrari A40 about this.
00:06:35Something to do with the way it rides on the road,
00:06:38the way it feels.
00:06:40The simplicity of it.
00:06:44I buy the argument for a flamboyant supercar.
00:06:47I get it.
00:06:48But maybe there is another way of doing it.
00:06:50There's a sort of joy in things that simply work really well,
00:06:54like this gearbox.
00:06:56It's sort of like a two-stage trigger on a sniping rifle.
00:06:59You can preload it with half a pull and then change.
00:07:04It's very satisfying.
00:07:07Maybe really anal attention to detail will have a charm of its own.
00:07:11Let's see.
00:07:13James and Richard can make as many arguments as they want,
00:07:16but the fact is this.
00:07:18They're driving about in virgin coma.
00:07:21It's not the real thing.
00:07:22This is the real thing.
00:07:25Lamborghini invented the supercar with the Miura,
00:07:29the world's first mid-engine speed and dream machine.
00:07:33I mean, yes, this is the most expensive car here.
00:07:36A quarter of a million pounds.
00:07:38But who cares? It's a dream car.
00:07:39You don't dream about going to Filey or Bridlington.
00:07:43You dream about going to Tahiti.
00:07:47Actually, Tahiti's terrible.
00:07:48I went there once.
00:07:49It was full of Americans looking at dolphins.
00:07:55Half an hour later,
00:07:56we were told to brim the tanks in our cars
00:07:59and pay careful attention to the challenge we were about to receive.
00:08:03Hang on a minute.
00:08:04You will now see which of your cars can achieve the highest speed.
00:08:09Well, that'll be mine.
00:08:10It's as simple as that.
00:08:11It's the fastest.
00:08:13How fast your car can go is not relevant.
00:08:16It's how fast you dare drive it.
00:08:20Well, the location for this challenge was the Nardo test track,
00:08:24a banked eight-mile circle of tarmac so vast
00:08:27it can be seen clearly from space.
00:08:32No car can achieve its true top speed here
00:08:35because it's one endless corner.
00:08:38But it is one of only two or three places in the world
00:08:41where they can get close.
00:08:46Lamborghini and McLaren had both sent technicians
00:08:49to make sure their cars, and especially the tyres,
00:08:52could handle the vast heat of constant high-speed cornering.
00:08:57But as for Richard and his car from Leicester...
00:09:01Do you know we'll not have a workshop here?
00:09:03Not a workshop, no.
00:09:05I suppose if we were doing this at Mallory Park,
00:09:07they'd send Geoff over, maybe his mate.
00:09:09I've done it, it's all right.
00:09:10All four tyres are the same makes,
00:09:13that there's air in them.
00:09:14James and I were feeling fairly confident
00:09:18until we started chatting to a man called Max Venturi,
00:09:23who is one of Lambo's test drivers.
00:09:25We do a lot of testing here,
00:09:27but we don't do too much the top speed
00:09:30because it's very bumpy.
00:09:32You could jump from one lane to the other lane,
00:09:36so it's...
00:09:38That sounds bad.
00:09:40And also today is windy,
00:09:41so you need to take care about the wind as well.
00:09:45What, do we need to attack?
00:09:48Because speedometers are never absolutely accurate,
00:09:52the producers fitted each of our cars with high-tech telemetry
00:09:56so they could see how fast we were really going.
00:09:59And then we were sent onto the track for a spitting lamp.
00:10:02I have the most to lose here.
00:10:12My car is the fastest.
00:10:14Top speed, 225 miles an hour.
00:10:17Jeremy's Lambo, 217.
00:10:19James' McLaren, 205 miles an hour.
00:10:22Or to put it another way, walking race.
00:10:24Now I have 691 brake horsepower at my disposal.
00:10:30That's almost a hundred more than James has.
00:10:34And it's proper horsepower.
00:10:36Blue-blooded, real horsepower.
00:10:39Thanks to emission regulations,
00:10:41this is probably the last V12 engine that will ever be made.
00:10:44From now on, they'll have to be smaller and turbocharged,
00:10:47like they are in the Noble and the McLaren.
00:10:49Yes, my engine is the smallest.
00:10:53It's a 3.8-meter V8,
00:10:55but it has the highest specific output.
00:10:58That is, of all the engines here, it produces the most BHP per litre,
00:11:02because it's been intelligently designed by engineers in Woking,
00:11:06not just put together to impress yahoos.
00:11:12Those two keep banging on about,
00:11:14this has got the engine out of a Volvo XC90.
00:11:15Yes, well, okay, but let's not forget Yamaha make it.
00:11:20And they produce some pretty amazing motorcycle engines.
00:11:24And Noble have then strapped two turbos to it,
00:11:27so it makes 650 brake horsepower.
00:11:29Well, I say that, I can choose.
00:11:31With this button down here, I can have 450 for road,
00:11:34550 for track, or 650 for race.
00:11:37I'm going to have the full 650 out there today.
00:11:39I do have quite a lot of respect for the midget doing this,
00:11:43because, well, the last time he tried to go fast on a test track,
00:11:47it didn't go well.
00:11:49With the sighting lap over,
00:11:51we were told to put some distance between ourselves,
00:11:54and go for it.
00:11:55Go for it.
00:12:01We're moving up into the outside lane.
00:12:08It's 250 kph.
00:12:13Now we're at sit speed.
00:12:15Moving up a little bit.
00:12:17It does feel a bit wobbly.
00:12:22I don't like it.
00:12:24270.
00:12:27My God, this circus is shocking.
00:12:30There's the wind.
00:12:31There's the wobble.
00:12:33There's the jump.
00:12:35Oh, my God.
00:12:37See, that is 280, and my heart's really starting to beat now.
00:12:40290.
00:12:42Max from Lamborghini had warned all of us
00:12:45that it would be too dangerous to exceed 300 km an hour.
00:12:49And all of us chose to ignore it.
00:12:53My foot is hard down now.
00:12:57300 and...
00:12:59Oh, rookie.
00:13:01I got lift there.
00:13:03Bit of a panic.
00:13:05300 km an hour indicating.
00:13:08I can feel the car jumping.
00:13:10Muppeting.
00:13:12Muppeting.
00:13:13There's a skip.
00:13:15340.
00:13:18160.
00:13:20And every fiber of my beard wants me to lift up.
00:13:25Oh, God almighty.
00:13:27God knows what those tires are going through.
00:13:32God, it's hypnotic.
00:13:34Don't look at the line.
00:13:35Don't look at the line.
00:13:36Come on.
00:13:38Come on.
00:13:40He's just on a bit terrible.
00:13:43326 indicators.
00:13:45V27 indicators.
00:13:47V29 indicators.
00:13:50Come on.
00:13:51330.
00:13:53331.
00:13:55Come on, give me a bit more than 330.
00:13:57Just give me a bit more.
00:13:59A bit more.
00:14:00This is f***ing quick.
00:14:11I'm backing out of this.
00:14:15That is...
00:14:20Pretty bloody alarming.
00:14:21With the test over, it was now time to find out which one of us had the biggest testes.
00:14:30The top speed of your car is 225 miles an hour.
00:14:33Yes.
00:14:34You achieved...
00:14:35204...
00:14:370.8.
00:14:39Who have you got?
00:14:41I've got Jameses.
00:14:43In the slowest car.
00:14:45200...
00:14:47And...
00:14:491.6.
00:14:51217 miles an hour is the top speed of the Lamborghini.
00:14:54You did it at...
00:14:56200...
00:14:57Yes.
00:14:58...and...
00:14:594...
00:15:00Oh, God.
00:15:01...point...
00:15:023.
00:15:03Yes!
00:15:04Yes!
00:15:05No!
00:15:07Right, we will, of course, be picking that up again later on.
00:15:09No, can I just say, half a mile an hour, that's all there was in it between...
00:15:12...you and me.
00:15:13Yeah, yeah.
00:15:14Half...
00:15:15If I'd have just kept my foot down for...
00:15:16Oh, yeah.
00:15:17Oh!
00:15:18Oh!
00:15:19Right, we will, of course, be picking that up again later on.
00:15:21No, can I just say, half a mile an hour, that's all there was in it between you and me.
00:15:24Yeah.
00:15:25Yeah.
00:15:26Half...
00:15:27If I'd have just kept my foot down for...
00:15:28Oh, yeah.
00:15:29Oh, yeah.
00:15:30But you're lost.
00:15:31And that's a fact.
00:15:32Hold on a minute, hold on.
00:15:33I think you'll find you both lost.
00:15:34And how'd you work that out?
00:15:35Because I got closest to the theoretical top speed of my car, and therefore I have the biggest testes.
00:15:42No.
00:15:43The challenge was to see who could drive the fastest, and I did.
00:15:46And then afterwards we refilled the cars, we brimmed them again, to see which had used the least fuel doing it.
00:15:51And guess what?
00:15:52Well, the Lambo did seven MPG, the McLaren did eight MPG, and the Noble did nine.
00:15:59Ha-ha!
00:16:00So the Noble wins again!
00:16:01I know.
00:16:02I know.
00:16:03Stop it.
00:16:04Let's just...
00:16:05Okay, let's just...
00:16:06Just to work out where we are, so that's two challenges so far.
00:16:10Two wins for the Noble, and for the Lambo.
00:16:13Now, let's see.
00:16:14No, let's not see.
00:16:15Let's do the news.
00:16:16All right.
00:16:17Um, because...
00:16:18Actually, before we do the news, those of you who saw our Christmas special will probably
00:16:21remember we left our three cars on plinths, high in the Himalayas, between, on a road between
00:16:26China and India, so that people passing between these two great economic superpowers would
00:16:32forevermore be reminded of Great Britain.
00:16:35Uh, well, unfortunately, it turns out that the plinths were built on an ancient burial ground
00:16:43with deep religious significance.
00:16:45So a man came and told us to take them down immediately.
00:16:49Yeah.
00:16:50Where are the cars now?
00:16:51They're not in the Himalayas.
00:16:53Yeah, but where are they?
00:16:54Hampshire.
00:16:55Really?
00:16:56Yes.
00:16:57That's where it is.
00:16:58Anyway, the news.
00:16:59Um, there was a man in the papers this week who has failed his driving theory test 92 times.
00:17:0792?
00:17:08I...
00:17:09I don't...
00:17:10I don't want to be rude, but he must be an idiot.
00:17:13Well, now, interestingly, you say that.
00:17:17Have you seen the theory test?
00:17:18Well, I didn't have to do one.
00:17:19No, is there anyone here?
00:17:20Have you seen the theory test, anybody?
00:17:22Yeah.
00:17:23You have?
00:17:24Because most people, I think, of our age haven't.
00:17:26Uh, and none of the questions have got anything to do, as far as that can work out, with driving.
00:17:30And let me, can I give you some examples, right?
00:17:32You can answer this.
00:17:33An elderly person...
00:17:36An elderly person's ability could be affected because they may be unable to...
00:17:42Eat toffees.
00:17:43No.
00:17:44Get an erection.
00:17:47Wear jeans.
00:17:51Funny.
00:17:52Where's the safest place to park your vehicle at night?
00:17:54In a police station.
00:17:57Right, I've got a picture here.
00:17:59I'm going to bring up this picture.
00:18:00Right.
00:18:01When...
00:18:02This is a real question, okay?
00:18:03You must not stop on these road markings because you may obstruct what?
00:18:09Landing aircraft.
00:18:12Yes.
00:18:13I mean, seriously, that is a...
00:18:14He's managed to fail 92 times on that one.
00:18:16Those are not questions to pass.
00:18:18You're driving...
00:18:19Do any of them say, for instance, can you drive a car?
00:18:22No, no.
00:18:23I'm in the book now.
00:18:24This is what you buy your teenage child when they're learning to drive.
00:18:27At an incident, a small child is not breathing.
00:18:31To restore normal breathing, you should breathe into their mouth.
00:18:34A.
00:18:35Sharply.
00:18:36B.
00:18:37Gently.
00:18:38C.
00:18:39Heavily.
00:18:40D.
00:18:41Tenderly.
00:18:42D.
00:18:43I don't know.
00:18:44That's enough driving test rubbish.
00:18:45So we'll have to move it on, otherwise we'll be here all day.
00:18:47So, let's talk about cars again, if we could.
00:18:49Because the mighty Alfa Romeo, they are reduced now to a full range of cars.
00:18:54They make two.
00:18:55Two cars.
00:18:56Really?
00:18:57That is, yes.
00:18:58Well, the Mito and the...
00:18:59Giulietta and the Mito.
00:19:00That is it.
00:19:01So they don't make the 159 anymore?
00:19:02Nope, nope.
00:19:03Just two Alfa Romeos on the market.
00:19:04But that's about to change because they have just announced this, the 4C.
00:19:06Look at that.
00:19:07I know.
00:19:08It's tiny.
00:19:09It's a small, lightweight sports car.
00:19:10Very lightweight.
00:19:11Carbon fiber.
00:19:12All sorts of clever technical stuff.
00:19:13Mid-engined.
00:19:14It's only a 1750cc engine, but it's turbocharged, so it will be quick because it's so light.
00:19:18And it looks...
00:19:19I think that looks fantastic.
00:19:20It's wrong, is what it is.
00:19:21It's wrong.
00:19:22What Alfa Romeo should make is a small convertible two-seater, engine at the front, rear-wheel drive,
00:19:27and they could call it, I don't know, the...
00:19:29Spider?
00:19:30Spider's a great name.
00:19:31Good name, isn't it?
00:19:32And then maybe they could get Dustin Hoffman to appear in a film and it to etch it into the
00:19:35world's consciousness.
00:19:36Yes, they could do that.
00:19:37They could live in the past.
00:19:38Or they could make something modern and forward-looking instead like that.
00:19:41No, rubbish.
00:19:42What if you two had been at Alfa Romeo when they came out with the original Spider?
00:19:46Oh, that's no good.
00:19:47Where's the horse in front of it?
00:19:48It's not made of wood.
00:19:49That'll never work.
00:19:50It's modern and forward-looking.
00:19:51It's not modern, it won't work.
00:19:52At the end of this year, I'm looking forward to it.
00:19:53It's gorgeous.
00:19:54Make it go away because I've got something more important to talk about.
00:19:57It's a new Maserati.
00:19:58Really?
00:19:59Okay, this is the new Maserati 4x4, okay?
00:20:02I think it looks fantastic, but there are some odd things about it.
00:20:06Maserati say that unlike any other big 4x4, it has a luxury atmosphere.
00:20:12Because you know, every time I get in a Range Rover, I always think, oh no, I've accidentally
00:20:15got into a cow shed.
00:20:17Yeah.
00:20:18And then they say there are no off-roaders that give us sporty feel.
00:20:23Well, what about the Porsche Cayenne?
00:20:25Or the Mercedes ML63?
00:20:26BMW X5.
00:20:27Exactly.
00:20:28All of that.
00:20:29I think Maserati, they're the sort of company that go, you know, we've invented a new type
00:20:33of watch, and what makes it really good is you can wear it on your wrist.
00:20:38This is quite awkward, isn't it?
00:20:39Because somebody's going to have to tell them, hey, Maserati, it's been done.
00:20:42It's got to be there.
00:20:43Yeah, I'm not going to...
00:20:44What I love about this, though, is it's called the Kuban, right?
00:20:48Which, being a Maserati, is the noise it will make the day the warranty runs out.
00:20:52Now, we received a press release this week from someone who wanted to get their name
00:20:58on the television.
00:20:59I'm not going to say it.
00:21:00Now, they say that the standard of your driving gets worse if you're suffering from a cold.
00:21:05And the thing is, they go on to say, okay, that it's no good taking a cold remedy because
00:21:11the police say that's the same as driving while under the influence of cocaine.
00:21:17Is it?
00:21:18It's cheaper, though, isn't it?
00:21:19It's not.
00:21:20It isn't, is it?
00:21:21I mean, cocaine and day nurse are different products entirely.
00:21:24They're in a different price bracket.
00:21:26They are entirely different.
00:21:27Now, I bring all this up, okay?
00:21:30Because when did it happen that somebody decided that driving was so unbelievably hard,
00:21:37you can't do it while doing something else, you know, like listening to Ken Bruce's Popmaster
00:21:42or talking on the telephone.
00:21:43Honestly, I can't think of anything that I couldn't do while driving apart from reading
00:21:49a broadsheet newspaper.
00:21:50I won't be able to do that.
00:21:51Sawing a piece of wood?
00:21:52I could do that.
00:21:53You can't hold the wood.
00:21:54You can't do it.
00:21:55No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:21:56You put it between your legs.
00:21:57You still operate the pedals.
00:21:58You can saw.
00:21:59Sewing on a button.
00:22:00You need both hands.
00:22:01No, I could do that.
00:22:02You could not drive.
00:22:03I could.
00:22:04You know you can't sew on a button with a hammer, don't you?
00:22:05Excuse me.
00:22:06I know how to sew.
00:22:07Actually, while we're on the subject, did you see that case recently?
00:22:11A woman who was stopped by the police after they caught her driving down a motorway while causing
00:22:17herself to have pleasure.
00:22:19I bet you can't drive in a sleeping bag.
00:22:23How?
00:22:24Excellent.
00:22:25I'm not sure.
00:22:26Actually, I'm going to take that back.
00:22:27I think you could drive in a sleeping bag.
00:22:30You couldn't drive in a sleeping bag.
00:22:31I bet I could.
00:22:32You can't.
00:22:33I bet I could drive in a sleeping bag.
00:22:34There you go.
00:22:35Right, you're on.
00:22:37Sometime this week, before next week's show, I'll take you on around the track.
00:22:41You drive in a proper cocoon sleeping with your arms in it.
00:22:44Yeah.
00:22:45And race me and I'll sew a button on my shirt.
00:22:48Oh, let me guess.
00:22:49I'm going to drive whilst performing an act on myself.
00:22:51No.
00:22:52We're losing you.
00:22:53We're losing you out of it.
00:22:54We're making a 50-yard sprint.
00:22:55Right, that is the end of the news, so let's get back to the action.
00:23:10Tonight, for those of you with very short memories, we are trying to answer an important
00:23:15question.
00:23:16Which is the best mid-engine supercar if you don't want a Ferrari 458?
00:23:20James says it's the McLaren MP4-12C.
00:23:23I say it's the Lamborghini Aventador.
00:23:26And Richard says it's the Noble M600.
00:23:29Yes, and so far, I'm being proved right.
00:23:32It achieved the highest top speed and is the most economical.
00:23:35But, having tested those sort of things, we were then told to leave the test track and drive
00:23:40north to Rome.
00:23:41So, three supercars, lovely weather, drive across Italy, what could possibly go wrong?
00:23:47Certainly, as the day began, the rather smug Hammond was very happy, making up his own little
00:23:56games.
00:23:57We're going to make some more turbo noise.
00:23:58Are you ready?
00:23:59It is addictive.
00:24:00Put the foot down.
00:24:01And then lift off.
00:24:02Oh!
00:24:03Turbo noises are sort of for children.
00:24:08You do know that, don't you?
00:24:09Right, I'm going to come alongside and give you a turbo noise.
00:24:12Drop your window.
00:24:133, 2, 1.
00:24:14This is like indulging a six-year-old child who's learned a simple card trick.
00:24:28Oh, s***.
00:24:34I hate to say this, but I believe I have clutch or gearbox issues.
00:24:41Oh, dear.
00:24:44I can't understand it myself, because you know when you see the legend made in Leicester...
00:24:50It's a byword for sort of reliability and quality.
00:24:53Absolutely.
00:24:54What are the other things that are made in Leicester?
00:24:56Leicester's cheese.
00:24:57They make pork pies nearby, don't they?
00:24:59Yeah.
00:25:00Pork pies are always reliable.
00:25:02Have you tried pumping the clutch to see if it's...
00:25:05Well, no, because the linkage is to cock as well.
00:25:08Clearly, the noble wasn't going anywhere.
00:25:10Let me just think a minute. Sorry.
00:25:13When something goes wrong with my car, Richard Hammond always...
00:25:17Helps you.
00:25:18No.
00:25:19The opposite of that.
00:25:20He just gets his car and drives off.
00:25:21Drives off.
00:25:22You're right.
00:25:23Yes.
00:25:24Let's do that.
00:25:25Goodbye.
00:25:26Goodbye.
00:25:27Goodbye.
00:25:28We were leaving Hammond 200 miles away from Rome, and that made us feel quite sorry for him.
00:25:34Two months he's been looking forward to driving his noble right across Italy, and he's only gone 30 miles.
00:25:43As our cars ate up the miles, we got to know them better.
00:25:53Bloody hell, it's good, this.
00:25:55It really is good.
00:25:57It's very clever.
00:25:58It's active, this car.
00:26:00It doesn't have big metal anti-roll bars or anything like that.
00:26:03Everything is controlled by its brain.
00:26:05It works out what each wheel is doing.
00:26:07It can even break an individual wheel as you corner.
00:26:10In the olden days, supercars were very, very hard to drive, and the hardest of them all were the big Lambos.
00:26:18I mean, changing gear in a Countach or a Diablo, you needed two hands.
00:26:23This, though, it feels like a golf.
00:26:26I mean, I'm doing, what, 80 miles an hour now, and it's almost completely silent, and I can see where I'm going, and I can see roughly where I've been.
00:26:35I think it's important to stress at this point, every single thing about this car is new.
00:26:41Body, interior, engine, suspension, everything.
00:26:45It's brand new, and it feels it.
00:26:50Meanwhile, after a two and a half hour wait, my night in shining other finally arrived.
00:27:06Hi!
00:27:09I'm...
00:27:13Hi.
00:27:14This is the car.
00:27:18Please talk to me.
00:27:22Please just say hello, or just... or see me, even.
00:27:25Ah, now, there's a big tunnel coming up here.
00:27:31The irresponsible thing to do would be to turn the powertrain into the rorty track mode and change down unnecessarily.
00:27:38Three, two, one, go!
00:27:45Oh, what a sound!
00:27:47James' car made a great noise, but mine was making fire.
00:28:10It's a shame Hammond isn't here to enjoy the moment.
00:28:13And a mark beyond, shall I listen to you?
00:28:19Right.
00:28:21You need that many words?
00:28:27Oh, God.
00:28:29The thing coming off the bottom of his phone is actually a wire into his jacket, and then that's all batteries.
00:28:40Ah!
00:28:43That's my... open, communicative face.
00:28:48Yeah!
00:28:50Oh!
00:28:52Um...
00:28:54Right, um...
00:28:56Oh!
00:29:06Back to six!
00:29:08Ha-ha!
00:29:09Our day, meanwhile, was just getting better and better.
00:29:13Oh-ho-ho-ho!
00:29:14That's not a bad view, is it?
00:29:20Marvellous.
00:29:23Now, it's just suddenly hit me that I'm driving across Italy in a supercar.
00:29:27And I've got another one to look at.
00:29:29Buonasera!
00:29:39Buonasera!
00:29:43Eccola qua!
00:29:44Oh, yeah!
00:29:46No idea.
00:29:48No.
00:29:50French?
00:29:52Oh, no, it's going on the phone.
00:29:54Oh, no.
00:29:55Oh, no.
00:29:58Well, that's happened.
00:30:00Still, could be worse.
00:30:06Oh, dear.
00:30:10Prepare to look at shoes.
00:30:12This is my special face, reserved for continental policemen.
00:30:25OK.
00:30:27OK!
00:30:29Yeah.
00:30:33See, there is under four hours to run.
00:30:36Just.
00:30:42The only problem for them is because today is holiday in Italy.
00:30:48Interestingly, their only real concern is that we appear to be working on a Sunday,
00:30:52and we need a permit for that.
00:30:55That's why Italy is nearly bankrupt.
00:30:59Eventually, they told us we had to stop working,
00:31:02so we went into Rome for a lovely dinner.
00:31:12Somebody's farted.
00:31:14The next day, in a workshop on the outskirts of Rome, I found out just what had gone wrong with my noble.
00:31:24This is the clutch assembly, and this is the plate.
00:31:30And, yeah, that's pretty clearly the component that failed.
00:31:35Once that broke, that came away, which is not supposed to happen.
00:31:37The thing is, this is easily replaceable.
00:31:40I mean, noble don't make these, they're bought in, it's a clutch.
00:31:43But the problem now is, because that was whizzing around inside here,
00:31:47that's damaged bearings and shafts and all sorts of things.
00:31:51What's it done to the gearbox?
00:31:53James and I decided the best way we could help Hammond was to go for lunch.
00:31:57And since it was a Monday and we were allowed to do a bit of work,
00:32:02we thought we'd find out which of our cars was best in traffic by racing to the restaurant.
00:32:07Last one there would pay the bill.
00:32:10Right, let the race begin.
00:32:15Immediately, it was advantage Lambo, because the Aventador has sat now.
00:32:20Your vote is being calculated.
00:32:23Yeah.
00:32:24Whereas on the McLaren, it's an option that hadn't been fitted.
00:32:34I'll come back to that.
00:32:36However, I did have some issues.
00:32:39The first problem is width.
00:32:42It's five centimetres wider than a Range Rover.
00:32:46It's very nearly as wide, in fact, as a London bus.
00:32:49But the biggest problem of them all is the gearbox.
00:32:55Flappy paddle boxes work okay on a track, they work okay on the open road,
00:32:59but in town, all of them are useless.
00:33:02It's...
00:33:04jerking along.
00:33:06And then when you want to exploit a gap, it's dimwitted and slow.
00:33:09This was especially bad in a city where there are 117 road accidents every day.
00:33:16Haven't actually seen one car yet that isn't dented.
00:33:19Look at that one there.
00:33:21A red light.
00:33:22That doesn't actually mean stop.
00:33:25Not in Italy.
00:33:26It means we're trying a red light now, in a minute we'll try a green one.
00:33:29It's not relevant to the actual traffic flow.
00:33:36What happened to that?
00:33:38Oh dear.
00:33:40What we're now going to do, and this is quite cool really,
00:33:44is turn onto the Via Appia, the ancient Roman road.
00:33:48And the suspension with its no anti-roll bars and its intelligent computer is doing quite well.
00:33:55Excellently, in fact.
00:33:57Well, isn't nobody using that middle bit?
00:33:59Yes!
00:34:01That's the ticket!
00:34:03Ah, now you see, I didn't actually think it would get quite that Roman.
00:34:13Er...
00:34:14I'm going to be overtaken by a smart car.
00:34:18By this stage I'd worked out why no one was using the middle bit.
00:34:25I've got myself on a railway line.
00:34:29Now what am I going to do?
00:34:32Sorry.
00:34:34Yep, now I'm basically going down a...
00:34:37Yes, I'm now driving down a railway and back when you can see.
00:34:39I can't even see this on the carpet.
00:34:42Ristorante Nino, Via Appia.
00:34:49Yeah, the ground clearance is very poor.
00:34:51OK.
00:34:55Soon though, after a short drive through a bit of history...
00:34:59No!
00:35:01...we were both near our destination.
00:35:04I was so close.
00:35:06What the f***?
00:35:08Now, the restaurant is coming up in 30 metres.
00:35:15There it is.
00:35:17All I had to do now was park.
00:35:20What's the matter with that now?
00:35:22It's too wide.
00:35:23You see, if I park there, I just block the whole street.
00:35:25Oh, God, no, you're joking.
00:35:27No!
00:35:30How do you park a Lamborghini here?
00:35:36Is that the Piazza?
00:35:38I think it is.
00:35:39See, I'm right on top of it.
00:35:41Via Victoria.
00:35:42It's correct!
00:35:44Right, parking space.
00:35:46F***ing hell, f***ing bum, f***ing arseholes.
00:35:50Parking, parking, parking, parking.
00:35:53It's the easiest thing in the world reversing a Lamborghini.
00:35:54You just get out of the car to do it.
00:35:59Can I go there?
00:36:00Why can't I go there?
00:36:01There's no lines.
00:36:02James May, get ready to lose.
00:36:11Have you seen a very long-haired man, an idiot?
00:36:15Here.
00:36:16After lunch, which I didn't bother with because I was paying, we decided to help Richard some more by going shopping.
00:36:29And then we got a bit of a surprise.
00:36:32That's Hammond.
00:36:33That's a different car.
00:36:34No, no, that's... God, no, this is still wet. Don't lean on it. I painted it.
00:36:45And then you thought, I'll put the steering wheel on this side.
00:36:48No, it's always been on that. You were looking at me in your rear-view mirror.
00:36:51That is... You have changed cars, Hammond.
00:36:55What?
00:36:57Oh, you're joking!
00:36:59Oh, come on!
00:37:01This isn't my car, mine's red.
00:37:03Because you haven't caused a stir.
00:37:05Buongiorno.
00:37:06I think people have come to see us.
00:37:11Is that first delivery driver?
00:37:13I mean, did that first repairman not say anything?
00:37:15No, no, I thought you could see me.
00:37:17I couldn't... Hello, I'm here.
00:37:18No, nothing.
00:37:19Anyway, can I just ask, how did a tiny little company like Noble get another car out there so quickly?
00:37:27And be serious, right? Be serious.
00:37:29Seriously? They drove it.
00:37:31A bloke drove it from the factory overnight all the way from Leicester to Rome in one hit.
00:37:36I've got to ask why I call service. Certainly, sir, I will send you another car.
00:37:40Well, it is Noble, you mean we'll send you THE other car.
00:37:43Yeah.
00:37:44Anyway, we will pick that up later on.
00:37:45Now, though, it is time to put a star in our reasonably priced car.
00:37:50Let me list some songs.
00:37:52I'm Not In Love, Wichita Lineman, Lady In Red.
00:37:56My guest tonight hasn't recorded any of those.
00:37:59That's because he's from an organisation called The Black Eyed Peas.
00:38:03Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Will Dot, I Dot, and Dot.
00:38:14How are you?
00:38:15Good to see you.
00:38:16Good to see you.
00:38:19Wow!
00:38:26Your email address must be a nightmare.
00:38:30Will Dot, I Dot, Am Dot, At Dot, A Dot, O Dot, L Dot, Da You K?
00:38:38I have never met anybody in my entire life who is apparently as busy as you are because you're a fashion designer, you've worked for Obama, starred in X-Men Origins and Madagascar.
00:38:52You run a scholarship fund for Disadvantaged Youngster, you're a creative director at Intel, okay, and you develop smart phones, you produce everyone in the world as we know, you make your own music, you star in a band which licenses songs to Levi's Pepsi, Honda, Blackberry, Bacardi and now you've started a car company.
00:39:10Yeah.
00:39:12What is it? Tell us about it.
00:39:14So, while I was working at Intel, you know, I found out a lot of the phones and the things that you have aren't really made by the name that's on the phone, right?
00:39:24So, there's all these companies in Southeast Asia that actually make all the equipment, so the screen.
00:39:29You mean the components?
00:39:30Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:39:31Then you put them together like a sandwich and then you, right, then you got your product and then I got into my car.
00:39:37I was like, I wonder how much it costs to make this Bentley that I'm driving.
00:39:41A Bentley?
00:39:42Yeah.
00:39:43About 38 pence.
00:39:44Right.
00:39:45Because it's just a Volkswagen with some wood on the dashboard.
00:39:49So, for the past two years we've been tooling, I've designed things on my computer.
00:39:53The first thing I did was a Thunder Vet where you took a Thunderbird and a Vet.
00:39:58I think we got a photograph of it, actually.
00:40:00Yeah.
00:40:01Yeah, that's a Thunder Vet.
00:40:02So, that's because, I mean, that looks like a 50s Vet.
00:40:04Well, I mean, you know, the white slash down the side is 50s Vet, but there's some Thunderbird in there as well.
00:40:08Yeah, yeah.
00:40:09So, the roof and stuff and then those wheels, those aren't white wall tires, that's a white wall rim with the five spoke inside of it.
00:40:17Oh, that's the actual rim?
00:40:19Yeah.
00:40:20That's fantastic.
00:40:21So, what engine has it got?
00:40:22So, that has a super-sized Corvette engine in it.
00:40:25And have you actually designed your own car now with its own body?
00:40:28Yeah, so that was just, you know, let's test what we can do with this.
00:40:32Uh-huh.
00:40:33And then from there we go on to something that we built from scratch.
00:40:36I think we've got a picture of it as well.
00:40:37Yeah, I Amato 88.
00:40:39Wow.
00:40:40That is, it's a bit like an old Maserati Quattroporte, except obviously it's two-door.
00:40:44And that's made in California?
00:40:45That's made down in the ghetto that I'm from.
00:40:48Really?
00:40:49Yeah, because my whole thing was, I'm going to make music so I can take care of my mom and move everybody in my family out the ghetto.
00:40:57So, if that's what I want to do, then it's going to keep me going.
00:41:00So, there's no no for an answer.
00:41:02So, now that I've done that, and now every single person in my family, from my cousins to my uncles to my nieces and my nephews are out the ghetto,
00:41:09I want to go back, back to my ghetto and build a car company.
00:41:14Like, we all complain about the undeveloped communities, but who's going to, who's the developers in the first place?
00:41:20So, I was like, well, shucks, I'm tired of complaining and pointing fingers.
00:41:23Why don't I, you know, aim that finger to me and say, hey, what are you doing to change the ghetto you're from?
00:41:31Do you know, you're one of the most inspiring people we've ever had sitting in that sofa.
00:41:36I've, it is though, isn't it?
00:41:40If anybody thought like that, we'd have 1.6 the same race as well.
00:41:46Can we just go into your car history? Where did it begin? What was your first car?
00:41:50So, I got a record deal when I was 17 and I bought myself, you know, because I always wanted, you know, a Ferrari or a DeLorean.
00:42:00Those are my favorite cars. I was like, ooh, I want one of those cars.
00:42:03But I couldn't afford those, so I got the poor man's Ferrari, which is a Fiero.
00:42:07Oh, yeah, that's really poor. That's even the poor man's MR2 is Pontiac Fiero.
00:42:12Yeah, I had the yellow one.
00:42:14Mid-engine, I was mid-engine, so it was kind of like a Ferrari if you were standing five miles away and squinting.
00:42:20And then, uh, my next-door neighbor, Perlene, snitched. She told my mom, like, ooh, Deborah, Willie got himself a new car, right?
00:42:30And then, um, my mom calls me in the house. She's like, boy, sit your butt down on this couch.
00:42:36I'm like, what, Mom? You ain't got no business buying yourself no G-damn car, right?
00:42:41I'm like, yeah, my butt. No butt nothing. Give me them damn keys.
00:42:46So, so since she confiscated my car, so I didn't, I couldn't drive until I was 20.
00:42:53So you just sat there? A $2,000? A car. For three years?
00:42:58For three years sat there, and then I couldn't wait until I was 20, then I could drive it.
00:43:02Um, Black Eyed Peas, how many records have you sold? It's millions and millions.
00:43:07Uh, like, uh, today, like 40-something million records.
00:43:1040 million. That is, it is massive, and you've got a new, yeah, 40 million.
00:43:19And you've now got, um, you've now got a solo album out, and it's called, it's squiggle squiggle hash tag willpower.
00:43:27No, it's just hash, hashtag willpower.
00:43:30Oh, there's squiggles. Oh, there's a hash. I just thought it was like a misprint.
00:43:36No, no, no.
00:43:38Have you ever been interviewed by somebody more old than me?
00:43:42Um, no.
00:43:46Now, you came down here, obviously, well, actually looking at your gloves to play golf, but, um, it isn't a golf thing.
00:43:55No, no, no, so, so the reason why I have fingerless gloves is because I got touch screen technology devices, so the last thing you want is in the cold, always have to like, what, my phone's ringing.
00:44:05No, because you can now buy gloves that have got fingerprint things on them, so even wearing, I've got a pair.
00:44:09They're not fashion, they're not fashion.
00:44:11That's the ugliest gloves in the world.
00:44:17They look pretty poor, I admit.
00:44:20You insisted, I believe, in driving the automatic car rather than the stick shift.
00:44:25Yeah.
00:44:26So, how, how did it go out there?
00:44:28I think I did pretty good, you know, if you, if you judge me on spinning.
00:44:33Well, now, who would like to see some of Will's spins?
00:44:37We have a selection, let's have a look, here we go.
00:44:41Yes, there we go, setting to the last corner.
00:44:44One's brass, he's held it!
00:44:46No, he hasn't!
00:44:47Oh, that was a good, that's a tank slapper, that one was.
00:44:50Yeah, that's a...
00:44:51Here we go again.
00:44:53Spinny!
00:44:57Did you, yeah, why are we applauding?
00:45:00Those are the mistakes.
00:45:02You probably want to have like a different, like, spin award.
00:45:06Yeah.
00:45:07Who would like to see the finished lap?
00:45:10Yes!
00:45:12Let's play the tape.
00:45:13Here we go.
00:45:17Who wants to spin with an automatic box?
00:45:19Like to see it.
00:45:20Alright, here we go.
00:45:23It's the first corner, wide line, like a Formula One driver.
00:45:28Tire squeal.
00:45:29Even in the wet.
00:45:31Oh, that's nicely done.
00:45:32That was nicely done.
00:45:34Break.
00:45:36And then a few words.
00:45:39It's nice and smooth through there.
00:45:40Good, wide line so you can get the power down.
00:45:43And up to the hammerhead.
00:45:45DEN-DEN-DEN-DEN.
00:45:46BOOM!
00:45:47BOOM!
00:45:48BOOM!
00:45:49BOOM!
00:45:50BOOM!
00:45:51Say the break part right here.
00:45:52BOOM!
00:45:53What's singing?
00:45:54To keep myself focused and stuff I was getting the kind of nervous.
00:45:56What in the lines?
00:45:57It's good.
00:45:58It's good.
00:46:00It's good see a posture VD now listen to that engine
00:46:05Wow
00:46:13Good through the flat set all there's a bit of dirt for the
00:46:18Through the tires
00:46:21Are we going to get through the set to last without a problem? I was cut perfectly and gambol
00:46:29And there we are, and across the line
00:46:43Now you're driving the automatic so that's slower obviously and it's raining so we're not looking for a particularly fast time
00:46:51But I'm trying to think that's the automatic drivers. We've only had two so far in this car
00:46:57They are John Prescott
00:47:00You don't know John Prescott. Hmm. He's a fashion designer
00:47:07Alice Cooper, okay, those are the only automatics and they're both 156 and they're wet
00:47:12Oh, yeah, both and wet days both driving automatics both in the 156.3 region
00:47:19Will dot I dot M dot
00:47:22You did it in one
00:47:2440
00:47:309.4
00:47:32So you get wet and auto and that's the fastest we've ever had in that car in those conditions
00:47:37Thank you
00:47:4723 from Essex below Jonathan Ross
00:47:50Stig did a good thing then
00:47:51Oh, yeah, no, that was I was impressive and you were trying
00:47:54I have to say it has been genuinely inspirational having you here and an enormous pleasure ladies and gentlemen. Thank you. Well, I am
00:48:01Thank you very very much
00:48:03Thank you very very much
00:48:05Thank you very very much. You're very good. You're happy
00:48:07Thank you
00:48:09Thank you
00:48:11Thank you
00:48:13Right
00:48:15Now
00:48:17We must get back to our big supercar test so far with established that my noble is the fastest and the most economical the most unreliable
00:48:25Yes
00:48:27And we've also established that the McLaren is the best around town and that Jeremy's big idiotic Lamborghini hasn't actually won anything
00:48:34Nothing
00:48:35Nothing
00:48:36Zero
00:48:37Nil
00:48:38Zilch
00:48:39Here
00:48:40Nowt
00:48:41The square root of Jack
00:48:42Nothing
00:48:43We've established that
00:48:44Let's move on because it's time now for part three in which we three must face the most dangerous thing we've ever done
00:48:51As we headed north to our date with destiny we started to think a little bit about how our cars compare to the daddy
00:49:04Three days ago if you'd said to me which would you rather have an Aventador or a Ferrari 458 and I said well the Ferrari I mean it's the obvious choice but now
00:49:16No
00:49:17No
00:49:18No, I'd have this
00:49:19I know a Ferrari 458 is just a technical masterpiece and it looks wonderful but this has got something the Ferrari doesn't have it hasn't
00:49:29It has a character
00:49:31It's like a big daft orange dog
00:49:34Everybody wants a big daft orange dog
00:49:40It's won me over completely
00:49:43It's not just the best car here
00:49:45It's better than the Ferrari 458
00:49:47For me it's one of the best cars in the world right now and I absolutely love it
00:49:51It feels like a race car but without the impracticality and discomfort
00:49:56But yes, they're a small make in the UK that nobody's ever heard of
00:50:01Well, at one time so was Mr Pagani making his Zomino
00:50:07So that's two votes against the Ferrari
00:50:11But what about James?
00:50:13This is brilliant, I've really really grown to like it and let's not forget
00:50:17It's £35,000 or so cheaper than the Ferrari 458
00:50:22And that is a huge amount of money
00:50:25But there's still, I don't know, the Ferrari, I think the gear change feels a bit crisper
00:50:32Everything feels a little better defined somehow
00:50:35It's the fizz I'm afraid, I can't explain it, I just, the Ferrari still gives me more fizz
00:50:41You have reached your destination
00:50:46The destination turned out to be a racetrack
00:50:51Called Imola
00:50:53Where after a quick change we were told to report to the pits for a challenge
00:51:00You will now lap the circuit attempting to beat the time set by a Ferrari 458
00:51:07Who's driving a 458?
00:51:09Says here he's not the Stig
00:51:11But he is the Stig's Italian cousin
00:51:14It's Bunga Bunga Stig
00:51:24What's he been doing?
00:51:26Cards
00:51:28Whatever it was he'd been doing
00:51:34He plainly still had plenty of energy left for driving
00:51:40And posted a daunting time of 1.56.6
00:51:46Before trying to beat that, we thought it best to spend a little time learning how our cars behaved on a proper racetrack
00:51:55That gear change in track mode is absolutely savage
00:52:07Ride that curve
00:52:10The four wheel drive system is breathtaking
00:52:13The power's constantly moving around, front, back, side to side
00:52:18So that you've always got the grip you need
00:52:20The good thing is, I have carbon brakes which will not fade
00:52:26More old Hammond has got steel brakes which will
00:52:29Focus
00:52:31Focus
00:52:32Smoothness
00:52:33A car like this with no driver aids, no computers messing about
00:52:37It's just you and the car
00:52:39The only chance I stand here is to get it out of the corners in such a shape that I can use that power
00:52:46Of course, the McLaren does have a lot of driver aids
00:52:52But Captain's sense of direction had more important things on his mind
00:52:56What's this one? I can't remember
00:52:58Now this is the bit where I don't have to brake
00:53:03Let's see if I can remember this bit
00:53:06At the end of the day, we knew the circuit and we knew our cars
00:53:11But still, we were not feeling even remotely confident
00:53:15Because this is Imola
00:53:18One of the most dangerous tracks on earth
00:53:21It's narrow, fast
00:53:24And ringed with unforgiving walls and trees
00:53:29Gilles Villeneuve
00:53:31Gerhard Berger
00:53:33Nelson Piquet
00:53:34Riccardo Patrese
00:53:36Rubens Barricello
00:53:38At some point in history, every corner here has claimed the ego of a big name
00:53:44And some corners have claimed even more than that
00:53:53After Senna's death in 1994, changes were made to the track to slow the cars down
00:53:59But even so, if we were going to beat that Ferrari
00:54:02We would still be going through the first bend at nearly 200 miles an hour
00:54:08So that night, each of us spent a little time alone with the cars we'd be using
00:54:18You are Juventus
00:54:23And tomorrow, you're taking on Woking Town and Leicester City
00:54:29And everybody in England is going to want them to win because they're the underdogs
00:54:35But don't you worry
00:54:37We haven't won a single challenge yet
00:54:43But tomorrow, that will change
00:54:47You're not going into battle armed with a sophisticated computer wizardry
00:54:52Clever suspension
00:54:54Four-wheel drive
00:54:55You're just going in with an engine
00:54:57Doing it the old-fashioned way
00:55:01Underdog or not
00:55:03I know you've got it in you now
00:55:05I'd love us to win
00:55:09Just remember, as we're going round
00:55:13And you're despairing of my terrible gear changes and my bad apexes and things
00:55:18You're made by McLaren
00:55:19You've got the best race pedigree of all these cars
00:55:22You've got clever suspension, you've got no roll bars
00:55:25You've got a computer, you can break the wheel for me
00:55:27You can virtually do it by yourself
00:55:29All you have to do is humour me a bit
00:55:32And remember that I'm Captain Slow
00:55:35Or Mr. Slowly, as the Italians call me
00:55:42The next morning, we ventured onto this terrifying track
00:55:45To try and beat the Stig's 156.6
00:55:55God, this is quick
00:55:59Oh, my giddy-up
00:56:02I'm off the road
00:56:04Pulling it again
00:56:07My God, I'm fast ahead
00:56:12This is outrageous
00:56:13Oh
00:56:18Now, faster than you think
00:56:20Don't be a wimp
00:56:24A bit of wee maybe coming out
00:56:29Don't brake too early
00:56:30Don't brake too early
00:56:31Now
00:56:32Oh
00:56:34Better
00:56:37And usually we were all taking this challenge very seriously
00:56:42So 5.4, 24.9
00:56:45202 death
00:56:46Oh no, I'm still on 207
00:56:49But we knew we'd have to try even harder if we were going to beat that Ferrari
00:56:53Right
00:56:54Right, come on, mate, you blithering idiot
00:56:55Right, come on, mate, you blithering idiot
00:56:57Avanti
00:57:02Good
00:57:04In
00:57:05Make them down
00:57:06Get cocky
00:57:09Get cocky
00:57:10The track will be there, keep it in
00:57:19Yes
00:57:21I am getting a bit mental here now
00:57:23Great
00:57:24Great
00:57:25Ooh, that's messy
00:57:26I'm going to go for fifth
00:57:27I'm going to just take as much through here as I bloody dare
00:57:28Oh
00:57:29Oh
00:57:30Oh
00:57:31Oh
00:57:33I'm going to go for fifth
00:57:34I'm going to go for fifth
00:57:35I'm going to just take as much through here as I bloody dare
00:57:37Oh
00:57:38Oh
00:57:39Oh
00:57:48Come on
00:57:51290
00:57:52Whoa
00:57:53Whoa
00:57:54Okay, brakes have gone
00:57:55Whoa, got fade from the brakes
00:57:59After my brakes had cooled and Hammond had emptied his car of gravel
00:58:04We went back out for one final attempt to beat the 458
00:58:10And the Lambo is unleashed
00:58:13Here we go, come on
00:58:17Okay, this is it, I'm doing this one for Leicester
00:58:21Right
00:58:22Beans
00:58:28That's it
00:58:35And now brake
00:58:38I've done the difficult bit
00:58:41It will go round, it will
00:58:44Come on
00:58:47And brake
00:58:50And back on the power as soon as you can
00:58:52Now
00:58:53Now, now power
00:59:06Stay right, stay right, stay right, stay right, stay right, stay right, now
00:59:13Stretch it, stretch it, stretch it, come on
00:59:15Come on
00:59:18Come on, come on
00:59:23You can do it, come on
00:59:24Come on
00:59:25Come on
00:59:38That looks as scary as it was
00:59:40Come on, scary
00:59:41Yes, you can do it
00:59:42Yes, you can do it to that palpable sense of
00:59:43Oh my God
00:59:45Because I have to say, as you go past the pits
00:59:48The track is not straight, it's a curve
00:59:51And you don't lift off because the crews
00:59:53Yes
00:59:54They can hear the engine node change
00:59:56So you have to keep your foot hard down
00:59:58It was terrifying
00:59:59And then you arrive at that, it is, well, 200 and...
01:00:01Over 200
01:00:03Over 200, all three of us doing over 200
01:00:04And that's faster than a Formula One car was going through there
01:00:08That they could only do about 180
01:00:10I don't know, because they had my eyes shut
01:00:12It was
01:00:14Anyway, it is time now
01:00:16To reveal who was the fastest of the three of us
01:00:19Richard Hammond
01:00:20I did it in two minutes and 3.3 seconds
01:00:24That's the best I could do
01:00:25Mr. Slowly
01:00:27Two minutes, 6.4
01:00:29Yes
01:00:30And you
01:00:31So?
01:00:32I don't know, it's so difficult not to look smug at this point
01:00:36Oh God
01:00:37It's not working
01:00:38One
01:00:39Ooh
01:00:4059.1
01:00:42Wow
01:00:43Oh my God
01:00:46David
01:00:47No, you're not putting it off
01:00:52It's not working
01:00:53It isn't, no, I'll forget it
01:00:54Let me just straighten this out, okay
01:00:56So, I mean, well done
01:00:57We gave it everything, each of us
01:00:59Yeah
01:01:00And we still didn't beat the Ferrari
01:01:01No
01:01:02No, no, well hang on though, but that's not really strictly relevant
01:01:04Because the whole point of this was to see which car you should have
01:01:06If you didn't want a Ferrari
01:01:08Yeah, it's the Lambo
01:01:09No
01:01:10Well it isn't
01:01:11It is the Lambo
01:01:12No, I admit it's not a brilliant track car
01:01:13Because at Nardo its tyres had to be changed, there was a problem there
01:01:16And somehow it boiled its carbon brakes at him, and I don't know how it did that
01:01:20But it is a big daft orange dog, and blue stuff comes out of the exhaust
01:01:27No
01:01:28No, no, look, that noble taught me more about driving in that one day than any other car has ever taught me
01:01:34It's about the real and diluted experience
01:01:36Silence
01:01:38The McLaren is the closest thing to the 458, which is the best, therefore the McLaren is the best car here, it's that simple
01:01:45Does blue stuff come out of the exhaust?
01:01:47No
01:01:48Exactly
01:01:49Well there you are
01:01:50The thing is, we can't agree
01:01:51And actually we never will
01:01:53No
01:01:54And on that bombshell, it is time to end
01:01:55Thanks very much for watching, see you next week
01:01:57Goodnight
01:01:58Goodnight
01:02:28You
01:02:29PROBAZIL
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01:02:36Hold on
01:02:37Aud matching
01:02:38Ashen
01:02:39Recrupin
01:02:40Ashen
01:02:41Ashen
01:02:42It's time
01:02:43In
01:02:45Town
01:02:46To
01:02:47Us
01:02:49In
01:02:51Stephen
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