LFS Forum - Top Gear Discussion

#1 - ethan520

Top Gear Discussion

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:38

Talk about anything to do with Top Gear

#2 - amp88

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:01

There are already a few threads on Top Gear dotted about the place, if you search for them.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=18750
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=16525
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=12946

etc

#3 - Mikkel Petersen

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:01

Quote from ethan520 :Talk about anything to do with Top Gear

thank you.

#4 - deggis

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:27

I have a sexual fantasy that includes Jeremy.

#5 - ethan520

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:18

those are events that happened; not a free discusion zone

#6 - Mustafur

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:07

Is it me or am i the only one that has noticed that the Veyron hasn't set a time around the track!

#7 - hiroshima guy

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:46

Yeah Veyron haven't set a lap in Dunsfold track! Top Gear just doesn't want that car to pwn every other cars and then future cars won't be able to beat it.

#8 - mr grady

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:00

Quote from hiroshima guy :Yeah Veyron haven't set a lap in Dunsfold track! Top Gear just doesn't want that car to pwn every other cars and then future cars won't be able to beat it.

didnt they say that bugatti wouldnt let them do it, and if anyone had a veyron, would they lend it to them.

yeah, right.......ive got two sat on my driveway, want mine or the wifes?

#9 - Hoppers

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:35

Well, the Stig made the Koenigsegg eat a whole tyre, so I bet the guys at Bugatti thought it would be a bad idea to let them drive the Veyron. It doesn't like eating tyres you see.

#10 - Niels Heusinkveld

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:16

Its not likely that the Veyron would set the quickest lap anyway!

#11 - ethan520

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:19

Quote from Hoppers :Well, the Stig made the Koenigsegg eat a whole tyre, so I bet the guys at Bugatti thought it would be a bad idea to let them drive the Veyron. It doesn't like eating tyres you see.

It wasn't that the "stig" didn't have downforce, It was because of the setup and the one that ate tyres had a slightly oversterry setup.

Top Gear
A pre-production CCX was featured on the May 7, 2006 episode of BBC motoring programme Top Gear. It was test-driven by Jeremy Clarkson, who praised the car highly but criticised its lack of downforce, which he attributed to the lack of a rear spoiler. He also claimed it was a replacement for smoking, saying it 'is the worlds most expensive nicotine patch'. The first power lap time was 1:20.4 seconds, with The Stig encountering short-shifting problems. Later in the same episode, The Stig lost control of the car during his second attempt to beat the Pagani Zonda F's time (1:18.4 around the Dunsfold Park track); the Stig also went on to suggest that the car would be significantly faster and more stable with a spoiler (according to Clarkson, as the Stig never speaks on camera). Koenigsegg then said that they would put a rear spoiler on the car and bring it back to Top Gear for further testing.
For the May 28, 2006 episode of Top Gear, Koenigsegg had supplied a CCX fitted with a rear wing. The Stig had another attempt, this time setting a new lap record—1:17.6. The carbon-fibre rear wing is available as optional equipment, though it drops the car's top speed to 242 mph from 250 mph.
On the episode of The Stig's crash, Jeremy Clarkson claimed that with the Koenigsegg CCX, he had found a substitute for smoking. He said "Unlike any other supercar [...] this doesn't feel sanitized or tamed". Clarkson continued "It's just completely wild and mad. It's raw, vicious, unbridled power." The Koenigsegg is able to virtually match the performance of the Bugatti Veyron, despite it having approximately 200 bhp less, because it is approximately 700 kg lighter.
In June 2006, Swedish car magazine Bilsport published an on-line article where Koenigsegg press contact Lotta de Salvatore claimed that the improved lap time was not thanks to the rear wing, as the Top Gear presenters claimed. Instead, a better chassis set-up had allowed The Stig to improve the Koenigsegg CCX's lap time by 2.8 seconds.

The reason The Stig went off the first time was that we hadn't had time to set the car up properly, it was oversteering slightly. For the second attempt the CCX had a perfect set-up and better grip. The wing doesn't do any good at the speeds seen on the Top Gear track, only above 300 kph does it start helping. – Lotta de Salvatore, Bilsport

(redicted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenigsegg_CCX)

#12 - ajp71

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:46

I agree with Niels, I seriously doubt it could be faster round the track than other considerably lighter supercar machinery, and certainly not as fast as other super light road cars (ie. Radicals) that have never had their laps counted on the board.

#13 - hiroshima guy

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:36

Quote from ethan520 :Stig never speaks on camera

Yes he does! Watch THIS and you know...

#14 - ethan520

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:40

#15 - ethan520

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:41

errm it says it's redicted from wikipedia

#16 - BlakjeKaas

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:22

Quote from hiroshima guy :Yes he does! Watch THIS and you know...

I like that it's Dutch. Too bad that I missed that. =(

#17 - hiroshima guy

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:52

Quote from ethan520 :errm it says it's redicted from wikipedia

It is not redirected from Wikipedia...

It's a straight link to YOUTube.

Oh here's another one:
Top Gear Reliant Robin Space Shuttle (Part1)
Top Gear Reliant Robin Space Shuttle (Part2)

#18 - jayhawk

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:18

Ben Collins is the Stig? See page 5, point 37.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/releases/richardhammond.pdf

#19 - srdsprinter

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:11

Quote from jayhawk :Ben Collins is the Stig? See page 5, point 37.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/releases/richardhammond.pdf

Interesting Find Jay!

#20 - deggis

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:36

Nice find... btw wikipedia says:

Appearing on a New Zealand Motorsport television programme called 'Pit Lane' on January 17th 2007, A1GP team manager and British motorsport personality David Sears was questioned if he knew the identity of the Top Gear test driver known only as "The Stig". Without hesitation and in a very matter-of-fact manner he replied, "Oh, you want to know who the Stig is... Ben Collins, he's a British sportscar driver, Ben Collins".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Collins_%28driver%29

#21 - duke_toaster

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:29

Quote from The HSE, Page 5 (what Jay linked to) :37. The preliminary arrangements for the event had been made at arm’s length, with the result that, as the date of the Elvington shoot approached, no-one from Top Gear had actually met PTLE’s principals or seen their jet cars. The jet car feature was considered to be sufficiently unusual and hazardous for GW to ask BC (Ben Collins), who worked closely with Top Gear as a high performance driver and consultant, to go and see PTLE and Vampire, and to prepare a briefing for RH (Hammy). It was felt that, with his extensive motor sport experience, he would be able to confirm PTLE’s competence and the quality of their equipment, and be able to see through them if they were not genuine. (This was a significant step because Top Gear had not used BC in this way before.)
38. BC visited PTLE’s premises near Northampton on Monday 18th June. He seems to have been convinced of their bona fides. He telephoned PD to confirm his conclusions and prepared a briefing paper that he e-mailed to GW. This described Vampire’s controls and tried to prepare RH for the experience of driving the jet car.

So, they had used him before ... so he probably might be the stig. However, I wouldn't be surprised if they had multiple stigs, for the F1 car it was Hiekki Kolvalinaen (SPtastic), for the MC Hammer it was it's owner (Frank Mountain) ... I wouldn't be surprised if it was one of several ex-BTCC guys floating around.

#22 - Blackout

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:43

Quote from duke_toaster : for the F1 car it was Hiekki Kolvalinaen (SPtastic),

I heard it was Heikki Kovalainen.

#23 - Dygear

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:15

Remember what JK was quoted as saying when they tried to borrow his Enzo?

"Yeah, you can if you let me borrow your daughter, 'coz it amounts to the same thing", who knows, maybe the Pink Floyd drummer is coming out with a new book soon and he happens to own one.

#24 - hiroshima guy

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:49

That's not JK it's JC...

#25 - the_angry_angel

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:39

JayKay AKA JK (Jamiroquai front man), not Jeremy Clarkson.

Since when has JC owned at Enzo?