Top Gear / Isle of Mann

[Biff]

I've been around the Nurburgring (yet another BiffBoast ™) in an Audi S3 as a passenger. The track is sooooo long it's impossible to learn the lines and coreners in a day. I don't remember the lap times we did though. I've mailed the guy I was with and await a reply.

Did you hear what the Mufker Clarkson called us all last night? As he was passing an R1 (I think) he said, "get out of my way homotorbiker". :eyepoke:

[gamgee]

he also made the call "GET OUT OF THE WAY BIKES, get a car and some proper clothes" then proceeded (once past them) to go straight over an apex, rather than round it, get overtaken by a VW golf and then have the car break down with the performance restricter kicking in for no reason, so now who's the homo?

[StoneChucker]

http://www.touringeurope.org/biker-t...g-the-ring.cfm

I really hope to ship my bike over to the land of Bratwurst and Rotkoln to hit the autobahn and Nurburgring!

[chris]

oh no, you wait till they have the aerial atom, he fully rips into bikes in that one, they race an aerial atom which is like a formula one car but road legal with a super charged type r engine in it, they race it against a cbr600 the cbr had it in the straight but as soon as it hit the corners the atom left the cbr for dead, the only car they have had go round the track quicker was the ferrari enzo, it's bloody funny though because it's out open air no windscreen or anything, and he's hitting up something like 160mph (no helmet either) and it's just tearing his face back as if he's in a wind tunnel or something, DO NOT MISS THAT EPISODE it's the best one of the series love the sound of that type R winding up through the supercharger sounds like a jet or something

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[gav]

If you have Grand Turismo 4 you can lap Nurberging, had a crack last night, couldnt find a Jag diesel but drove a 4 door XJS thingy in silver, 9m 36 sec first lap out, mind you, you can bounce off the armco a bit better on the PlayStation2 and doesnt slow you down too much

[betti]

Has to be said clarkson is an entertaining git, but M.A.G. in the Uk were up in arms at a column he writes in (I think) the times in which he was railing at bikers carvin through whichever posh home counties village he lives in.
The rant basically suggested that he was goin to string cheesewire across the road and decapitate bikers!.
Obviously controversy for controversy's sake, but there are a lot of mindless bike hating cretins in the Uk, and plenty of wire!!.
As for the TT, it is the most spectacular motorcycle racing I have ever seen, been a lot of times as I used to live 10 minutes from the heysham ferry. I have also had two friends die racing over there, they knew the risks and so do there family and friends, of course it is a tragedy, but bloody good on the I.O.M for sticking to their guns and holding the best bike racing festival anywhere in the world, dont forget most of the marshals are volunteers, and the festival is put together by fans and racers for fans and racers.
The world is a dangerous place and not everybody wants wrapping in cotton wool

[Jeremy]

Just got around to watching it. That's one nice track. I can just see myself going around at 100km/h trying to goad the GN250 to go faster :P

[Pixie]

In last night's Top Gear,Jeremy Clarkson's co-presenters attempt to embarass him further,by getting Sabine Shmidt,to do the circuit faster than Clarkson, in a standard Transit van.
The first attempt achieved 10:23 with a passenger and was further slowed by having to pass slow traffic such as wankers in Porsches and motorcyclists.
Then they stripped out the seats and anything else they could ,including the passenger and duct taped anything to improve airflow.They got a Dodge Viper to follow so they could slipstream,but towards the end she was yelling for the Dodge to go faster.
Unfortunately they could only get the time down to 10:08.
Still I don't think Jeremy has anything to be smug about.