- Jeremy Clarkson heads to Sweden to test the new Lamborghini Urus against driver Abbie Eaton. James May visits the Eboladrome in the Alpine A110 and Richard Hammond profiles Scottish racing driver Jim Clark.
- Jeremy Clarkson heads to Sweden to test the new Lamborghini Urus SUV on slushy, slippery roads and in an action-packed ice race across a frozen lake against Grand Tour driver Abbie Eaton in a Porsche 911 Turbo. Back in the UK, James May pays a rare visit to the Eboladrome to try the Alpine A110, a French sports car that hopes to succeed where most French sports car fail by getting more than two people to buy it, and Richard Hammond profiles Scottish racing driver Jim Clark, a quiet and modest man whose achievements on track made him arguably the greatest of all time, before his life was tragically cut short.
- Clarkson puts the Lamborghini Urus (engine 4L V8 from Porsche Panamera, Rear axle and suspension from Bentley Bentayga, Platform, and dash from Audi SQ7) through its paces in Arjeplog, Sweden. 0-60 in 3.6 secs. 189 mph. First Lamborghini to use turbocharging and an automatic gearbox. No Lamborghini soundtrack. Biggest carbon brakes ever on a sports car. 641 BHP. Bp 165,000. Clarkson Drives it up a ski slope to see if its proper off road car. It has normal tires, no low shift gear box, or a differential wheel drive. It weighs 2.4 tonnes and still easily goes up a ski slope. But just not as good as a range rover. Lastly racing Abbie Eaton in a Porsche 911 Turbo S on an Ice Track. The Urus easily drifts on the ice, much better than the range rover. Clarkson could not overtake Abbie in her Porsche, but he was able to keep up and for an off road car, that's astonishing.
May reviews the new Alpine A110 at the Eboladrome. A French sports car. The original A110 won the World Rally championship in 1973. Aimed at the Porsche Caymen and the Audi TT. Costs BP 51000. but for 1000 BP more, you get the TT RS, which is faster and more powerful. Also, Porsche Caymen costs BP 51000 and is also faster and more powerful. 1.8 L turbo 4-cylinder engine, 248 BHP, 0-60 in 4.5 secs, 155 mph. Body and chassis are made of aluminum. everything else on the car is designed to be lightweight. So its 300 kgs lighter than a Caymen or a TT. Has air con, satellite navigation, phone connectivity. Lower emissions due to less weight. May loves it so much that he buys one for himself. 1:23.7 on the Eboladrome.
Conversation Street: People like to buy old cars as they are good to look at and they appreciate economically. But they are terrible to drive, can't go above 40 mph before having all sorts of issues, no heating, no brakes. May owns a 40-year-old Ferrari 308 and its very slow. But some companies now modernize old cars, such as Singer Porsche (BP 400,000), Eagle E-type speedster (BP 650,000), Merc Pagoda SLs (Bp 300,000), A 1968 dodge charger (a 1000 BHP engine in the modernized version). But the re-imagined cars are expensive. The trio reckon that's coz their customers arrive in a helicopter, with a Ukrainian girlfriend and Lewis Hamilton's watch. If they in fact, called in to ask them to pick them up from the bus stop, the cars would be a lot cheaper.
Kalashnikov has built a new electric car. It's BAD looking. The company would probably sell a lot of merchandise, but not cars. A local newspaper reports that in an accident between a motorcycle and a tank, the driver of the tank was unharmed. Perhaps un-necessary. A new car racing tournament for ladies, called the W series, with prize money of BP 1.1 MM. But Hammond reckons its sexist to segregate motor sport by gender, when they compete in dressage, sailing etc. But Clarkson and May think these 2 aren't really sports. Clarkson says that it's been 43 years since the last woman entered F1 motor sport and Hammond says it cause most mothers put their girls on ponies and not go-karts. Then Hammond goes on a tirade against tall horses, who crap all over, and cheat with your wives as wives grow fond of its penis and its muscled legs and want a custom trailer to take them around, and a special car for the custom trailer, and then a great big lorry to carry the horse cross country.
Hammond pays tribute to racing legend Jim Clark. Apr 7th, 1968, Jim Clark was killed in a F2 race in Hockenheim in Germany. He was one of the 127 racing drivers killed on tracks that year alone. He is the best racing driver of all times. In California, a radio jock asked listeners to turn on their headlights as a mark of respect and the highways lit up. Jim learned motor sport in the 50s and was signed by Lotus boss Colin Chapman for his F1 team in 1960. He drove the Lotus 25 to glory of a world championship in 1963. His car made 210 BHP from 1.5 L but made 180 mph. Monocoque chassis meant it was lighter and quicker. In 1965, Jim did 63 races (won 31, and finished on podium 8 more times) in F1, British F2, and French F2, Tasman series, touring cars and the Indie 500. Jim won 11/15 races in Tasman. Won the Brit and French F2. for indie 500, he raced a special lotus producing 500 BHP. Jim, up against seasoned American racers, won by over 2 minutes. Clark was very precise and very smooth. As a result, he got the max power out of his cars, while never putting any stress on it. After a race, parts of Jimmy's car were pristine.
In one race, his gear box let go and he won that race, driving at 160 mph, in wet, for over an hour with one hand keeping the gear in place. By 1965, his Lotus 25 was a 3 yr old design. He still won against reigning world champ John Surtees. He won all races and held the world title once more. 1966 and 1967 were a disaster with multiple mechanical failures. But in 1968 Lotus brought the 49. Jim won the first race in South Africa. he died in his next race. Crash was due to a deflating tire and Jim died from a broken neck. He was 32. He won 25 of his 73 races (better % than even Schumacher). 33 pole positions. 8 grand slams (pole position, won the race and led every lap of the race). Schumacher has 5. He was Senna's boyhood hero.
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