Top Gear: Extra Gear (2016) s03e01 Episode Script
Episode 1
1 Hi, I'm Rory Reid and welcome to the very first Extra Gear.
Over the next six weeks, we're going to give you exclusive access to all things Top Gear.
Tonight, I'm going to tell you more about the new rallycross track.
I've also plucked up the courage to get inside a car with Sabine.
And speaking of maniac drivers, if you watch a thing called the internet and you know about your cars, then you'll know this guy.
It's my co-host, Chris Harris.
This is the outrageous Ariel Nomad.
You've already seen Matt leaping around the desert in it.
We're going to learn more about Somerset's finest off-road supercar during a full lap of the Top Gear test track.
Brilliant.
Thanks, Chris.
If you survive that, Chris and me will be talking through this week's news and we'll be joined by comedian Chris Ramsey.
That's how we roll.
This is Extra Gear.
All right, let's go and have a quick word.
- How are we doing, chaps? - Good.
How are you? - Nice.
Nice workout there.
Good to see you.
- Good to see you.
Chris, new series, new studio.
- New studio.
- New cars.
- A lot of new people.
- A new audience.
But also new track.
- Where did that come from? - The new track Well, we thought about, you know, what do you change and what don't you change? And we all love the track, but we just thought it was about time it changed.
They changed the car over the last few years, every now and again, but we thought, "OK, what could make it more interesting, "from a visually more interesting?" And we like a bit of water.
Everybody loves the log flume and we love a bit of air, you know? And we love a bit of off-roading.
Sabine, you're the ace racing driver.
What is the secret to setting a top lap around this new circuit? Yeah, you know, you have tarmac and then you have all that mud and the jumps.
So if you go out of the mud, you have dirty tyres, so you don't be too aggressive after that.
Obviously, it has no ABS, so be gentle with the brakes, that you don't lock too much, because then you just go straight, have a lot of understeer.
OK, we'll remember that.
You two went head-to-head in America and the Viper won.
I think you liked it, but would you buy one? - No, I wouldn't buy a Viper.
- Why not? I just It's just not my kind of car.
I mean And also, I've driven one.
The cars I You do it at a track for a day or whatever.
But it was great fun.
It was I'll tell you why I wouldn't buy one.
Because she doesn't come with a Corvette chasing you.
And that's what you really need to get the most out of that car.
OK, cool.
Now, Sabine, you actually brought an ace Top Gun pilot to its knees and you have history with this.
Not my fault.
Not my fault.
What is it about your driving? Why don't you? Why don't you take him out? Yeah! This is what you need to find Join our club! The time will come.
The time will come, don't worry.
Then he will be very pale! They call her the Queen of the Nurburgring.
- She's the Queen of the Vomit Comet.
- Yes.
- That's what she is.
All right, cool.
Well, I'm going to not take up too much more of your time.
- Sabine, give him a lift home for me, please.
- No! No! All right, you saw the Nomad earlier in Morocco with its desert boots on, but now we're about to find out how good it is on the track.
Chris Harris, take it away! So here we are in the insane Nomad.
What can I tell you about it? Well, double wishbone suspension all round, like a racing car on stilts, really.
Rather expensive Ohlins dampers.
Look, I'm not struggling for oversteer.
I also am having my contact lenses blown out of my eyes! It brakes really well.
Great big Alcon front discs.
This one's supercharged.
That's why I'm struggling with the oversteer.
300 horsepower, 680kg, and built, as we said, in Somerset, of all places.
I can smell the cider from here! What's it like to be the Hammerhead? Lovely short gear ratios.
I'm not struggling for oversteer, as you can see.
Whoa! I don't know what kind of a car it is, really.
It's not so much a car as a kind of general workout.
A great big assault on your senses.
Whoohoo! It hasn't got so much grip that it's not fun, but it's not so stupid that you're sideways absolutely everywhere.
You know what? It's a triumph.
Ohlins dampers.
It's got all the names behind it.
It's the most wonderful, wonderful punch-up of a car.
It's a different kind of driving.
It's just completely raw.
Completely analogue and I love it! Thanks, Chris.
Now, that was the track we all know and love, but earlier, we saw Gordon and Jesse tear it up on the brand-new rallycross course.
And this is how it all came together.
With a massive challenge ahead, who better to guide the way than a true rallycross champion? Hi, I'm Liam Doran.
I race FIA World Rallycross.
And I've been asked to try and help advise from the design stage of the rallycross track.
We've got a 22-tonne excavator.
We've got two five-tonne excavators.
A tonne roller.
And we've also got a track dumper.
And two forklifts.
It's very fast and open.
It's going to have a good surface and it's got a few technical bits, like a jump and a water splash.
It looks good and it's got a great potential.
It should be easy to drive it as fast as you want.
You know, the more cautious drivers are just going to be able to drive it like they would on the tarmac.
The braver ones are going to be able to have a bit of fun.
And we've got a little bit of concrete on the hairpin to finish, we've got a little bit of tidying up on the soils, just around, and we're nearly there.
Finally, we've made it to test day and we're itching to find out how it will all come together.
New car, new track, new Top Gear So this is it, the brand-new, low-grip component of the new Top Gear test track.
They'll hit this for the first time and be absolutely terrified, because there's not much grip in this thing at all.
It's extremely slippery.
Especially now.
It is very bouncy.
The second they hit this surface, they still have to brake quite hard, because there's a right-hander coming up.
If they don't get that right, if they don't get it slowed down, they can find themselves hitting the bank over here, catching a wheel and flipping off onto the grass.
You don't want to get too close.
You don't want to do that.
Next up is the water hazard, arguably the biggest challenge on the new track.
As you approach it, there's a massive sense of trepidation.
How deep is it? How will it affect the handling of the car? Will it hurt? If you make it through, things get even more interesting.
Straight through the water.
Didn't hurt too much.
Next up is Hammerhead.
Tricky enough.
Hammerhead.
Very slippery.
Especially on this rubber.
But you then have to transition back onto the line, towards this, the hairpin.
This feels like a first-gear corner.
A little bit of handbrake.
Designed to slow you down before the next big obstacle.
And when I say big, I do mean big.
This is the jump, the daddy of obstacles on our new track.
You'll hit this at about 50mph.
Foot to the floor.
Whoo-oo! That's great! I love that! It's back onto the main surface and around to complete the rest of your lap.
But that is so much fun.
That is good.
That is good.
They're going to love that.
Absolutely love that.
Whoo-oo-oo! In true Top Gear fashion, no test day is complete without the Stig.
It's time to unleash the Stig.
And here he comes in the brand-new car.
Very sideways into the low-grip bit of the surface there.
He's got to scrub up enough speed around that corner to not roll it onto the bank.
Then he hits the water hazard Very spectacular.
And the next big point on this track is to get across Hammerhead.
Very interested to find out how he takes this jump the first time round.
Will he go flat out? He's got some air there.
Next step, transitioning back onto the asphalt.
That low-grip and high-grip section.
But that's what today's all about -- having a bit of fun, testing it and seeing if we can get it as spectacular and as enjoyable as we can for our celebrities.
That new track is something else, isn't it, Chris? It's fantastic.
It's got something of everything.
It's got fast stuff, slow stuff, it's got slip angles, but also danger.
I love danger.
- Look at this from last week.
See that? - Is that you? Yeah, look at that.
Four feet in the air.
Nice.
All right, shall we get our special guest out? Yeah! OK, cool.
Well, not many people know, but this man, he's the love child of Chris Evans and Gordon Ramsay.
It's Chris Ramsey, and here he is in action.
When people think you're a Geordie, they think you're a bit rough and up for a scrap.
That's not me at all.
Look at the state of us.
That's not me.
Though we don't do ourselves any favours.
The Angel of the North, that's not an angel.
That's just a bloke starting a fight.
Give it up for Chris Ramsey! - Welcome.
- Thank you.
- Great to have you on the show.
Before we get started, though, I want to get some Chris admin out of the way.
There's too many Chrises.
We've got Harris, we've got Evans, we had Ramsay on earlier.
You must have a nickname.
Just Ramsey.
Just Yeah.
I'm sorry, nothing sexy, nothing cool, just Ramsey.
Just my surname.
It's still quite confusing, though.
We had Gordon Ramsay earlier.
I'm sorry, mate.
Blame the bookers, man.
I'm just here for the craic! Well, listen, mate, you're one of the busiest comedians in the country.
You must clock up a fair few miles up and down the land.
- Yeah.
- What do you drive? See, I don't tour in my own car.
We've got something else.
But my car, I drive a BMW X5.
OK.
Strong choice.
Strong choice.
Yeah, it's got bird poo on the front, as well.
We'll ignore that.
That's black-on-black.
Fully gangstered out.
No, fully murdered out, that's what we call it.
It looks really chavvy in that photo.
I'm really devastated.
I took that in a train station, like, on the way here.
Yeah, I got it like that.
I didn't do that to it.
No, that's solid.
I have an off-roader, as well.
It's the same spec.
Black wheels, black windows.
- Chris, you love these, don't you? - No.
It just looks like you're trying to sell drugs from it, to me.
Well, you know, it's a nice little sideline.
- I'm making a few quid.
- Well, fair play.
But my reason for having this car is that it's like a tank and I've got my baby and he's only six months old and whenever you see us pull over, it's not to sell drugs, it's normally to put his dummy back in.
So it's not sexy or cool at all.
It's rubbish.
But, yeah, I really like it.
It's like my living room.
It's like driving around in my living room.
That's the only reason I got it.
I'm not a boy racer.
I'm not - It was like that when I got it.
- All right, cool.
First time on the show.
I want to know about the first car you ever had and some memories behind that.
It was a Clio, Renault Clio.
You know they did the square one, years ago? I got it when I was 17.
It was square.
It wasn't the square one.
It was the next one from the square one.
Round lights, yeah? One point It said 1.
1, but it was actually a one-litre.
And it was er it was £4,000, 17,000 miles on the clock it had when I bought it.
- Modified? - Yeah.
It did, actually, yeah.
- A bit of a boy racer.
- Yeah, yeah.
I got alloys on it.
I bought them off a guy who wrote his Clio off.
Should've saw that coming.
They were buckled.
They broke my prop shaft, drive shaft on it and it had a little spoiler on it - and I had some Lexus lights on it, as well.
- Impressed by that? Are you a Clio man? The Clio's not bad, but looking back now What do you like? What's wrong? - I like nice cars.
- That's ridiculous! That's nice cars! That's what I say to my wife, "What do you want for tea?" And she says, "Something tasty.
" Name something! - Porsche 911.
- Well, that's out of my price range! There you go, there you go.
As a 17-year-old boy back in 1938, what were you driving? I had a little Mini and I didn't have Lexus lights.
This is the key thing Looking back, are you ashamed of the car that you drove back then? Could you drive it now with a straight face? No.
I remember once, I took a girl on a date.
I don't know where we went.
And when we walked back to the car park and I walked back to my Clio, I thought I was class.
It had alloy wheels.
I thought it was amazing, right? And she was like, "Is that your car?" I said, "Yes".
She said, "That's not your car.
" And I was like, "She's impressed.
" But she was actually thinking, "My God, that is not your car?! "I've just been on a date with you, you cretin! "Look at the state of that car!" All right, cool.
if we were going to go to maybe dream car territory, what would you buy? Dream car You know, I always thought they were out of reach, because you couldn't get them over here, but Ford Mustang.
- You can get them over here now.
- Solid choice.
- They're beautiful.
- Finally, I think we agree on that, Chris.
- Oh, absolute approval.
- Oh, get in! - But with a V8 engine.
It has to be the V8, yeah? - Yeah.
- Well, now he's a family man.
You've got the EcoBoost version, as well.
- I didn't know that was an option.
- Really good fuel economy.
- Does it fit the baby seat in the back? - Yes, you can.
- Good.
- Is there holders for the dummies? - Yes.
I think I've just ruined the whole point in having a Mustang! A little birdie tells me you're a big fan of Lego.
- Is that right? - Love it.
- Cool.
Well, we've got you a little gift.
Let me reach into my You've got a glove box under that chair? - It's my X5 seat.
- Wow! - There you go.
It's a little Lego Mustang.
- Oh, my God! - It's five-litre, as well.
- Look at that.
- It does make me smile.
- It's lovely.
- Look at that! - It's the GT 500 with a white stripes and everything.
- Oh, my God.
- It's even got blacked-out windows.
- It has, like my chavvy car.
Yeah.
Brilliant.
Chris Ramsey, thank you for joining us.
- Thank you.
- Give him a round of applause, please.
Good stuff.
Right, now it's time to talk news.
Chris Harris, we've seen some big news lately like the CVR announcement.
Basically, they're announcing five new models by 2017.
- Are they going to do it? - I think I'll believe it when I see it, Rory.
I'm not sure it's going to happen, but let's see.
The one thing I'm genuinely excited about is the new Alfa Giulia.
Look at this thing This is an Italian police car, wrapped on a Giulia and it's basically a three litre, V6, 503 bhp, zero to 60 in under four seconds.
190mph.
- That's my kind of car.
- It's fantastic, isn't it? Is the Italian we've been waiting for for so long and I love it in those colours, as well.
Yeah, the only thing is, though, you can't actually get arrested in this thing.
They use it for special missions, like transporting organs to people and escorting VIPs.
So what we're saying is, if you have a massive crash, because you've turned the traction control off, as your organs fail, you can just stuff new ones in.
I guess so.
I guess so.
It is impressive, though.
I think, erm I don't know, you're an M3 man.
You like that car.
Would you see yourself in one of these instead? Absolutely.
I think the world needs great, beautiful, fast Italian cars.
- And this is one of them.
- OK.
Does anyone remember the G-Wiz? The electric car? - Yeah.
- Yeah, OK, well, they're back.
The company that made those, Reva, have this thing.
And it's probably just as hideous.
It's called the Mahindra e2o.
I mean it's just everything that I don't like about cars in one box.
Isn't it just terrible? Can't you accept the fact that maybe this is the kind of direction we should be going in, embracing electric technology and kind of giving people the option of having zero emissions? I'm not a Luddite, Rory.
However, Tesla make an electric car that will do zero to 100 in about five seconds.
- That is an embarrassment.
- OK.
It's also got some cool things, though.
For example, you can open the doors with an app on your smartphone.
You just press a button, the doors open.
But what's wrong with a handle? - It's - So you are a Luddite! Well, it just answers questions no-one's ever asked before.
Get rid of it.
Go away.
Annoyingly, though, I think it might actually be the future, or some vision of it.
You'll know this Car manufacturers are now trying to cater for everyone's needs with a single model.
Examples are there like the E-class, the new F-Pace, which is half SUV, half sports car, half luxury car.
It's a bit of everything in one package.
But now we actually know what the perfect car is and it's, allegedly, this thing Wonderful, isn't it? Yeah? No, it looks like one of those fish from the deep ocean that's never seen light.
It's awful.
Awful thing.
It's basically the result of a project by a university professor that takes in the opinions of 2,000 British people and this is what we get.
Basically, the best car parts from various things.
And that is, allegedly, perfect.
Well, it's not, is it? But it does lead us into a perfect game.
So I'm going to test your knowledge on these cars, OK? So you've got to name where these various components have come from, Rory, OK? - I can do that.
- So from the front, please.
What's this? That looks like an Aston I'm going to go - .
.
Vantage? - No, DB9.
Quite close.
Door handles.
There's got to be something in there.
That's suicide doors.
Coach doors from a Rolls-Royce.
I like that.
A Phantom, specifically, being a geek.
And this is the one that really freaks me out, cos a survey voted the best-looking door mirror to a? - What's that? Citroen? - Oh, come on! How did you guess that? - Is it a Citroen? - It's a C4 Picasso, of all things.
Look, let's face it, when the British public are asked to vote on something, they call a boat Boaty McBoatface.
- So this is total bunkum.
- Yeah, cool.
Thankfully, though, I don't think they were entirely serious.
Now, this being a brand-new team and a new series, we've been trying to get to know each other a little bit.
- Am I right, Chris? - I love you, Rory.
That's a bit weird! All right, cool.
So I took myself down to Sabine's house in the heart of the Nurburgring to see what she's really about.
Meet the latest race offering from Porsche.
This is Sabine's GT3 R, with 470 bhp, it's capable of zero to 60 in three seconds.
This is amazing, man.
Well, this is the Frikadelli workshop.
A lot of people know you as the Queen of the Ring, but they don't know that you're part of a fully fledged racing team.
Oh, yeah.
I am.
So we built this garage a couple of years ago and this is our car.
- OK, so you and your partner Klaus, you run the team.
- Yes.
Explain to me the background behind the team.
So, Team Frikadelli, what's behind the name? Frikadelli means meatball.
And Frikadelli is the nickname of Klaus because he has the biggest company in Germany.
He is the meatball don, isn't he, of the world, basically? Yeah.
The King of the Meatballs! And this is the fastest meatball in the world.
The King of Balls! Yes.
You compete in the Nurburgring 24, you did Daytona recently, as well.
I've won 60 races.
Twice the 24-hour race.
- That explains all the trophies over there.
- Yeah, yeah.
And this is actually the 20th anniversary of your first race win, isn't it? - You're right.
- Yes, exactly, yeah.
- Oh, 20 years! - You're competing again this year.
- I'm old! - You're not that old.
- Oh! - You're experienced.
We have to win this year, yeah? The workshop was seriously impressive, but I was itching to get out on the road, so I got Sabine to show me what she does best.
So this is the famous Nurburgring taxi.
Yes, it's my race taxi.
That's all I call it.
Do me a favour, please.
Don't make me sick, cos I know what you're like.
I've seen how you've treated the Top Gun pilot.
I don't want that same treatment.
Now it's your turn! Whoo-oo-oo! So your first lap on the Nurburgring was when you were aged, what, 16? - 17? - 17.
I was waiting for years to get the driver's licence and then I couldn't wait any more, so I said, "OK, it's just a couple.
I can take my mum's car.
" You stole your mother's car? Yeah, yeah.
So I took her BMW 316.
- Not too much power, rear-wheel drive.
- Yeah.
- Still have some fun with it.
- Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
So I took that car and I went to the gate and the guys said, "Oh, Sabine, congratulations.
"You are already 18 years old.
"You have a driver's licence.
Well done.
" I said, "Yeah, let's go!" And disappeared! And it was so much fun.
After experiencing the Porsche, we headed back to Sabine's home, complete with a full Canadian log cabin and saloon.
Wow! What? Explain it to me.
What's going on? It was always a dream for me to have my own saloon.
My idea was originally to build a little log home like this, but just smaller.
Way smaller.
And then my boyfriend said, "No, we'll build a log home, "but bigger.
" It's not your usual German countryside set-up.
It's so big, she's even got room to house some pretty wild friends.
It's like a dog.
It just comes running over.
Yeah, but when you come in, it will kill you.
- Oh, really? - Yes.
Maybe we should leave now.
Look, she's about to eat you.
Yeah, she wants to eat me now.
- Shall we go? - OK.
- Vamos! - Very, very weird.
We don't have that kind of thing in South London.
- Only on a plate! - Yeah.
Well, that's it from us.
A big thank you to Chris Ramsey.
Next week, Stephen K Amos will be with us.
I'll be giving you the inside scoop on the new McLaren and we'll be delving deeper into the Lamborghini Hurricane's double buttress rear deck treatment.
- Curious, aren't you? - Yes, please.
Cool.
Thank you and goodnight!
Over the next six weeks, we're going to give you exclusive access to all things Top Gear.
Tonight, I'm going to tell you more about the new rallycross track.
I've also plucked up the courage to get inside a car with Sabine.
And speaking of maniac drivers, if you watch a thing called the internet and you know about your cars, then you'll know this guy.
It's my co-host, Chris Harris.
This is the outrageous Ariel Nomad.
You've already seen Matt leaping around the desert in it.
We're going to learn more about Somerset's finest off-road supercar during a full lap of the Top Gear test track.
Brilliant.
Thanks, Chris.
If you survive that, Chris and me will be talking through this week's news and we'll be joined by comedian Chris Ramsey.
That's how we roll.
This is Extra Gear.
All right, let's go and have a quick word.
- How are we doing, chaps? - Good.
How are you? - Nice.
Nice workout there.
Good to see you.
- Good to see you.
Chris, new series, new studio.
- New studio.
- New cars.
- A lot of new people.
- A new audience.
But also new track.
- Where did that come from? - The new track Well, we thought about, you know, what do you change and what don't you change? And we all love the track, but we just thought it was about time it changed.
They changed the car over the last few years, every now and again, but we thought, "OK, what could make it more interesting, "from a visually more interesting?" And we like a bit of water.
Everybody loves the log flume and we love a bit of air, you know? And we love a bit of off-roading.
Sabine, you're the ace racing driver.
What is the secret to setting a top lap around this new circuit? Yeah, you know, you have tarmac and then you have all that mud and the jumps.
So if you go out of the mud, you have dirty tyres, so you don't be too aggressive after that.
Obviously, it has no ABS, so be gentle with the brakes, that you don't lock too much, because then you just go straight, have a lot of understeer.
OK, we'll remember that.
You two went head-to-head in America and the Viper won.
I think you liked it, but would you buy one? - No, I wouldn't buy a Viper.
- Why not? I just It's just not my kind of car.
I mean And also, I've driven one.
The cars I You do it at a track for a day or whatever.
But it was great fun.
It was I'll tell you why I wouldn't buy one.
Because she doesn't come with a Corvette chasing you.
And that's what you really need to get the most out of that car.
OK, cool.
Now, Sabine, you actually brought an ace Top Gun pilot to its knees and you have history with this.
Not my fault.
Not my fault.
What is it about your driving? Why don't you? Why don't you take him out? Yeah! This is what you need to find Join our club! The time will come.
The time will come, don't worry.
Then he will be very pale! They call her the Queen of the Nurburgring.
- She's the Queen of the Vomit Comet.
- Yes.
- That's what she is.
All right, cool.
Well, I'm going to not take up too much more of your time.
- Sabine, give him a lift home for me, please.
- No! No! All right, you saw the Nomad earlier in Morocco with its desert boots on, but now we're about to find out how good it is on the track.
Chris Harris, take it away! So here we are in the insane Nomad.
What can I tell you about it? Well, double wishbone suspension all round, like a racing car on stilts, really.
Rather expensive Ohlins dampers.
Look, I'm not struggling for oversteer.
I also am having my contact lenses blown out of my eyes! It brakes really well.
Great big Alcon front discs.
This one's supercharged.
That's why I'm struggling with the oversteer.
300 horsepower, 680kg, and built, as we said, in Somerset, of all places.
I can smell the cider from here! What's it like to be the Hammerhead? Lovely short gear ratios.
I'm not struggling for oversteer, as you can see.
Whoa! I don't know what kind of a car it is, really.
It's not so much a car as a kind of general workout.
A great big assault on your senses.
Whoohoo! It hasn't got so much grip that it's not fun, but it's not so stupid that you're sideways absolutely everywhere.
You know what? It's a triumph.
Ohlins dampers.
It's got all the names behind it.
It's the most wonderful, wonderful punch-up of a car.
It's a different kind of driving.
It's just completely raw.
Completely analogue and I love it! Thanks, Chris.
Now, that was the track we all know and love, but earlier, we saw Gordon and Jesse tear it up on the brand-new rallycross course.
And this is how it all came together.
With a massive challenge ahead, who better to guide the way than a true rallycross champion? Hi, I'm Liam Doran.
I race FIA World Rallycross.
And I've been asked to try and help advise from the design stage of the rallycross track.
We've got a 22-tonne excavator.
We've got two five-tonne excavators.
A tonne roller.
And we've also got a track dumper.
And two forklifts.
It's very fast and open.
It's going to have a good surface and it's got a few technical bits, like a jump and a water splash.
It looks good and it's got a great potential.
It should be easy to drive it as fast as you want.
You know, the more cautious drivers are just going to be able to drive it like they would on the tarmac.
The braver ones are going to be able to have a bit of fun.
And we've got a little bit of concrete on the hairpin to finish, we've got a little bit of tidying up on the soils, just around, and we're nearly there.
Finally, we've made it to test day and we're itching to find out how it will all come together.
New car, new track, new Top Gear So this is it, the brand-new, low-grip component of the new Top Gear test track.
They'll hit this for the first time and be absolutely terrified, because there's not much grip in this thing at all.
It's extremely slippery.
Especially now.
It is very bouncy.
The second they hit this surface, they still have to brake quite hard, because there's a right-hander coming up.
If they don't get that right, if they don't get it slowed down, they can find themselves hitting the bank over here, catching a wheel and flipping off onto the grass.
You don't want to get too close.
You don't want to do that.
Next up is the water hazard, arguably the biggest challenge on the new track.
As you approach it, there's a massive sense of trepidation.
How deep is it? How will it affect the handling of the car? Will it hurt? If you make it through, things get even more interesting.
Straight through the water.
Didn't hurt too much.
Next up is Hammerhead.
Tricky enough.
Hammerhead.
Very slippery.
Especially on this rubber.
But you then have to transition back onto the line, towards this, the hairpin.
This feels like a first-gear corner.
A little bit of handbrake.
Designed to slow you down before the next big obstacle.
And when I say big, I do mean big.
This is the jump, the daddy of obstacles on our new track.
You'll hit this at about 50mph.
Foot to the floor.
Whoo-oo! That's great! I love that! It's back onto the main surface and around to complete the rest of your lap.
But that is so much fun.
That is good.
That is good.
They're going to love that.
Absolutely love that.
Whoo-oo-oo! In true Top Gear fashion, no test day is complete without the Stig.
It's time to unleash the Stig.
And here he comes in the brand-new car.
Very sideways into the low-grip bit of the surface there.
He's got to scrub up enough speed around that corner to not roll it onto the bank.
Then he hits the water hazard Very spectacular.
And the next big point on this track is to get across Hammerhead.
Very interested to find out how he takes this jump the first time round.
Will he go flat out? He's got some air there.
Next step, transitioning back onto the asphalt.
That low-grip and high-grip section.
But that's what today's all about -- having a bit of fun, testing it and seeing if we can get it as spectacular and as enjoyable as we can for our celebrities.
That new track is something else, isn't it, Chris? It's fantastic.
It's got something of everything.
It's got fast stuff, slow stuff, it's got slip angles, but also danger.
I love danger.
- Look at this from last week.
See that? - Is that you? Yeah, look at that.
Four feet in the air.
Nice.
All right, shall we get our special guest out? Yeah! OK, cool.
Well, not many people know, but this man, he's the love child of Chris Evans and Gordon Ramsay.
It's Chris Ramsey, and here he is in action.
When people think you're a Geordie, they think you're a bit rough and up for a scrap.
That's not me at all.
Look at the state of us.
That's not me.
Though we don't do ourselves any favours.
The Angel of the North, that's not an angel.
That's just a bloke starting a fight.
Give it up for Chris Ramsey! - Welcome.
- Thank you.
- Great to have you on the show.
Before we get started, though, I want to get some Chris admin out of the way.
There's too many Chrises.
We've got Harris, we've got Evans, we had Ramsay on earlier.
You must have a nickname.
Just Ramsey.
Just Yeah.
I'm sorry, nothing sexy, nothing cool, just Ramsey.
Just my surname.
It's still quite confusing, though.
We had Gordon Ramsay earlier.
I'm sorry, mate.
Blame the bookers, man.
I'm just here for the craic! Well, listen, mate, you're one of the busiest comedians in the country.
You must clock up a fair few miles up and down the land.
- Yeah.
- What do you drive? See, I don't tour in my own car.
We've got something else.
But my car, I drive a BMW X5.
OK.
Strong choice.
Strong choice.
Yeah, it's got bird poo on the front, as well.
We'll ignore that.
That's black-on-black.
Fully gangstered out.
No, fully murdered out, that's what we call it.
It looks really chavvy in that photo.
I'm really devastated.
I took that in a train station, like, on the way here.
Yeah, I got it like that.
I didn't do that to it.
No, that's solid.
I have an off-roader, as well.
It's the same spec.
Black wheels, black windows.
- Chris, you love these, don't you? - No.
It just looks like you're trying to sell drugs from it, to me.
Well, you know, it's a nice little sideline.
- I'm making a few quid.
- Well, fair play.
But my reason for having this car is that it's like a tank and I've got my baby and he's only six months old and whenever you see us pull over, it's not to sell drugs, it's normally to put his dummy back in.
So it's not sexy or cool at all.
It's rubbish.
But, yeah, I really like it.
It's like my living room.
It's like driving around in my living room.
That's the only reason I got it.
I'm not a boy racer.
I'm not - It was like that when I got it.
- All right, cool.
First time on the show.
I want to know about the first car you ever had and some memories behind that.
It was a Clio, Renault Clio.
You know they did the square one, years ago? I got it when I was 17.
It was square.
It wasn't the square one.
It was the next one from the square one.
Round lights, yeah? One point It said 1.
1, but it was actually a one-litre.
And it was er it was £4,000, 17,000 miles on the clock it had when I bought it.
- Modified? - Yeah.
It did, actually, yeah.
- A bit of a boy racer.
- Yeah, yeah.
I got alloys on it.
I bought them off a guy who wrote his Clio off.
Should've saw that coming.
They were buckled.
They broke my prop shaft, drive shaft on it and it had a little spoiler on it - and I had some Lexus lights on it, as well.
- Impressed by that? Are you a Clio man? The Clio's not bad, but looking back now What do you like? What's wrong? - I like nice cars.
- That's ridiculous! That's nice cars! That's what I say to my wife, "What do you want for tea?" And she says, "Something tasty.
" Name something! - Porsche 911.
- Well, that's out of my price range! There you go, there you go.
As a 17-year-old boy back in 1938, what were you driving? I had a little Mini and I didn't have Lexus lights.
This is the key thing Looking back, are you ashamed of the car that you drove back then? Could you drive it now with a straight face? No.
I remember once, I took a girl on a date.
I don't know where we went.
And when we walked back to the car park and I walked back to my Clio, I thought I was class.
It had alloy wheels.
I thought it was amazing, right? And she was like, "Is that your car?" I said, "Yes".
She said, "That's not your car.
" And I was like, "She's impressed.
" But she was actually thinking, "My God, that is not your car?! "I've just been on a date with you, you cretin! "Look at the state of that car!" All right, cool.
if we were going to go to maybe dream car territory, what would you buy? Dream car You know, I always thought they were out of reach, because you couldn't get them over here, but Ford Mustang.
- You can get them over here now.
- Solid choice.
- They're beautiful.
- Finally, I think we agree on that, Chris.
- Oh, absolute approval.
- Oh, get in! - But with a V8 engine.
It has to be the V8, yeah? - Yeah.
- Well, now he's a family man.
You've got the EcoBoost version, as well.
- I didn't know that was an option.
- Really good fuel economy.
- Does it fit the baby seat in the back? - Yes, you can.
- Good.
- Is there holders for the dummies? - Yes.
I think I've just ruined the whole point in having a Mustang! A little birdie tells me you're a big fan of Lego.
- Is that right? - Love it.
- Cool.
Well, we've got you a little gift.
Let me reach into my You've got a glove box under that chair? - It's my X5 seat.
- Wow! - There you go.
It's a little Lego Mustang.
- Oh, my God! - It's five-litre, as well.
- Look at that.
- It does make me smile.
- It's lovely.
- Look at that! - It's the GT 500 with a white stripes and everything.
- Oh, my God.
- It's even got blacked-out windows.
- It has, like my chavvy car.
Yeah.
Brilliant.
Chris Ramsey, thank you for joining us.
- Thank you.
- Give him a round of applause, please.
Good stuff.
Right, now it's time to talk news.
Chris Harris, we've seen some big news lately like the CVR announcement.
Basically, they're announcing five new models by 2017.
- Are they going to do it? - I think I'll believe it when I see it, Rory.
I'm not sure it's going to happen, but let's see.
The one thing I'm genuinely excited about is the new Alfa Giulia.
Look at this thing This is an Italian police car, wrapped on a Giulia and it's basically a three litre, V6, 503 bhp, zero to 60 in under four seconds.
190mph.
- That's my kind of car.
- It's fantastic, isn't it? Is the Italian we've been waiting for for so long and I love it in those colours, as well.
Yeah, the only thing is, though, you can't actually get arrested in this thing.
They use it for special missions, like transporting organs to people and escorting VIPs.
So what we're saying is, if you have a massive crash, because you've turned the traction control off, as your organs fail, you can just stuff new ones in.
I guess so.
I guess so.
It is impressive, though.
I think, erm I don't know, you're an M3 man.
You like that car.
Would you see yourself in one of these instead? Absolutely.
I think the world needs great, beautiful, fast Italian cars.
- And this is one of them.
- OK.
Does anyone remember the G-Wiz? The electric car? - Yeah.
- Yeah, OK, well, they're back.
The company that made those, Reva, have this thing.
And it's probably just as hideous.
It's called the Mahindra e2o.
I mean it's just everything that I don't like about cars in one box.
Isn't it just terrible? Can't you accept the fact that maybe this is the kind of direction we should be going in, embracing electric technology and kind of giving people the option of having zero emissions? I'm not a Luddite, Rory.
However, Tesla make an electric car that will do zero to 100 in about five seconds.
- That is an embarrassment.
- OK.
It's also got some cool things, though.
For example, you can open the doors with an app on your smartphone.
You just press a button, the doors open.
But what's wrong with a handle? - It's - So you are a Luddite! Well, it just answers questions no-one's ever asked before.
Get rid of it.
Go away.
Annoyingly, though, I think it might actually be the future, or some vision of it.
You'll know this Car manufacturers are now trying to cater for everyone's needs with a single model.
Examples are there like the E-class, the new F-Pace, which is half SUV, half sports car, half luxury car.
It's a bit of everything in one package.
But now we actually know what the perfect car is and it's, allegedly, this thing Wonderful, isn't it? Yeah? No, it looks like one of those fish from the deep ocean that's never seen light.
It's awful.
Awful thing.
It's basically the result of a project by a university professor that takes in the opinions of 2,000 British people and this is what we get.
Basically, the best car parts from various things.
And that is, allegedly, perfect.
Well, it's not, is it? But it does lead us into a perfect game.
So I'm going to test your knowledge on these cars, OK? So you've got to name where these various components have come from, Rory, OK? - I can do that.
- So from the front, please.
What's this? That looks like an Aston I'm going to go - .
.
Vantage? - No, DB9.
Quite close.
Door handles.
There's got to be something in there.
That's suicide doors.
Coach doors from a Rolls-Royce.
I like that.
A Phantom, specifically, being a geek.
And this is the one that really freaks me out, cos a survey voted the best-looking door mirror to a? - What's that? Citroen? - Oh, come on! How did you guess that? - Is it a Citroen? - It's a C4 Picasso, of all things.
Look, let's face it, when the British public are asked to vote on something, they call a boat Boaty McBoatface.
- So this is total bunkum.
- Yeah, cool.
Thankfully, though, I don't think they were entirely serious.
Now, this being a brand-new team and a new series, we've been trying to get to know each other a little bit.
- Am I right, Chris? - I love you, Rory.
That's a bit weird! All right, cool.
So I took myself down to Sabine's house in the heart of the Nurburgring to see what she's really about.
Meet the latest race offering from Porsche.
This is Sabine's GT3 R, with 470 bhp, it's capable of zero to 60 in three seconds.
This is amazing, man.
Well, this is the Frikadelli workshop.
A lot of people know you as the Queen of the Ring, but they don't know that you're part of a fully fledged racing team.
Oh, yeah.
I am.
So we built this garage a couple of years ago and this is our car.
- OK, so you and your partner Klaus, you run the team.
- Yes.
Explain to me the background behind the team.
So, Team Frikadelli, what's behind the name? Frikadelli means meatball.
And Frikadelli is the nickname of Klaus because he has the biggest company in Germany.
He is the meatball don, isn't he, of the world, basically? Yeah.
The King of the Meatballs! And this is the fastest meatball in the world.
The King of Balls! Yes.
You compete in the Nurburgring 24, you did Daytona recently, as well.
I've won 60 races.
Twice the 24-hour race.
- That explains all the trophies over there.
- Yeah, yeah.
And this is actually the 20th anniversary of your first race win, isn't it? - You're right.
- Yes, exactly, yeah.
- Oh, 20 years! - You're competing again this year.
- I'm old! - You're not that old.
- Oh! - You're experienced.
We have to win this year, yeah? The workshop was seriously impressive, but I was itching to get out on the road, so I got Sabine to show me what she does best.
So this is the famous Nurburgring taxi.
Yes, it's my race taxi.
That's all I call it.
Do me a favour, please.
Don't make me sick, cos I know what you're like.
I've seen how you've treated the Top Gun pilot.
I don't want that same treatment.
Now it's your turn! Whoo-oo-oo! So your first lap on the Nurburgring was when you were aged, what, 16? - 17? - 17.
I was waiting for years to get the driver's licence and then I couldn't wait any more, so I said, "OK, it's just a couple.
I can take my mum's car.
" You stole your mother's car? Yeah, yeah.
So I took her BMW 316.
- Not too much power, rear-wheel drive.
- Yeah.
- Still have some fun with it.
- Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
So I took that car and I went to the gate and the guys said, "Oh, Sabine, congratulations.
"You are already 18 years old.
"You have a driver's licence.
Well done.
" I said, "Yeah, let's go!" And disappeared! And it was so much fun.
After experiencing the Porsche, we headed back to Sabine's home, complete with a full Canadian log cabin and saloon.
Wow! What? Explain it to me.
What's going on? It was always a dream for me to have my own saloon.
My idea was originally to build a little log home like this, but just smaller.
Way smaller.
And then my boyfriend said, "No, we'll build a log home, "but bigger.
" It's not your usual German countryside set-up.
It's so big, she's even got room to house some pretty wild friends.
It's like a dog.
It just comes running over.
Yeah, but when you come in, it will kill you.
- Oh, really? - Yes.
Maybe we should leave now.
Look, she's about to eat you.
Yeah, she wants to eat me now.
- Shall we go? - OK.
- Vamos! - Very, very weird.
We don't have that kind of thing in South London.
- Only on a plate! - Yeah.
Well, that's it from us.
A big thank you to Chris Ramsey.
Next week, Stephen K Amos will be with us.
I'll be giving you the inside scoop on the new McLaren and we'll be delving deeper into the Lamborghini Hurricane's double buttress rear deck treatment.
- Curious, aren't you? - Yes, please.
Cool.
Thank you and goodnight!