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Independently reported lap times, not in connection with Top Gear series: 1:05.3 – Nissan ZEOD RC hybrid mode (internal combustion engine and electric motors). [22] 1:12.6 – McLaren 720S - Series 25; 1:12.8 – Ultima GTR. After Top Gear allegedly refused to drive it because "they thought it couldn't clear a speed bump", Ultima Sports, Ltd ...
In what is still the longest Top Gear race in terms of both time and distance, Clarkson in a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren raced Hammond and May from Heathrow Airport to Oslo, Norway. With the car having so far beaten a train and a plane, Hammond and May decided to use a Cruise Ferry as their primary mode of public transport.
A Top Gear mobile phone game also features the track. [47] The game Gran Turismo 5, developed by Polyphony Digital features a fully rendered version of the Top Gear track. Players have the ability to drive and race on the track. The track also appeared in Forza Motorsport 4; the Top Gear logo appeared in a trailer for the game on the Top Gear ...
Highest average race speed by a winner: 225.228 km/h (140 mph) Audi R15+ TDI in 2010: Highest average lap speed (qualifying) 251.881 km/h (157 mph) Kamui Kobayashi with a Toyota TS050 Hybrid in 2017: Highest average lap speed (race) 248.628 km/h (154 mph) Mike Conway with a Toyota TS050 Hybrid in 2019: Highest top speed: 407 km/h (253 mph)
Power Notes Sources Benz Patent-Motorwagen: 1886 0.6 kW (0.7 hp; 0.8 PS) First commercially available automobile in history [56] Benz Velo: 1894 1.1 kW (1.5 hp; 1.5 PS) First production car [57] Peugeot Type 15: 1897 6 kW (8 hp; 8 PS) Peugeot's first in-house engine [58] Daimler Phoenix 1899 17 kW (23 hp; 23 PS) First four-cylinder road car
The British motoring programme Top Gear used the Nordschleife for their challenges, often involving Sabine Schmitz. Top Gear ' s James May, however, was very critical of the influence of Nordschleife lap timing, saying that it "corrupts performance when it is used by car makers to develop new models. Testing prototype cars on a circuit is ...
Much with our TMNT rankings, these rankings will be based entirely on my half-forgotten knowledge of late 90s to early 2000s television, and like with that list, we’ll be including secondary ...
The Race to the North is an episode of Top Gear that featured a three-way race held in 2009 between a Jaguar XK120 car, a Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle, and railway locomotive 60163 Tornado – a brand new mainline steam engine completed in Britain in 2008.