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The Top Gear test track located at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, United Kingdom was used by the BBC automotive television programme Top Gear.The track was designed by Lotus Cars as a testing facility, with many of its Formula One cars tested there.
From mid-2002 until 2020 the BBC motoring show Top Gear was recorded at the park using a hangar as a studio and parts of the runways and taxiways of the aerodrome as the test track. The track is also used to host cycle races in the summer months as part of a closed circuit series in the Surrey Cycle Racing League.
Top Gear define a qualifying vehicle as a road-legal production car on road-legal tires that has sufficient ride height to clear a standard speed bump. For these reasons the F1 car ( Renault R24 ) (0:59.0), Aston Martin DBR9 (1:08.6) and Sea Harrier (0:31.2) do not appear.
The cricketer-turned-presenter was airlifted to hospital on 13 December 2022 after crashing while filming a car review at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome, home of the Top Gear test track.
Volkswagen Group owns a test track facility in Ehra-Lessien, some 18 km (11 mi) north of its Wolfsburg factory. The facility was built during the Cold War . The location was chosen because, at the time, it was in a no-fly zone only 10 km (6.2 mi) west of the border between East Germany and West Germany , and thus secret prototypes could be ...
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Top Gear star Chris Harris has claimed he warned BBC bosses about safety failings on the show ahead of Freddie Flintoff’s horror crash. Flintoff, 46, was involved in the near-fatal incident ...
English: Track map of the Top Gear test track for the Top Gear Test Track article. Original SVG file created with Adobe Illustrator CS2. Based on satellite imagery of Dunsfold aerodrome and promotional image for Gran Turismo 5 Prologue