Once they were settled in on their train, May compared the contest to the earlier Blue Train Races, won by a Rover Light Six and Bentley Speed Six against Le Train Bleu or The Blue Train.Īt this point, however, the race turned. Despite Clarkson making distracting phone-calls to try and slow them down, they successfully took the RER to Gare de Lyon from where they just managed to make their connection to the French TGV which would take them all the way to Nice. Despite changing to the substantially faster Eurostar at Waterloo station, Clarkson managed to maintain a significant lead by the time Hammond and May reached Gare du Nord, Clarkson was already south of Troyes and heading towards Dijon, 172 miles ahead of them, and they had just 50 minutes to cross the entire city to catch their TGV connection to Nice. By this point, Hammond and May's bus had only just arrived at Guildford railway station, and when their South West Trains service to London Waterloo arrived just over an hour later, Clarkson had already disembarked in Calais. That being said, Clarkson did manage to build a substantial early lead, covering 40 miles in the DB9 by the time Hammond and May had even reached their bus stop and, despite encountering heavy traffic on the outskirts of Dover, Clarkson managed to make the 10:00am ferry to Calais. Hammond and May began by walking two miles to a nearby bus stop, and were confident that it would be "impossible" for the car to win once they boarded their sequence of trains. To prove what was the fastest way to get to the South of France for a summer holiday, Clarkson drove an Aston Martin DB9 from the studio in Dunsfold, Surrey to Monte Carlo, against Hammond and May who took the Eurostar and the French TGV. Alternative "money no-object" transportation: Sports Bike, Private Jet, Luxury Car and Motorboat 1.10 London to Edinburgh – Race to the North – Jaguar XK120 vs.1.8 Economy Race to Blackpool – Jaguar XJ vs.Japanese Public Transit System – Distance 355 miles High Speed Train, in which the train won and the Arabian Peninsula race, in which the alternative 'money no-object' transportation options beat the Bugatti Chiron. Powerboat, in which the boat won Shelby Mustang GT500 vs. Of the long-distance races so far, the car has won the vast majority of the races, with the exceptions of the cross-London epic, in which the car was beaten by a bicycle, a boat on the Thames and public transport Ferrari Daytona vs. May has said that the races are planned to be as close as possible. These races typically involve Clarkson driving the car while Hammond and May take the same journey by combinations of plane, train, or ferry. The show has featured a number of epic races, where one of the presenters - Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, and occasionally The Stig - drives a car in a race against the others in another form of transport. In Top Gear, a BBC motoring show, one of the show's regular features since 2002 is various forms of racing the presenters undertake, either against each other or against invited guests.
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