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Ben
3rd May 2008, 10:16 PM
Richard Hammond, on Petrolheads, gets a bit of a suprise after blindfoldedly reverse parking.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=L8En7Qooyx0
Sprint
3rd May 2008, 10:45 PM
what am i supposed to be seeing?
Ben
3rd May 2008, 10:50 PM
Well, for starters a YouTube clip appearing in the post. If you get that far, you'll have to watch it to find out.

If you don't see anything, then you might not have Flash, or it might be blocked for some reason (firewall, Flash blocker, browser security settings.)
ladas
4th May 2008, 01:01 AM
I think the fault was elswhere - it was a while before anything showed up

.........but finally it did.

Good clip
EchiDna
4th May 2008, 08:30 AM
thats just cruel... you could see the pain on his face, poor bugga!
matbor
4th May 2008, 08:31 AM
Top Gear back on TV in the uk on June 15 :) can't wait :)
p38arover
4th May 2008, 08:32 AM
Do you watch vintage Top Gear on Saturday evening?
long stroke
4th May 2008, 08:03 PM
Do you watch vintage Top Gear on Saturday evening?

Shore do:D
abaddonxi
4th May 2008, 08:43 PM
That's just horrible.

Cheers
Simon
matbor
5th May 2008, 05:50 AM
Do you watch vintage Top Gear on Saturday evening?

have all seasons on my media server :)
Shonky
5th May 2008, 08:16 AM
That's just horrible.

Seconded.

I fail to see the humour in that. He may not have put the work in himself but it was still something he was surely proud of. :mad:

It was heartbreaking to watch and I don't like Ferraris - I can't imagine how it felt for him. :(
p38arover
5th May 2008, 08:25 AM
That's just horrible.

Cheers
Simon

I was wondering if it was staged. I really can't imagine that anyone would do that to someone else with whom they worked and, hopefully, liked.

It's a bastard act in my opinion. Note his team mate telling him to put more speed on (not the words but that was the meaning).
matbor
5th May 2008, 12:43 PM
This was the car richard used in one of the challengers!!




After we filmed this item Richard was so attached to his Ferrari he hung onto it and spent a load of cash getting it to run properly. Unfortunately, not long after it was fixed he was team captain on the never-popular BBC Two car quiz Petrolheads and managed to smash into it during filming of a blindfold parking test, prompting another expensive trip to the bodyshop.
BBC - Top Gear - Production notes - £10,000 Supercars (http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/show/production_notes/10k_supercar.shtml)
RonMcGr
5th May 2008, 03:05 PM
Not nice!
Poor Richard, I cannot see the funny side, at all.
If that was one of mine, just restored...:mad::bat:
moose
5th May 2008, 03:10 PM
It was heartbreaking to watch and I don't like Ferraris - I can't imagine how it felt for him. :(

I'm not a great ferrari fan either, but that was a really low act. Although I think if you listen carfeully it was the host of the show telling him to gun it, his team mate was telling him to take it really easy.
simonr23
5th May 2008, 03:28 PM
my feeling is that it was staged. when he was being told to go slowly, he just seemed too obviously "i want to hit this 'random' car behind me". topgear is the same. one of my fav shows though(top gear)
Ben
5th May 2008, 08:56 PM
This was the car richard used in one of the challengers!!

Yeah, it was his purchase for "The Top Gear Italian Mid-Engined Supercars for Less Than a Second-Hand Mondeo Challenge" (s07e04). It finished that challenge with electrical problems (and obviously he "just had it rebuilt!")

As for it being staged, they don't seem too fussed about banging up the old Ford Focus. It's not like they get up to any real speed in the studio.

In another episode, as Chris Barrie prepared his reverse-park, Hammond ran over and pushed the rear car forwards, leaving a quarter of the gap.