A race to run out of fuel in Ukraine | Top Gear - BBC

The next morning we were warned that there was a mob in the streets of kyiv and on the walls. Thank you for coming, thank you very much. So to have some peace and quiet they told us to show up at the only

race

track in the country, because it was so scary. called the final challenge Each of your cars will receive exactly 23 liters of

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, which, because they are so economical, should be enough to cover the hundred or so miles to their destination, a city near the border with Belarus, I alone 23 liters. at a hundred miles when they challenge you, it's easy.

Your challenge is to run away before you arrive. This is something you'll want to do, since the city in question is called Chernobyl. Can we really? We can't go there. Can we Chernobyl? It was the scene of the world's worst nuclear accident. When reactor number four exploded in 1986, it released a radioactive cloud so devastating that the entire area will remain uninhabitable for 20,000 years. And unless we can get our cars to get less than 20 miles per gallon. This is where we would end up. Fall claims makers would hit 65 mpg up to here. This is done at 60 miles per gallon.

Yes, give it your all here. How do you make these cars miss? Twenty miles per gallon, imagine having less than 30. After the producers put exactly 23 liters of

fuel

in each tank, we did some preparations on our own. Smart, what I'm going to do is leave about 30% of the tire pressure. The point is that it increases rolling resistance, which means I use more fuel. But does one weigh a lot? What are you doing? I'm seeing all the holes for radioactive dust to copy what you've done there. Hammond made it more streamlined. I have good, bye. To use that much gas in less than a hundred miles we would have to drive like crazy straight to Come on, those other rats.

Second

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direct to the limiter. So that's a waste. James and Ami decided to go with a low

gear

, full revs policy. Hammond, on the other hand, if I keep doing this to the end, I'll go further. I'll be twice as far away. This is the answer they make fun of and Guess where it's where I'll have to be careful when there's oncoming traffic. Or what I just realized? I drive without the lights on. I drive with the Eco brother engine, with a great pace. I don't want that on heated seats, yeah. That is better. People think this is a bit strange, but if they knew why I was doing it.

They would understand that I can't believe these losers because it's not like the radioactivity is gone. It does not have a half-life, the material is 245,000 years old and James Murray has obviously explained it to him. What a half-life it is, indeed. It's probably making the half-life constant. A piece of uranium will have a half-life and when that half-life passes, the remaining part will continue to have the same half-life. I believe the word was coined by Marie Curie. At the beginning of the 20th century, was the time when the discovered radioactivity was identified. After 25 miles of redline driving, the app news was still not good.

From mr. Hammer. That's 23 miles per gallon. I have to lower it. How can I download it? Well, resistance has now gotten problematically worse in the wild. Now I feel a little sick if I'm honest. Well, it's a police car. Oh, there's horrible evidence 1/4 away, 25.5 miles, I should have lost one of those four bars I started with but it's not happening. Come on, gasoline. Well, the police have arrested us. They wondered why I was zigzagging. Meanwhile, they are talking to the camera in the car in front. I'm sitting here at full rpm To try to use some fuel while parked While Hammond was deafening the police, I stopped to disable the engine management system.

Engine warning life, yes. That's what we want. So what does the engine have to do now? It's assumed to be the worst case because you don't know anything about yourself, so you'll assume it's very cold and the fuel quality is bad. So it must be less efficient. 30 miles from Chernobyl, all of our cars were still running, and we were trying every trick in the book to make them fail. Because that butt is now dragging to the right and accelerating. Center eight. Don't take three breaks yet. There's 17.8 MPG there. All my fuel lights come on. Oh yeah, I'm getting 21 miles per gallon.

I'm not doing well in there. Everything is on the needle, empty, exhausted. It's a degree of that. Nipples stick out a lot now. I believe this Richard Hammond This thing shouldn't move I'm leaving I'm leaving I'm going to run out oh Yes, yes, oh This is gone I don't believe you I don't believe you Sit down Representative Richard Hammond is gone and find the fate of him.