Rallycross on a Budget Part 1 | Series 18 | Top Gear | BBC

Race day dawned and Richard and I were there early with the cars we had purchased. This is a 150mph BMW 328i which I paid £795 for. Alright, that's good, there's a long way to go for this and this is a Citroën. Saxo VTS 1.6 which I paid £550 for and it's nice, then James arrived in a toyota mr2 and has a surprise with an expected call. I thought I even lost on a 35 this morning in May, how much was that four hundred and fifty quid seriously? Four hundred and fifty pounds, yeah, so we have mid-engine, rear-wheel drive, front-engine, front-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive, front-engine, that's three to eight.

I know you see this. I'm going to have to say it and normally I wouldn't say it, obviously, but your The cars looked fantastic, no, um, and yes, blood type, yes, red, well, it's red. I checked it like a pin. They would leave. I don't know what the result of an exam we just found out is. No? I'm not sure so I put a B+ because that way I get everything so what you can see I obviously put stickers on mine yeah well it's the BBC and you have to have stickers on the flimsy roof of a racing car and then with the BBC no.

No brands allowed, so I'll put health and safety notices everywhere because that's what the BBC likes. Now we must explain at this point that there are certain safety requirements that you must meet before competing, so you have to put a roll cage, an electrical cut-off extinguisher with proper C harness and the total cost of doing all that on mine was around a thousand pounds, yes, yours, a little less because it has less roll cage, so it amounts to fourteen hundred pounds. for the lot and yours is 1430 so 1400 1418 and all like that for the price of a bag full of golf bats we were ready to go to the motor races and one motor race that we had selected was

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The beauty of it is that half the track is asphalt and half is gravel and mud so you can drive on high speed circuits and slippery rallies all in the same breaks you know I loved

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yeah grandstand , the world of sports, you have Dickey Davis, we are doing well this afternoon. you got fly fishing and track and field and target for what he left, no and then and rallycross, yeah, and you got those little TVs inside you with a little black screen that you were watching it on, you must have drank their bourbon, huh , but then it has something real?

The tragedy could not stand now with the Pringle jumper as if they were waiting for the man in front of each girl. If you know? The best thing about this is that it is very simple when we get to the driver briefing, however I realized that I spoke too soon, okay there are 18 of you so when you do your warm up, if you finish first you will get one point and we have three

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of races so there will be three people with one point, three people with two points, three people with three points if you come seven twice I get 14 but you finish seventh you get seven points why does it say one more two is two? waiting no yeah when they only pick the best if we had three we would pick the best two three well three of you playoff points hey happily Captain Maths was on hand to explain that in short we would all be

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icipating in two heats and at least one final and with that resolved we were able to meet the other pilots, I call them.

Gary just Gary, you're Gary, you're Gary and you're both my clothes, so you're competing in the Gary classic, you're Gary Coxe. Meanwhile I was in the modified two liter class and our meal was first, we only made three. laps, it's three laps and try not to mess it up oh look, we're lining up this is the grid this is interesting Marconi is in second place he's not eleven come on, come on, this is really exciting to compete with James May and remember this costs less that just all the garbage swelled up look at this no, I got it back now he lost it I have broken some things Saadat we shouldn't laugh no, when I come back how bad is it there is no juice in the wings in the wheels the functions collapsed Well, every time I stopped it today, this is over, do you know that you are momentarily in second place?

Yes, there is no exciting dream. Next in the stock hatch class was Professor Richard Hammond, who was still trying to get to grips with the scoring system, six plus one equals. one because that's the result they carry forward, which means it could end up at the final C, which is C before I'm going to drive as fast as I can. Who is going to be so bad? The agile front-wheel drive Citroën was brilliant in the mud, but I could have used a little more power on the asphalt, breaking into that quite hard, we could have done it, no, he's not going to do it, no one can, least of all, he can get a lot of speed downhill.

Oh, I was a punch, he's not going to do it. coming in third place, that would be impossible, yes, a place that will care if anyone ever walked off the golf course feeling that good.