Tonight, C4, 9pm.



Let's do this.

 

Yessss!!!!!
I forgot about this, cheers for the reminder

 

Same here, good work fella

 

I can imagine the wing will stay on for the drag race as they weave pretty bad without it.

 

You and your beloved WRX would slay them at everything!

 

Lovin' it.

 

Great tv! with 2 genuine guys, ( well 1 genuine guy and one David)

Loved all the "speed" programs too.

 

Yeah quality. But now what we've really been waiting for ..... Chatty man

 

Heard the whiney voice, scrabbled for the remote.

Right over to bbc four now, the rise of darts.

 

I hadn't seen this advertised, nice one

 

Neither had I!

Just happened to serendipitously clock it in the planner earlier on lol.

 

Not bad.

One question that struck me that should have been asked on the show is if the bike had the same level of development, investment and expenditure, would it have been a closer match.

I mean just looking the engines....F1 car, pre-heat for at least several hours before starting, use external starter to crank it, cycle through various operational tests before setting off.

Bike....press the start button.

F1 car: Proportional braking systems, with servo assistance and bias control front-rear. Bike: One lever for front, one pedal for rear and body weight.

Although road bike can have a single pedal/single lever linked braking systems but I guess thats banned in motoGP.

.....I could go on

 

As above.I assume the F1 had launch control for the 1/4 mile drag............so not really a comparison.

 

Certainly enjoyed some the technical aspects

as the girlfriend pointed out though the programme is most assuredly aimed at boys

 

I don't think last years cars had launch control or traction control.

There's always the cooking or shopping channels for the ladies.

 

I hope Swati doesn't see what you have posted

 

It wasn't last year's car..it was a fair bit older. Think it was a RB3. edit: it was a RB8

Either way it definitely was a non-turbo era car - you can clearly hear that its not. Or it had the non-turbo engine fitted (its not unknown for f1 teams to swap engines about in their older cars)

 

Yes, it was the previous 'gen'-engined car - i.e. the normally aspirated 2.4 V8.

So pre-2014... I'm guessing it was the 2013 iteration?

 

I agree.
I'm sure it would have been much closer had they used a highly developed and specialised MotoGP bike, instead of what is basically a modified version of the road bike you can buy from the showroom.

 

Yeh I was going to say it was a little biased putting the pinnacle of motor sports cars against a second tier race bike. Although a couple of years ago one of the motogp teams did run Suter chassis with the bmw s1000 engines, a full on factory yamaha or Honda would have been a better comparison.

Someone mentioned earlier if the car had traction control or not, one of the mechanics asked DC if he wanted any traction dialled in before they did the final full laps of silverstone (to which he said yes please).

Anyone else notice on the first test of standing 1/4 the F1 car had full wets on a dry track. Had supersoft slicks on for the brake test.

 

It was the 2012 car, or at least had the aero bits from that year. The stupid raise in the nose gave it away....

 

More on this 'Speed' series:

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/n...-records-on-c4

The 'Wall Of Death - Live!' eps. is on Easter Monday, 28th Mar.

 

Watched it earlier

It was good and had some laughs, when DC shook hands and winced and 'shook his hand out' afterwards

They were slower than I expected on the 1/4 mile, 10.2 and 10.4 @ 160mph, some scoobies are faster than that

 

Yeah, that did surprise me, too.

 

Me too. I've got an sv650, stock they are meant to do 1/4 in mid to high 11's, and it is by no means a full on sports bike (although my is a tad more than stock) so 10.5 for the Beemer surprised me a lot.

 

reminder that this is on tonight . .

 

Don't forget tonight, guys'n'gals...

 

Great character Guy Martin in my opinion.

 

Totally genuine. No ounce of pretense or pomposity. The ideal BFF lol.

One of the UK's - nay, the world's! - truly great characters.

You'd really love him to be your uncle, whom you get to see now and again, for example.

 

Time gentlemen, please...