Top gear series 18 January 29 2012

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ajprice

27,696 posts

197 months

Wednesday 14th March 2012
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marksx said:
Mine cost me £10, bought on Ebay.

They are sh*t though! biggrin

hehe

marksx

5,059 posts

191 months

Wednesday 14th March 2012
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ajprice said:

hehe
Worse. Dunlop hehe

williamp

19,284 posts

274 months

Wednesday 14th March 2012
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LukeSi

5,753 posts

162 months

Wednesday 14th March 2012
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shakotan

10,721 posts

197 months

Thursday 15th March 2012
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oobster said:
Is there any way of checking where you are placed on the tickets to be in the audience list? Seems like I applied about 5 years ago, perhaps even more.
It doesn't work as a 'rolling road' ticket list, applications reset for each series.

VoziKaoFangio

8,202 posts

152 months

Thursday 15th March 2012
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F i F said:
He could conform and be boring turning up in the corporate gear like a walking billboard, but no, even the the cap was plain. Individualistic.



Kimi only one to make a decision, back to pits, out of overalls, into civvies, Magnum and a Coca Cola. Spot on.
So not a corporate billboard then.

davepoth

29,395 posts

200 months

Thursday 15th March 2012
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VoziKaoFangio said:
So not a corporate billboard then.
As I recall, we didn't see the wrapper. It might have been a generic choc ice on a stick.

F i F

44,259 posts

252 months

Thursday 15th March 2012
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VoziKaoFangio said:
So not a corporate billboard then.
Well did he go up to the cameras and give interviews while at the same time blatantly placing the products in shot? iIRC no he did not, but in reality he kept a low profile, probably because the official line from Ferrari was that if his Kers was fixed and the race was restarted he would go out.

Also whilst many people know about the ice cream the cola is often forgotten, so in the overall scheme of things, e.g. blatant watch promotion on podium, in my opinion, not corporate bill board, Kimi just fancied a Magnum and a Coca Cola.

DJRC

23,563 posts

237 months

Thursday 15th March 2012
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tommy vercetti said:
JonRB said:
BigBazza said:
Far FAR from being dull, Kimi was brilliant. Funny guy, they cut a lot of good stuff out of the interview.

He's a non conformer and I like that.

Quiet does not equal dull.
Indeed. And if even half the stories about him are true he's anything but dull. I very much doubt he got that scar by drinking cocoa and doing The Times crossword. smile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MlsMVzrp2o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VW2oAkjcJ4
The stories are true and we only hear about *some* of them! Kimi is very well known in Finland for being an absolute drunken bum. His WRC performances are attributed to his being basically pished throughout his F1 "retirement". There is a very very different attitude to alcohol and drinking culture in Finland. The picnic drinking culture for a start! Its, well...different.

Debaser

6,095 posts

262 months

Thursday 15th March 2012
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tommy vercetti said:
Cheers

Pugster

432 posts

182 months

TonyHetherington

32,091 posts

251 months

Friday 16th March 2012
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Sums up "TopGearSuperFan" perfectly biggrin

I've argued this point so many times it's unreal, but sniff puts it far better than I ever could;

sniffpetrol said:
Another thing; lose the star in a reasonably priced car unless its someone who genuinely loves cars such as Jay Kay or Rowan Atkinson or Jay Kay or Rowan Atkinson or Jay Kay or Rowan Atkinson. Those guys were great guests, although I fast forwarded through their interviews because I hate them

FourWheelDrift

88,674 posts

285 months

Friday 16th March 2012
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I think Richard has just built that from posts on page 15, page 22 and page 40 of this thread.

zygalski

7,759 posts

146 months

Friday 16th March 2012
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Mixed bag for me, this series.
The last episode was great but at the same time, that mock-up car chase for the remake of The Sweeney a few weeks ago was a total cringe-fest.

stephen300o

15,464 posts

229 months

Friday 16th March 2012
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Yeah, I hated that.

tommy vercetti

Original Poster:

11,490 posts

164 months

Friday 16th March 2012
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'I dont use up my parents bandwidth to illegally download this show and then watch it over and over again for nothing. I do it because Top Gear is one of the most popular TV shows ever made and because I hate it.

Come on BBC, I dont pay my licence fee to watch this crap. I dont pay my licence fee at all, but if I did I would write even more stuff on the internet about how much Top Gear needs to change because I hate it. Make the show that its fans want to see. And dont make it like Top Gear. I hate Top Gear.'
heherofl


JonRB

74,849 posts

273 months

Friday 16th March 2012
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Good to see some more Sniff... at last!

Love the bit about Kimi:

"tha main thang they got thas new is ma solid homie K Raik. Yea, that monosyllabic muthafunker be back! That be good news fo tha F1 cuz that homie can drive, and man, he don give a st unless he be takin one. Know whaam sayin?"

oobster

7,114 posts

212 months

Friday 16th March 2012
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shakotan said:
oobster said:
Is there any way of checking where you are placed on the tickets to be in the audience list? Seems like I applied about 5 years ago, perhaps even more.
It doesn't work as a 'rolling road' ticket list, applications reset for each series.
Ah ste. That'll be why I have never heard from the buggers then!

shakotan

10,721 posts

197 months

Tuesday 10th April 2012
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oobster said:
shakotan said:
oobster said:
Is there any way of checking where you are placed on the tickets to be in the audience list? Seems like I applied about 5 years ago, perhaps even more.
It doesn't work as a 'rolling road' ticket list, applications reset for each series.
Ah ste. That'll be why I have never heard from the buggers then!
I can well imagine that the applications outweigh the availability by hundreds, if not thousands of times over.

Shaw Tarse

31,544 posts

204 months

Tuesday 10th April 2012
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shakotan said:
oobster said:
shakotan said:
oobster said:
Is there any way of checking where you are placed on the tickets to be in the audience list? Seems like I applied about 5 years ago, perhaps even more.
It doesn't work as a 'rolling road' ticket list, applications reset for each series.
Ah ste. That'll be why I have never heard from the buggers then!
I can well imagine that the applications outweigh the availability by hundreds, if not thousands of times over.
Would an email help bump an application up?
Dear Top Gear, I'm on holiday & was wondering if I've got a ticket to be in your audience?