Thursday 9th August 2012

Chris Harris needs your help!

Monkey has got himself involved in a competition with some Americans and needs PH's help to win...

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The Chris Harris videos we host here on PistonHeads every week hail from YouTube’s Drive channel, based over the pond in the US. Only here on PH do you get them accompanied by Chris’s words though. So make sure you call by here every Wednesday night to see the latest instalment.

Chris and the Drive presenters prepare for battle

Meanwhile Chris needs your help to get one over on his fellow Drive presenters. Basically we need to mobilise the entire weight of PistonHeads' 20 billion strong audience (if Chris’s maths are right on that score it should be an easy victory, publisher Stuart wishes it were so) to help him triumph in a competition organised by Drive editor J F Musial in which the four presenters were given two minutes, a camera and a Cadillac and tasked with making YouTube gold. The video with the most views at the end of the week wins, to its presenter the as yet unspecified spoils of victory. Battles don’t get much more epic than this. It’s Britain versus America. PistonHeads versus the world. Time to tap into that Olympic spirit and give Chris your support to help him cheat. Sorry, win.

How do you do this? Well you can watch the intro video here explaining how it works. And then you can watch Chris’s video, complete with a slightly muffled cameo by my good self. What you absolutely cannot do after that is watch the other videos by Leo Parente, Matt Farah or Alex Roy. Unless you then go and watch Chris’s video five times over again to claw back a winning advantage. Which, given that it would mean seeing him in those green shorts again, you don’t want to do. Once is definitely enough on that score.

Don't be swayed by the Americans' cheap tactics!

No matter that both Parente and Roy attempt to woo you with glamorous women including, in the former’s case, someone called Andrea Feczko. She’s apparently a big deal on the internet but you can probably find her videos elsewhere on the web, should you so wish.

What you do in your own time is a matter for you. For now it’s time to rally behind Chris, watch his video and tell everyone you know to do the same. We’re behind you Chris – a win for Harris is a win for PistonHeads!

 

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[Hellbound]

....I'm going to watch the sh*t out of this on Youtube right now...



Ooooo look....a kitten.

[XJR500bhp]

I'll watch the st out of it too......... Oh look boobs

[Hellbound]

Well they're both neck and neck at just over 300 views.


We simply cannot let the Americans win.


Not on my watch dammit.

[NSFW]

Looks like 301 people have managed it so far...

...kitten? I'll raise you a dog on a surfboard!

[Drive Blind]

School boy error,

Put a spelling or grammar mistake in the title...

[BOR]

How did he finance a fine automobile like that ?

[Wadeski]

Is this a promotion for Cadillac?

[Dan Trent]

BOR said:

How did he finance a fine automobile like that ?

Oi, don't start!

[Shaw Tarse]

Green trousers?

[KardioKate]

No. I'm fed up with the constant 'Harris' stuff as ifhe's some sort of god. When in reality he's a bloke.

[Denver09]

Drive is not a bad channel - it puts out quite an impressive amount of content but two of the presenters are so amateur; the guy who sits behind the desk and the idiot with the walking stick.

[North West Tom]

NSFW said:

Looks like 301 people have managed it so far...

...kitten? I'll raise you a dog on a surfboard!

Youtube's view counter freezes at the 300-303 mark for about half a day or so, I'd wager that there are a lot more views that haven't been registered yet, especially seeing as it has over 1k likes. Geeky video on it here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI

[Frances The Mute]

KardioKate said:

No. I'm fed up with the constant 'Harris' stuff as ifhe's some sort of god. When in reality he's a bloke.

Quite. That Matt Farah chap summed it up nicely at the start of the video - before he rode that little wave of hipocrisy.

All of the videos were pretty weak to be honest. At least the lass in the shorts was easy on the eye...

[GarryA]

2 things you could have done,

Binned it.

Hit the editor of Jalopnik.

[StottyZr]

Shaw Tarse said:

Green trousers?

Shorts

[peterattheboro]

Chris and Matt Farah could just have their own TV show and it would be infinitely better than TG or FG and anything else motoring related. They are the only two worth watching on Drive imo.

Hope Chris wins.

[theboyfold]

How long before this thread gets locked and the mod points out the YouTube thread?

[eldar]

theboyfold said:

How long before this thread gets locked and the mod points out the YouTube thread?

Sorry, but

[poo at Paul's]

I've not watched it but I am guessing, like every other video he does, he makes it slide about but not go terribly fast?

[Hellbound]

GarryA said:

2 things you could have done,

Binned it.

Hit the editor of Jalopnik.

What would have been fantastic is if Chris Harris just went absolutely ape sh*t insane and started throwing punches and kicks at his terrified colleagues (especially Alex Roy). Coupled with some foaming at the mouth and growling and he could have netted himself a couple of hundred thousand views before tea time!