F1 Lotus Power Lap | The Stig | Top Gear

The Stig returns from vacation to set some lap times on the Top Gear Test Track in an F1 Lotus.
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[@craigpennington1251]

I was at Monaco in 73 for the race and those Cosworths were screaming. That was the best race I have ever attended. That was living back then. The F1 Lotus is so cool.

[@CorePathway]

The cars fit the track. Unlike the cars of today. They are fooking huuugs.

[@charlieturner8124]

I really miss this show. Damn you BBC!

[@tempusfuckit6380]

Nothing will ever match their chemistry and passion that made that show so perfect.

[@justinzuniga3828]

That “Oohhh he’s broken the machiiinnee” is one of my all time favorite top gear moments

[@petergrandien1440]

Right behind this is when Clarkson demonstrated the speed control with distance to the car in-front. Close.. very close.. full Audi!

[@rennwolfwolfgangkriegl]

The ASCARI Race Resort near Ronda in Andalusia has to be one of my favourite places on earth. Brilliant track, brilliant facilities and awesome countryside! 😀

[@alexbowas9339]

The great taste of Michelin lines that hit hard

[@dirtydave2691]

That Lotus had the coolest paint scheme ever. I have the Corgi Toy version. My Dads friend gave it to me around 1972.

[@palaherk]

Cool

[@kevinwilliams1421]

Jps livery was so cool

[@tonnyrosell5746]

Im from Perú I had also the corgi versión in 1972 (Qué nostalgia 😢 😪)

[@huseyinklc5924]

5:23 clarkson literally made a man with balls of steel step back. gotta give it to him

[@SvendleBerries]

"Some say that his balls are made from carbon fiber, and that he stores them in a tree for winter."

[@Dat-Mudkip]

@@SvendleBerries "All we know is that he's called "The Stig"!"

[@simonthomas5367]

Love the Stig standing nonchalantly on the apex!

[@user-pn4xs8sv2t]

i miss these days

[@risandaadhipratama1508]

I still don't understand how James May could explain the suspension mechanism of that Lotus yet don't even know the Monaco GP.

[@sebastiaanvandeweerd4290]

James may knows the Monaco grand prix. But even at top gear they work with Skripts, and they think it is funny to pretend that some times James and Richard don't know any thing about F1. But that is all just scripted. Fact is that it was a good program right until they left and came with the grand tour on amazon, which is also good.

[@grendelum]

Sebastiaan van de Weerd - I don’t understand what the BBC was thinking... *Top Gear* was the most popular show *_in the world_* and while Clarkson May have said/done something inappropriate to a member of the crew, pay them off and keep your stupidly popular show going !!!

[@mattdickie4696]

@@grendelum I'm probably going to get beans for saying this, but no, don't pay someone off, hold Clarkson accountable for his boorish behaviour. No one called him on his racism or sexism, so he probably thought he could get away with assault...in a way he did, though, because no one pressed charges. He's not so important that he can throw a tantrum about something so petty as not getting a hot meal. I miss the show too - I wish Clarkson had just grown up a bit.

[@d.e.b.b5788]

@@grendelum I believe he punched out the producer when he was denied something for the show. You don't get to punch your boss in the face, and keep your job.....anywhere.

[@christopherbiggs4019]

@@d.e.b.b5788 he punched out his producer because the hotel that he booked wasnt serving hot food due to the time of night.

[@shanemosser]

Am I the only one who actually found May's comment about the Lotus' suspension interesting? Ha

[@Zoider_]

i found it interesting

[@Piobagusfidil]

No

[@justforever96]

No. Most of the things they mock him for being "boring" and "technical" about are actually extremely fascinating, and any real car person would be thrilled to spend an hour or so talking about it. One of the biggest annoyances of the show, in my opinion, is the way they act as if "real car people" just like their cars to be fun, exciting toys that they don't actually understand. People like that are not car people, they are cocks and idiots.

[@Piobagusfidil]

@@justforever96 James May, is that you? ; ) Just kidding. Of course I agree.

[@nickbouvy8851]

Shane Mosser the other 2 aren’t that bright

[@gammaraider]

That old F1 sound gives me good shivers

[@d.e.b.b5788]

One of the, if not THE, most beautiful F1 cars ever made.

[@R9naldo]

Jordan 191, McLaren MP4/8, Ferrari 641, Ferrari F2002

[@Person-cv9dj]

Bmw sauber idk the model

[@3bdosimp117]

@@Person-cv9dj f1.08 2008 beautiful machine

[@theant9821]

@@R9naldo nah mate. Lotus 49 Lotus 72 Lotus 80 Lotus 98t Ferrari 640 Leyton House/March 881 The mclaren mp4/8 is pig ugly compared to half the cars that season. The Marlboro Livery is its saving grace. Any car after the mid 90s is absolutely hideous and never got on my bedroom wall as a child. But i did have a Lotus 72 poster, nigel mansell Williams Honda poster, Lotus 99t poster, and mansell ferrari 640 poster. Despite being born in 1993. The older cars always fascinated me most.

[@R9naldo]

@@theant9821 MP4/8 has a weird nose but I like the even smaller wheelbase that car had. Mid 90s had some ugly cars but in my opinion 1997 was a year that had a lot of beautiful cars, like how 1991 had a lot too. Jordan 197, Williams FW19, Ferrari F310B, etc. 2000s are still fine but anything after 2008 is just awful especially the modern trucks

[@largol33t1]

0:28 - So why have we never seen Mrs. Stig drive?! A golden opportunity missed there...

[@magnusgilberg775]

*Jeremy:* I’m gonna be 430 years old by the time it gets here *Hammond:* So that’s gonna take like half a year

[@DChrls]

That Cosworth DFV sounds so sweet.

[@reedgrabowski8314]

That JPS F1 remains the coolest looking F1 race car I have known. Absolutely gorgeous!

[@user-yx7dp2pl8t]

The black and gold was unreal

[@probablygraham]

When I first saw the Lotus 72 racing (albeit in Gold Leaf colours) I thought it was the most beautiful racing car ever built. I haven't changed my mind.

[@SMHman666]

That F1 sounds glorious!

[@Cnupoc]

the banter between these three is just priceless.

[@TURBOMIKEIFY]

"M3 drivers have no friends." LOL

[@daan9544]

audi drivers does have gay friends

[@TURBOMIKEIFY]

+Hydrexz NL homophobe at its finest.

[@daan9544]

typical audi fanboys

[@seanbautista5510]

Bet ya drive an M3 that you have to jump start every morning and that you don't have friends.

[@TURBOMIKEIFY]

+Sean Bautista I actually drive a Ford Ranger. Try again.

[@hamlettelmah441]

i miss the good old days with these three, i specially miss the episodes where Clarkson & Hammond would play a prank on Captain Slow. One of my favorites was when the were in India and wired his car's horn to his breaks and every time he would step on the breaks the horn would go off

[@03056932]

or wrecking his Aircon in the USA special

[@zef9151]

2 of them will always play pranks when the other is not around

[@ArieVisker]

That sound of the Lotus F1,...how I miss the good old days.

[@mechanicalpants]

Such a beautiful machine and so raw and pure and iconic

[@minidanielx5208]

Boomer

[@ArieVisker]

@@minidanielx5208 Yes I am haha

[@shax232]

TopGear will never be the same without Jeremy

[@treatb09]

+Shaf Hoque is the show even going still?

[@oliver24x]

+Bo Huggabee Yes, with new hosts.

[@treatb09]

oliver24x i imagine it'd be like watching friends with the cast of how i met your mother.

[@CockpumpVideo]

+Shaf Hoque Yep, of course, it has peaked, its done, and that is all...now lest tune into the online one and see how the lads will manage to spend a few million per episode on their amazon show...I reckon they will have an episode where they play Lamborghini dominos...lol

[@raphzer6]

Top Gear is not top Gear without him

[@Sassenhaim]

Bon Appetit Jeremy 😂

[@CL-kn1rq]

That episode I have watched a thousand times, love it

[@3v4761]

Stig and Stiggette

[@HeyItsAJOmega]

The moment at 2:53 where the Merc laptime is revealed, Hammond immediately bursts out laughing at Clarkson actually jumps in shock. xD

[@krishnakumarjoshi2440]

LOL that bikini girl with that helmet

[@theFLRN]

KRISHNA KUMAR JOSHI its called a stiglett

[@boboutelama5748]

...was the stig.

[@finnkennedy2401]

KRISHNA KUMAR JOSHI that’s the female stig

[@Shakes-Off-Fear]

Thats’s Mrs. Stig

[@GrrMeister]

@@Shakes-Off-Fear *And you would like to stig her ?*

[@pedropedro9613]

Top gear at its best. It will never be the same

[@911gpd]

I would listen to James May's technical explanations.

[@rusgeorge7356]

How Fun!!! What a day of brilliance...

[@birdbrain4445]

That Lotus 72 - including the way it was revealed here - absolutely took my breath away as a child watching this episode. The looks, the sound, the performance... it is a glorious machine. Still stuns me to this day. I can only imagine how incredible it was to have seen it actually racing in F1 in the 1970s, especially in person. It's also interesting - unsurprising now (purpose-built for it generally, much lighter, better aerodynamics etc.) though shocking as a child - how much faster the old thing was than any of the saloon cars round the track.

[@leagueplays2100]

The Stig is standing there on the side of the track like "You won't"

[@danielhookway1108]

Got to love it

[@brettpenning]

2:30 Hammond has felt that twice now

[@TheMec1978]

Excelente

[@damarfadlan9251]

The one inside of THE STIG i think is Setsuna Yuki.

[@RonWylie-gk5lc]

I miss this {wipes a small tear from his eye, but quickly recovers}

[@donaldparlettjr3295]

And BBC is crying every time they realize they blew it with TopGear. Think of the hundreds of millions of pounds they lost.

[@easley421]

@@Fazer_600 Your statement is completely true and it makes me extremely sad. These guys are why I fell in love with cars. I'd always liked them before but top gear really brought home that love. Gonna miss all three of them. The greatest trio ever to Grace this Earth.

[@dahorn100011]

@@Fazer_600 You can't really disagree with the sacking, he wasn't sacked contract was not renewed. I can guarantee if you punched a colleague on a corporate trip you'd be off site within the hour.

[@SuperHammaren]

I am not sure if you are a key person to the companys success and the colleague has done a crappy work with organization not even able to ensure hot food was available. Private company is quite another thing than bbc. If Steve jobs kicked out someone in the 2000s do you think Apple would have sacked him? In your dreams. Not saying it is right of course.

[@joseantoniomoratapia3972]

Hermoso F1! El sonido de motor es hermoso!

[@Sandwich420]

Clarkson's eyebrows are like a set of Hammond's bangs for each eye

[@winkerdude]

That F1 car is the most beautiful F1 I have ever seen. I had a model of it.

[@EricH928]

Agreed. A beautiful car that was so good they didn't change it for a much longer time than most.

[@bmstylee]

Those cars are amazing and done without the aid of massive supercomputers. But if I had to pick one the F2004 is it. The car and a 3L V10 screaming to 19k gets me moist thinking about it. Especially with what they have become.

[@paulcaswell2813]

Best looking F1 cars: 1) Lotus 72D; 2) Lotus 79; 3) McLaren MP4/4. Interesting that all three were brilliant on the track, too.

[@barryfowles-zl5ib]

The best looking F1 car ever i.m.o. was the 1967 AAR Eagle driven and manufactured by the late, great Dan Gurney. @@paulcaswell2813

[@paulcaswell2813]

Too 'busy' a design IMO. From that era I'd go for the 1966 Ferrari 312 - the special 'long chassis' one designed for the very tall Mike Parkes. The extra inch or so added an extra sleekness to an already fine design.

[@tantive4]

Superb car, Colin Chapman at his best. So, who else had the Matchbox model of this?

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

Got both Corgi Whizzwheels versions in black / gold. One has Texaco all over the other has the John Player (yes, that is cigarette advertising on a children's toy, but hey, we could accept it in the 70s-we weren't all so gullible). The model wasn't a 1/64 like m'box but roughly 1/36 scale

[@michaelmartin9022]

@@andrewphippsphillips1455 When I was an F1-mad 10 year old I wrote my name with the Rothman's Livery on my "drawer" at school. That'd probably make the papers and get my parents arrested today. Oh well, it's the current state of things that is the regrettable, temporary aberration. Tobacco sponsorship will return when things get better.

[@paulcaswell2813]

If it was the Corgi it wasn't 'Whizzwheels' - it was as good as scale model as one could get. Especially if one's father drilled to rivets out of the bottom so the driver figure could be removed!

[@doriannritter2615]

I still have one made by Corgi. And another by Politoys.

[@kevinmoore4887]

Top Gear was the best auto show ever! I'd like to see those 3 visit Jay Leno's Garage.

[@mrdeltaman7415]

The good days of topgear 😔

[@andrewmckenzie292]

Only appearance of Lady Stig. Think James Bond may have been inspired by The Stig.

[@dburton7929]

Top Gear - I really miss Top Gear and all the wild adventures these three experienced. Just the best !

[@entropy616]

5:22 At least he made the Stig flinched.

[@TheApple90]

That's more of an accomplishment that hitting the apple

[@ChippyDaPancakeGuy]

Stig is afraid of driving that bad

[@Shakes-Off-Fear]

Seaghán Pipistrello With Clarkson driving a completely insane car, you’d move too

[@ryracing3950]

I remember this being the first ever episode of Top Gear I've seen!!

[@yacawntmiss]

Really miss these guys.

[@daverunner3397]

That sound!!!

[@albertgerard4639]

Best top gear clip

[@fatmunch6318]

The stig is from an alien racing planet

[@ono3869]

The Stigs girlfriend is 🔥

[@ilovemyeggs]

“M3 drivers have no friends” that actually made me laugh out loud

[@caseybhargraves6208]

Just the best show ever.

[@r200ti]

full length add, fascinating.

[@aminariffin8510]

Its nice to look Jeremy smug face being remove once in while..

[@davidedwards3361]

Without doubt, the best looking F1 cars EVER, any JPS Lotus followed by any non-JPS Lotus

[@d.e.b.b5788]

Well, I did like the white/red/gold ones, too.

[@barryfowles-zl5ib]

You have obviously never seen the 1967 AAR Eagle F1 car.

[@clinttheboss2117]

May recently in a "roasting youtubers' cars" video explained how you shouldn't start a sentence with "It was so funny" because inevitably the following statements would be unfunny. He starts a lot of sentences with "It's very interesting"...

[@hasanm3707]

Umm, whoever wrote the description this is not the Top Gear test track...

[@vani9831]

Which track is this?

[@louisjutras1]

We got a rare glimpse of Mrs Stig in the background at the pool.... Nice!!!

[@malegelebi]

gawd i miss you guys

[@rolfdejonge3915]

Great! Thanks! ;-)

[@antt5112]

Back when you got blisters changing gears in an F1 car, sounded beautiful

[@paulelverstone8677]

Lotus 72. The most glorious, most beautiful F1 car of all time. The genius and creativity of Chapman could only be matched by his balance sheets...

[@barryfowles-zl5ib]

Have a good hard look at the 1967 AAR Eagle, that gets my vote.

[@MeanGeneSanDiego]

@@barryfowles-zl5ib So? The "John Player Special" paint scheme is the most badass ever.

[@barryfowles-zl5ib]

@@MeanGeneSanDiego I was merely giving my opinion, if that's all right with you?

[@andrewwizard1577]

Grand Tour is awesome too! Also, I'm happy the BMW won

[@A-G-F-]

The dad of a friend of mine drove this car in the Mexico GP in the 78

[@peteabel137]

U 4 were brilliant. thanks for the entertainment.

[@robw7676]

M3 drivers have no friends Mercedes drivers have friends called Spencer and Hugo Audi drivers have boyfriends

[@dude7756]

@Bilal Khalid Nah, Nah thats Range Rovers. Range Rovers are for drug dealers.

[@imjjray6266]

audi all the way

[@ale16_69]

Wait, I'm an alfa and bmw driver and I've got a boyfriend...

[@afenijmeijer9027]

Classic TG

[@steen8156]

I'm weeping a little right now...

[@xracer5995]

Awesome engine sound. The current F1 sound is dogs#it compared it. Thanks for the upload

[@spower8069]

5:22 for the first time the stig moved unnoticed

[@MeanGeneSanDiego]

Poor James May... someone gave him a really ignorant line about suspension...Torsion Beams are used on trucks and cheap cars. Not Lotus F1s... Lotus 72 Suspension (front) Double wishbone, inboard spring/damper. Suspension (rear) Parallel top links, lower wishbones, twin radius arms, outboard spring/damper.

[@pegasusted2504]

I just love the way jeremy loses both bets types things, you realise he didn't have a chance when you see even his registration plate says that he "sucks lol

[@EugVR6]

Oh that DFV noise 💪🏽

[@florianbarkowski6856]

How come no one has pointed out the girl in the background with the stig helmet on. I found it hilarious.

[@rundattmedia2106]

Cosworth DFV is a pure symphony.

[@edwindude9893]

Jeremys a legend.

[@nealrcn]

TG take me back to 1970

[@benyeech]

"M3 drivers have no friends" 😂😂😂

[@Piobagusfidil]

It's funny because it's TRUE

[@kentbeitel9966]

It’s crazy to see the evolution of formula 1 cars. From this (70s) till now 2022

[@hotsauce3700]

The end was hilarious.

[@CSLFiero]

Bimmers used to be so competent. Now they don't even offer rwd and manuals.

[@jonathansmith7306]

Yes they do. Every BMW has electronic manual, and there are still rear wheel drive cars

[@mg5347]

The description is wrong, it's obviously not the top gear test track

[@suttonsplash14]

I miss these guys

[@topivaltanen4432]

Yes,Top Gear without them is like Benny Hill show without Benny Hill.

[@kylepinner5372]

The great taste of Michelin

[@christopherberryhill3802]

The stig's got balls

[@waiotahi52]

Even without cars, these guys were good

[@toomuchinformationforu9919]

they said "boring" a lot during this and Ithink it sums up the whole episode

[@beaudwayful]

I had a die cast toy of this car. It was my favorite toy.

[@ryanm.191]

Just realised stigs gear is alpine stars

[@Riverdeepnwide]

To hell with the rest of the show I want to see more of that beautiful Lotus AND HEAR ABOUT ITS SUSPENSION! 🏎______________________

[@stanhohmann]

Miss the old folks!!

[@hamidbarnabus]

a car from 70s albeit its f1 car still half a minute faster than modern sport sedan with more power, electronic assistance

[@Rose_Butterfly98]

I remember stig at the pool ,but I don't remember it with the lotus