TopGear Lancia stratos kitcar Stig lap

[@franciscolinares8031]

What amazes me the most is, that even with all the spining, it was just 2 seconds below the Aston Martin DBS. 😮

[@brynfisher8019]

Db5

[@MadnessIncVP]

2:23 _”Done better than Chris Evans.”_ On more fronts than you’ll have realised at the time, Jeremy.

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

Ouch

[@falcongamer58]

@@isaacsrandomvideos667 hello

[@isaacsrandomvideos667]

@@falcongamer58 all I can think of is when James may summons out of that MG limo thing and says “hello” to some girls Lol

[@tonyb2473]

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[@commandantteste2859]

Its a rally car. Just drive through the grass into the finish line

[@1994CivicGLi]

yes

[@jameslingo4190]

Funny that s what I wanted To say

[@Pirustae]

That's what I had in mind too

[@tanaukettu8590]

Rally cars don't go through grass, that's what off roads are made for. Also, Rally has lots of tarmac driving too.

[@driver1084]

You need the tires to do that

[@Devilsgreedybelly]

The slowest lap is by far the most entertaining 😍 Took me back to Sega rally 👏

[@jeroenweel947]

Yes that was an awsome game

[@Somegoy]

That car is INSANELY nimble. What a weird lap that was to watch. Too bad the track wasn't dry I'd like to see it again

[@SHDW-nf2ki]

The thing about the Lancia is its so short that it can't really handle high speeds like the top gear test track. Its meant for much narrower rally stages. Other wise, the thing WILL kill you. I agree though if they would have waited for a dry track, or just let the Stig drive steadier it would have been a much cleaner lap over all.

[@elnyoutube123]

​@@SHDW-nf2ki I can drive a Stratos at high speeds the Stig was overcorrecting the whole time you need to let the car coast not just stomp on the brakes then gas like a regular car

[@johnm3907]

​@@elnyoutube123I'd bet the stig was a better driver than you. So I'd say he figured it out more than some guy on the Internet.

[@mightress]

What top gear forgot to mention is that this car was just finished and not tested. They where asked to come back a week later to pick it up. They insisted to take it anyway. The hawk kit is good.

[@213davidhunter]

It looks like they wanted comedy more so than a fast lap!

[@mightress]

@@213davidhunter friend of mine has a hawk Stratos. It is an awesome car which does not show any of the problems in that show. SOB to drive, like the original but shit loads of fun.

[@robertsaca3512]

You mean Top Gear lied about a cars reliability? Say it ain't so‽

[@VestedUTuber]

@@robertsaca3512 They didn't lie about the Caparo T1. But that's because despite all the engineering that went into making it basically a street-legal F1 car they forgot to put any effort into making it reliable.

[@immortalwolf6]

The first run sounded like it wasn't running on all cylinders

[@bolacapoeira]

I thought that also and most probably that's why it broke down :P

[@pauldavis5518]

Sounded like a tractor

[@emanemanrus5835]

good point. The alfa engine in the kit should usually run at higher rpms, and that sound was an anomaly: you could almost count the firings per second of the remaining cylinders.

[@jediknight1294]

@@emanemanrus5835 yeah, it just sounds wrong tbh, The problem.is who the hell do you go to for a V6 now? Citreon don't make theirs any more and the delorean crowd made those stupid expensive, the Ford and Chevy are too heavy, too bulky and too agricultural. Alfa has the RPM, has the power but reliability isn't quite there. Jaguar maybe?

[@eun5oo280]

@@jediknight1294 Maybe a nissan 350z's v6?

[@eljefeamericano4308]

Legend has it that the original car did not have mirrors. If the driver wanted to see behind them, they just spun out, looked behind them, and then got back to driving in whichever direction they wished to drive.

[@pionelpessi707]

I like how when the Lancia breaks down, The Stig gets out and walks away.

[@mrradman2986]

AS Gaming21 Alfa engine though, not Lancia. Should have tried an 037.

[@kuriankeralaIndia]

@@mrradman2986 Lancia use ferrari engine so using alfa engine instead of alfa is ok . So lancia .

[@beeftec5862]

@@kuriankeralaIndia Not a Lancia, let alone a Stratos. Kit car with Alfa engine, set up different with the performance highly likely to not be same as original. Top Gear crap for touting it as a Lancia.

[@kataloganz]

do you know it's staged right?

[@hermansales9582]

Is Kimi The Stig?

[@robair67]

If you're looking, you can see the toe-out of the rear wheels. Yes, it also has a wider rear track. And yes, that means the rear toe-in needs to be even more than a pure square layout, especially on a competition car. The driver did an amazing job only spinning twice, with such commitment. Hard to believe a simple tracking adjustment wasn't done between both filming days! Wasted opportunity.

[@agenericaccount3935]

ok

[@ricochetVendetta]

I read the words, they sound very clever but Ive no idea what you just said. It was out of balance like brake bias then I guess

[@mightress]

The kit was just assembled in factory, not adjusted or tested. They told TG to come back a week later but they insisted in taking it.

[@SophiaAphrodite]

You clearly have never watched this show.

[@chrisdavidson911]

@@ricochetVendetta the wheel alignment was all wrong at the back, making it corner like a drunk shopping cart, it's why every corner either looked like a constant fight or just spun

[@911gpd]

So many professional racing drivers in this comment section...

[@robinenbernhard]

Welcome to youtube. Where every one knows things beter then people in vid

[@SuperHornetX]

@@robinenbernhard you act like it takes a lot to know how to drive a car fast.

[@topgearonforza6-thepowerla226]

@@SuperHornetX well it sort of does in this video, idiot.

[@jediknight1294]

@@SuperHornetX it does in the wet when its got as short a wheelbase as a Stratos and using road tyres. The first Stig was a rally driver (you can tell by the lines) versus the touring car lines of Collins or.the F1 lines of.the last Stig and would have been a fair bit faster.

[@NathanMcCabe88]

Well I'm the Stig.

[@MikeLaRock88]

It may have been the slowest lap, but it's one of my favorites

[@toreyweaver9708]

Probably my favorite stig lap ever 😂👍

[@Super22b]

The original Stratos was designed for nimble rally stages with a very quick steering and short wheelbase. It's just too unstable for a long track with high speed corners, as simple as that.

[@gregferris4481]

I play a lot of driving sims and my biggest challenge was this car,Pikes Peak and rain..Possibly 15-20 restarts as I lost count and my temper a few times but when done a lot of fun.

[@StevDoesBigJumps]

Unstable? That would depend on the suspension setup, tire pressure and wheels. The original did indeed have an unstable setup, like most oter rally cars at the time, and having the center of mass in the rear doesn't help it either, makes it even more snap oversteery and I doubt they used sway bars back then.

[@HeretixAevum]

don't cut yourself on that edge, dodo.

[@piotrmalewski8178]

I bet they've messed up the suspension geometry.

[@Calilasseia]

Actually, the problems with the original Stratos, stem from the fact that it had *massively* adjustable suspension. This was one of the features that made it a serious combat weapon in the hands of a professional rally team, with the relevant trained specialists on hand to ensure that the suspension settings were correct. But, unless you ARE one of those professionals, with specialist knowledge of the idiosyncrasies of Stratos suspension settings, leave well alone. Because that suspension is *very* sensitive to changes, and worse still, sensitive in a deviously nonlinear manner, resulting in a complete change of behaviour after adjustments that on another car would be considered minor. It is ridiculously easy for an amateur to put this car into suspension settings that will see it in dangerous parts of the performance envelope *very* quickly. Basically, the Stratos is a sort of four wheeled Lockheed Starfighter - bat out of hell performance, but with parts of the performance envelope that even skilled pilots prefer not to enter. Some of them being prolapse inducing if you mistakenly *do* enter them. If you have the requisite specialists on hand, you *can* make it stable enough for track use, but even with that largesse on tap, you need to concentrate hard *all the time* whilst at the wheel. Those who don't, end up adding to the "widowmaker" legend this car has acquired. In short, this is a car you acquire, to teach yourself *restraint*, until you've learned the hard lessons it will teach you. If you're not already blessed with Senna levels of skill, you can spend over a decade learning how to drive this car properly, but those in the know will respect you for your effort if you do.

[@sirryser8180]

What? He spun a car designed in 1973 with one of the shortest wheelbases and then build by some bloke in his shed 36 years later? No, that cant be, they must have faked it! Typical of them! Come on, if the stig were to spin ANY car, a rear wheel drive historical race car, which is not much longer than a toothbrush beeing driven in the rain then that would be THE car. I love the stratos as much as anyone else, if not more, but there's no getting around the fact, that it wants to kill you when you least expect it to.

[@darkrage1138]

Lol I'm so glad someone understands. The key to the stratos speed isn't being faster than the other cars, it's being faster than the stratos' inner desire to kill the driver.

[@jorgerivera6298]

It's a B group car of course it wants to kill the driver it's like racing with wild horses

[@alunchisholm481]

@@jorgerivera6298 Well, except Group B didn't exist until 1982, and the Stratos competed from 1973 (in group 4)

[@HighSockDavid]

Your forgetting that fact that it’s a replica and not the real thing who know what parts to what cars are in that thing

[@chilternsroamer872]

@@alunchisholm481 The Lancia 037 and 038 (aka Delta S4) was the Lancia group B monsters, iirc. I used to watch that sort of thing on TV 40 years ago. Wasn't it a Lancia that killed both the drivers and the class?

[@ChapuleTaylor]

All I see is triggered italians in the comments... Guys settle down this is NOT the REAL stratos, you can say it says stratos KIT CAR on the title and it is one made by HAWK. The body looks authentic but what's underneath is completely different.

[@ironguy6482]

It seems not many people actually watched the full episode. I wonder why everyone thinks a kit car turns into an exact 1:1 replica of the real car

[@Zonda1996]

The guy who built the car came out after the episode and openly slandered the direction they took in showcasing the HF. Apparently a few of the shown mishaps were scripted and the Stig bounced it off limiter after a cold start on his first drive, leading to the engine failure shown here. Given the guy took commissions to assemble kit cars for customers in the UK and the light it painted his handiwork (as well as Hawk kit cars in general), there’s plenty of reasons to be annoyed at BBC producers lol.

[@colinhoward74]

Those are typical characteristics of the stratos in the wet on the street , it can be quite lethal , it was designed to change direction on a ballhair in the dirt .

[@SparrowNoblePoland]

That's why Lanciac abandoned that design, making 037 much longer.

[@alessandro.cattelan]

If u are a bad driver, yes

[@VestedUTuber]

@@SparrowNoblePoland But then the 037 ended up being overspecialized towards paved stages - so much so that Lancia had to cheat to even stand a chance against the Audi Quattro.

[@VestedUTuber]

@@alessandro.cattelan Eh, even a good driver can be caught off guard by one of these if they're not used to driving something like this. The Stratos is like an older Porsche 911, except more-so due to its shorter wheelbase. The moment you push it beyond its limits it will punish you severely, so you need to give yourself a margin of safety.

[@mcrsit]

Lol it was expected for the thing to break down on the first lap since it sounded like a lawnmower. And damn that second lap was right out of Gran Turismo's multiplayer

[@ronwalsh]

Love the Stig, and of course the lads. I really miss them.

[@Hamlet-wp2ri]

Some say he naturally faces magnetic north, and that all his legs are hydraulic. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

[@warmbeer2]

"done better than Chris Evans" Wow that's setting the bar low.

[@niklaswejedal463]

I am so addicted to the design of the Stratos - coolest rally car ever.

[@tinymonster9762]

Majestic! Absolute animal of a car, and I suspect the driver was deliberately putting on a great show of powersliding. Brilliant though, and one of my favourite ever laps.

[@ze1054]

And due to this program Hawk Cars sold many more Strat kits, I know as I worked for them and if set up correctly that kit is very quick and stable. Set up wrong very scary!!

[@theravedaddy]

It looked like a typical top gear assasanation of a car because clarkson didnt like it......tesla, anyone?

[@yorkshirethegreat]

@@theravedaddy I've got a feeling that the Lancia marque is one of his favourites. Two cars stand out for Clarkson; the Stratos and the 037 Rallye. Both incredible racing cars.

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

@@theravedaddy Clarkson loves lancias And you can't fault him because the tesla failed on him

[@theravedaddy]

@@Alucard-gt1zf uuuh? Wasnt it a kit car?

[@cyjan3k823]

Why people here are talking like it is real straots. They dont see he wrote on papaer HAWK STRATOS. Its not real one

[@lookbehindyousuka]

It says KIT CAR in all caps. I don't think people mistake it

[@emanemanrus5835]

@@lookbehindyousuka maybe non english speaking users did not understand the kit thing. By the way if you look the car inside, the driver seat is at the right side: lancia never made stratos' with right side driving positions.

[@FallenYohxne]

The best part of the video is people thinking that it's a real stratos

[@dansherwood9851]

That was an awesome 360 and keep on trucking!

[@camerondominguez8731]

The definition of never give up

[@YaksBall8]

If you played enough Gran Turismo with this car, you can feel it's lack of weight just by watching this video, seems like so much on edge fun!

[@matthewmorrone883]

Just met a guy in east coast Canada with one, most likely a kit car, and said it had a 3.5L in it. Told me about the 2.4 ferrari Dino engine. Has an intergal rollcage and frame. Wasnt aware thefe were only 500 cars produced for the public. But he did tell me about the 73, 74 and 75 world cahampionship rallies.

[@totallyskint5899]

Was one of the best sounding exhaust noises on tg.

[@jackdyer4186]

We have found that this car was not easy to handle, the stig looked like a one-handed driver and it was revealed that a good average driver is nothing more😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@gezatherton1071]

I’m amazed The Stig could control that twitchy Lancia.

[@erty2389]

Wasnt a lancia. That was a kit car made by hawk

[@GabrielKish]

Short wheel base, big power. With some chassis tuning it'd be a monster.

[@chrisstrider]

❤Lancia

[@SloMoShort]

If they'd just given him a hot meal we'd still be watching it

[@peterliljebladh]

Three laps in one you might say. One around the track and two around the axis.

[@andieslandies]

Lancia: "Did you want us to build cars that are easy to drive or cars that win?" (most WRC Manufacturers' Championship wins of any manufacturer: 1974, 1975, 1976 [Stratos], 1983 [037], 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 [Delta])

[@tommasopesso1]

Just envious of our great cars

[@MalcolmChrystal]

Did the Stratos do a 360 spin out?!

[@Szeki28]

Hawk Stratos: work of art

[@Ghost-yc7eq]

That was the best and most flamboyant lap i have ever seen 😂

[@moogle68]

Anyone know what season + episode number this is? I have the whole series of the OG trio and I don't remember seeing this before.

[@tigertalesade]

It was season 14, episode 3, 2009. I was in the audience for this, a good day out 😎

[@HuntersMoon78]

Now that's what I call an interesting lap

[@Mocking69]

The screen is tight and cool ♪

[@roys.1889]

I'm just mildly upset that they didn't mark it with the W for wet track conditions

[@ArmandoVictorForno]

Mi vien da ridere a vedere quanti italiani, accecati dall'orgoglio, non riescano a farsi due risate davanti alle "provocazioni" di Jeremy. Chissenefrega di come Stig abbia fatto la prova a tempo: la Stratos richiede esperienza per essere guidata bene. La Stratos vera (non la kit car) la conoscono bene gli appassionati e non ha certo bisogno di una prova del genere per dimostrare le sue straordinarie doti e questo lo sanno pure Jeremy, James e Richard, tutti amanti dello storico marchio Lancia.

[@lorenzozanellati5844]

Armando Forno alleluia, qualcuno che capisce 😃

[@andreabianchi7928]

Armando Forno ma penso che stig sia un pilota

[@andreabianchi7928]

Armando Forno sono d'accordo con te hahaha

[@ChapuleTaylor]

Get fucked italian knob, your cars are shit and this proves it HAHAAAA!!!! Fucker

[@gabrimica8905]

ma non è una Stratos vera. Ti sembra il rumore di un motore Ferrari?

[@nordimejia5790]

That car is tiny!!!

[@henrynicklin1345]

Nordi Mejia the video is squashed

[@eriktruchinskas3747]

@@henrynicklin1345 the car is still tiny as hell

[@Stevenhufnagel]

Not for fat americans

[@willemgroen7546]

Or now

[@DarkAudit]

Or now

[@CSM13]

Or now

[@roofcat1690]

Or now

[@maxzak3694]

Or now

[@Fido4President]

Or now

[@johncunningham4820]

Perfect Lap ............... For a Lancia Rally Car . Oversteer everywhere , and , TWO spin recoveries .

[@newsmansuper2925]

that was a great drive

[@atank]

Each 360+ was so stylish !!! !!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

[@Chaggis]

Should’ve had the Stig’s Scandinavian cousin drive!

[@J3n555]

It sounded so different in the beginning compared to the second time, I bet it was running on 5-cylinders

[@AlfahrezyRF_89]

That is a catastrophic lap, he's all over the place 😂

[@trenchtown69]

It is a rally kit car with a very short wheelbase, less than 1000kg curb weight and depending on the tune, 230+ horsies under the bonnet, in the wet. Would be amazing to learn more about the setup though. Or a comparison to the Lister Bell kit... orr... ehm... More Stratos stuff...

[@bakedandsteaked]

Stig had one too many coffees that day.

[@thetuguar]

2:23 oh man, he said it

[@getupstairstobed]

2:23 Hearing Jeremy Clarkson say that lmao

[@wpworkingpeople]

Sandro Munari, the best in Stratos!💪🏻

[@chazsach6594]

Happy memories of Sandro Munari nearly running me over on the RAC Rally.

[@anomalyp8584]

OR EVEN NOW! this is genius, a perpetual running gag!

[@ComandanteJ]

Probably now.

[@elliotmortimer6738]

The aspect ratio of this vid is making me crave a beqa stringer 🤤

[@brantleyfoster021]

I preferred the sound of the Ferrari V6

[@nightmisterio]

You couldn't wait for a dry day to test it???

[@theravedaddy]

Lol! A dry day? In the uk? They would have to film 45 cars a day if they waited for that!

[@winteronice]

If fun = Slow, James May has got it in the bag!

[@boerharms2209]

thank you for uploading!

[@bettinadittmar1725]

Neue fiat

[@ZstackZip]

To stig’s credit, it’s gotta be hard keeping an Autobot like Wheeljack under control

[@neighbourhoodmusician]

The engine was on something like two cylinders on the first run.

[@eblgraphics]

You know how F good you look fixing a Lancia Stratos on the side of the road lol...

[@VluggeJapie22]

It looks great though

[@dannymagoo9625]

Still remain a piece of art, just like is usual for italian cars..

[@Glenni91N]

You're missing the point. It's a personal build. a KIT CAR someone just built this at their house. It's made to look like a Stratos, and that's it, it's not a real Stratos. You can make a ferrari at home, and make it look like a ferrari, but it won't drive like one if you give it fiat punto parts.

[@kreegak3802]

Danny MAGOO itialian cars suck ass

[@Godl1ked]

Glenni, a lot of people who have tested listerbell and hawk built Stratos kir cars say that they're much much more reliable and better built than the original stratos. If you believe all these scripted events that happened in this top gear episode, I'm quite sorry for you. Check out more sources on the internet to make you final opinion, because you need a final opinion on something before you start teaching and preaching others. Which you do not seem to have, and look like an idiot.

[@Zeck88522]

most entertaining lap on top gear.

[@ltrtg13]

I'm not even sure the car would be built now if Clarkson had anything to do with building it. There are only so many screws and bolt you can use a hammer to fit before having to resort to screw drivers and spanners. If by some miracle it was finished. Or now.

[@ivantheteribul]

Or now.

[@xxxxghostxxxx2052]

that is how I drive in sim racing at the first time

[@jeffinillinois]

SOOOOOO want one of those. Alas, in the States, nobody that I know of, sells them. :(

[@AILATI75]

Quello che,ai bei tempi, l'ITALIA ha progettato e costruito .....in Inghilterra ci stanno arrivando adesso. 🥂🍾

[@boblewis5558]

It's a 70's RALLY car! The back end is SUPPOSED to be loose ... Jeez Stig! 😱🤭🤣🤣🙄

[@marqesquirrereyno2527]

What season and episode was this?

[@FDJT-sj7id]

The Stratos was not designed to have its nose pointed directly forward at all times.

[@kozu7213]

one of the hardest car for drive

[@allenmontrasio8962]

That was one twitchy car.

[@carl-stevensinkler163]

This man got out the car and just walked to the line🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🌚🌚🌚🌚🤣🤣🤣☝🏾🤣🤣🤣

[@victorshackapopulus6078]

I had Blue Stratos aftershave. Does that count?

[@seanokeefe703]

Need the stig do a lap in a 917

[@pssoa1112]

still better than me on dirt rally

[@roihesse9174]

Walter Röhrl should drive this beautiful car...

[@jg3000]

Stratos is a rare car so they used a replica. Nothing like the real thing in this case.

[@alistairholes7633]

Funny EST stig lap ever😂😂

[@acstatuecollector]

Nice!

[@kpsig]

Do they still make those replicas? Are there any second hand for sale, around?

[@Bob10009]

Basically that particular car was shit on that particular track in that particular weather on that particular day.

[@Psiberzerker]

Time off for panache. Also, it got in the mud, but it is a ralley car.

[@Petequinn741]

Looks fun to drive I'd put a 302 ford or 327 Chevy in it..

[@dhm7575]

I love this program

[@bill3641]

48" wheelbase ?

[@MartynStanleyAuthor]

This was a sham and 100% scripted. The owners and people who worked on the car were NOT happy. They actually did over 30+ laps to film all the corners and camera angles, with NO incident. Then, on the final lap the driver was instructed to spin out intentionally. You can read the full story here:- forums.finalgear.com/threads/builders-of-the-hawk-stratos-replica-hit-out-against-topgear.41992/

[@daves984]

Such a short wheelbase. Very hard to control a skid. That was crazy

[@leonh619]

I love how the messed up aspect ratio makes the car look like a child's toy!

[@colinvannurden3090]

Fantastic sound?! It sounds like a lawnmower engine

[@kramvonatik8084]

If you take off the [conservative] fourteen seconds for the spins, this little kit car came in at a very respectable 1m 34s. Pretty embarrassing if you manufacture anything slower than that on the Top Gear board. I think that is why it "Broke Down" on the dry track.

[@ivantheteribul]

That would put it with some hot hatches such as the Renault Megane and Clio and Ford Focus ST.

[@universpro7741]

Why can't i buy it?