@@lukedorrington9712 Yep , Not a Holden - V8 supercars was Skaife and Co Driver based concept as it was more about their vanity than the cars and boy Skaife was vain - They wanted it to be about who was the best driver where the punter wanted it to be about the cars. V8 supercars ruined Holden and Ford as a bloke could not buy one so may as well get a AUDI, or some ricer - Is a reason why the 70s cars are worth so much more than a 2000s one and they were hardly built for longevity.
The memories of hot laps with Mark Larkham in his Mitre 10 car at the first ever Darwin event will top the list of life thrills forever ! No amount of muscle car blats can prepare you for the earth shaking rawness and sheer physical effort required to hold yourself upright and to stop your head bashing the roll cage ! And don't even think of waving to your mate at the pits ! And all thru it Mark is talking to you and explaining suspension adjustments ! Brilliant !😎👍
@@skylined5534 we clicked on the vid expecting to hear them talking and reactions if not we would e have looked up lowndes’s Vodafone be commodore raw footage
I was hoping it would be at the Bathurst track. I've driven and ridden around it but always aware that when it's open as a public road they are just waiting for idiots to play race driver on it and there goes your license, so always at speed limits. I also thought for that it should be a really hot lap with each of the Top Gear crew and sensors in their suits to know when (not if) they crapped themselves. My bet would be coming down through the bends down off the mountain. You can watch that race as much as you like but you'll never get any idea what that must be like at their speeds till you've actually driven down it. After trying to imagine whipping through those tight bends at that speed and it being a steeper downhill run than it looks on telly that's the part where I'd soil myself if I was in the car with Craig or any of the other top drivers. Right now I'm on our Gold Coast where the Super Cars will be racing on the streets here this weekend in the big GC600, I'm not going for health reasons this year though.
Because it's so well known, possible penalties for racing on bathurst public roads include but not limited to A : having your balls lowered into a live toaster. And B : Being pelted with cyanide - coated hedgehogs . After that they get really serious 🤣🤣🤣
@@colinstewart1432 Echidnas! We aint got no hedgee hogs here in OZ. Having your nuts shoved into a live hot toaster sound more appealing to me than going for a run with one of the better drivers around that track. It is an awesome track but, bloody scary, and I have done a bit of racing myself. Bathurst is something different, something good but scary as hell too.
@@colinstewart1432 I have no way of knowing if you're in Australia or if so, whether you've ever been around that track but, it is kinda legendary for good reasons. I can't think of any other track quite like it, it's very fast in places, near 200 mph fast! It's shockingly tight, twisty and bloody steep going down through the very tight twisty's coming down off the mountain and despite having some racing experience myself, I'd be staining my pants, even if I was driving, if I was doing it at race speeds. If you're not personally experienced with it, and I did grew up religiously watching what way back was the Hardie Ferodo 500 (miles back then) and yet was completely surprised by just how insane these guys are to be screaming around there, especially that twisty section coming down, holy crap it's so much steeper and tighter than you ever could realise just watching the race. The record (unless it's been broken since) is 2.03 which is just NUTS!!! I honestly can not get my head around covering that whole long circuit in that tiny amount of time. There's plenty of videos about racing around there but if you want to see a pretty good example of a VERY fast qualifying solo lap you could search for a vid by a channel called "IWrocker" titled " NASCAR Fan Reacts to the ACTUAL Bathurst FASTEST Lap Record " which gives a 'pretty' good idea. The same guy has another one titled " American Reacts to Walking On Mount Panorama - It's Huge!! - Bathurst, Australia " which 'helps' give you a bit of an idea how crazy the track is. It's nearly 600 foot of elevation change from top to bottom, a lap is 6.213km around and can be as steep as 1 in 6.13 which somehow doesn't sound that much but, drive around it and for me, especially the run down off the mount and that stretch which has destroyed SO MANY cars seems impossible when you actually drive down it, even at legal road speeds, the speeds they fly down it just seems utterly impossible. I do agree it would be a huge adrenalin buzz going on a hot lap with one of the top drivers, just not for me, I'd have died of a heart attack about 3 seconds after he took off. Getting around that track in barely over 2 minutes after having been around it and seeing exactly how tight, how twisty AND how insanely fast it is in places just does not seem even possible.
For once Motor-Mouth Wanker Clarkson had little to say.. these edited clips were a bit of a disappointment, I hoped to see some fast laps with the Poms driving...
They should have waited untill Bathurst and taken them each for a hot lap around the track at full noise. Would have liked to see each of there faces and watching them trying to hang on 😂😂😂 and to appreciate how good our aussie driver's and supercars really are and to see why Bathurst is the best race track in the world.
Hey people, this footage is just a B part and this is just a promo shoot for the Australian Top Gear Live, with the Original Top Gear boys here to help launch it.
At Bahurst this year, Will Davison only barely, if at all, hit the limiter into the chase (3.15 diff I believe, which would be about 306 km/h). I don't think the V8's are as quick as the GT3's even if they were unlimited.
I didn't see that, I was marshalling there. They have been limited in previous years, must have upped the ratios slightly. Still, they can be quicker than 310km/h.
I know, I was totally devastated not one piece of in-car racing lap footage!! What a waste of a unique experience with some of the greats in that awesome sounding machine! 👎👎
Keep up with the conversation, or read it again before replying, either way. The V8 supercar could be faster than the Ferrari if the ratios were allowed to be changed. The COTF will set new records next year either way.
It's about safety. The V8 Supercars cannot maintain the high speeds of the GT cars because of handling. Hence why they are slower, yet the drivers are getting the most of the cars.
@mammo8369 There is no Carrera GT racing in Australia. Unless you mean the GT3 CUP in which case - no they do not lap faster. GT3's are production based then V8 Supercars are as close as you can get to an open wheel formula in a tin top. I'd love to know which track they are 2.5 seconds slower (and source). A full monocoque chassis and a race built engine and gear box means they are going to beat any production based vehicle. Even Tony Quinns Noble M12 is well off the pace of the V8s
@thomasandy I'm guessing he's doing Aus next year as he and James alternate. James is doing this year like last year and Hammond did the two years before last. So I'm guessing it's Richard's turn next year.
It's not about me making up my mind, it's about you being able to read and understand physics. The gearing is limiting. Gears have ratios. In V8 supercars they are limited by the ratio to stop excessive and unsafe speeds. Take the insults to some other internet battle keyboard warrior.
My ex partner gifted me one year on my bday a couple hot laps in a v8 supercar. And they are so much more insane to be in than they look on TV. The breaks are as scary as the acceleration. When you break you can feel the fat on your face leaving your body
They are real Fords and Holdens just that they were taken from the factory when they were still chassis and stuff and made into V8 Supercars with bigger engines, METAL panels and modifyed to go to 300km/hr
@scotty688 yea i know what you mean when he first started when 888 was better electrical he was happy to sign autographs but know he doesn't do any of that which sucks
Top Gear Australia would have worked if they had used some people we gave a shit about Shane Jacobson (the SHIT guy) and I have no idea who those other two were.
Richard Hammond Did Or Didn't Went To Australia With Jeremy Clarkson And James May, There's 2 Different Types Of Top Gear Casts, U.K Casts And Aussie Casts, More Than 2, No? Alright.
Thats what I love about Aussies..They are good people happy to share their experiences and toys with others. From a kiwi brother. :)
Love when James may said that was the best hot lap he’s ever had. Makes me feel proud of Holden’s even more
It is hardly a Holden. They resemble the shape. And it stops there.
He didn't say it was the best hot lap he's ever had, you muppet.
@@lukedorrington9712 hater
@@tanthaman he isn’t a hater you 🤡 he is a realist, there’s nothing “Holden” about that car except the shell, educate yourself kid
@@lukedorrington9712 Yep , Not a Holden - V8 supercars was Skaife and Co Driver based concept as it was more about their vanity than the cars and boy Skaife was vain - They wanted it to be about who was the best driver where the punter wanted it to be about the cars. V8 supercars ruined Holden and Ford as a bloke could not buy one so may as well get a AUDI, or some ricer - Is a reason why the 70s cars are worth so much more than a 2000s one and they were hardly built for longevity.
The memories of hot laps with Mark Larkham in his Mitre 10 car at the first ever Darwin event will top the list of life thrills forever ! No amount of muscle car blats can prepare you for the earth shaking rawness and sheer physical effort required to hold yourself upright and to stop your head bashing the roll cage ! And don't even think of waving to your mate at the pits ! And all thru it Mark is talking to you and explaining suspension adjustments ! Brilliant !😎👍
Wow, lucky man that would’ve been awesome to go for a thrash around Hidden Valley with Larko!
The V8 supercar drivers are the real stars!!
Is there a youtube video that shows TOP GEAR STAR DRIVES CRAIG LOWNDES' V8 SUPERCAR
because this one doesn't.
Should be called Blokes getting out of Craig Lowndes V8 Car......Super !!!!!
Clarkson drove through car.
Yes, i did like it and make it LOL likes.
You're welcome
Clarkson didnt drive it lol
@@andeeznation yeah he did theres footage of him driving from inside he looks squished up.....lol
lowndes, one of the true decent blokes left in this world.
That's a big call
"who's idea was it to put the roll cage across the middle of the windscreen" Larry Perkins' actually. :)
And it saved Lowndes life in 06
Speedyway drivers in the 70s actually
It's called the Larry bar.
@@ls1pr3dator9 in 05
Im no Holdon fan (Ford myself) but god that thing sounds amazing
I'm sorry you lost a great enemy.
2:30 James May "What's this do?"
Craig, perpetual nice guy "That's...hahaha!"
Rollcage across the windscreen, that's called a Larry-bar as Larry Perkins cars first had it.
Makes a huge difference for front end cage stiffness.
also reduces the chance of a wheel and tyre entering the cabin.
@@BornAgainCynic0086 this^^^^^
To answer your question Jeremy, it was Larry Perkins idea to put the roll bar across the windscreen. Hence the reason it was called the "Larry bar"
basjon ingold didn't lowndes cop a tyre in the windshield at Bathurst mid 2000s? lucky it was there
Lemiwinks Yes in 2005
Yes that bar is the reason Lowndes is breathing!
Yep it’s ironic that JC would mention the bar that saved the life of the bloke who was driving him.
Isn't it just ? Proper British irony ...
Clarkson and Lowndes plus a Commodore, EPIC!!!!
There is almost no point to this video. Why didn't they show the lads inside the car while on the laps?
Because this is B-roll footage. Obviously.
You got to hear all that v8 goodness... what's not to like?
@@skylined5534 we clicked on the vid expecting to hear them talking and reactions if not we would e have looked up lowndes’s Vodafone be commodore raw footage
That's at the Holden track up near Jacob's Well.... Very cool
I was hoping it would be at the Bathurst track. I've driven and ridden around it but always aware that when it's open as a public road they are just waiting for idiots to play race driver on it and there goes your license, so always at speed limits. I also thought for that it should be a really hot lap with each of the Top Gear crew and sensors in their suits to know when (not if) they crapped themselves. My bet would be coming down through the bends down off the mountain. You can watch that race as much as you like but you'll never get any idea what that must be like at their speeds till you've actually driven down it. After trying to imagine whipping through those tight bends at that speed and it being a steeper downhill run than it looks on telly that's the part where I'd soil myself if I was in the car with Craig or any of the other top drivers. Right now I'm on our Gold Coast where the Super Cars will be racing on the streets here this weekend in the big GC600, I'm not going for health reasons this year though.
Because it's so well known, possible penalties for racing on bathurst public roads include but not limited to A : having your balls lowered into a live toaster. And B : Being pelted with cyanide - coated hedgehogs . After that they get really serious 🤣🤣🤣
@@colinstewart1432 Echidnas! We aint got no hedgee hogs here in OZ.
Having your nuts shoved into a live hot toaster sound more appealing to me than going for a run with one of the better drivers around that track. It is an awesome track but, bloody scary, and I have done a bit of racing myself. Bathurst is something different, something good but scary as hell too.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 I reckon you're right there. I'd still like a drive round there with one of the top drivers though. 👍
@@colinstewart1432 I have no way of knowing if you're in Australia or if so, whether you've ever been around that track but, it is kinda legendary for good reasons. I can't think of any other track quite like it, it's very fast in places, near 200 mph fast! It's shockingly tight, twisty and bloody steep going down through the very tight twisty's coming down off the mountain and despite having some racing experience myself, I'd be staining my pants, even if I was driving, if I was doing it at race speeds. If you're not personally experienced with it, and I did grew up religiously watching what way back was the Hardie Ferodo 500 (miles back then) and yet was completely surprised by just how insane these guys are to be screaming around there, especially that twisty section coming down, holy crap it's so much steeper and tighter than you ever could realise just watching the race. The record (unless it's been broken since) is 2.03 which is just NUTS!!! I honestly can not get my head around covering that whole long circuit in that tiny amount of time.
There's plenty of videos about racing around there but if you want to see a pretty good example of a VERY fast qualifying solo lap you could search for a vid by a channel called "IWrocker" titled " NASCAR Fan Reacts to the ACTUAL Bathurst FASTEST Lap Record " which gives a 'pretty' good idea. The same guy has another one titled " American Reacts to Walking On Mount Panorama - It's Huge!! - Bathurst, Australia " which 'helps' give you a bit of an idea how crazy the track is. It's nearly 600 foot of elevation change from top to bottom, a lap is 6.213km around and can be as steep as 1 in 6.13 which somehow doesn't sound that much but, drive around it and for me, especially the run down off the mount and that stretch which has destroyed SO MANY cars seems impossible when you actually drive down it, even at legal road speeds, the speeds they fly down it just seems utterly impossible.
I do agree it would be a huge adrenalin buzz going on a hot lap with one of the top drivers, just not for me, I'd have died of a heart attack about 3 seconds after he took off. Getting around that track in barely over 2 minutes after having been around it and seeing exactly how tight, how twisty AND how insanely fast it is in places just does not seem even possible.
@@lorditsprobingtime6668 Thanks for that I appreciate it. As it happens, I'm in UK.👍
I Just want A lift to the Shops..which way ya going...LOL 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
CRAIG!!!! YOU ARE A TRUE LEGEND!!! MUCH EESPECT MY BROTHER
Well theres 4 minutes of my life I'll never get back!
There is 10 more seconds mate.
For once Motor-Mouth Wanker Clarkson had little to say.. these edited clips were a bit of a disappointment, I hoped to see some fast laps with the Poms driving...
SCOTTI BOY. And his wife says he exaggerates way too much lol.
They should have waited untill Bathurst and taken them each for a hot lap around the track at full noise.
Would have liked to see each of there faces and watching them trying to hang on 😂😂😂 and to appreciate how good our aussie driver's and supercars really are and to see why Bathurst is the best race track in the world.
Hey people, this footage is just a B part and this is just a promo shoot for the Australian Top Gear Live, with the Original Top Gear boys here to help launch it.
Also note that he probably means the Bathurst lap when the V8s are limited by gearing to 299.9km/h, while the Ferrari is not.
living out in the cane field area was a quiet day until you could hear the sound of V8 in the air
At Bahurst this year, Will Davison only barely, if at all, hit the limiter into the chase (3.15 diff I believe, which would be about 306 km/h). I don't think the V8's are as quick as the GT3's even if they were unlimited.
Lolzilol. They have had limiters for years and most of the top drivers are on the limiter into the chase
I didn't see that, I was marshalling there. They have been limited in previous years, must have upped the ratios slightly. Still, they can be quicker than 310km/h.
Love V8 Supercars!
Best racing on tv.
Copyright would deny the Clarkson driving bit being shown as it was all for their show
And WHERE was the actual footage of Clarkson & May driving... was it censored or something (still a cool video all the same)?! ;-(
Ah watching supercar videos night before Bathurst
Who were the old blokes with the V8 supercars driver stars?
"I just want a lift to the shops mate what way are you going?" "that way."" yeah cool I jump in if that's alright." lolololololol
I did get a laugh from 'what does this do?' though.. Almost got him.
@imtangent The other point is that it was really hot on the day that they were doing the film-shoot, so it was easy to get the temperature up.
Whose idea was it to put the roll cage across the windscreen?
Larry Perkins, hence the name - The Larry bar. Has saved at least one life...
60 degrees? No fucking way!! At 40 im dying
it is the Paul Morris V8 SuperSchool track - which i think is near Jacob's well.
I think someone deleted the actual lap footage ? 😮
This is the outtakes from the Australian Show with The main two from the UK it would seem ?
@imtangent yes theres almost no insulation as the drivers run a cool suit during races
"There r 3 things I want from this car in my car. The brakes those feet n those hands." lol. Funniest response I heard.
How about actually showing them during the lap, not before and after.
Hearing their comments during the lap would've been more interesting.
I know, I was totally devastated not one piece of in-car racing lap footage!!
What a waste of a unique experience with some of the greats in that awesome sounding machine! 👎👎
The words Super and Commodore should never be in the same sentence
When Shane thought top gear Australia was going to take off lol
Shane did not lose much weight...
was this the trailer for the video
Shane Jacobsen should be the next presenter of Top Gear!!! How good would that be? Have an aussie in the hot seat.
how can that be when at the recent bathurst race on the weekend, the cars were doing 310km plus down the main hill ?
I would’ve liked to see Ben Collins give it a drive. Then you would really see his skill
All I know is,.... "He's called the Stig" 😜
He tried Bathurst a few years ago...he got in everyone's way..top drivers wanted to kill him
That was like ordering a nothing burger and getting just that.HOPELESS.
What are Shane's glasses?
Auto shows dont have stars ,they have hosts!
Keep up with the conversation, or read it again before replying, either way.
The V8 supercar could be faster than the Ferrari if the ratios were allowed to be changed. The COTF will set new records next year either way.
It's about safety. The V8 Supercars cannot maintain the high speeds of the GT cars because of handling. Hence why they are slower, yet the drivers are getting the most of the cars.
This needs YTP'ing...
Who drove what to where now????
those sound... so... amazing
Where is this from I haven't seen this before
Australia. V8 supercar. thats a really one one though. thats a proper aussie car
0:50 to stop the Kangaroos on the mountain coming though and hitting you!
Is this the HDT track at Jacob's Well Q!d?
Thank god it’s in colour 😂
Why didn't they show Clarkson's lap?
Best worst crappiest video l've seen!!!
Absolute waste of my time watching it!!
I thought this track was Norwell on the GoldCoast
Lowndesy needs a bar across the middle of his windscreen.. to stop the kangaroos!
voda crew laughing, clapping and pointing while v8sc revs in the background = lowndes being a hoon as only he can :D
Where was Hammond, his cuteness?
pffft.... no actual footage of James or Jeremy driving the 888?... you just become PedalCarTVNews to me.
@mammo8369 There is no Carrera GT racing in Australia. Unless you mean the GT3 CUP in which case - no they do not lap faster. GT3's are production based then V8 Supercars are as close as you can get to an open wheel formula in a tin top.
I'd love to know which track they are 2.5 seconds slower (and source). A full monocoque chassis and a race built engine and gear box means they are going to beat any production based vehicle.
Even Tony Quinns Noble M12 is well off the pace of the V8s
iv taken a hot lap with one of those its fucking mental
On TV Lowndes comes across as a nice guy...well, I've got news for you.
Yeah can we at least see the footage of them in it doing the laps and Clarkson driving it 🤷♂️
@thomasandy I'm guessing he's doing Aus next year as he and James alternate. James is doing this year like last year and Hammond did the two years before last. So I'm guessing it's Richard's turn next year.
Every car workshop should have a Clarkson...he is a complete tool.
It's not about me making up my mind, it's about you being able to read and understand physics. The gearing is limiting. Gears have ratios. In V8 supercars they are limited by the ratio to stop excessive and unsafe speeds.
Take the insults to some other internet battle keyboard warrior.
@mammo8369 the carrera gt isnt a rotary? Porsche have never made a rotary engined car.
My ex partner gifted me one year on my bday a couple hot laps in a v8 supercar. And they are so much more insane to be in than they look on TV. The breaks are as scary as the acceleration. When you break you can feel the fat on your face leaving your body
gift is not a verb
Yeah all good grammar police. Couldn't care less
@@oldrustyrelic9121 Obviously enough to reply.
But by how many?
@@NoTaboos idiot!
The guy at 0:30 acted in The Bourne Legacy!!! LOL
Shayne Jacobson?
Vodafone one of the trickiest dishonest companies I have ever dealt with !NEVER AGAIN!!
Original top gear is the only top gear! Fuck all the iterations! ❤️🇦🇺
Pity about the sound quality
Yes CL LEGEND
Well it's not often Jeremy is quiet.
They are real Fords and Holdens just that they were taken from the factory when they were still chassis and stuff and made into V8 Supercars with bigger engines, METAL panels and modifyed to go to 300km/hr
Ummm. Never seen them drive. Im so confused
At 0.55 Clarkson realises he's about to shit himself and Lowndsy laughs.
@scotty688 yea i know what you mean when he first started when 888 was better electrical he was happy to sign autographs but know he doesn't do any of that which sucks
Top Gear Australia would have worked if they had used some people we gave a shit about Shane Jacobson (the SHIT guy) and I have no idea who those other two were.
so what was the whole point to your reply ????
Richard Hammond Did Or Didn't Went To Australia With Jeremy Clarkson And James May, There's 2 Different Types Of Top Gear Casts, U.K Casts And Aussie Casts, More Than 2, No? Alright.
Three actually mate. Britain, Australian, and Yankydoodle!
Was this in a Top Gear episode?
Pity they never showed the laps.
So that's all we get then?
This one these videos were u go why is this guy filming u leave here saying to yourself this could’ve been a lot a better
gahh....show us clarksons full lap! damn
@TheBarryviper yes it's "Kenny"
where is hammond?
Jeremy shook hands with Lowndsie. The guy should be greatful.
Don't forget that downforce also limits top speed significantly.
thats Where i live!!! 5 min drive near jacobs well
Amazing how James may saying helmet hair is funnier than Shane Jacobsen making jokes.
Shane Jacobson.. looking for a lift to the shops.. lol.