(TRAIN WHISTLE)
(ENGINE DRONING)
(CHEERING)
-Here we go. -Hello!
Greetings, everybody! Thank you.
-Thanks very much. -Hello.
JEREMY: Hello. Hello.
-Hello, everybody. -Hello.
(CHEERING CONTINUES)
RICHARD: Thank you. Thank you.
-JEREMY: Loud! -That's a big one.
JEREMY: Thank you so much!
Welcome. And in this edition of the world's most exciting motoring show...
..a maroon Skoda...
..a silver car of some sort...
..and an elderly German man says, "I don't like jumps."
I-I don't like jumps.
(CHEERING)
-There's a lot. -It's a good one. Good one.
And there's that diarrhoea-coloured Audi as well, isn't there?
Yeah. Yeah, there's that.
-And you kill a Chinese person. -(LAUGHTER)
But we start with Lamborghini.
They've just launched a more hard-core,
more exciting version of the Huracán,
and Richard Hammond was very keen to try it out.
-I was. -Yeah, he was.
So we put the air ambulance on standby...
(LAUGHTER)
..and off he went.
RICHARD: Here it is.
It's called the Huracán Performante.
And whereas the standard Huracán costs £155,000,
this version comes in at £208,000.
So what do you get for the extra £50,000?
Well, to be honest, on paper, not a lot.
You only get 29 more horsepower,
up from 602 to 631.
And 30 more torques.
Hm.
So, while the original
tops out at 202 miles an hour,
this can do, erm, the same.
And the 0-60 time
goes down by a whopping two tenths of a second,
from 3.1 to 2.9.
Now, admittedly, we are starting from a very high baseline,
and you have probably just seen some pictures of a car going very fast.
But... 55 grand more?
When do you start seeing something for your money?
Fortunately, in quite a few places.
For starters, some proper work has gone into making the Performante
look more dramatic than a normal Huracán.
This car has much more of the get-your-camera-phone-out appeal
you expect from a Lamborghini.
I particularly like the material this wing's made from.
It's actually chopped-up carbon fibre bonded in a resin.
So not only does it look rather good, it's also very light.
And because they've used it all over the place,
they've shaved 40kg off the weight of the car.
And you would notice that on a mountain road.
And then we come to the soundtrack.
Again, if we compare it to the standard car, the Huracán makes an OK noise.
But the Performante comes with a new exhaust, and that...
(REVVING)
Oh-ho!
That is awesome, that is!
Love the sound of a V10.
Like having 10,000 wolves at your back.
(LAUGHS)
But there's more to the Performante than just animalistic howling.
The car is also equipped with something called Aerodinamica Lamborghini Attiva,
or ALA for short.
And what it claims to be is a very clever aerodynamic system.
Basically, you have moving flaps in the front spoiler,
and moving air ducts at the back that control the airflow to the rear wing.
Now, if you want to go fast in a straight line, you need less downforce,
so the ducts open so they direct more air under the wing.
Right, so, fast in a straight line.
That's as good an excuse for a gratuitous drag race as we've ever had.
Just a shame there isn't some local motorist
out for a drive in a Ferrari 458 Speciale,
or... something... something that...
Oh, what a stroke of luck!
-Morning. -Fancy seeing you here.
Yeah. To be honest, I was just out for a drive
and I stopped to sort of, you know,
marvel at the mystery and wonder of God's creation.
Yeah. Well, I don't know if you're aware,
but you happen to have pulled up on the start line of a drag race.
-Have I? -Yeah.
RICHARD: Seeing as our cars are so similar,
would you mind accompanying me to the other end of this runway
in a drag-race-type fashion?
-Yeah, all right. -Excellent.
Good.
It's just worked out that way today.
That's blind luck that that man happened to be in...
in... in the logical competitor for this car.
(REVVING)
And we are away!
Avanti!
That aero now doing its business to make this thing as fast as possible...
in a straight line.
And, dear God!
(LAUGHS)
-Ha! -Oh, no!
I beat the local man in his 458 Speciale, by some considerable margin.
But the Lambo's clever aero system is equally impressive
when you get to the end of a straight and arrive at a corner.
(TYRES SQUEAL)
Oh!
As I go into a corner, I need more downforce to give me more grip.
So the flaps and ducts are adjusting to do just that.
(TYRES SQUEAL)
It's pressing down, it's giving it grip.
More than that, it can operate individual sides
so it can work individual wheels mid-corner to dial up the grip.
That's clever. Very, very clever.
(TYRES SQUEAL)
And let me give you some hard evidence of just how clever.
The Porsche 918, my favourite out-of-this-world hypercar,
went round the Nurburgring in six minutes and 57 seconds.
This thing, five seconds quicker.
As a driving machine, the Performante is one hell of an experience.
But there's even more to it than that.
What Lamborghini have done with this is hit a real sweet spot.
It can corner like a race car
and shatter trees with its engine noise,
but it hasn't been turned into some hard-core track-day abomination.
I've got air-con and Apple connecty stuff in here.
In the comfort sense, it's very much like driving a standard Huracán.
And that last point is why this car is so special.
A lifetime ago, on a car show in a galaxy far, far away,
I reviewed the original Huracán and was left feeling a bit sad
because it lacked that drama, that thrill-delivery system
that a Lamborghini should have and be.
Well, finally it's here. The whole package is complete.
This is what the Huracán should have been from the start.
It's brilliant.
(CHEERING)
RICHARD: That was a really... amazing thing.
I don't see how Ferrari always lose a race...
when it's some punter's car, and when they provide the car, they win.
RICHARD: Amazing, isn't it?
I actually, erm...
I drove a Performante the other day,
and I pulled out to overtake a Peugeot,
put my foot down, and the noise was so enormous
I genuinely believed the engine had actually exploded.
-(LAUGHTER) -I've never heard a sound like it.
It is pretty loud.
But it's not pretty loud, it's incredibly loud.
It can't possibly pass any, you know, regulations.
-It doesn't need to be, it's Italian. -It is Italian, that's true.
It's also... It's also fantastic.
I think I'm right in... No, I know I'm right in saying
it's currently my favourite supercar of the moment.
Oh, it's definitely mine. Supercar.
Absolutely adorable, it really is.
Anyway, we must now find how fast it goes round the Eboladrome.
-(REVVING) -Come on, let's have it!
JEREMY: And she's off!
A searing start, and a ferocious howl
as the Huracán powers onto the Isn't Straight.
Grabbing at the gears to keep that amazing V10 on song.
And carrying some serious speed through there.
No let-up as she drives down towards Your Name Here.
Despite being the hard-core model,
the Performante is still four-wheel-drive like the standard Huracán.
And that clearly translates into serious mechanical grip.
Now, unleashing all 631 horsepower for the blast back down the Isn't.
You really can't beat a normally-aspirated engine for sheer visceral wailing.
It's superb.
Old Lady's House.
Grip, and that active aero trickery staving off understeer.
On the bumpy run down to Substation.
Is it going to be OK through there?
Yep, absolutely no problem working the carbon-ceramic brakes.
Flies round Field of Sheep and across the line!
(CHEERING)
-That looked good. That looked fast. -It looks quick.
-Is it, though? -Yeah, that's it.
-That was properly... darting. -It looked it.
Anyway,
we must now find out
how far up the board
the Huracán goes.
RICHARD: Oh, hello. Oh, hang on. Oh-ho!
-(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) -JEREMY: Bloody hell.
One sixteen-eight - that's the fastest road-legal car we've ever had round there.
-It's not road-legal. -It's Italian.
-Same thing. -Everything in Italian's road-legal.
Anyway, it is now time for us to plant some daffodils of opinion
on the roundabout of chat at the end of Conversation Street.
-(JAZZ MUSIC) -(LAUGHTER)
Sorry.
-(LAUGHTER) -So sorry.
That's the best thing that's going to come out of your mouth
for the next seven minutes.
Ouch!
So erm, conversation, sticking with supercars.
Many new ones have arrived recently, and we have one here.
If you have a look, that is the Devel Sixteen.
Now, that's a 12.3-litre V16 quad-turbo engine.
It's two Chevy engines glued together.
And it has a top speed, according to the makers, of 320 miles an hour.
(SCOFFS) Really?
-Three hundred and-- -That's what they say.
You can test that one, Hammond.
-Three hundred and twenty? -That's what they say.
Anyway, if you don't fancy the Devel Sixteen,
you could try the Ikeya Formula IF-02RDS,
the Apollo Intensa Emozione,
the er, Dallara Stradale,
the er, Aspark Owl.
What? The what? Owl?
-The Aspark Owl, yes. -You can't call a car an Owl.
-(LAUGHTER) -JAMES: The Vencer Sarthe,
the Arrinera Hussarya,
the Mazzanti Evantra Millecavalli,
and the Hennessey Venom.
No, I'm sorry, this is just ridiculous. Seriously, they're all new supercars?
-They're all new supercars. -That's absurd!
-And then, from America... -Oh, God!
..there's the Glickenhaus SCG 004S.
And from Denmark, the Zenvo TS1 GT.
Right, we've got the idea. Every single person in the world has suddenly decided,
"You know, I can make a supercar myself."
Yeah, it looks that way. Yeah.
The problem I've got with all of this is
it's not like we're spoiled for choice already.
I mean, you've got Ferrari, Lamborghini,
you've got Bugatti, McLaren, Ford, even Audi.
Yeah, but what if you want a supercar with no heritage
that's built in someone's shed?
If that's what you really want.
-And that you can't get serviced anywhere. -RICHARD: Exactly.
Did any car there appeal to anyone here?
(CROWD MURMURS)
You'd all rather have a Lamborghini Performante than anything there?
So that's total failure for all those people.
What you've just looked at there is 27 future bankruptcies.
(LAUGHTER)
Now, we have always argued that women, whatever they say,
are impressed when a man performs a perfectly executed handbrake turn.
Oh, it's absolutely true.
We've all been watching Sir Attenborough's fish programme, haven't we, yeah?
Yeah, Blue Planet . Unbelievable, OK?
Now, the thing is, every single week you see, OK,
man fish comes along with his lady fish there.
Man fish can make his face swell up - it's huge - like a satellite dish.
Lady fish: "I'm not bothered. I'm not bothered."
-But she is. She is. -RICHARD: Yeah.
And then she's going, "I like his huge face,"
and then they do sex, or whatever it is fish do, and then they have babies.
Now, that massive face that a fish can do,
that's basically the same as the handbrake turn.
-(LAUGHTER) -All those birds that dance about.
We've got the handbrake, birds can dance about.
-It's all part of nature's dance of love. -Exactly.
But the problem has been, of course, most modern cars now have electronic handbrakes.
You can't do a handbrake turn with one of those.
That's why Tinder's become so big.
-Yeah, you have to... -(LAUGHTER)
You have to swipe right because you can't slide left any more.
-That's what's going on. -Well, so that's been the problem.
With electronic handbrakes we can't conduct this mating ritual.
Ford have noticed this, given it some thought, and they've come up with this.
It's an after-market part that you fit to your car.
They call it the drift stick.
-Oh, they ought to call it the love handle. -Yeah.
(LAUGHTER)
But the point is, what it does, it overrides the ABS,
and you can actually perform proper handbrake turns in that.
Girls are going to say, if you pull that,
"That was ridiculous and you frightened me."
-What they actually mean is, "I'm hot." -Yeah.
-(LAUGHTER) -Come on. Yeah, admit it.
-You're impressed by a handbrake turn, aren't you? -Just the thought of it.
If you say no, that's just part of it.
I've never been in a car with...
You've never been in a car with someone who's done a handbrake turn?
-Oh, hello! -(LAUGHTER)
JEREMY: Ooh!
Are you together?
RICHARD: What are you doing, man? What's wrong with you?
What is wrong with you? How do you...?
You drove here today, huge fields everywhere.
You didn't think, "I'll give it some of that"?
RICHARD: Get out there and impress her.
On the way out... Just mind the sheep.
Right, listen. Bentley has announced
a new version of their big four-by-four, the Bentayga, OK?
Er... Which they say is for shooting enthusiasts.
We've got a picture here, look. It's got this kind of chest in the back
which has, you know, space for your guns and refreshments, and so on.
However, I know that whoever designed that has never been shooting in their lives.
How do you know?
Well, because if we examine the refreshments that have been photographed here,
you will find that they have fitted it with...
rose lemonade and elderflower juice.
-(LAUGHTER) -Now, I'm sorry to say...
No, I'm sorry to have to say this, but has anyone here been shooting ever?
-(MURMURING) -Yeah, you have?
As you will know, a shooting day is an armed drinks party.
-There's no place for shit like that. -(LAUGHTER)
You turn up with elderflower juice at a shoot and the host will shoot you.
-What? -WOMAN: Middle East market.
-Middle Eastern market? -Oh, she might have a point with that.
Could be.
Don't come here with your bloody sensible, rational views.
(LAUGHTER)
No, actually it's funny you should mention the Middle Eastern market,
because they've also done one for fly-fishing, which happens in the Yemen.
-Yeah. -(LAUGHTER)
-JAMES: It does. -(LAUGHTER CONTINUES)
(APPLAUSE)
JEREMY: And it gets better.
And falconry.
And falconry's really big in the Middle East.
What about dogging?
(LAUGHTER)
-What about dogging? -Well, why don't they do one for dogging?
It's a countryside pursuit, and more people do that than do falconry, don't they?
-Well, yeah, you're prob... probably right. -Yeah.
-From what I've heard. -RICHARD: Well, they should.
-But what would you have in a dogging Bentayga, then? -(LAUGHTER)
Well, you'd open the drawers and there'd be like--
-MAN: Wet wipes. -Wet wipes!
-(LAUGHTER) -Wet wipes. Good one.
RICHARD: Straight away. JEREMY: Yeah, wet wipes. Good one.
-Condoms. -JEREMY: Yeah.
Condoms. Maybe like a camera and a whip, or something.
No, on the... I reckon, on the basis of Bentley thinking that's a shooting, er, chest,
that a Bentley dogging Bentayga,
they would literally have a blanket, a bowl and a lead.
(LAUGHS)
Now, two US Navy aircrew people have been in trouble,
er... for using the vapour trail from the back of their fighter jet
to paint pictures in the sky.
We've got a shot of their work here.
JEREMY: Erm... RICHARD: Oh, it's...
That's good work. It's very neat. It's neatly done.
JEREMY: It is neatly done. Now...
Vice Admiral Mike Shoemaker - obviously from the US Navy - he's not happy about this.
He says, "Immature acts of a sexual nature have no place in naval aviation."
Well, I'm sorry, but the plane they were flying when they did that
is called the F-18 Growler.
(LAUGHTER)
If the US Navy is going to call its plane a Growler,
they can't really complain
when the pilots go and make
pictures like that in the sky, can they?
No. And to be clear, if you're American and you don't know why we're laughing,
it's the same as, erm, US troops in Iraq laughed
when British soldiers were being transported around
in what we call a Snatch Land Rover.
-(LAUGHTER) -RICHARD: It's the same joke.
"Hey, you're in a Snatch!"
"Yeah, and you're flying around in a Growler, so shut up."
Anyway, if those two US aircrew do get fired and are bored,
you are more than welcome to come on this show anytime. We'd love to see you.
Yes, you are. We like immature acts of a sexual nature.
-We do, yeah. Yeah. -(LAUGHTER)
And that's it for Conversation Street this week.
JAMES: Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Now, there are many unpleasant aspects to modern motoring,
such as Peugeots, speed cameras, drive-by shootings.
But by far the worst of them, we think, is having to stop to fill up with fuel.
No, it is. It is the worst thing.
It's particularly annoying if the person at the pump in front of you fills
and then goes inside to do a weekly shop for a family of seven.
Yes. Now, we did some scientific research on this,
and we discovered that the average motorist
spends 36 days of their life filling up with fuel.
And that got us thinking.
What if you didn't have to stop for petrol at all?
JAMES: In order to crack this problem, we've come here...
..to the Grand Tour special high-intensity test track.
And it's here that we've come up with our ingenious solution
to ending the misery of fuel stop fill-ups.
Allow me.
Yes, welcome, everybody,
to the world's first vehicle-to-vehicle refuelling vehicle.
To create this incredible machine,
we've taken our inspiration from the world of air-to-air refuelling.
And it will, quite simply, make petrol stations obsolete.
Now, the driver sits up here as normal,
but this is where the fuel pump attendant -
which in this case is me - sits with all the controls,
everything you need, for a spot of car-to-car refuelling.
Absolutely. And we are so pleased with our creation
that we are going to let the machine itself do the talking
with a real-world, world-first, first ever...
-Yeah, we got that. -...inaugural demonstration.
OK, so, here I am on the motorway.
Oh, no. I need petrol.
And I make contact with James's refuelling vehicle,
probably via an app or something.
There's always an app. We'll get a kid to do that.
And there he is now.
Here comes my first customer now, down the motorway.
I'm going to know it's him who needs my services.
There'll be an app or something for that.
I've got a range of fuels: unleaded, super unleaded, diesel.
Here we go.
Bringing down the fuel-o-meter arm.
Now, this tells Richard Hammond how much fuel he's taking on board
and how much it's costing, and just as importantly it gives him a marker
where to pull up in relation to the van.
It's all been carefully calculated using science... and stuff.
JAMES: Pivoting. Pivoting.
Coming in to open filler flap.
(WHIRRING)
Already the heady fumes of success are filling my nostrils.
Think about it. You're on your way to that meeting.
You're not stuck in a petrol station queue - oh, no - because you are a winner.
You are going to make that meeting.
This is the key to your success.
-(GLASS SHATTERS) -What?
JAMES: Sorry! Think of it as a business opportunity.
-Car-to-car window replacement. -Oh, brilliant!
Hold steady. Finger extending again.
(WHIRRING)
I've got it.
Oh! Cocking Nora.
Yeah, we're... nearly there.
RICHARD: Having successfully opened the filler flap,
it was time for phase two: unscrewing the fuel cap.
(WHIRRING)
Passengers would love this.
Think of the kids. I mean, they would love watching this.
JAMES: Fuel cap is removed.
Extending fuel nozzle.
(WHIRRING)
I'll be as steady as I can.
Back a little bit.
Yeah, there it is!
-(METALLIC CLUNK) -We are pumping!
Yeah, we are pumping gas! Oh, yeah!
It works!
Oh, shit!
What's happened?
Hammond, right, you're on fire!
-Bail out! -Oh, no.
James, you bloody idiot!
RICHARD: Clearly, this system had a couple of issues.
So we reconvened a few days later with a new solution.
OK, second time lucky.
We think the problem with the car-to-car refueller
was there was a bit too much tech, too much to go wrong.
So we've scaled back on that front.
And there's James now.
-Red light, on. -(BUZZER)
Activating door release.
(BEEP)
Now, what we're using here is Chinese acrobats from the circus.
Circuses get a lot of downtime, so that's a win-win all around.
They are going to refuel Hammond's car.
-Watch this. Green light. -(BUZZER)
He's on.
I'm not stopped. I just carry on.
Look at that. It's like being refuelled by Spider-Man.
The genius of this is we've made the petrol pump attendant mobile,
rather than the petrol pump itself.
It's much cheaper, it's safer.
Right, that chap's pretty much exhausted his supply.
-Time to send the second man. -(BUZZER)
-OK, Hammond, pull up for acrobat number two, please. -(OVER RADIO) Right-o.
Oh...
RICHARD: Clearly, there were also some flaws in this method.
So we went back to the drawing board, and a few days later...
OK, we have had a total grass-roots rethink.
And, well, fingers crossed for third time lucky.
Check this out, viewers!
What this is is one of those specialist airport vehicles
that normally goes around doing, you know, airporty-type stuff.
But it also, as you can see, makes a perfect platform for a mobile fuel station.
This really is genius. This time.
Here we go.
Oh, yeah. Ramp's going down.
Ready to commence docking.
Right. I've never done this. I don't know if it's going to work. I'm hoping it does.
(CLANGING)
I'm on! I haven't been killed!
There you go. You see, no exploding acrobats,
no cars having to keep perfect station or anything.
Hammond can refuel at leisure.
He can even have a cup of coffee.
So, that's it. My car is refuelled and I haven't stopped my journey.
I'm still on my way.
(OVER LOUDSPEAKER) Thank you for using Fuel Port.
Please continue to enjoy your journey.
(RICHARD SIGHS)
Ready for disembarkation. Now, this is a bit tricky.
This is precision stuff.
Oh, God.
It's a good job Hammond's not the sort of person who has accidents.
OK, here I go.
And we're off! (LAUGHS)
It only works!
Yes!
(LAUGHS)
We did something, and we did it well!
Motorists of the world, you may have your lives back.
(CHEERING)
-Very, very impressed. -(APPLAUSE CONTINUES)
RICHARD: Yep, saved the world.
Oh, yeah.
-Credit where it's due. -It worked.
And I have to say, what staggers me
is that even without me helping -
because I was in hospital at the time -
you managed to get something that worked.
No, it worked because you were in hospital.
-RICHARD: It's connected, yeah. -Whatever.
You've gifted everybody here another 36 days of life,
and not even the Baby Jesus could manage that.
So well done, you.
But we did kill a Chinese man. Sorry.
Yes, and I think we should take a moment now to remember his sacrifice.
(LAUGHTER)
-Hammond, if you killed a man, you can't be impatient. -I'm sorry! I-I did it.
-We'll gloss over it. -It was a short sacrifice, wasn't it?
Anyway, listen, it's time now for Celebrity Face Off!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Once again, we are asking a big question.
And it's this:
who is the fastest person in the world
who earns a living from punching and strangling other men?
-(LAUGHTER) -To help us find out,
please welcome Anthony Joshua and Bill Goldberg!
(CHEERING)
Bloody hell.
They're getting nearer!
-How the hell are you? -I'm well. You?
-Very well. How are you? -How are you, sir?
I'm very well. Do...
It's the land of the giants!
(CHEERING)
-Ah, look at that! -JEREMY: You can feel the oestrogen, can't you?
This... It's like Loose Women .
-(LAUGHTER) -What?
And for the first time in my life I actually feel like a midget.
-(LAUGHTER) -Yeah.
No, I mean, this guy, he's... Well, you're... But he's...
-Massive. He's a unit. -How tall are you?
-"A unit"! Thank you. -He's a unit.
Yeah, he is, but you're, what, six...
Six-six.
Yeah, I think that's just ridiculous, personally. Erm...
See, I've been hit in the head with chairs too many times.
I used to be 6'6". I'm only 6'3" now.
The make-up girl was saying she's never seen a head with more scars on it.
-I'll take that as a compliment. -(LAUGHTER)
I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here, chaps,
because boxing and wrestling are not...
I'm not really an expert in either,
so I hope you can guide me through some of the things.
-Er... You're obviously the boxist. We do know that. -(LAUGHTER)
One thing that really interests me is you get hit, obviously.
-Yeah, yeah. -How much does it hurt?
Do you know what it is, what I've learned? I was thinking about this the other day.
It's like, you know, as an athlete you can look amazing,
be in the best shape, you can be the tallest, the strongest.
But it's when you start getting hit you question, "Do I really want to do this?"
You've fought on with a broken nose, though, haven't you?
Yeah, my last fight. My last fight, strong guy.
Erm... But it wasn't planned. It's never happened before.
-You know? -Well, I do.
-Not what he does! -Yeah.
-"Can you break my nose in the second round?" -(LAUGHTER)
I thought the ref was going to give me five minutes to get myself together, but no.
"You all right?" "Yeah." "Carry on." And that was it.
And if I don't carry on, then I lose my titles and so on.
You went on and won the fight with a broken nose? Yeah.
-Just say yes. -Yes, I won. I battered him.
(LAUGHTER AND CHEERING)
-(BILL ROARS) -(ANTHONY LAUGHS)
JEREMY: Now, Bill...
We had wrestling here - and anyone in the audience who's my age will remember it -
and it was largely a sort of fat woman called Shirley
would sit on another man's face, and the old women would jump up and down and shout.
-Hasn't changed a bit. -(LAUGHTER)
Is it pre-planned?
-It's predetermined. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. -(GASPS)
-Well, I said that on. Hey... -(AUDIENCE BOOING)
Hey, I said that on...
I said that on Leno 20 years ago.
ANTHONY: OK, OK. (LAUGHS)
But, you know, I like to tell people it's predetermined, OK.
You know who's going to win, who's going to lose, how long the match is supposed to be.
But when I wrestled The Giant, the Big Show...
-Wow. -...he weighed 525lb.
And when I picked him upside down,
it didn't mean, since it was predetermined, that he was any lighter.
-(LAUGHTER) -ANTHONY: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It didn't mean when he picked me up and threw me through the ground
that it was going to be softer.
You know? You know it's going to happen, but it doesn't decrease the pain.
So you can strangle people, can't you?
-You can do anything you like in wrestling. -Yeah, that's the best part.
I can actually do that in public, too, and get away with it.
-Now I'm like... (LAUGHS) -Not with you. You're my...
You can only hit and bite.
No, I can't bite. Because Tyson bit, I can't bite.
Tyson bit. He was a bitey person. The Luis Suárez.
He was an exception - in a league of his own, Mike Tyson.
-BILL: He was an animal. -He was an animal.
Now, one of the things that fascinates me about both your disciplines of fighting
is the amount you eat - the calories you have to bung in every day.
When I got the phone call last year
to go back to wrestling for the first time in 12 years,
I had to cover a lot of ground very quickly.
So I had to eat as much as humanly possible,
um, and I had to train as much as humanly possible.
I'd eat 15,000-20,000 calories a day and I'd train three times a day.
-Fifteen? I mean, that... -Seriously, that's a lot.
-Do you eat that much? -I can't compete with that. That's amazing.
-That's dedication in itself. -We got a request from the girls in the office
for photographs of you without clothes on, basically - there.
(LAUGHTER)
I eat a lot, but I don't look like that.
(LAUGHTER)
I was explaining to the girls in the office, though,
that you've both got penises like button mushrooms, so...
(LAUGHTER)
-How'd he know? -(LAUGHTER)
I just... Really.
Can we talk about cars? This being a car show.
-Yes. -Please.
Now you both started with General Motors.
You - I think we've got a picture of it - with a Pontiac Trans Am.
-ANTHONY: Is that what you started with? -That's what he started with.
And you started with a General Motors car, which was a Vauxhall Astra.
(LAUGHTER)
-Nice! -Do you like it?
It's almost like if somebody said,
"What's the difference, then, between America and Britain? You speak the same language."
-Well, there it is: the Astra and the Trans Am. -ANTHONY: There it is.
Er... And you both modified cars.
-To a certain degree. -To a certain degree.
To an extreme degree.
One of yours, you put an 800-horsepower NASCAR motor in.
Anthony, you modified your Astra because you put a DVD player in it.
(LAUGHTER)
-Which is slightly different. -ANTHONY: Yeah!
-(GROANS) I told you. -And then after that--
All I can say is if he beats me on the lap I'm killing myself
by jumping through that window.
Yeah.
After that, you really haven't got anything in common with cars at all.
I mean, it's just... It's extraordinary. It really is.
Have either of you ever crashed?
-Have you crashed? -Oh, yes, absolutely.
-A few times? -Maybe, yeah.
What's your best crash?
There is an old story about - since we drove a Jaguar today...
Erm... My brother is a car collector,
and he had a XK-E that I just absolutely loved,
but he wouldn't let me drive the XK-E a lot.
And... back in '85 when Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
was the place to go for spring break,
he leaves one night and says, "Whatever you do, don't take the Jag to Fort Lauderdale."
Well... what do you think I did, ladies and gentlemen?
Fast forward a little bit, we're looking for a parking space,
and the buddy in the backseat proceeds to open the door
to jump out and find a parking space,
and simultaneously a motorcyclist came by
and flipped over the door and bent it backwards, and so...
That serves them right for being on a motorcycle.
(LAUGHTER)
So, have you ever crashed one?
It's not as crazy as that. Just me and my cousin.
You know, I went and got my little DVD player from Wembley Market,
if anyone knows there, you know?
A little £50 DVD player, but it was... it was life to me.
So we bought the CDs that you just...
You can watch your little hip-hop music videos and stuff.
So, we're cruising.
And, mysteriously, someone placed a car in front of me at a traffic light.
-So er... -(LAUGHTER)
How did that happen?
I've looked down for a split second.
-Yeah. -(LAUGHTER)
Bang! Straight into the back.
Yeah, but the DVD player on the insurance form wasn't on, was it?
-It wasn't on. That was fine. -No, it definitely wasn't on.
But we lived to tell the story.
Now, I'm afraid, we're going to park you, Anthony, just for a second,
because your collection of cars now, Bill, is simply unbelievable.
-I mean, I've got the list. -Let me see.
We're not talking about... You know, we're not talking about Mini Metros here.
(LAUGHTER)
I mean, we start back in '46 with a Willys Jeep,
the Chevy Biscayne, the Ford Thunderbird,
Dodge 330, the Cobra Replica,
Mercury truck, Plymouth GTX, Plymouth GTX Convertible,
Dodge Hemi Charger, Chevy Blazer, GTO,
Pontiac Trans Am Pro Touring racing car,
Dodge Ram, Cadillac Escalade,
F250, Dodge Challenger Hellcat, Charger Hellcat.
Why haven't you got any European cars, which are vastly superior?
-I do. There's a Porsche 911 Turbo. -Yes, there is, you're right.
'92 Turbo. I've had a couple of Ferraris.
So you've got a Volkswagen Beetle and no other European cars?
Bill, I think you're just being racist, frankly, with your choice of cars here,
because this is just so American.
Right, we're going to talk about your laps.
-How was it out there? -It's not easy. It was fun, though.
You say it's not easy. Would anyone like to see a clip of Anthony finding it not easy?
AUDIENCE: Yes.
OK, this is the last corner. It's a 90-right, OK?
-And here comes Anthony... -Oh, great. -...not making it look easy.
(TYRES SQUEAL)
(ANTHONY LAUGHS)
JEREMY: That is a wide line through there, Anthony.
So you saw what I did and tried to copy me, right? Ah!
-(ANTHONY LAUGHS) -Well, it's funny you should say that.
Because you know they say everything is bigger and more impressive
when it's American than if it's British?
-Would you like-- -Play the clip!
-JEREMY: Exactly. -(LAUGHTER)
JEREMY: That is some serious speed. (LAUGHS)
Oh, no!
-Yes! -(CHEERING)
JEREMY: That is, erm...
-If you're going to screw up, screw up big time. -(LAUGHTER)
It's interesting that both of you went off on that.
Nobody's had trouble with that corner before.
-Nobody's had trouble? I don't believe you. -No. Then both of you.
It's that, "I'm going to..."
Yeah, it was the last corner to make up time for all our screw-ups.
I'm trying to work out whose lap we're going to see first. Let's start off with...
-Let's see Bill's. Let's have a look at Bill's lap. -BILL: Eurgh!
Anthony Joshua, you're next, mother-(BLEEP).
(LAUGHTER)
(YELLS)
JEREMY: And there he goes! He is underway.
Looking good. Oh, cutting the corner nicely.
Now, you should slow through here a little bit.
BILL: First time I've ever been on the right-hand side. JEREMY: The correct side.
And now, as we go onto the gravel, starts to get very loose here.
BILL: First time I've ever been on the gravel, also. JEREMY: Yeah. Yeah.
That's actually very tightly done.
I drive like a (BLEEP) old lady around here.
(LAUGHTER)
JEREMY: Oh, actually, that is not particularly quick through there.
I was told you were very fast on the Tarmac,
but not brilliantly quick on the gravel.
-Well, I could have told you that! -(LAUGHTER)
JEREMY: Now it gets really slippery when you rejoin the Tarmac.
That is an amazing line through there.
-It's actually probably quite sensible. -BILL: Amazingly good or bad?
JEREMY: No, that's a good idea, because you get more speed into that corner.
Now we're on the straight.
Let's see if I've got some balls and stay in this.
JEREMY: Oh, that's quick. Are we quick...
That does look flat through there.
And now coming up to the tricky last corner. Well, tricky for you two.
And... Yeah, there he is. And across the line, everybody!
-They were nice moves. -(CHEERING)
Nice moves.
-Who'd like to see Anthony's lap? -(CHEERING)
Let's have a look.
BILL: Was there any ice out there? JEREMY: Like that sound.
Come on! Give me some power.
JEREMY: They've all been dry pretty much so far. You see, that's--
ANTHONY: It looks nice and smooth round there. JEREMY: With you driving.
ANTHONY: (LAUGHS) You're going fast round there.
JEREMY: Right, now, we're about to head onto the gravel.
Now, you see, you pick up speed here all of a sudden,
for no reason that anyone can understand.
Exuberant through there.
Oh! No, don't do this! Yes!
(LAUGHTER)
JEREMY: You look like you're enjoying yourself. BILL: That's what matters!
JEREMY: Yeah, and he's enjoying himself through there as well.
Kicking the tail out to go into Difficult Bit Two.
And again! God, this is impressive stuff.
Car's looking very tidy, got to be honest.
And now...
Yep.
Tighter line. No, a tighter line through there.
Now on the left, and then we're back on the straight.
And it's supposed to be flat all the way to the last corner.
Now let's go!
JEREMY: Looking quick. Looking very... Oh, my God!
That was leaning on it. That was leaning on it there.
And now we're coming up to the last corner.
Yes. And there we are, everyone. He's made it, too.
(CHEERING)
That's brilliant.
Right, I have the times.
(BILL CHUCKLES)
-Act like you don't care. -(LAUGHTER)
-I'm in anticipation. -Bill Goldberg...
One...
..twenty...
..point-four.
So that's... Yeah. No, that's worthy of a round of applause.
-It's not the fastest we've ever seen. -ANTHONY: One minute, 20.4?
One minute, 20.4.
Good. Good time. That's a good time.
Good thing about you two is you're not competitive.
(LAUGHTER)
Anthony Joshua: One...
..eighteen-point-seven.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
BILL: Good time, yeah!
Congratulations. Congratulations.
Ladies and gentlemen, Bill Goldberg and - I better read this out -
the world's fastest person who makes a living
by punching or strangling other men, Anthony Joshua!
(CHEERING)
BILL: Way to go, man! ANTHONY: Thank you.
Way to go.
Right, now, over the years there have been many titanic battles
in the world of motorsport - many great duels.
You've had Hunt versus Lauda,
you've had Prost versus Senna,
you've had the Ford GT40 versus the Ferraris at Le Mans.
But my favourite battle of them all is this one.
(WHIRRING)
JEREMY: Back in 1977...
Audi was developing this four-wheel-drive vehicle for the German military,
when they had a bit of a thought.
They wondered if its four-wheel-drive system
could be made to work in an ordinary family car.
And so, under the cover of darkness at a quarry in a remote corner of Germany,
they began secret tests.
And straight away it was obvious that with all four wheels being driven,
the family car had an enormous amount of grip.
This meant it could go around corners on loose surfaces like that much faster.
And that, they reckoned,
would make it good at rallying.
But there was a problem.
What I've got here is the 1979 Motor Racing Rule Book.
It's the most boring book in the world, but whatever.
Here on page eight million,
article two says that in rallying
"Four-wheel-drive cars... will not be admitted."
Audi, however, had thought about that,
and dispatched a man to Paris to a meeting of the sport's governing body
to try and get the rule changed.
He was very clever,
because he waited for the meeting to be finished -
everyone pulling on their hats and coats -
and then he went, "Oh, God. Sorry, one more thing. Erm...
This rule about, erm, four-wheel-drive being banned in rallying,
is it OK if we, er... we get rid of that?"
And everyone said, "Well, obviously he wants to enter
his silly little army lorry in something or other,"
so they all went, "Yes, yes. Whatever," and went home.
Three years later, this is what happened.
(MAN YELLS)
COMMENTATOR: The four-wheel-drive Quattro is all-conquering,
and the Audi has been proved master of all conditions.
Superior power and traction
with the turbo-charged, four-wheel-drive Audi is too much.
Bjorn Waldegard has wasted no time
in proving the dominance of the four-wheel-drive Quattro.
Hannu Mikkola has scored a tremendous victory.
(APPLAUSE)
COMMENTATOR: The Quattros hold all the aces: first, second and third.
Audi won the World Championship in 1982 with this very car, actually.
And from that moment on,
everyone knew that to win in rallying you had to have four-wheel-drive.
Well, when I say everyone...
This was Lancia's answer to the Quattro:
the two-wheel-drive 037.
I've got a bit of a soft spot for all old Lancias,
but in this... it's not soft.
(REVVING)
This is everything I was expecting it to be.
-(BANG) -Pops, bangs, lumpy petrol.
A dashboard dominated by this enormous and very well used ashtray.
Completely Italian. (LAUGHS)
Honestly, it is dainty as a dandelion seed caught in a summer breeze...
(TYRES SCREECH)
..and as agile as a water boatman. I mean, that was...
(LAUGHS) That was just glorious through there.
Glorious!
It feels highly strung. Feels like a thoroughbred.
It's fast as well.
(TYRES SCREECH)
Oh, wow! What a thing this is.
On a dry track, then, or in a beauty contest,
the 037 would thrash the Quattro any day of the week.
But in the rough-and-tumble,
crash-bang-wallop world of rallying, not a chance.
What's more, Audi was backed by the industrial might of Volkswagen.
It was efficient and organised.
This was the team boss, Roland Gumpert.
Look at him! A hands-on, bearded German doctor of engineering.
Lancia's team boss, meanwhile, well, he was a bit different.
His name was Cesare Fiorio,
and he liked girls and power-boat racing.
Also, he was running a team staffed by Italians,
on a shoestring.
And then there were the drivers.
Audi had Hannu Mikkola, and Stig Blomqvist, and Michèle Mouton...
(SPEAKS IN FRENCH)
..who had won 21 rallies between them.
Quattro was the car on everybody's lips,
you know, in rally business.
And, of course, we were developing the car all the time.
It was getting better and better.
We were well funded, you know?
And er, that time it was a big team.
JEREMY: Lancia, meanwhile, had Markku Alén and Walter Rohrl,
who was brilliant, but said he didn't want to compete in every event,
and didn't want to be world champion.
I told them, "Listen, I want to win Monte Carlo."
I like Corsica, I like Acropolis,
I like New Zealand, I like er, San Remo.
I only do these five or six beautiful rallies, and nothing more.
I am not interested to win any more the World Championship title.
I want to be a normal man, not something special.
And if we are always in the newspaper and everywhere,
of course you're never... you're never alone,
because people standing in front of your house, and... and I don't like.
So, Audi had four-wheel-drive, a proven car,
a team staffed by Germans, a hands-on boss,
and a squad of world-class drivers who were motivated and on it.
Lancia, meanwhile, had a budget of £3.75,
two-wheel-drive, a power-boating playboy at their helm,
and a part-time driver who didn't want to be world champion.
However, Lancia did have
one ace up its sleeve.
They'd been in rallying for ages.
They'd won the championship four times,
with cars like the Fulvia
and then the Stratos.
So although their power-boating team boss
looked like a playboy,
he knew all the tricks.
For example, the rules said that before you could enter a car in a rally,
you had to build at least 400 examples
which could be sold as road cars to customers.
Now, obviously, when officials from the sport's governing body turn up
to check you've done that, they are going to notice if you've only made 200.
So you say, "Yes, mm.
But, you see, this car park was full,
so the other 200 are in a car park on the other side of town."
And then you say, "Let's go and count those now,
and on the way, why don't we stop off for a spot of lunch?"
You then make sure the lunch goes on for a very long time.
You have a starter, a main course...
So I turned it into candles for three days, got it into port.
..pudding, cheese...
Well, when I say "reverse," careered backwards.
..mints, more cheese...
Shame to waste the bottle.
And then, afterwards, you take them to another car park
which contains, miraculously, the other 200 cars.
Then you had the cars themselves.
The rules say they must be fitted with roll cages.
But roll cages are heavy, they'll slow you down.
So why not use something like this instead? It looks like a roll cage.
It would pass a visual inspection every day of the week.
But, actually, it's made... from cardboard. Look.
I'm not saying Lancia actually did that.
But if you examine these crashed 037s,
you can see they weren't exactly... strong.
My family and my friends around me said, "Listen.
Why are you signed for Lancia? This car is so dangerous.
If you see these thin tubes and these plastic things,
if you... if you went off, then it's maybe the last accident you have."
And I answer, "Listen, I am not planning to have an accident."
JEREMY: However, despite Lancia's experience and Cesare's cunning,
no-one expected them to do well in the first round of the 1983 Championship,
which was held in the freezing mountains above Monte Carlo.
We were very much afraid about this rally, because you can find a lot of snow,
ice, er, slippery conditions,
where, of course, a mid-engine car with rear-wheel traction
is not the... the best idea.
JEREMY: So, whilst Audi prepared for the event by fettling its cars,
Lancia got ready by going to the supermarket.
Here they bought all the salt they could lay their hands on.
They then sprinkled this on the difficult corners
so that by the time their car came along the ice was gone.
And they weren't finished there.
We have been also pushing local authorities, taking care of the French roads.
Say, "Oh, there's a lot of ice on that road.
It's very dangerous for spectators and for the drivers with all this ice."
"Oh, oh, oh, yes."
(LAUGHS) And so they went and they...
and they cleaned up the... the roads, and that was fantastic.
(LAUGHS)
JEREMY: They also had another trick up their sleeve.
After the icy stages were over, the Lancia stopped in the middle of the stage,
so the winter tyres could be changed.
Now, there was nothing in the rules that said you could do this.
But critically... there was nothing that said you couldn't.
(TOOLS WHIRRING)
If you want to compete in motorsport, you must know the rules you have to face.
The grey zones of the rules.
And it's always a big fight, but er... you must try to be a bit clever.
JEREMY: The result in Monte Carlo, then,
was the exact opposite of what everyone had been expecting.
COMMENTATOR: Four-wheel-drive and 340 turbo-charged horsepower
are just not enough.
It's Audi sadness, Lancia joy.
JEREMY: The two-wheel-drive Lancias, on a rally famed for its slippery conditions,
finished first and second.
For the next event of the year, in Sweden,
there wasn't enough salt in the world
to get rid of all the snow and ice.
So Lancia solved the problem...
..by simply not turning up at all.
Audi therefore scored a one-two here.
And three weeks later they did the same thing again in Portugal.
And after more successes in East Africa,
it looked like Audi were running away with it.
But then the whole circus moved to Corsica,
where almost all of the stages are held on dry, smooth Tarmac.
Everyone expected the nimble two-wheel-drive Lancias
to pick up a load of points here.
But nobody could have predicted how many they were going to pick up.
Usually, Lancia turned up at an event with two or three cars,
but here they arrived with four.
Which meant that if they ran faultlessly, which they did,
the best Audi could hope for was fifth.
And thanks to mechanical failures...
they didn't even get that.
With our speed, it's just like holiday.
So, Lancia, with its salt and its tyre-changing antics,
and its... flexible approach to how many cars were in the team,
was back on top of the leader board.
But then the whole circus moved to the roughest
and toughest event on the European calendar.
Greece.
Here, everyone knew the rough roads would cause mechanical issues.
There would be breakdowns, and there were.
But amazingly, they were all Audis.
COMMENTATOR: For Lancia, it's an impressive victory.
Rohrl has again driven superbly.
And I won Acropolis in a... in a Lancia.
Er... It was a result I never expected,
that we even can come to the finish,
because I was thinking, "Maybe the Lancia is too light
to stay in one piece for... for Greece."
JEREMY: The year wore on with both teams
always in contention for the championship.
But then it was time for everyone to head for the bumpy hell of Finland,
and Lancia had a problem:
Walter Rohrl refused to go.
I didn't like to go to Finland,
because I... I don't like jumps.
Because, you know, if I want to fly, I would be a pilot.
But not sitting in a car. That's no way.
JEREMY: Because of his no-show, Audi won, easily.
However, with only three rounds left, it was mathematically possible
for Lancia to win the World Championship in San Remo.
And that's something they really wanted to do,
because San Remo... well, that's Italy.
They'd be winning it in front of their home crowd.
To do that, they'd have to deal with the main feature of the San Remo Rally.
Dust.
It's thrown up by a car, and a minute later when the next one comes along,
it's still there.
Which makes seeing where you're going a bit tricky.
To try and make everything better,
they fitted a team van with brushes and sent it up the course.
But this didn't really work,
so the drivers came up with a cunning alternative.
(REVVING)
On one stage, a minute after the German car had set off
and the Lancia was supposed to go...
it didn't move.
So the starter went over to see what was wrong.
I'm really sorry. My belt, it's...
I don't know how it's happened. It's come undone.
I know I should... I should have done this before we came to the start line.
It's my bad, really. Oh, now they've all come undone!
I feel like such an idiot. I just need to...
By the time the problem had been solved, the dust, luckily, had all gone.
Right, we're good to go now.
Oh, no! The door! Oh, there it is.
Annoyingly, the officials quickly put a stop to this Boss Hoggery.
So if Lancia was going to win here on gravel,
it would all be down to the skill of the driver.
And, boy, did Walter Rohrl rise to the occasion.
Looking back in my career, it was maybe my best rally in my life I have done.
It was just like... like a dream.
I mean, I was just thinking,
"I want to... to cut this corner.
Don't lose 10cm of road."
The car was going exactly on this point,
and it was flowing.
It was just...
"Nobody can beat me."
And then there was the magnificent 037 itself.
ROHRL: Driving a Lancia, it's a perfect thing,
because it... it doing exactly what you want.
It's like my... like my... my shoe.
It fits so perfectly.
If I just think it should do this one, it has done it.
(CHUCKLES)
JEREMY: With man and machine in such perfect harmony,
Rohrl won a staggering 33 of the 58 stages.
The team scored a one-two-three, and as a result,
they won the World Championship.
David had beaten the four-wheel-drive Goliath.
And no two-wheel-drive car... would ever do that again.
(CHEERING DROWNS OUT SPEECH)
Yeah, I do, definitely. I want one.
Great story. A really good story.
Yeah, it is. What?
I'm just wondering, though. Did...
Did a Lancia driver win the Drivers' World Championship that year?
-No, because Walter Rohrl didn't want to. -No, the other bloke.
Markku Alén? Mathematically, he could have won the Drivers' Championship.
But after they won the Constructors' Championship in San Remo there,
Lancia then, they didn't bother going to the last two events.
They just didn't go, so he couldn't win.
That must be pretty frustrating if you're a professional racing driver.
It would be the same as Mercedes' Formula 1 Team
winning the Constructors' Championship last year in Texas,
then saying, "We're not going to go to the last three races.
Got Lewis Hamilton going, "But I can't..."
"I'm sorry, we've won, and that's all we're bothered about."
-But I tell you what makes me sad... -JEREMY: Mm.
..is the way that Lancia has pretty much vanished these days.
Oh, I know. Audi is now enormous, and Lancia's shrivelled up
to the point where it only makes one pretty terrible car, if we're honest,
and it only sells it in Italy.
It is, it's heartbreaking. And on that terrible disappointment -
and for once it really is a terrible disappointment - it's time to end.
Thank you so much for watching. Goodbye.
(CHEERING)