Richard drives a F1 car round Silverstone - Top Gear

I saw a vid a few years back confirming this was all fake, is that true? When they were looking at the telemetry and stuff he said it didn’t sync up and was all fake?

Long live proper F1 cars
The sound of my youth a V10 Screaming to 19000rpm

“Wait til you get into second” 😂😂

Maybe one of the greatest F1 car in history

Think Alonso would gladly swap his Aston for this!

I'm pretty sure i could easily drive that







Into the gravel

RENAULT: LES CAMIONS DE LA COLONISATION , L'OUTIL DES COLONS. (FR)
RENAULT: THE HISTORIC TRUCKS OF THE SETTLERS , INVADERS, SLAVERS. (EN)
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The margins are so fine. Must be mentally exhausting to drive F1 cars and to think they have to give a bunch of media interviews straight after races

No way the car sings 😂

Who watching it in 2024

Hammond had a religious experience every time he hit the throttle

I just realized they also sent him out on WET COMPOUND TIRES. The tire that normally OVERHEATS in dry conditions just so Hammond had any chance of not dying from too-cold tires.

15 years later this video is recommended

I will forever stand by the fact that driving full speed through a formula one track in a formula one car is the most difficult task in sports.

This man can’t drive

can you turn the music up more, then?

My goodness, were the 2000s cars so awesome. Small, light, twitchy & agile machines that sounded absolutely sinister!

Newer fans NEED to see these cars & just stop watching completely till we get them back. We can do it completely guilt-free with synthetic fuels, so there’s no reason not to. Smaller & lighter cars coupled with the ground-effect aero of today would also make the racing absolutely awesome.

And for God’s sake, bring back grooved tyres and refuelling. Watching Grand Prix cars dancing right on the ragged edge was NEVER boring to watch, even in the most uneventful & processional races ever. It’s why people held Monaco in such high regard. You could really SEE and FEEL the speed.

If enough people DEMANDED that these featherweight missiles come back, then they’d be back by next year.

Formula 1 isn’t some environmentalist Expo ceremony, nor is it a place for car makers to show off some fancy tech no one gives a shit about. It’s a race, period. The only people that F1 should be catering to are the fans. They are the main source of income for the sport and the very reason it is what it is today. And if that weren’t the case & they didn’t need us watching, they wouldn’t pour millions of R&D money into making the cars more raceable.

It’s time we ALL spoke up.


And as far as car makers go, if they really don’t want V10s back (yes, even Ferrari), then they should leave and do Formula E instead.

Give us our sport back. Bring back the REAL Formula One.

they should've played the dutch anthem but i guess they were 14 years too early

He didn’t crash 😂

Probably still faster than Alpine tbh

ngl that is a lot better than stroll

Aaaand that’s a 5 second penalty for ocon in 22 years

Jonathan didn't look too happy.

when you think about it, hammond was one of the only people outside of alonso, fischela and the few test drivers that got to drive that car in its prime. Pretty special

Best sounding car ever built.

if Hammond crashed an f1 car: yelling
if Clarkson crashed an f1 car: yelling
if May crashed an f1 car: cock

“I’m gonna try to- OHHH MYYY GODDD OHHH MYYY GODDD HOLY MOTHER-“

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First time playing F1 with no traction control be like :

I'd absolutely love to drive one of these or even a mclaren mp4/4

Getting this recommended to me after 15 years

If no temperature in the brakes and tires is such a huge problem, how do they follow a safety car for five laps in a real F1 race?

not bad huh ? it's french.

That's 2 laps, imagine doing 50

Now that multiple people have made videos of drivers with no experience driving an f1 car i realize this video (along with most things on top gear) is a lie. Matt from P1 podcast had some issues driving it, but man did they exaggerate in this video.

"And I will crash". Yes Hammond you will. Not today, but you will.

The good old days 😍

V10!!!

I remember reading a comment on here once where someone said "oh, he's just acting, it can't be that bad" and someone came back with, "have you driven a Formula car?" And the other person shut up. I think about that from time to time.

That engine should be participating in British got talent

I need my car engine to play me some music 😂😂

After 15 years, the boss of Renault said: GP2 engine.

Every ten year old thanks you ❤

Still better than Mazespin

That music was fire 🔥🔥🔥

salute to you sir.

“You’re going to have to really concentrate Richard especially with that thing. If you think that’s hard, haha that’s going to be another level”