FASTEST CAR at the Nardo Speed Ring (You can see it from SPACE) | Top Gear

alfe an hour later we were told to brim the tanks in our cars and pay careful attention to the challenge we were about to receive minutes you will now see which of your cars can achieve the highest speed well that'll be behind it's as simple as that it's the fastest how fast your car can go is not relevant it should be how fast you dare drive it well the location for this challenge was the Nardo test track a banked eight-mile circle of tarmac so vast it can be seen clearly from space no car can achieve its true top speed here because it's one endless corner but it is one of only two or three places in the world where they can get close Lamborghini and McLaren had both sent technicians to make sure their cars and especially the tires could handle the vast heat of constant high speed cornering but as for Richard and his car from Lester workshop no I suppose if we were doing this at Mallory Park send Jeff over maybe it's me I've done it it's alright all four tires are the same makes the did air in him that's James and I were feeling fairly confident until we started chatting to a man called max venturi there is one of Lambos test drivers we do a lot of testing here but we don't do too much the top speed because it's very bumpy you you could jump from one lane to the other lane so is and also today is windy so you need to take care about the wind as well but we need tach [Music] because speedometers are never absolutely accurate the producers fitted each of our cars with hi-tech telemetry so they could see how fast we were really going and then we were sent on to the track for a spitting lab [Music] I have the most to lose my car is the fastest top speed to 25 miles an hour Jeremy's Lambo 217 James's McLaren 205 no a walking pace now I have 691 brake horsepower at my disposal that's almost a hundred more than James has and its proper horsepower blue-blooded real horsepower thanks to emission regulations this is probably the last v12 engine that will ever be made from now on they'll have to be smaller and turbocharged like they are in the the noble under McLaren yes my engine is the smallest it's a 3.8 liter v8 but it has the highest specific output that is all the edges here it produces the most bhp per liter because it's been intelligently designed by engineers in Woking not just put together to impress Yahoo's those two keep banging on about this has got the engine out of a Volvo xc90 yes well okay but let's not forget Yamaha me they produce a pretty amazing motorcycle a nobler then strapped to turbos to it so makes 650 brake horse well I say that magnitude for this but down there on that I'm 454 Road 554 track or 650 the race I'm gonna have the full 650 I do have quite a lot of respect for the doing this because well the last time he tried to go fast on a test racket he didn't go well with the sighting lap over we were told to put some distance between ourselves go for it to the outside lane two-fifty not feeling me warmly like it [Music] there's the wubble max from Lamborghini had warned all of us that it would be too dangerous to exceed 300 kilometers an hour and all of us chose to ignore it bumpity bumpity not is it not say don't look at the line don't look at the line [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] pretty bloody alone with the test over it was now time to find out which one of us and the biggest testes the top speed of your car is 225 miles an hour yes you achieved two hundred and four point eight James's yes in the slowest car in the slowest car two hundred and one point six two hundred and seventy miles an hour is the top speed of the Lamborghini you did it at 200 is and four Oh God point three [Applause]

Channel: Top Gear

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Length: 7min 23sec (443 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 01 2012