The Stig takes the F1-style Lotus round the track | Top Gear - BBC

last week we have the lotus t125 down here it's it's kind of a Formula One car that you can buy if you have six hundred and fifty thousand pounds lying around and we wondered how fast it would go round our track whether it would be faster than an actual Formula One car yeah sadly on the day we were going to try for a lap it was raining so we said we'd bring it back when it wasn't we have and it isn't anyway let's find out how it got off goes lighting up the back tires a treat quite a sound of an f1 car is not quite as high pitch and it's the sound of torque they first corner [Music] really is an animal this thing daggers into Chicago through their softer chassis setup and softer tires for today will its have enough heat in those tires to cling on through hammerhead yes he does more bit of a wiggle there now we can really open it up through the follow-through stationary this car weighs 640 kilos flat out thanks to the air pressing down on those wings it weighs two and a quarter tons okay coming up now to the penultimate corner hard on the brakes little bit of corrective law click on the over on up to Cambon stake still working [Applause] go back hit it in 59 seconds the t125 did it in one minute 3.8 so it's about 4 seconds a lap around here slower than that Renault f1 car which means it's about the same pace as a current Lotus f1 car

Channel: BBC

Views: 4,528,393

Keywords: Top Gear, Lotus T125, Stig, The Stig, BBC Two, BBC, Series 17, Episode 6, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, Top Gear track, F1, Formula 1, Speed, Time Trial, Lap Test, Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Michael Schumacher, Silverstone, Funny, Laughs, Dangerous, Freddie Flintoff, Paddy McGuinness

Id: 1E0PFLbGXyA

Length: 2min 1sec (121 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 04 2011