Top Gear (bbca)

SS109 wrote: Just got into the BBC show, don't much care for the American one. But in my house, it is the wife who is a fiend for the show. Aren't the husbands supposed to be into the motorsports? Not necessarily! In my house - it's me who's into the fast cars while hubby watches DIY, HGTV, and the Food Network

Visited Monaco for a couple hours one day, they are all about the Grand Prix, I would say 75% of the tourist stuff is GP related.

I agree that the American version isn't good. I'm jealous that you've been there, even for a short while - it' on my list!

One of these days I'd like to watch paca race too! :thumbsup:

Just in case you've had a hankering to go out and do some...!

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/falk ... 2011-08-26
TopGear.com’s guide to donuts
Not the Krispy Kreme variety. Falken UK drift champs teach us the noble art….
Posted by: Vijay Pattni, 30 August 2011

Contrary to schoolyard lore, ‘donuting' isn't a euphemism for a bizarre sexual practice, nor is it the noble endeavour of pelting unsuspecting motorists with reams of deep-fried sugary dough. It is, actually, the first step in becoming an artisan of sideways driving; a connoisseur of smoking your rear tyres while moving in an angle at some considerable speed to the amusement of a slack-jawed audience.

In short, it is the first step to drifting.

You should know all about this fine art by now; it is the only way Internet winner Ken Block knows how to drive. Show him a straight line and he'll show you a look of contempt. But as with everything in life - barring a recording duet with Jedward - it is much, much harder than it actually looks. And it is a two-stage learning process. Stage one is donuting.

Not the Friday-night-at-the-car-park special - that's just spinning around the front two wheels. No, this is proper donuting, where the entire car spins around a circumference.

So when the lovely chaps at Team Falken valiantly offered to teach TopGear.com's useless but enthusiastic staffer a tutorial in ‘something decent', much biting of hands was performed. Turns out ‘something decent' was, in fact, something bloody terrifying.

lol

There's a quick, pretty sweet video (not on YouTube, can't post here, sorry) in the link above of the team drivers working it, but the music set to the action is...Evanescence?????? :dontget: