James May’s dislike of Nur laptimes and their complete pointlessness is one of the reasons he was my favorite TopGear presenter.

Somewhere James May is thrilled.

A car that is more than 30 years old seldom turns out to be a cheap and reliable mode of transport, and I am being gracious there by not specifically mentioning how British and French cars of that time found innovative ways to break down. If you are working your ass off to make a bit of money, you don't really want to…

If anything, he's an inefficient crasher. Why waste time crashing on the opposite side of the track from the pits, requiring laborious retrieval of the car? Let me have a go instead and I guarantee I'll stuff it into the pit wall directly opposite the garage every time. Imagine all the fuss and bother that would save.

In other words, Paris decides that rich people with money to buy and drive classic cars are welcome, but poor people who can only afford older cars can go fuck themselves. I didn't expect anything better from Paris anyway. Snobbery runs deep.

Hey Torch. I have a scary, true story that involves a VW.... but there is a happy ending. (Not THAT type of Happy Ending.)

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Gimme those balls filled with warm milky cream!

With all these pointless pin ups and photo op drivers, I'm still waiting for a female racing driver like this one:

I'd much rather see Silvestro and Katherine Legge get a drive over this woman and Danica Patrick for sure. It is a shame that looks are playing more into the selection than talent. I'm not sure that Legge or Silvestro are more talented than Patrick, but I'd rather see them get a shot over this woman because apparently…

With women making a strong showing on the technical side over the last few years it's a bit of a shame that on the driver side the women being promoted are more about style over substance.

I'm interested in how much soot might end up on the windshield, personally.

That steering wheel screen is going to come in handy for some much needed entertainment during slower parts of the race.

So, the bike. It seems Spock liked to keep a bike on set, so he could get to the commissary for lunch in enough time to get back to makeup and get his ears touched up and all that. William Shatner, TV's Captain Kirk, though, decided it would be more fun to steal Spock's bike every now and then. Spock eventually got so…

on a slightly different note...What I learned from my own experience that helps with parents who are becoming one of those people who think they should just sit at home and wait for death - shower them with gadgets, have the enormous patience the first few months, especially if they never have been into computers or…

Maybe Ron Dennis just caught up on some anime he's been meaning to watch...

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