Having read Richard Porters book it doesn’t surprise me that they are having trouble recreating the magic. They’ve lost all the people who made it work, it’s not like they didn’t have to experiment, it took a while to get it right.

I watched an episode of top Gear’s best races last night. It is a collections of the car vs train vs bike vs boat vs etc races. The first one was a race to a bistro in France. Jeremy was in an Aston while May and the Hamster were using public transit. I could not turn off the TV! I watched two episodes before I passed…