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Written by Chris Harris
The point of this bit of the film was to get Eddie to be a bit annoying. He was doing that superbly well and we were crying with laughter. We got to the bottom of the rally stage and the director told us to go back up again, get close behind the tracking car and see what we could do. What became apparent was that the car has just the right amount of torque in second and first gear to do little slides coming out of the hairpins. I was beginning to really enjoy it, but I didn"t want to be a tit. There was nothing to be gained from me pushing it ten tenths. This went on for a few minutes, then I came around a right-hander and as I crested quite a long section of road the power just cut a bit. I looked down and the dashboard said: Electrical failure, danger". I"ve never seen a message like it, but I thought, "That"s nothing it"s just overreacting." So I looked up at the next bend, looked down again and the whole dashboard had gone and the engine cut completely. We stopped and I said to Eddie, "Oh, that"s not good." Then I looked in the mirror and saw smoke and said, "We"re on fire get out." We now know there was a fuel leak under the car, probably between Eddie"s left buttock and my right buttock. When I opened the door, the wind was blowing across the car and the fuel ignited and blew the flames in my door. There was a load of fuel that had been dumped on the ground, which is where the flames were coming from at that stage, not the car. Luckily I was wearing overalls, but I didn"t have any gloves all it did was singe the hairs on my hand.
Date written: 23 Apr 2018
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ID: 11594
The point of this bit of the film was to get Eddie to be a bit annoying. He was doing that superbly well and we were crying with laughter. We got to the bottom of the rally stage and the director told us to go back up again, get close behind the tracking car and see what we could do. What became apparent was that the car has just the right amount of torque in second and first gear to do little slides coming out of the hairpins. I was beginning to really enjoy it, but I didn"t want to be a tit. There was nothing to be gained from me pushing it ten tenths. This went on for a few minutes, then I came around a right-hander and as I crested quite a long section of road the power just cut a bit. I looked down and the dashboard said: Electrical failure, danger". I"ve never seen a message like it, but I thought, "That"s nothing it"s just overreacting." So I looked up at the next bend, looked down again and the whole dashboard had gone and the engine cut completely. We stopped and I said to Eddie, "Oh, that"s not good." Then I looked in the mirror and saw smoke and said, "We"re on fire get out." We now know there was a fuel leak under the car, probably between Eddie"s left buttock and my right buttock. When I opened the door, the wind was blowing across the car and the fuel ignited and blew the flames in my door. There was a load of fuel that had been dumped on the ground, which is where the flames were coming from at that stage, not the car. Luckily I was wearing overalls, but I didn"t have any gloves all it did was singe the hairs on my hand.
Date written: 23 Apr 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 11594
