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Written by Tom Harrison
There are two types of people in this world. Those who run towards fire, and those who run away from it. Professional lunatic Terry Grant is the former, which is why I"m looking not at his face, but his back. He"s sprinting across the Goodwood paddock toward a Lexus RC F GT3 that, after getting back from its run up the hill, has decided it would much rather be a fireball than a race car. Maybe an hour later we"re sat in his Range Rover Sport SVR on the start line, waiting for the marshals to give us the thumbs up. Ahead of us is a ramp, beyond that, the Duke of Richmond"s famous driveway and speeds approaching, I"m reliably informed, 70mph. On two wheels. Terry doesn"t just create drama with his smokey, often incredibly dangerous vehicular stunts. Stunts like the E-Pace barrel-roll, or F-Pace loop-the-loop. He attracts it, too. This year"s drama was the fire. One year he resuscitated a man whose heart stopped beating while he was mooching around the paddock. Another year he helped the emergency services when an old F1 car careened into a bank of spectators, after its driver was leaving a staging area. And that"s just at Goodwood, where nowadays he"s on constant standby. If someone has an off the marshals deploy Terry to go do some donuts, to keep the masses entertained while they sweep up bits of car and tend to casualties. But this past weekend his focus wasn"t so much on keeping the crowds happy as it was beating his own World Record. See, back in 2011 Terry drove a Nissan Juke up Goodwood"s Hillclimb in 2m 55s. Yes, on two wheels. This year he wants to go faster. Much faster. His tool is a Range Rover Sport SVR, one of 32 cars in his stable of stunt-ready machines. You"d think a car any car would need substantial suspension and drivetrain modifications to be able to go for such a long time on two wheels. Maybe a bit of lightweighting. But you"d be wrong.
Date written: 17 Jul 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12591
There are two types of people in this world. Those who run towards fire, and those who run away from it. Professional lunatic Terry Grant is the former, which is why I"m looking not at his face, but his back. He"s sprinting across the Goodwood paddock toward a Lexus RC F GT3 that, after getting back from its run up the hill, has decided it would much rather be a fireball than a race car. Maybe an hour later we"re sat in his Range Rover Sport SVR on the start line, waiting for the marshals to give us the thumbs up. Ahead of us is a ramp, beyond that, the Duke of Richmond"s famous driveway and speeds approaching, I"m reliably informed, 70mph. On two wheels. Terry doesn"t just create drama with his smokey, often incredibly dangerous vehicular stunts. Stunts like the E-Pace barrel-roll, or F-Pace loop-the-loop. He attracts it, too. This year"s drama was the fire. One year he resuscitated a man whose heart stopped beating while he was mooching around the paddock. Another year he helped the emergency services when an old F1 car careened into a bank of spectators, after its driver was leaving a staging area. And that"s just at Goodwood, where nowadays he"s on constant standby. If someone has an off the marshals deploy Terry to go do some donuts, to keep the masses entertained while they sweep up bits of car and tend to casualties. But this past weekend his focus wasn"t so much on keeping the crowds happy as it was beating his own World Record. See, back in 2011 Terry drove a Nissan Juke up Goodwood"s Hillclimb in 2m 55s. Yes, on two wheels. This year he wants to go faster. Much faster. His tool is a Range Rover Sport SVR, one of 32 cars in his stable of stunt-ready machines. You"d think a car any car would need substantial suspension and drivetrain modifications to be able to go for such a long time on two wheels. Maybe a bit of lightweighting. But you"d be wrong.
Date written: 17 Jul 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12591
