Top Gear Presenter Richard Hammond Injured

repeat is on now !

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Who cares, it was great fun to watch, even only to see that robin take off with 1000 gallons of fuel and two rockets

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Felipe Massa, World Champion 15:34:11pm- 15:34:21pm.

LS. Wrote:
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> just watched the shuttle crash again and studied
> in depth a bit, and it appears our friends at Top
> gear have hoodwinked us again to make better tv as
> they do.
>
> when the shuttle crashes you can see it crumpling
> up into the ground and no explosion ( the fuel had
> all been used up by then in the rockets )
>
> look at the foreground of the pic and you notice
> there are at no time any trees infront of the
> crashing shuttle
>

> yet for the hollywood style explosion, theres a
> bloody great forest


The camera zoomed out slightly just as it hit and so thats why in the first pic you posted there's no forest (shrubbery? I dont think it was forest) and in the second picture there is. There would've been enough residue left in the fuel tank to provide a sizeable explosion. You don't need massive amounts to create an explosion. It looked genuine enough to me. Why can't some people just enjoy the scenes without subjecting them to an in-depth analysis?

I agree with Matt. It's TV, just watch it and enjoy it

Even the finalgear forums are undecided about this. There's plenty of reasons to suggest the crash was staged, but it's not inconceivable that they simply used 2 cameras for the, erm, decent. It does look staged, but meh.

As for the argument that there was no fuel left on the craft, one guy put across a very good and true counter for that one - the remote control guy was given 3 extra booster rockets to fire to extend the flight if necessary - as the craft never separated from the main fuel tank, he never got to use them, which would explain what was in truth, quite a small explosion, in fuel terms.

thats maybe but that explosion was more akin to something out of apoloypse now, rather than a small rocket, everythings pretty much staged on Top gear, theres no reason expect that not to be either.


@Redbull, the camera didnt pull out that much, its faked imho.




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LS. Wrote:
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> thats maybe but that explosion was more akin to
> something out of apoloypse now, rather than a
> small rocket

3 rockets, and it was hardly a big explosion. Had it been explosives themselves, then yes, but it's just fuel, and that sort of explosion is about expected given the force exerted.

I'm not going to argue it was real - common sense dictates it wasn't - but I'm quite happy that even a staged explosion looked about right.

tonights show was ok, had some funny one-liners.

bit unfortunate they had the level crossing feature considering the derailed train the other day, but they weren't to know when they put the show together on wednesday last week.

and Kristin really looks old and haggered these days, i wonder why JC still fancies her so much.

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Muks_C Wrote:
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> tonights show was ok, had some funny one-liners.
>
> bit unfortunate they had the level crossing
> feature considering the derailed train the other
> day, but they weren't to know when they put the
> show together on wednesday last week.
>
> and Kristin really looks old and haggered these
> days, i wonder why JC still fancies her so much.

No they didn't but there was a BBC News article about it earlier. The Beeb was thinking about dropping that clip but they decided against it.

I thought tonight's show was pretty damn funny, especially the drag race. Was quite incredible to see how much momentum even a single railway locomotive (a mid-sized one at that) has, as well as the damage it caused to the car.

I loved it when Richard said 'how can you get lost, there's only two knobs. Oh, except the one who bought one'

And then Jeremy said something and i've never seen James laugh so hard.

Here's the video of the stig falling the chair again.



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"When you begin in this sport you are given a chequebook. Every time you have a big one you must write a check to the angels. The trick is to finish your career before you empty the chequebook".

LMAO at the boeing

And hammond really were scared while driving his tanksized tractor over that rot ted bridge haha.

And i can understand what Clarkson sees in KST, she has a natural beauty still, however she's quite old. And for an "old" chap like JC, she ofcourse also "less old"

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Felipe Massa, World Champion 15:34:11pm- 15:34:21pm.

I seemed to laugh most at the Stig...first when he was bouncing inside the tractor and then the time he fell off the seat (posted above i think). But yeah, pretty funny

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I think they still should have run the train thing. This had nothing to do with the train crash and its important to know about the level crossing thing.

They are pushing a bit far with the one liners though and Clarkson made one about burning skyscrapers, he said "maybe we should show how to get out a buring skyscraper" "but lets not go there".

Dont know if anyone else picked up on this.

i don't think he said anything about burning skyscrapers, he just said if you're on fire, you should sit on a bike and ride it really fast so the wind puts the fire out.

will check the repeat on wednesday.

it was slightly in bad taste to have the train feature where he basically took the piss about it, even though he was on about level crossings and the actual derailed train is something to do with a faulty track/points.

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LMAO

Somebody PLEASE get the video of Jeremy firing the bow and arrow at James's head!?

the 1st half of the show was some of the funniest TG ever, i actually did LOL a few times, which i hardly ever physically do.

"why'd you aim for my wedding vegetables?"

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rofl at the panda

good episode.

Its a shame that the series are so short these days - at 6 episodes, this was the shortest ever i think. I remember when they were 12 week runs. I guess Richards accident might have lost them a couple of episodes worth of material..

Good that it is back in the summer though. 8 week run, followed by 8 off, then 8 on across the year would be nice

Need more races and 1000pound challenges in the next series



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