Enzo,F40,Macca F1, Carrera GT on Top Gear Sunday

I hope it beat the Carrera GT Time What was the weather like?

 

You've just shattered my illusion. I thought that it was filmed live. next you'll be saying that theres no father christmas....SOB!!!!!

 

see stigs post below

Engineering Proof of the non-existence of Santa (yes, we ruin
everything)

There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the
world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu,
Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the
workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million
(according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average
(census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million
homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each.

Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the
different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he
travels east to west (which seems illogical). This works out to 967.7
visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household
with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the
sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute
the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been
left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on
to the next house.

Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed
around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will
accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about
0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not
counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is
moving at 650 miles per second--3,000 times the speed of sound. For
purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses
space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional
reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.

The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming
that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two
pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting
Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than
300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten
times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine
of them--Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload,
not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly
seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the
monarch).

600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air
resistance--this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a
spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of
reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second
each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously,
exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms
in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within
4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached
the fifth house on his trip.

Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating
from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds, would be subjected to
acceleration forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems
ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by
4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and
reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.

Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.

Merry Christmas.

 

what the one you post up the chimney

 

thats why i haven't had any presents for 4 years cos i have a gas fire

 

You think thats bad, I haven't even got a chimney.

 

Fezzaphil


just curious. Where did the Enzo end up on the cool wall?

I'm going for seriously uncool. This is owing to anticipated Top gear style twisted logic and there has been a recent spate of Ferrari bashing...maybe we should start our own cool wall. Me first, my 355B....sub zero

 

I hate the cool wall, the caravan smashing and lots of the other stupid stuff they do on TG. I wish they'd just stick to testing the cars. I also don't understand why they keep Stig's identity a secret or why Jeremy always says "Who'd like to see what happened next?" before showing a clip.

Maybe I should just tape it and fast-forward through the bits where they treat me like an idiot!


P.S. Purleeze do not post the lap times, unless it's in a clearly marked thread so those who don't want to know don't have to look! Thanks.

 

I totally agree mate it's too Laddish these days.

Theres a rumour that the new stig is Damon Hill, I know he lives nearby where it's filmed and check out the grey hairy bits popping out under his helmet!!!

 

If Damon Hill were "the Stig", then I'm sure they would make him a feature of the show, rather than keep him hidden behind a helmet......

 

He deserves to be hidden behind a helmet.Hope the F1 did good.She is still the daddy of all cars!
Daz

 

I want you to ruin the surprise.

 

for a programme that everyone thinks is pants (allegedly) .... it sure gets a load of 'air time' on here.
if you don't like it - simple, don't watch ..... and remember, thousands of top gear viewers are not all fortunate enough to own a ferrari like you and i .... they quite rightly cater for all age groups and drivers, it's produced as a family show, i'm sure.
probably commented on the wrong top gear thread, but who cares ?
cheers, d

 

Hi guys,
So what happened?We only get the top gear episodes,6 months after you guys.Please tell,the suspense is killing me.

Marco

 

It doesn't start for another 1hr 4 mins!

 

Oh,sh#t!!
Sorry about that,it's 21:12pm here already.Thought Great Britain had the same time,forgot you on winter time now.;-)

 

In that case,I can still take an educated guess.I reckon the Stig does a 1:18.8.I think the Enzo is easier to drive hard.If I remember correctly,the Stig spun the Carrera Gt like 10 times.

 

Enzo did 1.19.0 Fastest ever round the track.

 

1:19 now top of the board 0.8 faster than the carrera gt

 

I don't own a Ferrari and I enjoy a lot of Top Gear. However, I get frustrated when they waste air-time on crap like the Cool Wall or destroying caravans when they could instead show more footage of great cars.

 

Great ! i had that email back in 98 and was looking for it . Thkss!