@@nonamehere1626 It's not quite conflict, but don't forget Iceland -- they filmed there not long before that one volcano erupted and shut down European air traffic
I mean, it's easy now since LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IS IN CRISIS. Btw. Look up "The Fourth Turning", and related articles on it, it's a shockingly accurate prediction about history in general, that two geniuses made. Thank me later.
James: Uses Science and very intelligent techniques...lasts the longest. Jeremy: Uses decently intelligent techniques...lasts until Chernobyl. Hammond: Accidentally makes his car more aerodynamic and swerves like an idiot the whole way...runs out way before Chernobyl.
@@mustang8206 accelerating and stopping uses most energy, that's why sport cars try to use breaks as little as possible and take turns at very high speeds.
@@Nauda999 i mean, race cars break as little as possible and take the turns at the highest speed possible because its a race and they are trying to be faster than the other cars
If anything, Hammond was making it harder for himself, because not only was the car more aerodynamic, if any radioactive dust got in, it would've been trapped because he sealed off some possible escape routes for the air, but still, he made it work. Also in the words of Jeremy Clarkson, "Richard Hammond may be stupid and a rampant racist, but he's quite practical."
When this first aired, my family was sitting watching and at the end my mother is like "they didn't really go to Chernobyl". We're insisting "yes". So she pulls out her laptop and goggles "visiting Chernobyl" and the first link clicks on says "Chernobyl guided tours. We just welcomed the crew of Top Gear." With a picture of Jezza, Captain Slow and Hamster.
Getting radiation from the outside isn't usually the issue... You'd be fine living in chernobyl, especially if not lying on the ground. ingesting stuff that radiates inside you for after ingestion is the issue.
Actually, your mother was quite right for wrong reasons. Yes, you CAN get guided tours to exclusion zone. You can even stay the night. But nowhere in the show did they go to actual town of Chornobil. They went to Pripiat (where NPP was) instead, which is not even on Kiev-Chornobil route.
@@charraandaik4938 Of course. It was 30 years since the accident and while some elements have few thousand years half life, they are not quite radioactive. Stable elements have HL of infinity. The dangerous ones have half life between few days and few years and are more or less gone by now.
To me the brake and accelerate technique would seem most effective. Just because by braking you evaporate all of your kinetic energy into thin air (well heat technically) and you get to lose a lot of fuel every time you accelerate again
100% that was the secret sauce for Hammond's win. Absolutely nothing can destroy mileage like the brakes. It's why some people get 60mpg in a Prius and others get 38.
This is correct mate. The kinetic energy was the secret. More precisely putting most of energy in building up the kinetic energy. The fuel consumption is of the scale when you pushing all the weight from almost halt
@JETZcorp hold the accelerator and brake together and let it rev to 6000 or whatever it goes in first gear. The engine and brake pads won't thank you but it will use the most fuel. Even in an economy car it will get like 5mpg!
@@vaclavcervinka65 as well as having a largely corrupted conscript army moving logistics with low morale. The fuel must running through their hands really quickly.
TONIGHT The Russian army does a fuel race to Kyiv. Farmers steal equipment with old Tractors. And Ukrainians valiantly fight against the invaders. God bless Ukraine and here's to an end to Putin's useless war
@@iamsick5204 there are 3 bacic types of radiation. Alpha, Beta and Gamma. Gamma rays are the smallest and can penetrate almost anything, have you not learned this in science?
@@iamsick5204 X-ray is a term used for a machine that fires radioactive particles through a person to get a scan of the inside of them, they send (most likely beta and Gamma) into a person and when it bounces back it project an image of anything in there, cosmic rays is radiation from space
Am I the only one who likes James May’s detailed descriptions? I kinda hate how they fade it out, I was really enjoying his explanation of what a half life is even though I already know…
I was actually pretty sad when that explanation got cut off. James is the type of guy that could talk about literally anything and be interesting to listen to -- he could talk about the clothing used by royalty prior to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and I'd still be captivated
I miss old TV show challenges like these, they're much more entertaining to watch than today's challenges. Like "first to get to Chernobyl receives a year's worth of background radiation in an hour"
rev limiter is there to protect the engine, so technically a car should be able to drive at max rpm for a very, very long time without any damage. in long run, sure it lessens engine's life, but even 1000 miles should be no issue, i think my ears would fall off from the noise before the engine blows xD
@@dradex9562 How do facts disagree with that? It’s true it is the other way around since the Top Gear boys did this first it’s should be Russian tank divisions doing their best impression of the Top Gear boys.
-Drives double the distance by zigzagging -Has less resistance due to tape -Gets pulled over by police -Accelerates+Decelerates *catches up with Hammond just in time to flex his empty fuel*
@@derinursetiawan739 A person is occasionally a "poor sod". If you tell someone to sod off, it's somewhere in the grey are between go away, go feck yourself, and Hammond on a bike.
Been there in 2019 for a two day trip, its definitely a unique experience, and while the radiation is a lot higher in places than standard background radiation, its still pretty safe, plus there's thousands of people constantly working there - scientists, technicians, military, there's even a restaurant, canteen and hotel there (well, a hotel in the loosest posible terms, as it looks like it's a student dorm room from soviet union)
@@offbeat4772 Those are small engines with rather high efficiency. Heater is good at losing temperature. So you can decrease engine temperature efficiently in a cold weather. Cold engine is programmed to burn more fuel to heat itself so this could work..
2:08 James: I will do a scientifically proved method in removing air pressure Jeremy: just fills his car with some random bricks on the side of the road
in actual fact, making a vehicle heavier also makes them more fuel efficient air resistance is is relative to the velocity of the object, so the faster it moves the more energy is lost, while a heavier vehicle powered by the same engine would travel at a lower speed and thereby loose less energy to air resistance
@@thomasthetanderloin Except all these cars are limited by the speed limit anyway. The fact that Hammond actually caught up with Jeremy means Jeremy was driving way too slow.
+BradTheThird Funny thing but,I really want to meet James one day and talk for hours... I think he has much to offer in a conversation.He is very wise and he has a lot of knowledge
1:49 "How do you make these cars do 20 miles to the gallon?" Paint a Z on the side and you'll run out of fuel in no time, and then have the car stolen by a peasant on a tractor
Hammond turned out to be quiet smart about it actually, driving like a drunk, he esentially increased the distance by 50% .... Therefore only needing to go down to 30 mpg.
I doubt the distance increase was more than about 30% honestly, even for the part before he got stopped by the police, but keeping the car running while stopped will have been pretty massive.
@@yaboi1288 The trunk is the elephant's 5th appendage and its nose. I believe what you describe is called a boot. I know Americans find it hard to speak with the correct tongue so educate yourself
@@zakr1187 You are welcome for the explanation of what a car's trunk is btw. I think you are the one that needs to be educated because of all those words you threw just over a simple misunderstanding.
The radiation in chernobyl is around 30 times higher than average background, meaning there's no risk of radiation poisoning or anything like that but you do have 30x higher chance of getting cancer while you are in chernobyl. Driving there was statistically more dangerous than being there.
@@Nikke-nn5mn although the roads don't show much radiation and people are encouraged to stick to the roads because unlike the forests and dirt the radioactive particles has no where to go on a smooth surface but yeah it is still dangerous to go and it does increase the percentage to get cancer
Buying advice from this video: Ford Fiesta- economical when you need it, wasteful when you don’t (as long as it’s driven by a madman), Dacia Sandero- economical whether you need it or not, VW up!- economical when you don’t need it, wasteful when you do need it (it’s German senses probably kicked in to tell it that the driver was British.
You do have to wonder what became of the people the trio met throughout their specials: the people of Raqqa, Myanmar, and Kyiv, all of these places they visited have now turned into warzones. I hope wherever they are they are safe.
When I was a kid I saw some cartoons and very vintage inspired adventure books from no later than the 1930s and before that and they took place in areas like Russia Britain, Germany, China Africa, and so on. Knowing what would happen with the world wars it kind of made me think “ realistically, what would happen to some of those people just a few decades later or even less”? Some of these Top Gear episodes are kind of similar to that.
What a sad state of affairs. I saw a reddit of a guy in an evacuation zone. He said he didnt want to leave his home and his country. He and a friend got loads of booze and drank till they blacked out not knowing if they’d wake up. Its sad. I hope he made it out but I know he didnt want to
@@sheevpalpatine2418 are you for real? This guy is talking about someone’s possible death, and you say “I can’t like this because it’s at 69 likes.” Like, what?
Their army's been horribly disorganized since the days of Stalin, I'm not completely surprised that their research ended up being useless in practice. They learned the hard way that the Ukrainian Armed Forces wasn't the problem, it was the civilians
You made me laugh with your stupidest comment. As far as I remember, only everyone tried to capture Russia. And you, these 7, now 8 years, have been bombing Donetsk and Lugansk and blaming everything on Russia, you should be ashamed, it’s not good at all, unfortunately, you, as children, have to explain this. Bow further to your Nazi groups like Azov and Bandera (one of the greatest Nazis of all time, who killed a lot of people, opposed the Bolsheviks), everything is clear with you that you say this, your head is not for thinking, like many ukrainians.
This episode was truly brilliant. High stakes, real personalities. Oddly enough, Jeremy Clarkson was probably the smartest one here by putting a ton of heavy rocks and bricks in his car whilst constantly redlining the engine on acceleration and turning the climate control to max. Hammond was also genius for slamming on the brake and flooring the throttle everywhere
The extra weight only "helps" when you accelerate. Jeremy going at constant speed in his rev limiter might as well not bothered... Hammond on the other hand, could have run out earlier with his stop and go tactics.
Someone ages ago perfectly summarised why top gear wih Clarkson, Hammond and May worked so well, and new top gear doesn't. With these guys, it isn't a show about cars. It's a show about three friends. Even when they're standing around talking, it's so entertaining because we can relate to that kind of friendship and it brings us back to being kids with our idiot mates. In the new seasons, there's no genuine chemistry, just three dudes who love cars, being paid to be there. So who cares.
@ Accelerating and braking is a bloody obvious effective way to loose energy. All 3 should have figured that out immediately. But if all 3 do that, that doesn't make interesting television. Hence scripting.
4:56 There are so many things wrong with that map. First of all, the capital of Ukraine is Kyiv in Latin, but I guess it was made back when people still took Ukraine for piece of USSR. But then Cyrillic names of Belarus and Kyiv are proper Ukrainian, while Chernobyl is written in Russian.
In the parallel universe, the three successfully completed the challenge. Jeremy stealthily switched his VW with a Lamborghini Trattori, James somehow took a wrong turn in a straight road and Richard crashed his Fiesta.
In this episode of top gear, Hammond besieges the city of Kharkov attempting to take a strategic civilian population centre from the hands of Ukrainian forces before he runs out of fuel!
Today on Bottom Gear Richard drives a T-72B3 into a minefield I coordinate a drone attack on the civillian population of Kiev And James is shot down by an MM-104 Patriot in his Su-25KM
@@JohnSmith-mk5jt Can you imagine Jezza's idea of a drone attack? "They told me I should use some of these [cut to Shahed] but it's too small, you need something more like this! [pan over to hangar full of Sukhois]"
max fuel waste max rev driving with handbrake add weight turn on heater roll down windows disable engine management system deflated tires 2 doors open + trunk door for more drag accelerate then brake zig zag driving combine all above and you will be a ford gt only 5mpg
+CaptainD00M I guess opening the fuel cap will work wonders as well, combined with the zig-zag driving. Or just crashing into the nearest obstacle so you won't make it.
LoL! One of my favorite Top Gear episodes. Never saw the boys try so hard to fail a challenge. Though, in reality they, were massively overplaying the risk, unless you are standing next to the reactor core, radiation levels are barely higher than normal background radiation in the rest of the region. There are actually close to 300 people that live full time in Pripyat and the surrounding area, they even have their own grocery store and radio station. Most were former residents that defied the ban on moving back, which Ukraine hasn't really enforced since the Soviet Union collapsed. They even make a decent living as tour guides and are in surprisingly good health, there was a very interesting special on the Discovery channel about them a couple years ago.
@@Blisk11-j5w No he does say he visits the remains of reactor number 4. The most it goes up to is 300 which is fine unless he visits for too long. if he actually stayed stranded for a long period of time say a day or so there is a possibility of cancer but I doubt it would be very likely. probably just radiation poisoning and such. of course, he obviously drove out of there by either filling up his car or getting picked up by the camera men afterward.
pripyat is a ghost town, no one lives there, those 300 people you refer to live in chernobyl - the town, which is further away from the plant than pripyat. but youre correct, the risk in the surrounding area is minimal now as the soviets did a pretty admirable job of decontaminating it, the soil around unit 4 has been dug up with the top layer buried under the rest. unless you were to find a rogue graphite block that they missed theres little risk to going anywhere that isnt the reactor hall itself, and even then people have been there, there are photos taken of the upper biological shield from right next to it
Can i just say how genius of a challenge this actually is? its like the best fuel-saving PSA you could give, its both super entertaining and very informative
Actually Chernobyl and the nearby town of Prypyat are quite safe, at least for shorter periods of time time, the other 3 undamaged reactors we're actually kept in operation for years after the disaster with the last remaining reactor being closed very recently
@@originaljoke-y5f Recently here is doing a lot of work. The last one was shut down in 2000 and it took about another 10 years to finish de-fueling them.
@@originaljoke-y5foriginally the Ukrainian government was committed to closing them when they became independent, the anti-nuclear movement was closely tied to the nationalist groups that moved for independence. They went back on those commitments because they needed the electricity and also couldn't afford to lay off all the plant staff
I've never understood why none of them wanted to visit the reactor or Pripyat (they don't actually go near the town of Chernobyl) it's something that's always fascinated me, I'd have had a nice chilled drive and then had a look around the site (not for too long obviously)
a lot of hype and misunderstanding about radioactivity. You could totally visit with minimal protective gear, but you don't want to make it a regular thing. It sounds like at this point it's the dust that you want to be most aware of.
Nothing can beat old TG. I don't mean to sound sadistic, but I liked it when they were in danger. Just the real panic of people is something you don't see in other shows.
I mean, it is. It's True! Ukraine WAS NOT have their own Top Gear. Then Russia - was made a fully Licensed "Top Gear Russia" with same people, who dubbed this Original Trio. Also, there was a episode in Russia, in Sankt-Petersburg. I even remember - where they was live - in Astoria Hotel (Our famous St.-Pb 5 star hotel). I even saw The Stig in our Subway - on "Technologicheskiy Institut Station". The most highselling auto-magazine in russia - was(!!!) a Top Gear Russia! So without jokes - yes, we are! And in Russia - then they filmed THERE WAS EVEN MORE TOP GEAR FANS!!!
I love TH-cam’s algorithms sick twisted sense of humour
I was thinking that too
I was about to search for newest,
but you don’t Even need to
Very sad 🇺🇦
I got about 5 seconds in right after reading this.
Holy shit.
AAAAAAHHHHH
TH-cam indeed has humor which is not really friendly
Hammond patiently waiting for the cops at max RPM puts me in tears
In a good way or a bad way?
The Dragonsnort Channel bruh
@@torinnewton8908 lololol
what killed me was watching the cop look back at the car like "why is it making that awful noise"
Ian LaMontagne ikr
Crazy how Top Gear has a reputation for visiting places a few years before war
@Ian Robert Turner Burma too
@@nonamehere1626 It's not quite conflict, but don't forget Iceland -- they filmed there not long before that one volcano erupted and shut down European air traffic
I mean, it's easy now since LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IS IN CRISIS.
Btw. Look up "The Fourth Turning", and related articles on it, it's a shockingly accurate prediction about history in general, that two geniuses made. Thank me later.
@@gaetanodepaola2ndchannel179 do you read horoscopes too?
@Ian Robert Turner Syria and Ukraine both have a big history of conflict, especially Syria.
James: Uses Science and very intelligent techniques...lasts the longest.
Jeremy: Uses decently intelligent techniques...lasts until Chernobyl.
Hammond: Accidentally makes his car more aerodynamic and swerves like an idiot the whole way...runs out way before Chernobyl.
What made Hammond win was the police!!
Bruh Hammond's technique was the most intelligent
It’s when he got pulled over when it clicked that oh shit that’s actually a good idea
@@mustang8206 accelerating and stopping uses most energy, that's why sport cars try to use breaks as little as possible and take turns at very high speeds.
@@Nauda999 i mean, race cars break as little as possible and take the turns at the highest speed possible because its a race and they are trying to be faster than the other cars
Richard Hammond - car journalist, tv host and man who ran out of fuel on the road near Kyiv a full 8 years before the Russian Army
A man of many talents
if you know richard hammond, the next thing youll know the russians will be crashing their tanks atop a hill in switzerland
Kiev
@@daviddavidson2357 Agreed. Also, it's not istanbul, it's Constantinople
@@inferno7181 Occupied Constantinople, just like Zimbabwe is called occupied Rhodesia.
What I've learnt is there's two ways to increase rolling resistance:
a) Carefully reduce tyre pressure by 30% of optimum
b) Add bricks to your car
Cool profile photo dude
And accelerating and beaking while driving like a maniac
Putting bricks inside your car doesn't only add rol resistance tho.
@@jeltje50 it will, the more weight the greater the surface area in contact with the road
@@Benjamin-bj6xj yeah I know. My point is that it doesn't ONLY add it. The overall weight increases so.
Clarkson: Strength
Hammond: Dexterity
May: Intelligence
Working Class Zombie no Clarkson: POWERRRRRR!
Breaking everything
Crashing everything
Boring everything
Wisdom: None of them
Charisma: All of them
Consitution: idk
May: knowledge
Clarkson: Strength
Hammond: Integrity
pick your character
2:38 I love those instances where you can see the look on Hammond’s face when he realises what he’s done
SLAVA UKRAINE
Top Gear did have it's scripted moment but I'm pretty sure that one is genuine lol.
6:12 I love the police officer's awkward stare as Hammond just sits there max revving the engine.
The police probably thinking "What on earth is he doing?"
Ah, I see you are a man of culture. You play much air RB?
What's your aircraft BR for USSR?
@@DatVehicleGuy Mine is all the tier 3's, so 5.0 for yaks and 3.7 for the La and i-185, but I don't play them as often as other nations
@Sandwich Cheddar maybe
Hammond's skill of failing most tasks became his strength this time.
yes it does
Good observation
where reply
I think hè did not want to go , and makes it logica for us why
Like driving in a straight line, uphill, downhill, ect...
Hammond’s driving is just a typical Tuesday in Ukraine
Lol! As a Ukrainian, I say, that it's hilarious!)
I’m thinking cops pulled over camera not a Hammond car🤣
@@MrMassaraksh ttftttttjtg
@@MrMassaraksh "that car with the camera was moving so steady something bad might be going on"
Road is road
Forget Russia and Ukraine, we've just witnessed the rare scenes of James driving a Dacia.
Romania 🇷🇴 :)
Dear god nooo
@@octaviannica3063 what colour is your bugatti?
@@arahakentta7734 we don't have bugaty in Romania.
We have Dacia .
My Logan is blue
Yours ?
@@octaviannica3063 Year??
I like how May and Clarkson were adjusting their cars to use more fuel, but Hammond adjusted his in case he got there.
And hammond was the one that ended up running out first.
@@Fay-or3yo yup
that's the joke
@@Fay-or3yo he always finishes first
ask his wife
If anything, Hammond was making it harder for himself, because not only was the car more aerodynamic, if any radioactive dust got in, it would've been trapped because he sealed off some possible escape routes for the air, but still, he made it work.
Also in the words of Jeremy Clarkson, "Richard Hammond may be stupid and a rampant racist, but he's quite practical."
When this first aired, my family was sitting watching and at the end my mother is like "they didn't really go to Chernobyl". We're insisting "yes". So she pulls out her laptop and goggles "visiting Chernobyl" and the first link clicks on says "Chernobyl guided tours. We just welcomed the crew of Top Gear." With a picture of Jezza, Captain Slow and Hamster.
there is such athing!?
Charra and Aik. Yes the radiation hotspots can be dodged by the tour guides so apart from a little bit of gamma, you’re all good to go
Getting radiation from the outside isn't usually the issue... You'd be fine living in chernobyl, especially if not lying on the ground. ingesting stuff that radiates inside you for after ingestion is the issue.
Actually, your mother was quite right for wrong reasons.
Yes, you CAN get guided tours to exclusion zone. You can even stay the night.
But nowhere in the show did they go to actual town of Chornobil. They went to Pripiat (where NPP was) instead, which is not even on Kiev-Chornobil route.
@@charraandaik4938 Of course. It was 30 years since the accident and while some elements have few thousand years half life, they are not quite radioactive. Stable elements have HL of infinity.
The dangerous ones have half life between few days and few years and are more or less gone by now.
Next day car ad: Ford Fiesta, 2010, garaged, serviced, well-maintained, never revved over 5k, first owner...
Able to run out of fuel before entering Chernobyl
Could not be 2010, this is the facelift version.
Grandma driver, only driven to the supermarket and the church.
driven by an old lady
@@avery07 *2013
To me the brake and accelerate technique would seem most effective. Just because by braking you evaporate all of your kinetic energy into thin air (well heat technically) and you get to lose a lot of fuel every time you accelerate again
100% that was the secret sauce for Hammond's win. Absolutely nothing can destroy mileage like the brakes. It's why some people get 60mpg in a Prius and others get 38.
Only other way would be also dragging the brakes
This is correct mate. The kinetic energy was the secret. More precisely putting most of energy in building up the kinetic energy. The fuel consumption is of the scale when you pushing all the weight from almost halt
@JETZcorp hold the accelerator and brake together and let it rev to 6000 or whatever it goes in first gear. The engine and brake pads won't thank you but it will use the most fuel. Even in an economy car it will get like 5mpg!
or just go for max RPM in first gear
I never realized that James is driving the *DACIA SANDERO*
Great news!
Oh no.... Anyway
Thats the Dacia Sandero!
@@nedcolville950 what?
Great! Anyway, last week...
Back when it was hard to run out of fuel in Ukraine.
Well, you have to admit that the Russians have this challenge easier with their Kamaz trucks chugging 100 litres per 100 kilometres.
@@vaclavcervinka65 as well as having a largely corrupted conscript army moving logistics with low morale. The fuel must running through their hands really quickly.
TONIGHT The Russian army does a fuel race to Kyiv. Farmers steal equipment with old Tractors. And Ukrainians valiantly fight against the invaders. God bless Ukraine and here's to an end to Putin's useless war
The Russians have been absolutely nailing it so far. I keep seeing pictures of tanks that have just run out of fuel.
@@greeniehead yup, perfectly fine main battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and top of the line 2s19 self propelled artillery! 👍🥶🥶
Hammond: "Sealing all the gaps so radioactive dust cant get in"
Gamma rays: Imma bout to end this mans whole career
thats a overused joke. its not funny
X-rays not gamma
@@iamsick5204 there are 3 bacic types of radiation. Alpha, Beta and Gamma. Gamma rays are the smallest and can penetrate almost anything, have you not learned this in science?
@@outofuse7150 I thought gamma rays just came from the cosmos and x-rays came from atomic radiation. Guess I'm wrong
@@iamsick5204 X-ray is a term used for a machine that fires radioactive particles through a person to get a scan of the inside of them, they send (most likely beta and Gamma) into a person and when it bounces back it project an image of anything in there, cosmic rays is radiation from space
Crazy to think people in that crowd in the beginning are possibly fighting for their lives right now, some may be dead
This aired in February 2014, 8 years have passed and a very different Ukraine now
@@johnking5174 ah yea, right around the time of the coup
@@MaximillionBucks "it was a coup because i heard grayzone say it"
@k3dv imagine liking your own comment
@@MaximillionBucks i didn't like my own comment tho do you want an imgur link for proof or something?
Am I the only one who likes James May’s detailed descriptions? I kinda hate how they fade it out, I was really enjoying his explanation of what a half life is even though I already know…
Oh man, I can listen to James talk for hours 👌
I was actually pretty sad when that explanation got cut off. James is the type of guy that could talk about literally anything and be interesting to listen to -- he could talk about the clothing used by royalty prior to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and I'd still be captivated
@@JetFalcon710 Not bulletproof clothing, unfortunately.
@@arch9enius True
@@nicksosicc same
First time I've seen people wanting their cars to run out of gas
Salvage Gaming fuel
GAS
@@kodi896 fuel can be any source of energy, however, the energy source their trying to run out of is GASoline
Ryan well, PETROL
Who tf cares if it's gas or fuel. Stfu and enjoy the comment
I miss old TV show challenges like these, they're much more entertaining to watch than today's challenges. Like "first to get to Chernobyl receives a year's worth of background radiation in an hour"
150 miles at the rev limiter
if the engine blows, it's good
Still hurts me mentally
Soy Sauce Soup I was 700th like 😄😄
@@user-cv2qj4zj2p I was 800th
That’s what I would ha e done
rev limiter is there to protect the engine, so technically a car should be able to drive at max rpm for a very, very long time without any damage. in long run, sure it lessens engine's life, but even 1000 miles should be no issue, i think my ears would fall off from the noise before the engine blows xD
Russian military right now:
"Write that down, write that down!"
Russian soldier: does tic-tac-toe
2008 wants their meme back
you know what's really funny: seeing the same joke being repeated again and again
such a funny and original reference hahahahaha
Still better than Americans at Vietnam and afganistan 🤣
The Top Gear boys doing their best impression of Russian tank divisions
More like the other way around
putin go brrrrrrrrr
@@Lastname6955 facts disagree with you
@@dradex9562 How do facts disagree with that? It’s true it is the other way around since the Top Gear boys did this first it’s should be Russian tank divisions doing their best impression of the Top Gear boys.
@@just__jt oh, i thought he meant that it was the otherway in context of the ukraine situation, saying that the ukraine military is facing this issue
The look on Richard and James and Jeremy's face when they realise they will be heading to Chernobyl is sheer terrifying
They literally and figuratively aged ten years of their lives in one second once Chernobyl was mentioned.
@@krazycharlie
Back then it was not as safe as it is now because the containment building was not yet over the reactor building.
@@Some_Guy_6 Yeah that's true, you can see in some of the faraway shots that the Sarcophagus was still under construction at the time
-Drives double the distance by zigzagging
-Has less resistance due to tape
-Gets pulled over by police
-Accelerates+Decelerates
*catches up with Hammond just in time to flex his empty fuel*
P
Almost everything on top gear is scripted beforehand lol
With Jeremy*
@@robertdarling5959 no shit Sherlock
@@robertdarling5959 yes 90% is scripted but there are bits of pieces that are genuinely true and they are golden! *CoughAlabamacough*
Without question, one of the more creative challenges in the show's history. God, I miss this show.
They have a new show called Grand Tour
@@andrew-rn9ui I donow,,,,,it doesmt feel the same
@@tetispinkman9135 agreed, I love both shows but Top Gear is always the best to me
It really was
@Jaydenz You call the new ”Top Gear” Top Gear? Honestly, I haven’t seen many worse serieses.
"Come on petrol, sod off."
"You fossilized pillock"
-James May
Prolly
what sod off mean? british word that i cant understand
@@derinursetiawan739 Basically, it's another way of saying 'go away'.
@@derinursetiawan739 A person is occasionally a "poor sod".
If you tell someone to sod off, it's somewhere in the grey are between go away, go feck yourself, and Hammond on a bike.
@@derinursetiawan739 It's the same as "f*ck off".
Been there in 2019 for a two day trip, its definitely a unique experience, and while the radiation is a lot higher in places than standard background radiation, its still pretty safe, plus there's thousands of people constantly working there - scientists, technicians, military, there's even a restaurant, canteen and hotel there (well, a hotel in the loosest posible terms, as it looks like it's a student dorm room from soviet union)
Not anymore. It's completely and totally closed off due to the war
Accelerating and decelarating was the first thing that came up to my mind, how come only Hammond realised?
@@Saucy-ws6jc If they're hitch hiking to Chernobyl, I'm not sure I want them in my car...
I See because Hammond daily drives a Mustang. He’s an expert on wasting fuel
Hugh Jass the car gets heat from wasted heat of the engine anyways. So blasting heat wastes almost no extra fuel. A/C on the other hand probably would
Scripted.
@@offbeat4772 Those are small engines with rather high efficiency. Heater is good at losing temperature. So you can decrease engine temperature efficiently in a cold weather. Cold engine is programmed to burn more fuel to heat itself so this could work..
2:08
James: I will do a scientifically proved method in removing air pressure
Jeremy: just fills his car with some random bricks on the side of the road
Jezza did the same thing to his truck in Burma.
The. GamingDog That’s the Jezza way. Be as simple as possible to achieve maximum results.
in actual fact, making a vehicle heavier also makes them more fuel efficient
air resistance is is relative to the velocity of the object, so the faster it moves the more energy is lost, while a heavier vehicle powered by the same engine would travel at a lower speed and thereby loose less energy to air resistance
@@thomasthetanderloin Except all these cars are limited by the speed limit anyway. The fact that Hammond actually caught up with Jeremy means Jeremy was driving way too slow.
Turksarama Jeremy was only driving slow because part of his strategy was to keep it in a lower gear and redline it
They drove better than 90% of the Ukrainians out there
As a Ukrainian i... can't really disagree
The roads are pretty shit as well
@@azorahai5321
ukrainian isn't a race
Reksa Pluss Racism describes actions which are hostile towards other nationalities too
@@azorahai5321
I think you mean Ethnicity
And there is another term for that which is Xenophobia/Xenoist
But racism is much more common
Mr.Spøon thanks, i haven’t known that :)
But isn’t nationality and ethnicity in that case the same?
4:15 they are driving past Butcha and Irpin. Crazy to think about it...
“I have haven’t I?”
“You have. Goodbye” RIP hammond😂😂
ironically, hes the only one who ran out of gas before entering Chernobyl (with a bit cheating ofc)
So bad we lost him ... RIP.
Watch the video, hes fine.
TurtleBurger whoosh
Aidan Lovick lol 😂
It bugs me when they fade to black when James May starts explaining something interesting.
+BradTheThird Funny thing but,I really want to meet James one day and talk for hours... I think he has much to offer in a conversation.He is very wise and he has a lot of knowledge
+BradTheThird He has a couple of (other) shows that he hosts to explain things.
Alex - which ones?
+BradTheThird Ikr, he is by far the most interesting person of the 3
+LattiMonstaaa If you use the word 'interesting' then that would have to be Jeremy ;)
Hammond to Clarkson: “Go on, go and meet your fate”
Hahah
Clarkson: RRRRRRRRRGH!!!
"Sit rep! Richard Hammond is a *[bleep]!"*
Honestly, I could listen for hours of James explaining things.
1:49
"How do you make these cars do 20 miles to the gallon?"
Paint a Z on the side and you'll run out of fuel in no time, and then have the car stolen by a peasant on a tractor
Lmao true
"peasant" - kind of a rude choice of word
*farmer not peasant lol
@@jatterhog I mean there the same .
@@twisterman101new4 not rlly
Hammond turned out to be quiet smart about it actually, driving like a drunk, he esentially increased the distance by 50% .... Therefore only needing to go down to 30 mpg.
Or 25 US MPG.
Imagine he used high revs
I doubt the distance increase was more than about 30% honestly, even for the part before he got stopped by the police, but keeping the car running while stopped will have been pretty massive.
After making his car more aerodynamic
@@blartversenwaldiii The whole stop and accelerate wouldve also been more taxing to the fuel economy than what the other 2 did to their cars.
"What you have done, is made it more aerodynamic....."
"I have, havent I...."
"Goodbye"
DEAD.
Oh my god this made me laugh so much XD
but hammond had the last laugh😃
lol
Shows how much he knows!
Plot twist Hammond won
Is this the greatest Television series of all time? Surely it's up there, these 3 just put up amazing episodes after amazing episodes.
"I'm taping up the cracks to keep out radioactive dust"
meanwhile...
"I'm gonna open up the trunk to increase drag!"
What is a trunk? Don't they belong on elephants?
@@zakr1187 That's tusk you are talking about. The trunk is the backside door of the car for storage.
@@yaboi1288 The trunk is the elephant's 5th appendage and its nose. I believe what you describe is called a boot.
I know Americans find it hard to speak with the correct tongue so educate yourself
@@zakr1187 Bold of you to assume that I am an American and where does this hate come from?
@@zakr1187 You are welcome for the explanation of what a car's trunk is btw. I think you are the one that needs to be educated because of all those words you threw just over a simple misunderstanding.
"people think this is a bit odd, but if they knew why i was doing it they would understand it" wise words indeed
-BMW drivers not using their indicators
In retrospective, the producer WERE trying to kill Jeremy
José Iglesias yes definately
The radiation in chernobyl is around 30 times higher than average background, meaning there's no risk of radiation poisoning or anything like that but you do have 30x higher chance of getting cancer while you are in chernobyl. Driving there was statistically more dangerous than being there.
Nikke 2800 I’m confused why is driving more dangerous
Raytrite deaths caused by car accidents
@@Nikke-nn5mn although the roads don't show much radiation and people are encouraged to stick to the roads because unlike the forests and dirt the radioactive particles has no where to go on a smooth surface but yeah it is still dangerous to go and it does increase the percentage to get cancer
The older you get, the more you appreciate the explanations done by James May, even though they just normally cut him off for a gag
Why didn't they open all freaking windows ... That makes the car so much less aerodynamic
Cause...
As Jeremy stated..
The temp was barely above freezing!!
@@croftrn Everything for the win right?
@@MrArjanOskam No!! they're not insane!! ;P
They couldve put the heat on max edit: wow this is a lot of likes
@@theogreenaway7401 Indeed and close the passenger fans so the Heat all Comes on 1 port
Buying advice from this video:
Ford Fiesta- economical when you need it, wasteful when you don’t (as long as it’s driven by a madman),
Dacia Sandero- economical whether you need it or not,
VW up!- economical when you don’t need it, wasteful when you do need it (it’s German senses probably kicked in to tell it that the driver was British.
It's probably brake-accelerate-brake thing that mattered the most.
@@talhaefeay7154 and max RPM when pulled over
You do have to wonder what became of the people the trio met throughout their specials: the people of Raqqa, Myanmar, and Kyiv, all of these places they visited have now turned into warzones. I hope wherever they are they are safe.
When I was a kid I saw some cartoons and very vintage inspired adventure books from no later than the 1930s and before that and they took place in areas like Russia Britain, Germany, China Africa, and so on. Knowing what would happen with the world wars it kind of made me think “ realistically, what would happen to some of those people just a few decades later or even less”? Some of these Top Gear episodes are kind of similar to that.
The top gear curse.
@@kidnamedfingerrealbeen there yourself?
@@kidnamedfingerreal you went to Kyiv before, during the war?
@@kidnamedfingerreal They were subject to genocide in Bucha, and children are being kidnapped.
What a sad state of affairs. I saw a reddit of a guy in an evacuation zone. He said he didnt want to leave his home and his country. He and a friend got loads of booze and drank till they blacked out not knowing if they’d wake up. Its sad. I hope he made it out but I know he didnt want to
@@sheevpalpatine2418 are you for real? This guy is talking about someone’s possible death, and you say “I can’t like this because it’s at 69 likes.” Like, what?
These three are just absolutely beloved wherever they go, and I love it.
And then there's Argentina
@@Gjesmeaner bunch of butthurt pansies
@@communismwithgiggles2515 lmao stay mad
@@ephemera-noctourniquet What are you talking about
@@communismwithgiggles2515 I agree like get mad over a license plate come on I think we can do better then that.
Russian Army: We researched for 7 years on the best strategy to take Ukraine
The research:
Their army's been horribly disorganized since the days of Stalin, I'm not completely surprised that their research ended up being useless in practice. They learned the hard way that the Ukrainian Armed Forces wasn't the problem, it was the civilians
You made me laugh with your stupidest comment. As far as I remember, only everyone tried to capture Russia. And you, these 7, now 8 years, have been bombing Donetsk and Lugansk and blaming everything on Russia, you should be ashamed, it’s not good at all, unfortunately, you, as children, have to explain this. Bow further to your Nazi groups like Azov and Bandera (one of the greatest Nazis of all time, who killed a lot of people, opposed the Bolsheviks), everything is clear with you that you say this, your head is not for thinking, like many ukrainians.
communists fighting fascists
Bruh
Meanwhile Russia has the most full fuel storage in the world))
And Europe begging for some of it)
Jeremy's acting is on point. When he said "chernobyl" it was pure defeat and fear coming out of his mouth!
Next destination prypyat
At 5:35 they actually use a song from Halo Reach. It is the “Invasion: Elites” theme lol
So Top Gear used more Halo music than the Halo TV series?
@@Zzzlol94 they used mass effect music.
Look up 'alpha Romeo disco volante'
Wow! This show has so much inspiration that now the whole country is doing this challenge!!!
UNDERRATED 🤣 😂 🤣 😂
the "you have, goodbye" got me so good
2:38
Came here for this one lol. Their comedic timing and wit is hilarious.
“Go on.Go and meet your fate.”
When my parents send me of for an exam I haven’t prepared for
My dad when i my mom yells at me from downstairs for a thing we both did :
James May. Dropper of Cheese. Breaker of Lancers. King in the north
James: high rom
Jeremy: airbrakes
Hammond: SWERVE
This episode was truly brilliant. High stakes, real personalities. Oddly enough, Jeremy Clarkson was probably the smartest one here by putting a ton of heavy rocks and bricks in his car whilst constantly redlining the engine on acceleration and turning the climate control to max. Hammond was also genius for slamming on the brake and flooring the throttle everywhere
The extra weight only "helps" when you accelerate. Jeremy going at constant speed in his rev limiter might as well not bothered... Hammond on the other hand, could have run out earlier with his stop and go tactics.
@@canis_lupus2220 wut
@Mohd Aiman Azrie he said weight helped you accelerate
@@pharaongaming8617 It helps you run out of fuel faster
@@pharaongaming8617 weight helps *when* you accelerate, and by helps he means it worsens mpg.
His engine at full revs sounds like the cooling fan. Thats just tragic.
tbf when sitting stil "max revs" is 4k so thats why it sounds weak, it only lets you go up to the rev limit (6500 i think) when you are moving.
The poor engines, Tbh i'm surprised the engine survived for such a long time at the rev limiter
My PS4 is louder than those engines
crazy how many of these buildings are just… gone now
In 2022 its shortened down to “A race to get out of Ukraine”
This hits entirely different today…
Crazy how these guys have visited countries before they turned into madness
Not really though is it
Me, remembering the US Special: …wait a minute…
You could say that with every country in the world
insane to think that a country could exist before there was a war in it
what a dumb comment lol
Someone ages ago perfectly summarised why top gear wih Clarkson, Hammond and May worked so well, and new top gear doesn't.
With these guys, it isn't a show about cars. It's a show about three friends. Even when they're standing around talking, it's so entertaining because we can relate to that kind of friendship and it brings us back to being kids with our idiot mates.
In the new seasons, there's no genuine chemistry, just three dudes who love cars, being paid to be there. So who cares.
They cut James speech about uranium half-life, the most interesting bit. :(
Nah, it isn't.
it is
Gabriel Ferdinandsson
There is a line that I will draw and that is having James May bore me. I will not allow that.
Low Gunfire :(
He was just going to confirm Half- Life 3
Richard: "I have, haven't I?"
Jeremy: "You have, goodbye"
Jeremy : "Sit rep, Richard Hammond is a BLEEP"⁰⁰
already missing the old top gear😔
give the new one a chance :)
and............................. it's crap.
+Cherrie exactly
me to 😭😭😭😭😢😢😢
Stop with the cancer
Just imagine how fast it would run out if there was another car that did what James, Jeremy and Hammond did combined
I like how James tried to play it smart and didn’t run out, and Hammond did it kind of wrong and won haha
I think the very point of this challenge WAS to do it in the wrongest of ways possible haha
I was waiting for him to say “sometimes my genius...it’s almost frightening”
I actually came here from that video 🤣
Richard Hammond has done the right thing in the end... he converted fuel to heat by accelerating and breaking.
You're surely not taking what you saw seriously? It's all planned and they play their parts.
obviously its scripted like everything in the tv lol did you expect something else?
@ Accelerating and braking is a bloody obvious effective way to loose energy. All 3 should have figured that out immediately. But if all 3 do that, that doesn't make interesting television. Hence scripting.
the only problem is the brakes might get too hot and not be able to slow you down enough
4:56 There are so many things wrong with that map. First of all, the capital of Ukraine is Kyiv in Latin, but I guess it was made back when people still took Ukraine for piece of USSR. But then Cyrillic names of Belarus and Kyiv are proper Ukrainian, while Chernobyl is written in Russian.
youtube got no chills with the algorithm....
This is absolutely hilarious.
And they say bots have no emotions 😂 seems like we already found humor
In the future, humor will be randomly generated
In the parallel universe, the three successfully completed the challenge. Jeremy stealthily switched his VW with a Lamborghini Trattori, James somehow took a wrong turn in a straight road and Richard crashed his Fiesta.
In this episode of top gear, Hammond besieges the city of Kharkov attempting to take a strategic civilian population centre from the hands of Ukrainian forces before he runs out of fuel!
Today on Bottom Gear
Richard drives a T-72B3 into a minefield
I coordinate a drone attack on the civillian population of Kiev
And James is shot down by an MM-104 Patriot in his Su-25KM
@@JohnSmith-mk5jt Can you imagine Jezza's idea of a drone attack? "They told me I should use some of these [cut to Shahed] but it's too small, you need something more like this! [pan over to hangar full of Sukhois]"
@@JohnSmith-mk5jtdidn't knew that ukraine had su-25 🤔
One of the best things about this is that James May is in a Dacia Sandero
max fuel waste
max rev
driving with handbrake
add weight
turn on heater
roll down windows
disable engine management system
deflated tires
2 doors open + trunk door for more drag
accelerate then brake
zig zag driving
combine all above and you will be a ford gt only 5mpg
+CaptainD00M I guess opening the fuel cap will work wonders as well, combined with the zig-zag driving. Or just crashing into the nearest obstacle so you won't make it.
appelpower1 drill a hole in the fuel tank
***** Take a completely wrong route that's at least twice as long as it's supposed to be.
appelpower1 that works too :P
***** Allows you to do 40 mpg, which is much easier.
Hammond: **Sealing all the gaps so radioactive dust cant get in**
Also Hammond: "Clarkson, do you taste metal?"
People looking at Hammond driving be like "is he from
Russia?"
average russian driver after their morning bottle of smirnoff
or is he from China
The Russian Military is winning this one by a great margin. In losing tons of fuel, that is.
Am I the only one that wants to listen to James's lectures?
nope i love it when James starts to go in deep conversations with him self about actualy pretty intresting stuff (wel intresting at times
)
Matthew Mitchell Yeah I was disappointed when they cut him off. I wanted to hear it
He's on Britlab, presenting science-related stud now.
Matthew Mitchell yes
Nope.
Disabling a spark plug would have been amazing for this challenge. You got one cylinder just dumping fuel out now
LoL! One of my favorite Top Gear episodes. Never saw the boys try so hard to fail a challenge. Though, in reality they, were massively overplaying the risk, unless you are standing next to the reactor core, radiation levels are barely higher than normal background radiation in the rest of the region. There are actually close to 300 people that live full time in Pripyat and the surrounding area, they even have their own grocery store and radio station. Most were former residents that defied the ban on moving back, which Ukraine hasn't really enforced since the Soviet Union collapsed. They even make a decent living as tour guides and are in surprisingly good health, there was a very interesting special on the Discovery channel about them a couple years ago.
Victor Nag not reactor 4 though, which is the only dangerous one really
Let me guess, tou said Discovery Channel so about 3 AM?
Overplaying? Depends.
Risk? A little.
Gravity? No.
@@Blisk11-j5w No he does say he visits the remains of reactor number 4. The most it goes up to is 300 which is fine unless he visits for too long. if he actually stayed stranded for a long period of time say a day or so there is a possibility of cancer but I doubt it would be very likely. probably just radiation poisoning and such. of course, he obviously drove out of there by either filling up his car or getting picked up by the camera men afterward.
pripyat is a ghost town, no one lives there, those 300 people you refer to live in chernobyl - the town, which is further away from the plant than pripyat. but youre correct, the risk in the surrounding area is minimal now as the soviets did a pretty admirable job of decontaminating it, the soil around unit 4 has been dug up with the top layer buried under the rest. unless you were to find a rogue graphite block that they missed theres little risk to going anywhere that isnt the reactor hall itself, and even then people have been there, there are photos taken of the upper biological shield from right next to it
Can i just say how genius of a challenge this actually is? its like the best fuel-saving PSA you could give, its both super entertaining and very informative
"What you've done there is made it more aerodynamic."
"I have, haven't I?"
"Yep - goodbye."
Actually Chernobyl and the nearby town of Prypyat are quite safe, at least for shorter periods of time time, the other 3 undamaged reactors we're actually kept in operation for years after the disaster with the last remaining reactor being closed very recently
Yes, the radionucleids fertilize the ground. Safer than Chicago actually.
@@originaljoke-y5f Recently here is doing a lot of work. The last one was shut down in 2000 and it took about another 10 years to finish de-fueling them.
It's still uninhabitable though. There may be wildlife teeming in there but they might as well be false negatives.
@@Geheimnis-c2ethe radiation level in most places of the exclusion zone is only as bad as what you would experience on a plane flight
@@originaljoke-y5foriginally the Ukrainian government was committed to closing them when they became independent, the anti-nuclear movement was closely tied to the nationalist groups that moved for independence. They went back on those commitments because they needed the electricity and also couldn't afford to lay off all the plant staff
Did anyone notice how all three were wearing the same color sweaters as their cars?
ok.....
Dude u really need a hobby
Look, I just noticed it, okay? No need to bash someone because their observation is better than yours.
That is pretty funny
See what you've done there, *****, is you made the comment section more aerodynamic.
How many times have they visited places that years later became war-torn?
I'm surprised Hammond didn't get arrested for dangerous driving
They probably just bribed the cops.
+Fredrik Wahlgren to be fair it was funny the way Hammond drove
There is no such thing as dangerous driving in Ukraine when I visited Kiev and Chernobyl most people drove like 130 km/h on bumpy dirt roads.
You think they drove like that without notifying the authorities first?
@Gavin Townsley Not if certain precautions are taken.
Back in times were TopGear was the best show... in the world.
CarNationAT They are not oxygen. We can live with out them.
@@Mr.Riffian They are water
Mr.Riffian Oh, it’s better than the drivel they’re airing right now. The only decent bit was the F-35 vs the Fast car.
I think radiation is the least of the worries in Ukraine right about now.
and what about now lol
@@crcrcrcrccc hi from Kyiv, all is ok here)
@@yuriibondar3757 good to know tovarish greetings from turkey
Is there still fighting going on in ukraine? I hope not
yes. Several russian protesters come through other day. Lucky we shot them
I've never understood why none of them wanted to visit the reactor or Pripyat (they don't actually go near the town of Chernobyl) it's something that's always fascinated me, I'd have had a nice chilled drive and then had a look around the site (not for too long obviously)
a lot of hype and misunderstanding about radioactivity. You could totally visit with minimal protective gear, but you don't want to make it a regular thing. It sounds like at this point it's the dust that you want to be most aware of.
I get a very "winter is coming" vibe from the shot of James at 1:08
'I have, Haven't I?'
Richard Hammond 2013/14
Was that before or after the crash?
This must be one of hammonds best episodes
He didn't crash 🤣
Nothing can beat old TG. I don't mean to sound sadistic, but I liked it when they were in danger. Just the real panic of people is something you don't see in other shows.
So Russia doesn’t have a fuel shortage at all, they are just massive top gear fans lol
I mean, it is. It's True!
Ukraine WAS NOT have their own Top Gear. Then Russia - was made a fully Licensed "Top Gear Russia" with same people, who dubbed this Original Trio.
Also, there was a episode in Russia, in Sankt-Petersburg. I even remember - where they was live - in Astoria Hotel (Our famous St.-Pb 5 star hotel). I even saw The Stig in our Subway - on "Technologicheskiy Institut Station".
The most highselling auto-magazine in russia - was(!!!) a Top Gear Russia!
So without jokes - yes, we are! And in Russia - then they filmed THERE WAS EVEN MORE TOP GEAR FANS!!!