Saturday 1 December 2007

Seen Top Gear? The Clarkson tall bloke who over rules and over speaks everyone, (he owns the show , Can you tell? ) then we have Hammond, the small chirpy guy who was recently smashed to smithereens whilst driving some kind of rocket powered pencil down a straight line on a soggy November morning in England (not the best driving weather) ,Then you have the Hairy bloke, who is likable, but much maligned by the other two and eminently forgettable, which is a shame because I think he’s rather the best of the trio. I did go to the Top Gear website, but no mention of him there, not even a pic. Just Clarkson this ,Blow up that, Challenge this, Smash that, oh And the Bugatti V (eyron fastest car on Earth) left right and centre.


Anyway, Nuff of that for the moment, This image is of the best driving road on Earth. Full Stop. No, actually, Full Throttle! Nestled in the mountains near Dubai, the facts are asonishing

Check out what the Arabs have been quietly grinding away at for the past few years ...Seems the Super rich governing family of Dubai not only like their cars, But they are rather keen to have a location at which they can push them to the limits!

The Jebel Hafeet Mountain Road in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the arguably the greatest driving road in the world. Stretching for 7.3 miles and climbing nearly 4,000 feet, it boasts 60 corners and a surface so smooth that a racetrack would seem gritty after slicking your way around here.. It could easily be described as the eighth wonder of the world, but for some reason, it’s been totally un-promoted ,well I guess it is just a road, albeit blown, drilled and scraped through 7 miles of ascending 50 million year old desert rock."The road is cut into the Jebel Hafeet mountain, the highest peak in the oil-rich Persian Gulf state of the United Arab Emirates ,. The mountain spans the border with Oman and lies about 90 minutes' drive southeast of the ever expanding and increasingly astounding city of Dubai . It looks down upon a dusty, desert landscape that belies a nation of astonishing wealth.

Surely worth some sort of Arabesque (and I don’t mean a dancing twist) challenge for the program where perhaps Clarkson is ensconced once more inside the – you guessed it - The Bugatti Veyron whilst chased in a nail bitingly close race as Hammond and the other guy – who I rather like but was unable to recall the name of and after scanning the TV shows website I found only one blurry image as he sat behind Hammond, but otherwise no mention of him, Does Clarkson own this show or something? , oh… he does? Ok - anyway I digress, Stick them both on Arabian Racing Camels and give them a head start, no need to use the road they can just clamber directly up the mountains 7.3 mile , 4000 metre incline rock by rock in the searing heat of the desert at noon whilst being afforded – by the rules of the challenge the aide of ancient methods of survival such as sweating, bug chewing, camel urine drinking etc. Whilst Clarkson swoops majestically along in the Veyron empowered by some stunning camera work from the chopper we pan around and down into the interior of this wonderful machine to be greeted by the sight of a typically cramped Clarkson once more waxing lyrical about the sheer oomph and grip and sheer stopping power and the little flap that helps one to do so with such awesome
showoff-ability and the air conditioning and the fact that no one watching the
program will ever
afford one in their miserable lives whilst hinting that he just might…
The challenge idea is a cracker , a dead cert, the rating would go thru the roof, … imagine how miserable the hairy one would get in character , and out ,no doubt. By the way, all though it’s a tooth and nail fight for the finish as Hammond and Co actually cross the road on the final bend slapping camel arse for all they are worth, then take once more for the rocks as Clarkson swoops round blowing dust up their arses, his final worry is whether the Veyrons Wind Break will have the stopping power to prevent him from over shooting and plummeting to his doom, our hearts – the faithful viewers – thump with anticipation, but noooo a camel stalls at the last, spitting like the queen after crunching on a cockroach in the salad, the beast refuses to move one more step. . The Veyron Takes it.

Top Gear, We enjoy it? yeah, course we do,

But it has to be said that it is in no way anything but overpriced, over budget, tom foolery being played out by Over paid presenters.
Clarkson Currently has no less than & books on the market for Christmas .