
What happens when all the tourists go home? Cityscape of London is the backdrop to the set, crawling around the floor is a traditional London black cab and a red routemaster bus. The Queen stands on the stage, flanked by beefeaters. Two red telephone boxes stand proudly nearby. Two tourists stand taking pictures as the car and bus drive by, the Queen waves and two hoodies spray paint a wall.
Take six uprated Ford Fiesta ST hot hatches, fit neon lighting to each, add a team of fire performers and then stand back. Through the smoke and flames, one of the most dramatic driving sequences you’ll ever see unfolds and then, just when you think you’ve seen it all, a team of four luminous piebald shire horses appears – as if from nowhere – and performs a complex gymnastics routine.
Following the successful road test on the programme of the little Peel car, the producers of the show have challenged the presenters to go and make a car as small as possible.
Jeremy makes a jet powered version of himself, complete with jacket and jeans, and makes the fundamental point that a car can only be as small as the driver.
Cruel Wall - that’s the nickname some Hammond fans have used to describe one of the most popular features from the TV show – The Cool Wall. Why cruel?
Because it’s been one of Clarkson’s favourite ways of being ‘heightist’, deliberately sticking cars he rates as cool out of Richard’s reach.
Top Gear has invented a new sport: Car Skittles.
The rules are simple; one poor presenter sits in a modified shopping trolley whilst Jeremy nuzzles up behind them in a small electric golf kart.
Ahead of them are set eight giant skittles, and the premise is that the kart provides the propulsion to the trolley, which uses its rudimentary handle bars to attempt a strike.
While it’s true that all the action at Top Gear Live takes place in the middle of the arena, with a series of sensational stunts and thrilling high-octane displays coming thick and fast, there are plenty of chances to get involved too. The show features the infamous Dunsfold Lap where you race against the other shows. Can you beat the best audience in the world?
>> Click here to see the leaderbord for the previous shows
Top Gear has a bit of a love/hate relationship with the motorbicycle if we’re honest, but when the internet informed us there were a troop of greasy bikers who lock themselves in a tiny round cage before tearing about at breakneck speed, only inches apart, we had to get them in the show.
This is a famous and much loved segment of the Top Gear Live show, where we play car football live in the arena. Our precision drivers are the best in the world, though sadly the teams are captained by our presenters, so there is usually a little damage to the cars. We use giant footballs and giant nets, with live action replay and many attempts at running over Clarkson.
Not much is known about the creature codenamed ‘Swampy’. Some say he is a government accident, a terrible creation born in a secret military weapons lab. A secret so awful an entire town was destroyed to conceal it.