Rowan Atkinson in Star in a Reasonably Priced Car | Top Gear - BBC
Rowan Atkinson in Star in a Reasonably Priced Car | Top Gear - BBC
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In this episode, car enthusiast and star of shows such as Blackadder and Mr. Bean, Rowan Atkinson, gets into the driving seat.
Top Gear | Series 17 Episode 4 | BBC Two
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0.06 -> So obviously you do love your cars and now of course you race, you are yes King
6.009 -> Occasionally yeah, yeah historic racing yeah, so what are you racing the track um what I have gone is a Ford Falcon
12.519 -> 1964 Ford Falcon, it's a big sort of you know 4.7 liter v8. And and very very light isn't that like lambda yachting
21.369 -> Exactly, it's it's got a certain floppiness to it so obviously driving the Kia
27.49 -> But you know one of my worries about coming on the show
31.15 -> Was that I think that people know that I'm a car enthusiast and that I have done some racing and that they will assume that
36.42 -> In the reasonably priced car I'll be I'll be very good when there's absolutely
40.059 -> No guarantee of that whatsoever
42.309 -> Because there is a very particular thing
44.23 -> And a little slow learner of cows and all that I was keen to I was keen never go so I had to go well
49.35 -> Who here would like to see you Rowan's lap?
60.129 -> Like you were using launch control
67.02 -> You look a bit nervous if I may say yeah, all wide line like a Formula One driver flew there and
74.439 -> Wide on the way out as well of you smooth
86.58 -> If the submissiveness
89.89 -> Yes here we are into their Hammerhead keeping it between the lines obviously the slower you appear to be going and that does appear to
96.42 -> be very slow indeed
98.56 -> Sometimes the faster it is it doesn't look too bad, but what do you think?
121.57 -> Keeping it very tight on the runway. That's a new interesting line
125.89 -> second-to-last corner that is
128.229 -> Beautifully angled and Gambon no drama no histrionics across the line
141.59 -> Where's the ball where do you think he might have come
146.299 -> The man at the very top is a Johnny Bishop the northern comedian followed by Ross Noble the northern comedian
152.109 -> Yeah, well I was born in the north so many of course you're from the same neck of the woods is Ross Noble
157.459 -> So you're looking at the top you have Matt
159.459 -> Oh no no no
160.48 -> I'm yeah, exactly one one looked up there, but there's absolutely no reason why I should be there
164.62 -> It would be I felt as though I did okay, but not great. That's my you okay
169.659 -> Well at the very top it is Bishop on. What is he 142 eight so Rowan occurs?
175.159 -> You did it one good
182.209 -> 40 excellent, too
216.579 -> Well that was actually remarkable because we did
219.219 -> Genuinely think when Bishop did that time and was so much faster than Tom Cruise it would never be
224.68 -> Beaten no no the Tom Cruise thing
226.409 -> It is 30 you know and what is very interesting is that all your lap times were incredibly consistent?
231.18 -> As is the mark of a great racing driver vocation posh turns out
235.629 -> You're in the wrong career
237.519 -> So I mean a lot of people think that you've already been on this show yes ladies and gentlemen he has now Rowan Atkinson
