£600,000 well spent.

[RCA]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3cpFuFsnyY[/youtube]

Formula cars are insane. You need to drive faster to stay alive and this is Clarkson who has driven plenty of really fast cars. Imagine a regular person.

[themadscientist]

I think many of us are confident in our own skills and talk a good game amongst our confederates, but on the track in a real race car all that BS fades away. I will freely admit something like that would scare the absolute f*** out of me. I would jump in it in a heartbeat and I would push it as hard as I could, but I doubt even a decent amateur race car driver would be able to contain the laughter as I struggled.

I have experienced a small scale version of what he was talking about where you have to go faster to be safer. I wouldn't have learned it had I not been trying to crash into the 400hp car in front of me. I had to push my 250hp car past where I normally would and it got so silky smooth past a point. I never did get that SOB, he could open up a gap on the straights that I could only compensate for around the corners just to watch him pull away again.

[Bubba1]

What an opportunity Jeremy Clarkson got driving an F1 Lotus with instruction by Jean Alesi! I'm kinda in Jeremy's "before" situation. I've driven formula cars, high horsepower cars, and ground effects cars, but never all in one package. I'd love to snare a ride in an F1 car someday.

Clarkson did have one advantage, he could be more fearless as his track has literally acres of runoff if he loses control.

[bigbadberry3]

If you "bought" one, I think the real issue of where you get to enjoy it. Street, no way. Even track days would be a bother because of traffic.

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

If you "bought" one, I think the real issue of where you get to enjoy it.

Uh...racing other people?

[bigbadberry3]

If you "bought" one, I think the real issue of where you get to enjoy it.

Uh...racing other people?

What can compete with this on a track?

[alms24sebring]

Nurburgring!! He said "I have to brake here, but I dont think I have the balls to", and that says something.

Great vid. I heart Top Gear.

[bundy26]

Except for my son, I would give up everything to own that car, looks scary as s*** to drive.

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

What can compete with this on a track?

They're making 25 of them and forming a racing league for it so that's 24 opportunities to get your a** kicked.

[RCA]

That's an awesome idea. I would love to watch a race from this series. A bunch of loaded 30 year old noobs crashing.

[Dittoz7]

I wish I got to keep it for that price...