« Reply #11 on: 04 November 2015, 15:43 »
To be fair to her, and as I've woken up in a good mood for a change, the filming was probably done in about a dozen takes to get the right angles and the narration in the right places etc.
I remember reading a column by Clarkson many years ago where they were doing a comparison of a supercar (a Lambo of some type) versus a hot hatch to demonstrate the difference in performance. Obviously as the ubiquitous hot hatch of the era a mk2 Golf GTI was used.
In the Top Gear TV program it showed them drag racing and the Lambo blasting away into the distance and then the shot cuts to Clarkson leaning on the Lambo waiting for the GTI to arrive making it look like he'd been waiting an age.
In his magazine article Clarkson said the reality of it was that it took about half a morning just to do that shot and get it all in sequence as nine times out of ten the GTI beat the Lambo off the line by a margin thanks to the wheelspin suffered by the RWD supercar.
I wouldn't mind betting the vid there was shot many times from many different angles and the narrative bits just added in as additional bits of film making it look like they were doing the race for real.
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