New Series Starts

Sunday 5th Feb, 10pm (SIN/HK)

The Top Gear Track

Explore the interactive map to uncover the all the twists and turns.

  • Crooner Curve

    Crooner Curve

    Away from the line, this easy sweeping right-hander is barely a turn at all. Named in honour of the original Stig's fondness for easy listening music.

  • Willson

    Willson

    The first proper turn on the track and the first corner you usually see on TV, when The Stig is driving a lap. Named after former Top Gear presenter, Quentin Willson, and his amazing eyebrows.

  • Chicago

    Chicago

    A 'steady state' corner designed by Lotus. It's purpose is to expose badly setup cars by provoking understeer or even oversteer. Named after the band with the same name, another Stig favourite.

  • Hammerhead

    Hammerhead

    A tricky and testing corner. Combined with the wrong car, it can prompt a scary moment for the camera crew, stationed on the outside of the bend. Named because, erm, it’s sort of hammerhead-shaped.

  • Bentley

    Bentley Bend

    A full throttle skip between the tyre wall and the grass. Named after former Top Gear presenter John Bentley.

  • Bacharach

    Bacharach

    It is easy to spin here, as many celebrity laps have demonstrated. The corner is named after Burt Bacharach, however it is more commonly known as "Second to last corner".

  • Gambon

    Gambon

    The final turn of the track, named after Sir Michael Gambon. The legendary actor and all-round splendid chap almost rolled the reasonably priced Suzuki Liana here, after clipping the apex sideways.

I nazwali go Stig…

  • Some say… that he’s never seen an episode of Top Gear, because he’s a huge fan of Midsomer Murders

  • Some say… that he isn’t allowed, by law, within a hundred yards of Lorraine Kelly

  • Some say… that he once had full sex with Russell Brand’s answering machine

  • Some say… that to unlock him, you have to run your finger down his face

  • Some say… that when he slows down, brake lights come on in his buttocks

  • Some say… that he once had a vicious knife-fight with Anthea Turner

  • Some say… that he thought Star Wars was a documentary

  • Some say… that he knows two facts about ducks. And both of them are wrong.

  • Some say… that he has a full-size tattoo of his face… on his face

  • Some say… that, once, he had an affair with John Prescott

  • Some say… that he once punched a horse to the ground

  • Some say… that his tears are adhesive

  • Some say… that his first name really is “The”

  • Some say… that his voice can only be heard by cats

  • Some say… that he invented Branston Pickle

  • Some say… that his genitals are on upside-down

  • Some say… that his breath smells of magnesium

  • Some say… that he’s illegal in 17 US States

  • Some say… that he sucks the moisture from ducks

  • Some say… that he appears on high-value stamps in Sweden

  • Some say… that he’s banned from the town of Chichester

  • Some say… that he has a digital face

  • Some say… that he invented November

  • Some say… that he’s confused by stairs

  • Some say… that he sleeps inside out

May and Hammond Let Rip

May and Hammond let rip on the show, the cars and the big man!

History of a 'Reasonably Priced Car'

  • 2002

    New!

    For the first seven series, the car driven for the lap times was a Suzuki Liana. When first introduced, the car was worth £9,995.

  • 2006

    New!

    Beginning with the eighth series, the Suzuki Liana was replaced by the Chevrolet Lacetti and a new blank scoreboard was started.

  • 2010

    New!

    On 27 June, during the first episode of the fifteenth series, the Kia Cee’d was revealed to be the new car and an open day was held as a welcome.

  • 2012

    Be the star... in the reasonably priced car!

    New!
View ProfileJeremyClarkson

  • Style car-crash In 2009, Jeremy’s lack of interest in fashion earned him the shameful crown of ‘Worst-Dressed Man in Britain’ at ‘GQ’ magazine’s annual style awards. He wasn’t bothered, of course.

  • Denim downturn Jeremy’s love of ill-fitting jeans was blamed for the decline in sales of Levis 501s in the 90s, with marketing executives coining the phrase ‘Jeremy Clarkson effect’ to explain the phenomenon.

  • Licence to thrill Jeremy passed his driving test in his grandfather’s cooler-than-cool R Type Bentley at the age of 17.

  • Industry giant At 6' 5", Jeremy is reported to be the tallest person working in British broadcasting today.

  • Fisticuffs infliction Jeremy gained the scar on his thumb from a fight with Piers Morgan (former Editor of the ‘Daily Mirror’ newspaper) at the 2004 British Press Awards. They really don’t like each other.

  • Ear candy ‘Watcher of the Skies’ by Genesis is one of Jeremy’s all-time favourite driving songs, and he even called his pet dog Genesis as a nod to Phil Collins and co.

  • Kind Clarkson Despite all of his brash bravado, Jeremy has a good heart. He’s a founding patron of Help for Heroes, a charity that provides financial support for soldiers wounded in service.

  • Divine drive Jezza is a self-confessed Ferrari freak, and considers his own F355 to be “a scaled down version of God”.

  • Dream guests Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt currently top Jeremy’s wish list of showbiz peeps he’d like to entice to the ‘Top Gear’ track to try and out-speed Rowan Atkinson as king of the ‘Star in a Reasonably Priced Car’ board.

  • Crushed... Jeremy is no oil painting, but he has sex appeal, apparently. In 2008, he beat Barack Obama to the top of ‘Heat’ magazine’s infamous ‘Weird Crush’ poll.

  • Tweet geek... Jeremy is an avid bird-watcher, but doesn’t collect stamps (as far as we know). His favourite member of the winged kingdom is the majestic peregrine falcon.

View ProfileRichardHammond

  • F-word Richard’s favourite word in the whole wide world is ‘fiasco'.

  • Celerygate Prior to his near-fatal dragster crash in 2006, Richard hated celery, but he acquired quite a taste for the crunchy vegetable after the accident. Weirder than weird, or what?

  • Doctor Dolittle Hammond is a proper animal lover – he shares his rural Herefordshire family home with horses, dogs, cats, rabbits, chickens and sheep.

  • Hendrix Hammond Although rock-star fame eluded him as bass guitarist of his childhood band, Richard is a pretty accomplished strummer and still plucks his instrument whenever he can.

  • Hair-larious! In 2007, Richard secured over 45% of votes in a Brylcreem ‘Best Hair on TV’ poll and was crowned the man with the very best locks on the box.

  • Richard’s chopper Not content with commanding just roads, Richard owns a second-hand Robinson R44 helicopter and is absolutely addicted to mastering the skyways.

  • Crush Despite being a very happily married man, Richard has fessed-up to being a little infatuated with Angelina Jolie’s beauty. He thinks he would probably faint if he were ever stuck in a lift with her.

  • Google dodger Hammond is a sensitive soul – he claims to have never Googled himself for fear of reading a nasty comment that would hurt his feelings.

  • Attenborough aspirations Hammond’s childhood hero was Richard Attenborough, and all he wanted to do when he grew up was make nature documentaries. Ah well, natural history’s loss was motor journalism’s gain.

  • Touching trinket The wooden beaded necklace that Richard wears is pretty precious – it was made by his wife Mindy, has the names of all the Hammond family engraved on it and he never takes it off.

  • Ink inclination Hammond is a big fan of tattoos and has intentions having a bit of needlework himself. The only thing that has stopped him so far is that he can’t decide on a design.

  • Booty boy Richard has a bit of a thing for cowboy boots and treats himself to a £1,000 handmade pair every year.

View ProfileJamesMay

  • Micro loathing James hates microwaves – he owned one once, but quickly gave it away because he couldn’t work out what it could do better than a regular oven. He clearly missed the jacket-spud-in-minutes trick.

  • Kickback with flicks If James has a rainy Sunday afternoon to kill, he likes nothing more than to sofa surf with two of his all-time favourite movies – the wartime classics ‘The Battle of Britain’ and ‘Where Eagles Dare’.

  • Spiritual dining James would invite Jesus, Mohammed, Vishnu and Buddha to his fantasy dinner party. He’d like to make peace-making plans with them over olives and bread, apparently.

  • James in space In 2009, flying-enthusiast James made the trip of a lifetime – he scaled a knee-knocking 70,000 feet to the edge of space in an American U-2 spy plane for a documentary commemorating the 40-year anniversary of the first moon landing.

  • Lift-off In 2006, James obtained his light aircraft pilot's licence and has owned several small planes of his own, including a nifty Luscombe 8A Silvaire and a cool American Champion 8KCAB Super Decathlon.

  • Knieval May James has a garage full of two-wheeled mean machines, including a Triumph Speed Triple, a lime green Moto Guzzi V11 Sport, a T3 California Guzzi, a mid-90s 900SS Ducati, a 70s CB500-4 (with four original pipes), a 1968 CB250K, a C70 (which he considers the greatest machine ever) and a 1964 C200 (the pushrod one).

  • Puss boy James has a feisty pet cat called Fusker... a gift from Richard Hammond's wife, Mindy, no less.

  • Boozy bull’s-eye May’s guilty pastime pleasure is playing pub darts. He claims that his aim peaks sometime after downing pint number three.

  • Pongy work When James travelled to the North Pole with Clarkson for the ‘Top Gear’ polar special, he didn’t wash for ten days. Ten days! The dirty, stinking, rancid rotter.

  • Not so slow In 2007, James belied his ‘Captain Slow’ nickname by seriously caning tarmac in a Bugatti Veyron, the world’s fastest sports car. He threw caution to the wind and hit the mean machine’s top speed of 407 km/h – one-third the speed of sound! Kudos.

  • Eco commuter Don’t tell Clarkson (who hates cyclists clogging up roads) but James is a bit of a green Londoner. He often uses a Brompton folding bicycle to negotiate heavy traffic in the British capital.

  • Iron stomach In 2007, James shamed motormouth chef Gordon Ramsay by eating animal penises and rotten shark on ‘The F Word’. Ramsey retched and couldn’t keep his hideous portion down.