Been binge watching some Top Gear (the British version, of course) and on their list of "times for vehicles, they have one labelled as a massively long sequence of “SEG” (with varying repeats of each letter (e.g. ssegg, seeg, seeggg).
What vehicle does this refer to, and what episode was it in?
(bonus points if you include a link to the video)
Koenigsegg CCX, I think. Season 8 episode 4.
Damn it, GuanoLad beat me to it! Here’s a video of the lap —unfortunately, the video doesn’t include them actually putting the time on the board.
Here’s the end of the lap, the placing of the Koenigseggegegegegegegegggeggg time,
and a special bonus. The Stig has never gone off the Top Gear track … until now.
Thanks, all. Those are some great videos. I’m surprised it’s managed to stay on the board for 13 seasons so far (going on 14, now).
Unlike the “Reasonably priced car” board that one is pretty much forever at least with the top places. I can’t remember offhand anything really fast that got removed.
Occasionally a car will lay down a really hot lap time and Clarkson will add it to the list and then say “well, this is for street cars, and that hasn’t got a boot and it can’t drive over a speed bump so off it goes.”
There was also something about a sleeping policeman once --------- wait; I feel the Google flowing through me. And we’re both right.
"In the Power Laps segment, The Stig completes a lap around the Top Gear test track to gauge the performance of various cars.
The qualifications for the normal Power Lap Board is that the car being tested must be a road-worthy car and be able to go over a speed bump which is referred to sometimes in the UK as a ‘sleeping policeman’. There is a separate unofficial board of times for non-production cars.
The most powerful production car ever featured on Top Gear, the 1,001 PS (987 hp/736 kW) Bugatti Veyron, has now been round the top gear track and is now 6th [under the caterham] and in front of the Pagani Zonda F
The car that recorded the fastest lap time on the Top Gear track was the Renault F1 car, at fifty nine seconds (0:59.00), although it was disqualified because the rules only include production cars able to get over speed bumps.
As of the Eleventh Series, the fastest road legal car that met the ‘sleeping policeman’ requirement was the Gumpert Apollo S in a time of 1:17.1. This is only 0.2 seconds faster than the former lap leader, the Ascari A10.
Without the ‘sleeping policeman’ requirement the fastest time around the track for a road legal car was be the Caparo T1. The Caparo posted a time of 1:10.6 despite its reliability problems. As of Series 14, this record stands with Michael Shumacher’s Ferrari FXX, which set a lap time of 1:10.5.
Currently, the fastest lap time was set by the Pagani Huayra setting a time 1:13.8 "
Now its off to bed. I happen to sleep upside down like a bat.
Do you only know two things about ducks, and they’re both wrong?
I blink horizontally, and I once punched a horse to the ground. (Totally had it coming)
No but I do have webbed buttocks. 