Top Gear Race 'Car Vs. Train'
The Top Gear television series presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May regularly features various long-distance, "epic", races where Clarkson or one of the other presenters drives a car against other forms of transport.
During Spring 2004 (in a programme aired 9 May 2004), Clarkson drove an Aston Martin DB9 from the Dunsfold studio in Surrey to Monte Carlo against Hammond and May who took the TGV and Eurostar trains. Hammond and May walked two miles to a bus stop, took a bus to Guildford railway station, train to London Waterloo, then the Eurostar to Gare du Nord, the RER to Gare de Lyon, the TGV to Nice and another train to Monte Carlo.
Clarkson's DB9 was shown beating Hammond and May's train journey by several minutes, although James later revealed in a radio interview that Clarkson had actually beaten them by almost an hour.
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