“Psstt, wiv or wivart marmalade stains guv?”

It gets better and better.
Want to ask what Clarkson’s convictions are for?
The facts remain fact.
Your version of life as it appears through your rosy specs seems more than a tad prejudiced.
“…and on that bombshell, sod off” J. Clarkson, 1998.

Yes I am a fan, he has a brilliant sense of humour. And it is wonderful that we all have a right to an opinion. Another thing I am a fan of, is basing opinions of people on facts - where possible.

Wouldn’t you think that Mr Plod would just love to bag JC if they could? So given their glee at pursuing Amy Winehouse over something someone purports was something, as backed up by film footage, why haven’t they done likewise with JC?

Could it be that his claim that his phone records show he was not using the phone at the time is the truth?

I can’t think of any reason Mr Plod wouldn’t go for the throat if the phone records corroborated the alleged photo.

Have you ‘looked’ at the photo? Here it is: http://tinyurl.com/4c3p7h

70mph eh? As commentators on that page point out, the background is pin sharp, no blurring whatsoever. Now how was that photo taken again?

“Police are set to analyse the photograph - snapped on a mobile phone”

Notice the definition in the branches on the bushes in the background. Fairly sharply defined I would say. The camera in that phone has pretty high resolution
I think. I’m envious. Now that I think of it, The car is in focus, the car behind is in focus actually, everything from near to far is in pin-sharp focus!

How do you do that with a camera? Well, you do it by using a very small aperture on the lens, that gives you great depth of field - the range over which things are in focus.

Now the aperture is a hole the light passes through - small hole = not much light gets through; large hole = lots of light. Apart from apertures, cameras also have shutters, the shutter also controls how much light gets through - it is like a door, you open it to let the light through and close it when enough has gotten through. How long you open the shutter for is the shutter speed. A fast speed lets only a small amount of light through and a slow shutter speed lets lots through.

If you have a very small aperture - as you would need for the depth of field in that photo, you would need a relatively ’slow’ shutter speed to allow enough light through. To ‘freeze’ motion in a photo, you need a fast shutter speed otherwise the thing that is moving will appear as a blur.

So if that photo was taken at 70mph, the trees in the background should be blurred.

There is something else odd:

“My girlfriend said “Oh, that’s Jeremy Clarkson” and then noticed he was on his mobile,” Mr Blake said.

“She grabbed her phone and took a picture of him. We couldn’t believe we’d caught him out.”

Driven a car lately? What side does the driver usually sit on? The usual seating for bf/gf if one is driving is for one to be seated next to the other. So how did the girlfriend manage that photo from the passenger seat? Were they doing something naughty at the time so she was in his lap and driving with the window down at 70mph to enhance the thrill, because there doesn’t appear to be any reflection, dirty smudges etc that you might expect from shooting through a closed window.

Apart from being a real goer, that girl is really quick, because she has looked behind to recognize him, found her phone, opened the lens cover, got the bf to wind down his window framed and taken a photo before the car has got more than half way past theirs. Lightning fast that girl.

Of course, just maybe, all the cars were stationary at the time?

And the 186mph thing, here is another quote from him to highlight his irresponsible attitude:

“Clarkson went on to reveal that he has been teaching his young children to drive.

“The sooner you get them in a car, even in a paddock on your own, the sooner you can knock it into them that they don’t have limitless powers,” he said. ”

This is interesting to:

Stephen Ladyman, the top road safety official in the UK crashed during his attempt to show off his driving skills in an episode of Top Gear, a BBC program, that aired last night. Ladyman oversees the British network of more than 6000 speed cameras.

“He lifted his foot off the accelerator at the wrong moment,” host Jeremy Clarkson said. “It was very funny to watch the road safety minister reversing into a pile of tires.”

During his interview on the program, Ladyman admitted he had nine demerit points on his license placing him one speed camera ticket away from a suspension. He also jokingly suggested that he had asked his wife to claim she was driving to help keep his driving record clean — a serious criminal violation under UK law.”

In contrast, how many speeding convictions does Clarkson have over the last 20 years? None. How many points on his license? None.

Lets buy him a present!

lol. fair point. Mic said it much better than I managed.

M and A

Mind the traffic if you have to cross the road.
We have a light controlled crossing near us, but slow moving drivers fail to see the red light stopping them, and quite a few incidents have occured where pedestrians have been knocked over and two killed on the crossing by cd changing /nattering on their mobiles drivers.

Speed alone isn’t a killer, its inattention that causes incidents were people are killed and injured.
Mobile phones clamped to heads by a hand, still, people changing cd’s, drivers looking at their passengers, drink and drugs, people falling asleep.
People who are physically unfit to drive, impaired vision and hearing, or just plain ill.
Most fatalities happen on urban roads at slow speeds.

If you want sport, stick to a racetrack or other dedicated venue.
If you want to drive on public roads, follow the rules.

Ask the relatives of the 3000 people killed every year on UK roads whether they find bad driving habits - excessive speeding included - entertaining in any way.

He ceased to bea breath of fresh air years ago, and has now become a stale old fart.

Likewise, Top Gear has sadly ceased to be a programme about cars, and is now just a poorly scripted comedy show.

er

no

he’s a complete twat and about 1% as funny as he thinks he is

imo of course

In a statement read out in court, Pc Milton said: “I was advised to familiarise myself with vehicles, so when there was a need to respond at speed you were aware of its performance.”

The poor chap was so mentally challenged that he didn’t realise he could do that on a racetrack…

I seem to recall some police officer who was recorded doing 159mph and he received o penalty for his conviction of dangerous driving:

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5286898.stm

I’m sure ITV would welcome JC and the show with open cheque book should the BBC capitulate.