Jeremy Clarkson Is 186Mph And Out
JEREMY Clarkson replies to Rosie Boycott’s question as to what is the fastest he has ever driven: “On the public roads…186.”
What car did you do it in, Jezza? Was it an unmarked police car, a Rover 75 or a tuned up milk float?
The Mail has stopped listening, at least it has stopped listening to Clarkson. Says the Mail: BBC urged to sack Jeremy Clarkson after he admits driving at 186mph on public road.
It turns out that the people suing the BBC to remove Clarkson’s wheels are someone from Brake, a group that doesn’t sound as if it champions speed, and Brigitte Chaudhry of Roadpeace (vroom!)
No other names of the outraged are given, but rest assured they are many…
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June 18th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
So Clarkson was the spiv who flogged rag dolls made by his dear ol’ mum?
“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.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
agw - One minor problem with your statement Jeremy Clarkson was the salesman for Paddington Bear teddies (as I think they are correctly termed)(quite successfully also). They were made by his mother. Please if you want to criticise get your facts straight. I am no fan either but get the facts right before taking the mic.
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Clarkson?
Wasn’t she the woman who made a fortune turning out Paddington Bear Rag Dolls?
What is a Jeremy Clarkson?
A fast Rag Doll?
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:52 pm
15 dairy
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.
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
13 The Real Stig - oops, we’ve obviously touched a nerve there; by the prolific and defensive scribblings I am concluding that you’re a fan - that’s fine, but there are quite a lot of other people who think he’s a complete *rse; that’s one of the nice things we still have left in this country, the right to our own opinion? works both ways..
May 30th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Like Chris Moyles said this morning, where can you possibly do 186mph in London?
May 30th, 2008 at 12:03 am
7 - dairy
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.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Ahhh, Jezza clowning around in cars with his hair on fire!
What a boring place the world would be without Jeremy!
Has anyone watched fifth gear lately? Right both of you leave the room as you’re obviously muppets!
Jezza doing what we would all do if we had the nerve and balls of steel.
I’ve got a car with 176mph potential and I bottle at 120 (Autobahns of course!)
My daughter was………..at 30mph, gay lesbian priest, savaged by pitbull cross great white.
Oh shut up!!
Lets buy him a present!
May 29th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
“what exactly is the difference between a breath of fresh air and being a complete tw*t anyway…? a conviction?”
lol. fair point. Mic said it much better than I managed.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Statistics show that most road accidents happen with half a mile of home. I park half a mile away from home now and walk the rest so I know I’m going to be safe
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.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Oleg
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.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:24 am
“Spoilsports”?
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.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:42 am
doesn’t help himself, does he? there was the episode with the mobile phone as well… what exactly is the difference between a breath of fresh air and being a complete tw*t anyway…? a conviction?
May 28th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
I used to enjoy Clarkson, until his ’style’ became his ‘act’.
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.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
JC is such a wonderful breath of fresh air
er
no
he’s a complete twat and about 1% as funny as he thinks he is
imo of course
May 28th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
There’s a main road near here, leading to a port, its long and straight and good visibility etc, and there was a motorcyclist who regularly on Sunday mornings, early, used to push his Kawasaki to the limit, the road was empty, apart from the odd patrol car who used to enjoy the odd whoosh of a motorbike…….then a newcomer to the local squad booked the motorcyclist. I didn’t name the road for obvious reasons
May 28th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Ah, yes; I remember:
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…
May 28th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Total wánkers I say. JC is such a wonderful breath of fresh air in the fetid and stale atmosphere of PC England.
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.
May 28th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
spoilsports