THE BIRTH OF MOTORSPORT VALLEY! How Britain Became the Home of Formula One

• by: @IanEmery
• 3 weeks ago

Love the video, as always, but is it me or are the YouTube adverts getting worse? 25 second unskippable ones in each section….

• by: @SpeedBrazilOficial
• 3 weeks ago

AMAZING ❤

• by: @LFC4LIFEJEDI
• 3 weeks ago

East Midlands Airport… Maybe..

For those who don't know, East Midlands Airport upto the 90's used to be the subject of many jokes as it was pretty much nothing more than a shed and runway.

Jasper Carrot (Legendary Brummie Comedian) used to joke East Midlands was the only Airport with a cattle grid.

• by: @AdLamb
• 3 weeks ago

Botswana special gave us Oliver, nough said.

• by: @MarcsCupofTea
• 3 weeks ago

My favourite Top Gear challenge is the 2 door coupé and all 3 turn up in similar BMW 3 series coupés.
Richard Hammond having traces of poo 💩 in his car after the Forensics have a go at them

• by: @CD-Gaming
• 3 weeks ago

My nearest track is jus north of York if I'm not mistaken, I believe it is that one that was on the rebooted Top Gear, when Flintoff got Stig as a codriver through York and to said track! Silverstone may be home turf, but it's not my local, nor is Brand's Hatch for that matter! Or Snetterton!

It all jus reminds me of that one northern joke: "What's the best thing to come out of London? The M1, it takes you all the way to Leeds!"

As for challenge? It might be a touch of birthday bias, especially with it coming up, but I'd have to say the Botswana Special Taking that Merc, Oliver and the Lancia Beta Coupé across that terrain, and with the scenery, especially that moon shot! And it alerted me to the embodiment of black air force energy that is the honey badger! Both being Brits, we know about badgers, don't we? But honey badgers?

• by: @QALibrary
• 3 weeks ago

My nephew is just about to start the course in Milton Keynes and the college and courses and extra funding are from F1 teams so most of the people that attend end up in F1, motor racing or car-related things in the UK.

Maybe Aidan you should make a video on that area as well?

• by: @coachjoel9463
• 3 weeks ago

I hate when people are good at stuff and we instead of celebrating that focus on where they are from…

• by: @brokeafengineerwannabe2071
• 3 weeks ago

Africa was the best one for me. You can’t fake the entertainment in that.

• by: @wes95z28
• 3 weeks ago

Favorite Top Gear episode is the Vietnam special. Period.

• by: @dumptrump3788
• 3 weeks ago

1:35 "What was your favorite Top Gear feature or special?" It absolutely has to be the the Reliant Robin Space Shuttle. No contest.

• by: @1BCamden
• 3 weeks ago

Such a great episode, getting the helicopter look is always revealing

• by: @vaclav_fejt
• 3 weeks ago

There is an area in Czechia, in north-east-central Bohemia (upper right to Prague), where there rail network isn't very developed. The network is still relatively dense (it's still Czechia we're talking about), but it's low speed and low volume. The Mladá Boleslav stations are so small they don't even have underpasses. Reason? It's the Škoda Auto town. That area of Labe valley is the motor valley, full of their subcontractors.

• by: @AndrewGeierMelons
• 3 weeks ago

My race car's roll cage was built in Daventry, just west of Northampton, and the car itself was built in Swindon.

Motorsports valley, as you say, has made its way to Canada.

I'd also love to point out just how much smaller the British economy in general would be without motorsports.

• by: @aprilkurtz1589
• 3 weeks ago

Thanks Aidan! I had always wondered how Britain had become the place where F1 happens. If there's a British bias in the sport, I haven't noticed it. I guess because I'm not looking for it, perhaps.

• by: @karlosh9286
• 3 weeks ago

yellow pins with yellow borders are really hard to see ! The pins in the map should probably be red ! yeah, red works really well for Northern Italy, don't really want British Racing Green Pins in England, they'd be even harder to see than the yellow ones !