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The Top Gear test track located at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, United Kingdom was used by the BBC automotive television programme Top Gear.The track was designed by Lotus Cars as a testing facility, with many of its Formula One cars tested there.
Top Gear define a qualifying vehicle as a road-legal production car on road-legal tires that has sufficient ride height to clear a standard speed bump. For these reasons the F1 car ( Renault R24 ) (0:59.0), Aston Martin DBR9 (1:08.6) and Sea Harrier (0:31.2) do not appear.
From mid-2002 until 2020 the BBC motoring show Top Gear was recorded at the park using a hangar as a studio and parts of the runways and taxiways of the aerodrome as the test track. The track is also used to host cycle races in the summer months as part of a closed circuit series in the Surrey Cycle Racing League.
As a publicity stunt, the series also had Michael Schumacher disguise himself as "The Stig", primarily due to the fact that a car they reviewed could not be driven by anyone but Schumacher for a timed lap of the programme's test track. Alongside this, this series' highlights included a 1940s styled race, a motoring challenge involving rear ...
Visiting MIRA's testing grounds and their test track, their choices face a series of challenges designed to test each car's performance, quality, speed and handling. Elsewhere, Clarkson reviews the Aston Martin DBS, and Jennifer Saunders looks to see if she can top the leaderboard when she takes a lap in the Lacetti. Jennifer Saunders' segment ...
This wasn't really a race, but a test to see which car used more petrol. The Prius was instructed to be driven as fast as possible around the Top Gear test track for 10 laps, whilst Clarkson, driving the M3, just had to keep up. The Prius averaged 17.2mpg, whereas the M3 averaged 19.4mpg.
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Clarkson tries out the Ford Focus RS on the road and the Noble M12 GTO at the Track. Hammond attempts to see how many motorcycles a double-decker bus can jump over, and looks back at his childhood dream car – the 1977 Ford Escort RS1800. Meanwhile, Jay Kay is the next star to drive the Liana around the Top Gear Test Track.