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Surviving Speed
Episode 3 of 6
Jeremy Clarkson explores the science and appeal of rapid transit. The risks of speed are explored as he meets Cresta Run riders in St Moritz and talks to the chief test pilot of the Eurofighter.
Jeremy Clarkson explores the science and appeal of rapid transit. Speed kills, so Clarkson sets out to discover how we've learnt to survive our love of going fast.At the St Moritz Cresta Run, he watches the very British lunatics as they crash at 70mph on a toboggan. He rides the world's biggest centrifuge to the point of blacking out, meets the people who are only alive because of the ejector seat, and races a top skier down a mountain - but not on skis. He's driving a car.
Last on
Fri 12 Jul 2002
22:05
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two Wales (Analogue) & Wales only
Broadcasts
- Sun 24 Jun 2001 20:00
- Thu 16 May 2002 20:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two Northern Ireland (Analogue), Scotland, Northern Ireland & England only
- Fri 12 Jul 2002 22:05ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two Wales (Analogue) & Wales only