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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.

29 minutes

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Fri 12 Jul 2002 22:05

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