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Old 10-18-2005, 02:26 AM
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Watched 5th Gear on Five last night and they had Vikki racing the M5 against Tiff in the BMW Williams F1 car. VBH is no slouch when driving but she was still over 35 seconds down on Tiff in the BMW Williams!
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Originally Posted by mathmos' date='Oct 18 2005, 10:26 AM
Watched 5th Gear on Five last night and they had Vikki racing the M5 against Tiff in the BMW Williams F1 car. VBH is no slouch when driving but she was still over 35 seconds down on Tiff in the BMW Williams!?
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Now try the test again with 4 adults and some luggage....
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Originally Posted by mathmos' date='Oct 18 2005, 05:26 AM
Watched 5th Gear on Five last night and they had Vikki racing the M5 against Tiff in the BMW Williams F1 car. VBH is no slouch when driving but she was still over 35 seconds down on Tiff in the BMW Williams!?
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Can you get the movie or a link to it?
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This we need to see!

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Originally Posted by skaffa' date='Oct 20 2005, 06:46 AM
This we need to see!?

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i watched it .. it was good, but not about the M5 at all.
the noise from that F1 though was aewsome.

best part of that show ... Zonda F
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We want the video also...
pls
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Originally Posted by mathmos' date='Oct 18 2005, 11:26 AM
Watched 5th Gear on Five last night and they had Vikki racing the M5 against Tiff in the BMW Williams F1 car. VBH is no slouch when driving but she was still over 35 seconds down on Tiff in the BMW Williams!?
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It was a little bit different in real life ! The F1 had to do 3 laps of Rockingham Intl short circuit, VBH had to do 2 in the M5. So the gap was actually 1 lap & 35 seconds. Her best lap time was 2:06.9. I was racing there that day in the E30 (a measly 109bhp/tonne) - our best lap of the same circuit was 2:05.92.

So basically, forget the M5, buy an old shed instead - or an F1 car
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Originally Posted by juliann' date='Oct 20 2005, 06:16 AM
So basically, forget the M5, buy an old shed instead - or an F1 car? ?
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Originally Posted by juliann' date='Oct 20 2005, 08:16 AM
[quote name='mathmos' date='Oct 18 2005, 11:26 AM']Watched 5th Gear on Five last night and they had Vikki racing the M5 against Tiff in the BMW Williams F1 car. VBH is no slouch when driving but she was still over 35 seconds down on Tiff in the BMW Williams!?
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It was a little bit different in real life ! The F1 had to do 3 laps of Rockingham Intl short circuit, VBH had to do 2 in the M5. So the gap was actually 1 lap & 35 seconds. Her best lap time was 2:06.9. I was racing there that day in the E30 (a measly 109bhp/tonne) - our best lap of the same circuit was 2:05.92.

So basically, forget the M5, buy an old shed instead - or an F1 car
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Or kinda ruin an m5 by strippin' down the rear seats, rear side panels, electric gizmos to make it as much light as possible, change the tires to slicks or smth even, do some magic in the suspension, a rollcage maybe and then chipp it and do a 100% titanium full exhaust and then ...well smoke almost everything there is...
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Originally Posted by BetterMakeWay' date='Oct 20 2005, 08:20 AM
Or kinda ruin an m5 by strippin' down the rear seats, rear side panels, electric gizmos to make it as much light as possible, change the tires to slicks or smth even, do some magic in the suspension, a rollcage maybe? ? and then chipp it and do a 100% titanium full exhaust and then ...well smoke almost everything there is...
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A gutted M5...OUCH! Hurts my head just thinking about it.


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