What amazes me the most is, that even with all the spining, it was just 2 seconds below the Aston Martin DBS. 😮

Its a rally car. Just drive through the grass into the finish line

@1994CivicGLi

3 жыл бұрын

yes

@jameslingo4190

3 жыл бұрын

Funny that s what I wanted To say

@Pirustae

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I had in mind too

@tanaukettu8590

3 жыл бұрын

Rally cars don't go through grass, that's what off roads are made for. Also, Rally has lots of tarmac driving too.

@driver1084

2 жыл бұрын

You need the tires to do that

2:23 _”Done better than Chris Evans.”_ On more fronts than you’ll have realised at the time, Jeremy.

@isaacsrandomvideos667

2 жыл бұрын

Ouch

@falcongamer5867

2 жыл бұрын

@@isaacsrandomvideos667 hello

@isaacsrandomvideos667

2 жыл бұрын

@@falcongamer5867 all I can think of is when James may summons out of that MG limo thing and says “hello” to some girls Lol

@tonyb2473

2 жыл бұрын

00

The slowest lap is by far the most entertaining 😍 Took me back to Sega rally 👏

That car is INSANELY nimble. What a weird lap that was to watch. Too bad the track wasn't dry I'd like to see it again

@SHDW-nf2ki

2 жыл бұрын

The thing about the Lancia is its so short that it can't really handle high speeds like the top gear test track. Its meant for much narrower rally stages. Other wise, the thing WILL kill you. I agree though if they would have waited for a dry track, or just let the Stig drive steadier it would have been a much cleaner lap over all.

If you're looking, you can see the toe-out of the rear wheels. Yes, it also has a wider rear track. And yes, that means the rear toe-in needs to be even more than a pure square layout, especially on a competition car. The driver did an amazing job only spinning twice, with such commitment. Hard to believe a simple tracking adjustment wasn't done between both filming days! Wasted opportunity.

@agenericaccount3935

2 жыл бұрын

ok

@ricochetVendetta

2 жыл бұрын

I read the words, they sound very clever but Ive no idea what you just said. It was out of balance like brake bias then I guess

@mightress

2 жыл бұрын

The kit was just assembled in factory, not adjusted or tested. They told TG to come back a week later but they insisted in taking it.

@SophiaAphrodite

2 жыл бұрын

You clearly have never watched this show.

@chrisdavidson911

2 жыл бұрын

@@ricochetVendetta the wheel alignment was all wrong at the back, making it corner like a drunk shopping cart, it's why every corner either looked like a constant fight or just spun

I like how when the Lancia breaks down, The Stig gets out and walks away.

@mrradman2986

7 жыл бұрын

AS Gaming21 Alfa engine though, not Lancia. Should have tried an 037.

@KurianfromIndia

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrradman2986 Lancia use ferrari engine so using alfa engine instead of alfa is ok . So lancia .

@beeftec5862

2 жыл бұрын

@@KurianfromIndia Not a Lancia, let alone a Stratos. Kit car with Alfa engine, set up different with the performance highly likely to not be same as original. Top Gear crap for touting it as a Lancia.

@kataloganz

2 жыл бұрын

do you know it's staged right?

@hermansales9582

2 жыл бұрын

Is Kimi The Stig?

What top gear forgot to mention is that this car was just finished and not tested. They where asked to come back a week later to pick it up. They insisted to take it anyway. The hawk kit is good.

@213davidhunter

2 жыл бұрын

It looks like they wanted comedy more so than a fast lap!

@mightress

2 жыл бұрын

@@213davidhunter friend of mine has a hawk Stratos. It is an awesome car which does not show any of the problems in that show. SOB to drive, like the original but shit loads of fun.

@robertsaca3512

2 жыл бұрын

You mean Top Gear lied about a cars reliability? Say it ain't so‽

@VestedUTuber

Жыл бұрын

@@robertsaca3512 They didn't lie about the Caparo T1. But that's because despite all the engineering that went into making it basically a street-legal F1 car they forgot to put any effort into making it reliable.

The first run sounded like it wasn't running on all cylinders

@bolacapoeira

5 жыл бұрын

I thought that also and most probably that's why it broke down :P

@pauldavis5518

5 жыл бұрын

Sounded like a tractor

@emanemanrus5835

5 жыл бұрын

good point. The alfa engine in the kit should usually run at higher rpms, and that sound was an anomaly: you could almost count the firings per second of the remaining cylinders.

@jediknight1294

3 жыл бұрын

@@emanemanrus5835 yeah, it just sounds wrong tbh, The problem.is who the hell do you go to for a V6 now? Citreon don't make theirs any more and the delorean crowd made those stupid expensive, the Ford and Chevy are too heavy, too bulky and too agricultural. Alfa has the RPM, has the power but reliability isn't quite there. Jaguar maybe?

@eun5oo280

3 жыл бұрын

@@jediknight1294 Maybe a nissan 350z's v6?

Legend has it that the original car did not have mirrors. If the driver wanted to see behind them, they just spun out, looked behind them, and then got back to driving in whichever direction they wished to drive.

It may have been the slowest lap, but it's one of my favorites

So many professional racing drivers in this comment section...

@robinenbernhard

5 жыл бұрын

Welcome to youtube. Where every one knows things beter then people in vid

@SuperHornetA51

5 жыл бұрын

@@robinenbernhard you act like it takes a lot to know how to drive a car fast.

@topgearonforza6-thepowerla226

4 жыл бұрын

@@SuperHornetA51 well it sort of does in this video, idiot.

@jediknight1294

3 жыл бұрын

@@SuperHornetA51 it does in the wet when its got as short a wheelbase as a Stratos and using road tyres. The first Stig was a rally driver (you can tell by the lines) versus the touring car lines of Collins or.the F1 lines of.the last Stig and would have been a fair bit faster.

@NathanMcCabe88

2 жыл бұрын

Well I'm the Stig.

What? He spun a car designed in 1973 with one of the shortest wheelbases and then build by some bloke in his shed 36 years later? No, that cant be, they must have faked it! Typical of them! Come on, if the stig were to spin ANY car, a rear wheel drive historical race car, which is not much longer than a toothbrush beeing driven in the rain then that would be THE car. I love the stratos as much as anyone else, if not more, but there's no getting around the fact, that it wants to kill you when you least expect it to.

@darkrage1138

5 жыл бұрын

Lol I'm so glad someone understands. The key to the stratos speed isn't being faster than the other cars, it's being faster than the stratos' inner desire to kill the driver.

@jorgerivera6298

2 жыл бұрын

It's a B group car of course it wants to kill the driver it's like racing with wild horses

@alunchisholm481

2 жыл бұрын

@@jorgerivera6298 Well, except Group B didn't exist until 1982, and the Stratos competed from 1973 (in group 4)

@HighSockDavid

2 жыл бұрын

Your forgetting that fact that it’s a replica and not the real thing who know what parts to what cars are in that thing

@chilternsroamer872

2 жыл бұрын

@@alunchisholm481 The Lancia 037 and 038 (aka Delta S4) was the Lancia group B monsters, iirc. I used to watch that sort of thing on TV 40 years ago. Wasn't it a Lancia that killed both the drivers and the class?

The original Stratos was designed for nimble rally stages with a very quick steering and short wheelbase. It's just too unstable for a long track with high speed corners, as simple as that.

@gregferris4481

6 жыл бұрын

I play a lot of driving sims and my biggest challenge was this car,Pikes Peak and rain..Possibly 15-20 restarts as I lost count and my temper a few times but when done a lot of fun.

@StevDoesBigJumps

6 жыл бұрын

Unstable? That would depend on the suspension setup, tire pressure and wheels. The original did indeed have an unstable setup, like most oter rally cars at the time, and having the center of mass in the rear doesn't help it either, makes it even more snap oversteery and I doubt they used sway bars back then.

@HeretixAevum

6 жыл бұрын

don't cut yourself on that edge, dodo.

@piotrmalewski8178

6 жыл бұрын

I bet they've messed up the suspension geometry.

@Calilasseia

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, the problems with the original Stratos, stem from the fact that it had *massively* adjustable suspension. This was one of the features that made it a serious combat weapon in the hands of a professional rally team, with the relevant trained specialists on hand to ensure that the suspension settings were correct. But, unless you ARE one of those professionals, with specialist knowledge of the idiosyncrasies of Stratos suspension settings, leave well alone. Because that suspension is *very* sensitive to changes, and worse still, sensitive in a deviously nonlinear manner, resulting in a complete change of behaviour after adjustments that on another car would be considered minor. It is ridiculously easy for an amateur to put this car into suspension settings that will see it in dangerous parts of the performance envelope *very* quickly. Basically, the Stratos is a sort of four wheeled Lockheed Starfighter - bat out of hell performance, but with parts of the performance envelope that even skilled pilots prefer not to enter. Some of them being prolapse inducing if you mistakenly *do* enter them. If you have the requisite specialists on hand, you *can* make it stable enough for track use, but even with that largesse on tap, you need to concentrate hard *all the time* whilst at the wheel. Those who don't, end up adding to the "widowmaker" legend this car has acquired. In short, this is a car you acquire, to teach yourself *restraint*, until you've learned the hard lessons it will teach you. If you're not already blessed with Senna levels of skill, you can spend over a decade learning how to drive this car properly, but those in the know will respect you for your effort if you do.

Majestic! Absolute animal of a car, and I suspect the driver was deliberately putting on a great show of powersliding. Brilliant though, and one of my favourite ever laps.

All I see is triggered italians in the comments... Guys settle down this is NOT the REAL stratos, you can say it says stratos KIT CAR on the title and it is one made by HAWK. The body looks authentic but what's underneath is completely different.

@ironguy6482

5 жыл бұрын

It seems not many people actually watched the full episode. I wonder why everyone thinks a kit car turns into an exact 1:1 replica of the real car

@Zonda1996

3 жыл бұрын

The guy who built the car came out after the episode and openly slandered the direction they took in showcasing the HF. Apparently a few of the shown mishaps were scripted and the Stig bounced it off limiter after a cold start on his first drive, leading to the engine failure shown here. Given the guy took commissions to assemble kit cars for customers in the UK and the light it painted his handiwork (as well as Hawk kit cars in general), there’s plenty of reasons to be annoyed at BBC producers lol.

Lol it was expected for the thing to break down on the first lap since it sounded like a lawnmower. And damn that second lap was right out of Gran Turismo's multiplayer

Probably my favorite stig lap ever 😂👍

Some say he naturally faces magnetic north, and that all his legs are hydraulic. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

Those are typical characteristics of the stratos in the wet on the street , it can be quite lethal , it was designed to change direction on a ballhair in the dirt .

@SparrowNoblePoland

2 жыл бұрын

That's why Lanciac abandoned that design, making 037 much longer.

@alessandro.cattelan

2 жыл бұрын

If u are a bad driver, yes

@VestedUTuber

Жыл бұрын

@@SparrowNoblePoland But then the 037 ended up being overspecialized towards paved stages - so much so that Lancia had to cheat to even stand a chance against the Audi Quattro.

@VestedUTuber

Жыл бұрын

@@alessandro.cattelan Eh, even a good driver can be caught off guard by one of these if they're not used to driving something like this. The Stratos is like an older Porsche 911, except more-so due to its shorter wheelbase. The moment you push it beyond its limits it will punish you severely, so you need to give yourself a margin of safety.

"done better than Chris Evans" Wow that's setting the bar low.

And due to this program Hawk Cars sold many more Strat kits, I know as I worked for them and if set up correctly that kit is very quick and stable. Set up wrong very scary!!

@theravedaddy

5 жыл бұрын

It looked like a typical top gear assasanation of a car because clarkson didnt like it......tesla, anyone?

@yorkshirethegreat

3 жыл бұрын

@@theravedaddy I've got a feeling that the Lancia marque is one of his favourites. Two cars stand out for Clarkson; the Stratos and the 037 Rallye. Both incredible racing cars.

@Alucard-gt1zf

2 жыл бұрын

@@theravedaddy Clarkson loves lancias And you can't fault him because the tesla failed on him

@theravedaddy

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alucard-gt1zf uuuh? Wasnt it a kit car?

The best part of the video is people thinking that it's a real stratos

If you played enough Gran Turismo with this car, you can feel it's lack of weight just by watching this video, seems like so much on edge fun!

Why people here are talking like it is real straots. They dont see he wrote on papaer HAWK STRATOS. Its not real one

@lookbehindyousuka

5 жыл бұрын

It says KIT CAR in all caps. I don't think people mistake it

@emanemanrus5835

5 жыл бұрын

@@lookbehindyousuka maybe non english speaking users did not understand the kit thing. By the way if you look the car inside, the driver seat is at the right side: lancia never made stratos' with right side driving positions.

The definition of never give up

Just met a guy in east coast Canada with one, most likely a kit car, and said it had a 3.5L in it. Told me about the 2.4 ferrari Dino engine. Has an intergal rollcage and frame. Wasnt aware thefe were only 500 cars produced for the public. But he did tell me about the 73, 74 and 75 world cahampionship rallies.

Lancia: "Did you want us to build cars that are easy to drive or cars that win?" (most WRC Manufacturers' Championship wins of any manufacturer: 1974, 1975, 1976 [Stratos], 1983 [037], 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 [Delta])

I’m amazed The Stig could control that twitchy Lancia.

@erty2389

3 жыл бұрын

Wasnt a lancia. That was a kit car made by hawk

That was the best and most flamboyant lap i have ever seen 😂

Short wheel base, big power. With some chassis tuning it'd be a monster.

Now that's what I call an interesting lap

To stig’s credit, it’s gotta be hard keeping an Autobot like Wheeljack under control

If they'd just given him a hot meal we'd still be watching it

Three laps in one you might say. One around the track and two around the axis.

that was a great drive

I'm just mildly upset that they didn't mark it with the W for wet track conditions

It sounded so different in the beginning compared to the second time, I bet it was running on 5-cylinders

Just envious of our great cars

Hawk Stratos: work of art

OR EVEN NOW! this is genius, a perpetual running gag!

Each 360+ was so stylish !!! !!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

What season and episode was this?

The screen is tight and cool ♪

Perfect Lap ............... For a Lancia Rally Car . Oversteer everywhere , and , TWO spin recoveries .

most entertaining lap on top gear.

Should’ve had the Stig’s Scandinavian cousin drive!

thank you for uploading!

@bettinadittmar1725

7 жыл бұрын

Neue fiat

The aspect ratio of this vid is making me crave a beqa stringer 🤤

It's a 70's RALLY car! The back end is SUPPOSED to be loose ... Jeez Stig! 😱🤭🤣🤣🙄

Did the Stratos do a 360 spin out?!

I love this program

The engine was on something like two cylinders on the first run.

Probably now.

❤Lancia

2:23 oh man, he said it

You know how F good you look fixing a Lancia Stratos on the side of the road lol...

2:23 Hearing Jeremy Clarkson say that lmao

SOOOOOO want one of those. Alas, in the States, nobody that I know of, sells them. :(

Mi vien da ridere a vedere quanti italiani, accecati dall'orgoglio, non riescano a farsi due risate davanti alle "provocazioni" di Jeremy. Chissenefrega di come Stig abbia fatto la prova a tempo: la Stratos richiede esperienza per essere guidata bene. La Stratos vera (non la kit car) la conoscono bene gli appassionati e non ha certo bisogno di una prova del genere per dimostrare le sue straordinarie doti e questo lo sanno pure Jeremy, James e Richard, tutti amanti dello storico marchio Lancia.

@lorenzozanellati5844

6 жыл бұрын

Armando Forno alleluia, qualcuno che capisce 😃

@andreabianchi7928

6 жыл бұрын

Armando Forno ma penso che stig sia un pilota

@andreabianchi7928

6 жыл бұрын

Armando Forno sono d'accordo con te hahaha

@ChapuleTaylor

5 жыл бұрын

Get fucked italian knob, your cars are shit and this proves it HAHAAAA!!!! Fucker

@gabrimica8905

3 жыл бұрын

ma non è una Stratos vera. Ti sembra il rumore di un motore Ferrari?

Quello che,ai bei tempi, l'ITALIA ha progettato e costruito .....in Inghilterra ci stanno arrivando adesso. 🥂🍾

That car is tiny!!!

@henrynicklin1345

5 жыл бұрын

Nordi Mejia the video is squashed

@eriktruchinskas3747

5 жыл бұрын

@@henrynicklin1345 the car is still tiny as hell

@AndreAndre-yd5gw

4 жыл бұрын

Not for fat americans

Nice!

If fun = Slow, James May has got it in the bag!

That is a catastrophic lap, he's all over the place 😂

@trenchtown69

3 жыл бұрын

It is a rally kit car with a very short wheelbase, less than 1000kg curb weight and depending on the tune, 230+ horsies under the bonnet, in the wet. Would be amazing to learn more about the setup though. Or a comparison to the Lister Bell kit... orr... ehm... More Stratos stuff...

@bakedandsteaked

2 жыл бұрын

Stig had one too many coffees that day.

one of the hardest car for drive

That was one twitchy car.

I preferred the sound of the Ferrari V6

I had Blue Stratos aftershave. Does that count?

Walter Röhrl should drive this beautiful car...

It looks great though

Do they still make those replicas? Are there any second hand for sale, around?

Such a short wheelbase. Very hard to control a skid. That was crazy

that is how I drive in sim racing at the first time

the best

Sandro Munari, the best in Stratos!💪🏻

@chazsach6594

2 жыл бұрын

Happy memories of Sandro Munari nearly running me over on the RAC Rally.

This man got out the car and just walked to the line🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🌚🌚🌚🌚🤣🤣🤣☝🏾🤣🤣🤣

If you take off the [conservative] fourteen seconds for the spins, this little kit car came in at a very respectable 1m 34s. Pretty embarrassing if you manufacture anything slower than that on the Top Gear board. I think that is why it "Broke Down" on the dry track.

@ivantheteribul

9 ай бұрын

That would put it with some hot hatches such as the Renault Megane and Clio and Ford Focus ST.

Looks fun to drive I'd put a 302 ford or 327 Chevy in it..

Funny EST stig lap ever😂😂

I'm not even sure the car would be built now if Clarkson had anything to do with building it. There are only so many screws and bolt you can use a hammer to fit before having to resort to screw drivers and spanners. If by some miracle it was finished. Or now.

@ivantheteribul

2 жыл бұрын

Or now.

Anyone know what season + episode number this is? I have the whole series of the OG trio and I don't remember seeing this before.

@tigertalesade4181

3 ай бұрын

It was season 14, episode 3, 2009. I was in the audience for this, a good day out 😎

still better than me on dirt rally

Still remain a piece of art, just like is usual for italian cars..

@Glenni91N

6 жыл бұрын

You're missing the point. It's a personal build. a KIT CAR someone just built this at their house. It's made to look like a Stratos, and that's it, it's not a real Stratos. You can make a ferrari at home, and make it look like a ferrari, but it won't drive like one if you give it fiat punto parts.

@kreegak3802

6 жыл бұрын

Danny MAGOO itialian cars suck ass

@Godl1ked

6 жыл бұрын

Glenni, a lot of people who have tested listerbell and hawk built Stratos kir cars say that they're much much more reliable and better built than the original stratos. If you believe all these scripted events that happened in this top gear episode, I'm quite sorry for you. Check out more sources on the internet to make you final opinion, because you need a final opinion on something before you start teaching and preaching others. Which you do not seem to have, and look like an idiot.

@jefflee1189

5 жыл бұрын

Ron K yes they do, when you buy a Ferrari you're buying a cheap version of the Corvette. If ya need to go fast vettes, vipers and Porsche are the way to fot

that's what i call pushing over the limit

@bakedandsteaked

2 жыл бұрын

Pushing it off a cliff maybe lol

Stratos is a rare car so they used a replica. Nothing like the real thing in this case.

If they want to see a kit car on their circuit watch the Ultima went around quicker than all the six figure price tag super cars.

This car is not for pist.Stratos is ralli car. Drive this car on winding mountain roads.Stratos is a wonderful car.

Per tutti gli italiani: Non si tratta di una vera Stratos, bensì di un'imitazione, di una kit-car, di un falso. Non aveva nemmeno il motore Lancia, aveva il V6 Alfa Romeo, il Busso, se ricordo bene. Smettetela di difendere l'indifendibile. For whose who can't understand italian: that was not an original Lancia Stratos, it was a kit-car, a copy, a fake. It even hadn't the original Lancia engine, it runs on Alfa V6 (I think the well-known "Busso" engine).

Time off for panache. Also, it got in the mud, but it is a ralley car.

48" wheelbase ?

Lencia Strutors... The real is best!

Or now

@DarkAudit

7 жыл бұрын

Or now

@CSM13

7 жыл бұрын

Or now

@roofcat1690

6 жыл бұрын

Or now

@maxzak3694

6 жыл бұрын

Or now

@Fido4President

6 жыл бұрын

Or now

"Not too much speed!"

This car Is about "balance "

Those who render videos this way, killing it's aspect ratio, should burn in hell.

I swear he spun out on purpose, stopped counter steering and turned into the corner to make it 360.

No way this does a true Stratos justice...

Fantastic sound?! It sounds like a lawnmower engine

The great smell of Wednesday