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This road makes Richard Hammond cry | V8 road trip Pt.1

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Look. Come on. Holy crap. Shit. What was that?

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Mike. So you send me a WhatsApp asking about a Road. What's my favorite road? I respond Lake District, and now I'm here standing outside the cog. I’m quite busy. Yeah. So I've got a plan. We've just finished the restoration of your beloved XJR.. It does look a magnifique and I’m delighted. You're welcome. Okay. Thank you. And I thought the perfect way to christen it is to take it on a nice, long road trip.

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So your favorite route in the world is in the Lake district. it is. Guess where my favorite route is? Is it by any chance in or near Scotland? It is in Scotland. So, yeah. I mean, you're not that busy. You're just recording a couple of TV shows. Yeah I’ve not got much on. I was asleep in there when you arrived.

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Unknown

So the perfect time to take our two supercharged V8 saloons to Lake District and Scotland. Two films. Two cars. It's going to be awesome. I'm going to get my stuff. Pair of socks. That's about it.

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The sponsor for this mini road trip series is Shell and they've been kind enough to fill up both of our cars with the latest Shell V power unleaded fuel. What will suit our cars so well is that shell v power unleaded up to 100% cleans critical engine parts with every fill. Keeping our engines running like new. The fuel cleans your inlet valves and fuel injectors to maximize engine performance something that our V8 cars will take every day of the week.

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And it's not just effective in cars with port fuel injection like these ones here, it is also effective in cars with direct injection straight into the combustion chamber. So that's an intro into the cleaning properties of new shell V power unleaded, but lets get even techier here with a fuel scientist from Shell Rudiger, Rudy tell us a bit about yourself.

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Hi Mike. Yes, I'm part of a global team of 150 fuel scientists and specialists, which are dedicated to fuels, innovation, development and finally, fuel implementation. Okay, well, that all sounds awesome, but tell me what is happening in our engines when we use shell v Power Unleaded. The new and improved shell v power unleaded was developed by research through Shell's international team of field scientists over a course of roughly five years.

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We work very close together with the team that develops the Shell v Power Fuels for Scuderia Ferrari, the cleaning and engine performance recovery properties have been tested intensively by using industry standard tests and shell own tests. Okay, well, that all sounds very impressive, but are you telling me that by constantly using Shell V power, unleaded in these cars it’s going to fully rejuvenate our engine's performance?

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Using regular fuels might cause buildup of deposits over time on critical engine fuel system components like in the pumps for those two cars, for example, are fuel injectors on direct injection engines. Those deposits may impact engine performance at the end. Okay. Rudy. Well, thank you for all that information. And can we please get a shot of his shoes?

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There's something about knowing your car has a fuel tank of shell V power unleaded that just feels good. Almost as if your car thanking you for treating it right anyway, now that they’re brimmed. let's hit the road. This isn't my dream road. Obviously, this is the M6, it’s nobody's dream road. It's it's just a grim necessity. But few miles of this whizzed by, and we'll be up in the Lake district on the way to my road.

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Mike to Richard. Hello. You've had so many road trips as a trio with Jeremy and James. What will be your alternate trio and alternate universe where they don't exist? What other two people would you have along? I know that we're like slowly becoming best friends. but I won’t be offended if I’m not in your 5. This is helping me Miles fly by.

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I was weirdly asked this the other week and I came up with an answer that surprised me. Please go on. I reckon Tom Waits the musician because he's like just a mad poet and an actor, and he's just I love every piece of music he's ever made, but I'd love to talk to about be a bit giggly about it and a bit starstruck, but I'd love that.

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Unknown

So Tom Waits because he's cool as well. I don't know who Tom Waits is. And then Ernest Hemingway or Hunter S Thompson. So Hemingway, Old Man in the Sea, all of that. I want to writer, What chap? I mean, you'd have to challenge him on some of his views because they're pretty awful. But nevertheless, fascinating man or Hunter S Thompson thing.

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is on a road trip. It is the company is everything. I mean, I've known James for centuries because I used to be doing little car TV on Granada Manor Motors, and before that I was in the press office at Renault. So I do all the launches, either hosting or on air, and you'd see the names of James and Jeremy and people come up and you'd be thinking, Well, hey, brilliant, I'm now going to have a laugh in the evening when we've done the car testing it does matter.

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As we ventured on, our questions did seem to steer towards the weird side. I enjoy some ferocious lane disciplined. Yeah, but do you do that showboating unnecessary lane discipline where actually you jiggling about and creating more of a hazard than helping the fly? I will neither confirm or deny. No, I'm just saying that I love it. And then somehow got even weirder.

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Unknown

You know, I do a lot of amateur taxidermy and Morris dancing, but other than that, I'm completely normal. Amateur taxidermy, does that mean it's a bit shit. 996 green bottles standing on the wall. you get the picture. I think Richard and I are quite alike when it comes to places that mean a lot to us. We're home, boys.

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Unknown

I love going back home to Scotland. And it seems no matter where Richard's been in the world, this is where he calls home, Right? This sounds ridiculous, but I'm getting exactly the same feeling in the pit of my stomach I used to get 30 years ago as I approached where this road takes me. That's the point of a road, isn't it?

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It's got to go somewhere. And for me, spectacular and at times awesome. As this whole stretch of road is, it's what lies at the end that makes it matter to me so much on your right is derwint water. It's a big lake. Yeah, I imagine there's a few of those right here. Yeah, but it's a good one.

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Unknown

Oh, on the left, bounder stone, what a thing. It's literally just an enormous stone bouder as in boulder powder in dialect. And it's like a big rock. Have you ever thought about packing in this TV stuff and having a go at being part of the Lake District Tourist Board? Look at this. Mossy Rock on the right. Look at that. The walls here are lovely.

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Unknown

I do feel like I'm getting further and further into the shire. Yeah, it gets very, very hobbity. We're coming up to Borrowdale, which is like a hobitty Valley. Please keep your short jokes to yourselves. Hairy feet is fine, but sure. Yeah, leave that look. Come on. If I cry, I don't apologize because it moves my heart and my soul.

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Look at it. Looks like a kid would draw. Look a little hill with trees on it. And then the big queen is smooth, jagged. It's a perfect vantage point from which to observe. What is my favorite place in the universe. I'll give it to Richard. This is just getting prettier and prettier. And so sheer. It reminds me a lot of the highlands of Scotland.

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Unknown

Your chances of going where we're going to go now before the car and roads were pretty minimal. Only because of the car can you nip to where we go. Shit. What was that?

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Unknown

Mike. Yes, did something just happen there? I'd like to stop for a moment. I did hear quite a loud pop. It just was a slightly too close to a bit of curve Stone and yeah, that was quite a loud bang. Well, there you go. Come on. A road trip for Richard Hammond. And we're going to classify that as a crash.

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Unknown

I've done a thing. I heard don’t you worry. I heard it from the car. It's a narrow road. Okay, I'm going to look first. Oh, the pop I heard back there was quite loud. You've punctured the tyre haven’t ya. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, well, that's an interesting thing. Most of the stone around here is Slate, Right? And because of the way it's made, it, shears and forms very sharp.

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Unknown

You're becoming a geography teacher right there. Oh, I am sorry. That's poor. Well, yeah, I did realize this is these little, like, curb stones that follow the road. Yeah, but one of them, I just gave out a little kiss, You know, I was just kissing the apex, and I'm in the car, and it's about a foot wider. This is true.

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And then I think I slip my tongue in, and it was just too much. Yes, I know what you've had to ask. I don't know. Is this car old enough to have a proper wheel? Is this the real thing? If it's too new it’s a space saver, and I've ruined everything driving on your favorite road with a space saver, I'm going to look good to open the boot wherever it is Under here.

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Unknown

Yes, I still want. This is the doctor. Say well. Oh, it's full size. Well, yes. Look, this is a proper motoring experience and you're able to hold that hold used to hold the occupant on you go, Oh I'll, I'll do this, I'll expose myself to tremendous danger and discomfort while you sit there. I'll get my jeans and jacket dirty just not my shoes.

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I hate jacking cars so much. That's not annoying . Nearly There. you’ll have earned your lunch. Good grief. I’ll hold your nuts. You've been waiting to say that since you sat on that tire. Look, it's nice. It's an excuse to sit around the beautiful scenery. Also look at the anticipation. It's actually building up the anticipation for my favorite road.

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We are to ask. Could I use your chair to attach to my car? There you go. I'd say we could swap cars, but then you'd end up putting that through a bloody wall at this rate. I just hear weird Scottish noises, but I don't know what they signify. If you are really, you know, reuniting with your jog through this night proper first drive.

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Unknown

That's me torquing it and there you go. A tire change by Richard Hammond. Yes. I'd like to apologize for being a bit of a dick. It's okay. I've paid my penance. We're rolling again. Let's put it all away. Now. You're not going to take the piss out of me for this. Are you mentioned ever again? No, no, not at all.

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Unknown

Good, good, good, good. It'll be between us and 2.3 million people. Okay, that's good. But we'll keep it between ourselves, shall we, then? We don't have to ever talk about it. It's just one of those things that happens to want to get my white shoes muddy. Oh, no. We disaster. Got any hand wipes? I’ve got a white interior Mike. We're on the sort of run up to the actual road now.

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Unknown

And this is exactly why it wasn't until the invention of the car that the lakes can be opened up because we couldn't really just pop up here on a donkey and go visit. Yes, I imagine even in a car certain times a year this is a bit of a struggle. Yeah, I wouldn't come this way in winter.

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Unknown

There's another pass off to the right. There's a low level route behind. But on a nice day like this here. All right, look at this landscape. This is arguably the nicest bit of England I've ever been to. What's nice about this strip of tarmac is it's single track by the sight lines are amazing. I can pretty much see all the way to the top of the valley here.

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Unknown

So if you want to get a bit of a lick on, you can always feels like a privilege to be driving your car through this. This feels like the Hills own private world that I'm allowed to to drive through. The road surface has taken a bit of a battering because I do get weather up here, a lot of it coming up to the is the slate quarry now on the left.

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Unknown

That's all fleetwith. It's rumored to be completely hollow inside because they've hollowed out all the slate from it. I mean, it isn't, but it's a good rumour isn't it. Does that mean one day it's going to go pop and there's going to be a massive hole? Was that a reference to my tire? Obliquely, that was completely by accident.

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Unknown

but i will Take it. Years ago, Mike, I came here with my brother Nick, and he hasn't been here for a long time. We came up on motorcycles and we crested here and this is the start of my road and you're about to see it. And as it opened up in front of him, he and I both add a little cry in our crash helmets.

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Unknown

There it is. Holy crap. That is. And that's dramatic. We there's a massive sense of history with this whole road because people lived in bottom and where we're going from centuries. And one of the only ways in and out was through this. What a based what a like to imagine. I'm just slowing to imagine it at this point is in a well prepared Subaru Impreza that's all you need is a well-prepared Subaru Impreza and a set to go and it's so big and hard to get them in the car and the clear road, if only within the next few months you were going to have some really nicely prepared.

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Unknown

Subaru Impreza I can't think of a better place to admire this from because I mean soon we are old fashioned comfort looking at this blue landscape. While I'm glad not a bad place to reunite with your jag properly now, it's perfect that they both have a sense of grandeur, stature and longevity. I might press on, but that would be just my apply some of the beans.

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Unknown

I've just had a thought. Will this be BustterMears First Hellcat? I'm going to say yes, right. I'm going to put into manual and we're banging some gears as some may say I can't think of anywhere else in the world any other road that combines this sense of fearsome grandeur. I mean, it's austere and threatening, but somehow also welcoming and comforting and warm.

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Unknown

It's human. It's a little human ribbon draped through this ferocious landscape. It's it's plucky. It's human saying, we can go there. We can go there. And in a few moments, we will see buttermere you see around that head there. it just keeps going and going. This lovely ribbon of tarmac. I have wept driving down this road more than once.

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Unknown

When you return somewhere impressive regularly, you never really move on from the person you were when you first encountered it. So when I come here I am 17, just driving, and that brings all the feelings of being 17 good and bad to me. Some of it's youthful exuberance and confidence and a sense of immortality. Some of it is nervousness, anxiety.

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Unknown

What am I going to do? What am I going to be in that as an adult to have a touch of that now, 53 it's like an edge that I've got back what was when I was in my early twenties and nerve wracking, frightening experience life. Where's it going to take me? What am I going to do now?

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Unknown

I'm quite glad to welcome that sense back of possibilities, of undiscovered things yet to happen. It makes me feel young and I feel surrounded by humankind because of the road, even though I'm completely on my own. Sometimes driving down here, there's the comforting hand of others have made this road. Because I'm not ashamed of coming here as a car lover, because there is a long history of that in the lakes.

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Unknown

As I said, that's how it opened up and it still has. Rallying was massive around there. People still love their cars. Not everybody. Some people frown, but as long as you're not driving like a muppet, how you get it here is buttermere. Look at it. It's almost I might get pelters for seeing this. It's almost like a little bit of Scotland in England.

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Unknown

Okay, that that that hurt and makes me feel a bit unwell. But I get what you mean. It doesn't have the scale, the grandeur of the highlands, but somehow it's more accessible at a human level because you can imagine conquering that on the right or on the left do you want me to name every peak? I can. I won't do it before and when I do it, this road works on me like a massage from home.

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Unknown

It's done that last bit from the quarry gradually softening to here and just relaxing. And it just it's not just spiritually. It helps me, mends me physically as well. I can feel my shoulders coming down. What's really nice about this is I purely asked, Richard, what is your favorite road in the world? I didn't see it driving Road, just simply the strip of tarmac that he loves the most and he's going for this.

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Unknown

For me. I would look for a road that's a bit more open so that I can explore the dynamics of a car a bit more. Richard has gone purely for how this road makes him feel. The visuals, the feeling through the car and the feeling of the journey. Clearly, he knows that his favorite place in the world is at the end of this road.

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Unknown

I massively respect. I think it's so cool. Richard, thank you for bringing me here. I really enjoyed that. This is my nervous face, really, because I'm exposing myself a little bit here. That's my favorite road. The honister pass at the bottom, a for our drive in our supercharged V8s. And I'm awaiting abuse. No because I've listened to what you said before about that road, and I totally understand that.

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Unknown

But my road we're going to it's a lot faster. But because we didn't get the high speeds, you then can look around you switch off from the driving and actually look at what you're going through and that glenn there. I should say pass was absolutely stunning. Right. And it just you know, it's in England, don't you?

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Unknown

Yes, but you're all right. Although to be honest, it's pretty enough. It would qualify like C Tier Scotland, to be honest. It's fairly patronizing, but it is a beautiful drive. Beautiful run. Yes, it's a beautiful run. And you're right. It's not a road suited to tail out. And things can go bezzerk And I don't think it should because you'll miss it.

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Unknown

But tomorrow I've got to prepare for something a bit more bracing, a bit more footwork involved. Yeah. So we're not going into spectacular Scotland. We're going to a proper drivers road. It's more bikers road actually, so that will be where You don't look at the surroundings, you concentrate on the strip of tarmac in front of you. So my interpretation of the brief was quite romantic one really, because it's about destination at the end of the road and the sort of experience of soaking up the environment.

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Unknown

Did you get to that destination? Yours is more of an old school. This is a good road because it's just a great stretch of tarmac. Yes, your heart is pumping by the end of it. Really. So I'm buzzing for it. And are these going to get some exercise. Absolutely. My brakes might have cooled down by then. They are fairly warm.

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Unknown

How is your fresh tire, by the way? Superb. Improved it if anything. Right. So I'm really it's just preparation for tomorrow is it an early start? it will be to got across the border so we need an early finish. Yes so we need to get to the pub early to make the suitable gap between leaving the pub and tomorrow.

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Unknown

So should we get to the pub now? I've heard they do a cracking steak and ale pie. There's no heard about it. I know full well. Right. The pub. Yes. Food. Stay back and stay. Still ticking? It’s not that hot then. Not really going to work. All that that says everything about the road. Yeah. We'll do that on your road tomorrow.

Richard Hammond discovers the greatest road he has NEVER driven | V8 road trip Pt.2

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Unknown

In part one of this mini road trip series, I sent Richard a WhatsApp asking where his favorite road was. I then told him where my favorite was and we decided to go on a trip to find them. You've got a puncture in the tire. You after Richard shared his beautiful strip of tarmac in the Lake District. Oh, holy crap.

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Unknown

If I cry, I don't apologize. It was no my turn to take him. Predictably, over the border to Scotland. We are getting very close now. And I've got a little present for Hammond as we cross the border just to get, you know, in the view of the country. I had no idea that my beloved Buttermere is this close to Scotland.

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Unknown

Spotify play Highland Lady. Thing is, that means I can get to Scotland quickly, which is nice, but it also means they can get to me quickly.

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Unknown

I can feel a sort of. I was about to say I can feel excitement from the car and all the. Yep. He's actually doing that. He is doing that. Oh, that's better, innit. There are few things rarer and more scary than an excited Scott. Now that we're in Scotland, I think we should stop for some fuel and some traditional refreshments.

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In part one of this road trip series, we heard from our pal from Shell Ruediger, who gave us some techy fuel education as to why we're using Shell V Power unleaded in our V8 supercharged cars. Just before we left, however, he somehow got even techier telling us how much it helps every single stroke of the engine combustion cycle.

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Combustion is most efficient when the precise amount of air and fuel are mixed together at the right time. We already know that Shell V power unleaded cleans away harmful deposits. But this is what a port fuel injection engine like not one up there then does with that help. First of all, it removes inlet valve deposits that can form over time.

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When you use poor quality fuels. Restoring airflow into the cylinders by removing inlet valve deposits. Less fuel is held up in the sponge like deposits and hence reaches the cylinder. That's good. Restoring fuel air mixture formation allows for the return to optimal combustion and being closer to optimal combustion means less energy is wasted. Making your engine more efficient.

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With all four strokes impacted, Shell V power unleaded fully rejuvenates your engine's performance with continuous fuelling. That is great. Whether it's a brand new car like this or an old car like Richard’s. Also works in a similar way in direct injection engines where it can clean your fuel injectors too. Does it feel great knowing I have a fuel tank or shell v power in my V8 supercharged car as I enter Scotland?

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Unknown

Yes. Yes, it does. Mike. Richard. Are we there yet? Not Quite. We're currently coming past the lovely city of Stirling, but soon will be going in the nice high, pretty, tall bits. At least I have roughly 50 liters of the orange stuff next to me in case I find myself in need of the world's biggest sugar hit. Things are starting to look very Scottish now.

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Unknown

We're currently in the lowlands, but just up there is the very start of the Highlands. So things are going to get very tall and very pretty. This is all got a bit Scottish pine trees, tangling deciduous woods with moss on them. Rain. I'd like to put a 50 quid bet with all of you that Richard has mentioned the weather since crossing the border. Mike. Richard.

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Unknown

Well, as we approach your road, do you know how people are connoisseurs of wine or art or how even certain breeds of dogs or whatever? I think roads should be on that list because you can be a connoisseur. I agree. But I think you can quickly get very nerdy chatting about grip levels and cornering radiuses and all that sort of stuff.

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Unknown

Yeah, but that's only one aspect of it. That's like talking about the actual chemical makeup of a wine. But you can also talk about that terroire and you can talk about what notes of what you're getting. So with the roads, you can talk about the history of it. Destinations, intentions, grip, surface curves, view the sightlines. There's loads of things to waffle on about.

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Unknown

Yes. And what I quite like is the road will be so heavily influenced by what car you're in. I guess it's like whiskey being influenced by the glass that you're using. It would have a huge impact on what you feel going up that road. Mike, that was quite a clever observation then you are welcome. I feel like I'm inheriting your ponchois for

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Unknown

Ernest Hemingway. Weirdly, I feel like I'm following a Scottish philosopher in an American muscle car. Some have referred to me as the Robert Burns of motoring journalism, so that kind of checks out amongst many, many other things. Michael, Hello. You're doubtless thinking big thoughts. Will you tell me when we get to the road? Yes, I will tell you.

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Unknown

Just say now or something. Confirmed, that will happen in about 20 seconds. Oh, Oh, It's like we're creeping up. now to step on the tail of the serpent, so let's flick it into manual, flip down a couple of gears. And with this national speed limit sign. Richard, welcome to the Dukes Pass. And straight away, you can see this foretells what we're going to encounter.

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Unknown

This strip of tarmac snakes its way up the mountain and then back down that through moorland, trees that come in close. And then suddenly disappear. now I've been coming up here since I was 17, the second I had freedom in a car, I brought it to this area of the country. So I brought an MX-5, my Alpha GTV.

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Unknown

And when I started getting press cars, this is where I came. Okay, Michael, this is what's in your head as your dream road, switchbacks, tight loops. It's all about the shape this road isn’t it. It’s known predominantly as a biker's road, but as long as you've got a nice engine and especially a decent set, brakes, you can have a lot of fun up here.

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Unknown

Predictably, the dodge barely fits, but I'll make the best of it. Can I just say Mike, my compliments to the chef. You have served up a sumptuous feast of a driving road. I know what I'm loving. Straightaway. This isn't. I've been on some mountainous roads where it's a regular series of switchbacks and hairpins but they're all broadly the same radius.

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Unknown

And honestly, that becomes boring. This is a mixture. Interesting, but a camber fluctuation there. this hasn't been shaped by a racetrack designer. It's been shaped in part by the landscape itself and a nice little blind crest arriving. What's right here? Oh. Oh, hello. I would honestly say this road resembles more of a tarmac rally stage than a normal scenic road.

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Unknown

If there's a road that makes me feel like Colin McRae is this one and what’s so magical is that was the lowlands of Scotland behind us. You crest the hill and that is the Highlands views wooded views, lovely Scotland is doing that thing. It does, which is be a bit like the Lake District. But bigger this is the big country version.

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Unknown

Look at that. This is the sort of road that if you drove it often enough, I think you would memorize it. It would work a bit like the way when I can't sleep, I in my mind, I go to my favorite run, which is five miles over the wooded hill opposite where I live. And I know it so I can just run it in my mind.

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Unknown

You you do the same with this. Pick your car, then set off and have an imaginary drive and be asleep before the third turn. Mike. Hello. Yeah. Some people have memorized every turn in the Nordschleife the Nurburgring. Have you done the same here? Absolutely. I know every camber. I know every corner, I know every jump. And they're all fantastic.

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Unknown

It's a joyful road, isn't it? You say camber and jump. It is. It's got shape, it's sinuous. I would admit it's probably more a hot hatch road than a V8 muscle car road, but I'm still loving it. I was just thinking exactly that is it Fiesta ST, something like that. I think the greatest car I've had up here was the last gen of Honda Civic type R that was crazy up here.

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Unknown

Original 205 GTI 1.9 or 1.6 would be a lot of fun and I'm kind of Williams. I'm more of a metro 6R4 man myself. This would be fun and everything from a modern day fully tooled up rally spec Subaru Impreza right the way through a little hot hatch maybe from eighties nineties big old cruiser like this Jag or a 1920s or thirties vintage car trying to pace it so that you're not using the brakes because they will get hot and cook but you want to keep it rolling on because you need that momentum or you'll overwork the engine on the climbs and cook it.

00:12:22:22 - 00:12:51:00

Unknown

Those are motoring skills. A lot of them, I suppose, no longer relevant, but any skill is fun to deploy as well as playing the piano, carving in wood, cooking nice supper or steering an old car about just thinking to take Mike's whiskey glass analogy where in the road is the whiskey the connoisseur of but the car you're driving and changes it?

00:12:51:02 - 00:13:28:06

Unknown

What would be my ideal glass for this road? But my stately jag is managing to hold its composure. It's still dignified. I think Scotland does this a lot to you. You just pop out from round the corner and boom, you've got an enormous loch. That one there is called the Loch venachar. And it is one of the most picturesque in the entire country.

00:13:28:08 - 00:14:12:19

Unknown

That is stunning. Oh, wow. Cool. I've been driving this car and every single car. I've owned and they’ve all been about half the power of this, at least. That was a very special stretch of road. Thank you. I'm glad you like it. And I hope the JAG held up well. Now. It did. It would be spectacular in anything, and we can speculate forever as to what would be best.

00:14:12:19 - 00:14:43:04

Unknown

But the road itself is magnificent with the view at the end. Look at that. A wonderful view and a little heard of Highland cows as well. But as we complete our mission, can I just clear up? We didn't set up as a competition between us to find the best road. Did we? No. It was very much, I show you mine, you, show me yours.

00:14:43:05 - 00:15:02:07

Unknown

Good. Because that road was amazing. That was something else. Genuinely. That is a memorable. Some roads go with you and as you drive it, you think you're going to dream away along this one day and it's there. But I what I really like is the two roles were incredibly different for your road. It was very personal, a proper attachment to that road.

00:15:02:08 - 00:15:18:03

Unknown

Yeah. How it felt out feels for you for that one for me is a bit more of a driving aspect. It's kind of getting pedal to the metal and having a proper go. It's a chance to do a lot of steering and a lot of driving. Even in a comparatively modern car, you still there's a lot of motoring to be done.

00:15:18:03 - 00:15:33:14

Unknown

You don't just hoon along it and not think. And I think when people think Scottish road they think of the big epic Highland stuff. But I think there's something to be said for a road that doesn't have the big scenery. So you're not distracted too much and it's a bit more about what's in front of you. You don't want to be distracted too much.

00:15:33:16 - 00:15:54:16

Unknown

No, no. Well, a worthwhile exercise. And well done. Both of us. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this little video series. Thank you so much to Shell for sponsoring it. If you like this video, give us a thumbs up. I'd be Mike, he’s been Richard, and don't forget to subscribe to DriveTribe. You're free to head home now. I'm just going to hang about here and do some things.

00:15:54:18 - 00:16:57:08

Unknown

Linger about your homeland. All right. I'm going to set off, see you next time. Thanks for watching, guys. This series was so much fun to make. And if you join up to our channel membership, you can also watch two behind the scenes videos from the Lakes and Scotland. Should we do more road trip content like this? Tell us in the comments below.