Speed with Guy Martin: F1 Special

[soofsayer]

C4 March 17th - 9pm

Guy Martin and his Tyco BMW Superbike take on David Coulthard and a Red Bull RB8 Formula 1 car in a series of head-to-head challenges including a drag race, a brake test, a slalom and a circuit race


Should be entertaining! I'd have thought the car would win but.....

 

[DL84]

sweet worth a watch , even if guy is a bit of a t@#t.........

 

[MacRR]

Yep it'll be good viewing, I like Guy Martin, he's misunderstood by many

 

[soofsayer]

I quite like guy. I remember watching one of his speed programmes last year and he accidentally kinda pulled the babe he was doing the gig with. Funny.

 

[soofsayer]

On now.

 

[DL84]

Damn it! cheers soof forgot about this..... got to love channel 4 +1

 

[Certi]

Would be good to see how a MotoGP bike would do against an F1 car.

 

[r25sti]

a gp bike would have won the drag race but the car would have still won the rest it all ready won.

 

[soofsayer]

Would be good to see how a MotoGP bike would do against an F1 car.

I think that would have been a better comparison.

Interesting about using the rear brake to keep the front down, hadn't seen that before.

 

[user 591]

Would be good to see how a MotoGP bike would do against an F1 car.

That would have been a different result am sure on the drag race.

 

[Marzy]

Pretty sure Casey stoner on the Ducati pulled 200mph down hanger straight

 

[mike g]

Yep but one of them you can also use on the road!

 

[stuartb]

I gave it 10 mins then switched channels... thot it was pretty pants

stu's phone

 

[cally1066]

He looked like he had wet tyres on for most of the challenges

 

[mibridger]

Well he would, it was a cold day at Silverstone, wets would grip better and no worries about tyre life for the short tests.

I used to use them for Hillclimbs, which are also done on stone cold tyres.

 

[joeman]

How was that bike worth 220k?
It looked almost stock!
And why didn't it do a sub 10second quarter mile??
All rigged to make the F1 car and DC look good in prep for up coming F1 season...

 

[andyf]

It was an interesting programme, as long as you don't take it too seriously. Guy Martin on an S1000RR racing against DC in an F1 car - what's not to like (other than the lack of umbrella girls on the grid)?

However, as it is Guy Martin's programme, we are stuck with his race bike. Given a choice (which we were not), I'd have much preferred to see either a MotoGP bike (preferably ridden by that funny looking Italian bloke), or a completely stock road-going S1000RR. The MotoGP bike would have had a slightly fairer fight, and if you're going to loose to an F1 car, I'd rather narrowly lose on an affordable road bike.

 

[Big_jim]

Interesting about using the rear brake to keep the front down, hadn't seen that before.

Exactly what I was thinking.