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The Grand Tour » Season 2 » Blasts from the Past
01:07:47
Jeremy Clarkson, James May, Richard Hammond, Mike Skinner
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Plot summary
The presenters head to the City of Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, and home of the Pau Grand Prix on the Circuit de Pau-Ville street course. At Palais Beaumont Hammond arrives with a Jagaur XK SS and Clarkson in an Aston Martin DB4 GT; both being modern builds of older designs from the 1950s "back-catalogues" of Jaguar and Aston Martin. They both race around the Streets of Pau before May turns up in a modern Honda Civic Type R to prove that new cars are better. All three depart to drive south over the Pyrenees mountain range, with Clarkson and Hammond experiencing difficulties in dense fog. Clarkson recants a previous incident from 2013—when Clarkson and Hammond's driving licences were confiscated whilst filming The Perfect Road Trip in France—and tries to goad May into speeding on the Autopista AP-2. At Barcelona the presenters race around the abandoned Autódromo de Sitges-Terramar and the extreme banking on its corners, with May winning, and Hammond abstaining following his history of crashes. During Conversation Street the presenters discuss names for gritters. At the Eboladrome, Clarkson retests the Ford GT following the Niagara Falls race, with Eaton setting a test lap. Nick Mason goes on to record a faster lap than Stewart Copeland to become "the fastest drummer for a band beginning with the letter p".
Nouns
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1)
upthrust
- Some upthrust there. - Kicking the tail out again.
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2)
urus
It is. "How is your Urus?" "It's a bit itchy, actually."
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3)
petard
- I like Westminster Abbey. - Ha! Hoist by his own petard. Another one here.
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4)
barroom
Don't think, however, that it's just a barroom brawler-all doors and no trousers.
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5)
pothole
Whoa! Big pothole there.
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6)
afterburner
and then lighting the afterburner for the fast run back down the Isn't.
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7)
minx
- And I had a Millman Minx for a very short amount of time? - A Minx?
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8)
tarmac
JEREMY: Yeah, but it's when you get back on the tarmac, you think...
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9)
doorbell
But right now it is time to ring the doorbell of debate on the house of chat,
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10)
drool
- BOTH: Drool. - JEREMY: Yeah, drool, exactly.
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11)
knuckle
It's because they secretly admire our dragging knuckle.
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12)
quid
I got it for 40 quid from a gypsy,
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13)
whine
- (WHINING) - That gearbox whine, it's quite pronounced.
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14)
cheetah
The cheetah's top speed is 70mph.
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15)
vandalism
- No, that's vandalism. - It's not vandalism!
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16)
motorway
is because this part of the French motorway network is... very heavily policed.
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17)
dictator
installing Gamal Abdel Nasser as the dictator of Egypt.
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18)
steward
- No steward enquiries every time there was a bump. - No.
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19)
statesman
the elder statesman, the pro.
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20)
souvenir
I wouldn't be surprised to find there's a souvenir shop in Hammond's car.
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21)
helm
and at the circuit I'd prove that even with me at the helm,
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22)
weave
STEWART: A bit of a weave there, it must be said.
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23)
spoiler
JEREMY: And she's off! Spoiler up, suspension dropped, in full track mode,
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24)
disappointment
And on that terrible disappointment, it is time to end.
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25)
freeway
And I'm not sure that on a freeway journey like that I got the best out of it.
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26)
rubbish
You see, that's amazing-you're both talking rubbish again.
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27)
pigeon
- Do you know, I was following a pigeon the other day. - You what?
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guitarist
Hey, hey, hey, hey. What do you throw a drowning guitarist?
Verbs
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1)
turbocharge
He's right. If they're turbocharge especially, because then they don't rev.
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2)
outrank
You know, Manfred Mann outrank me because he came before,
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fascinate
One thing that fascinate me is why are drummers always the butt of everybody's wit?
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overtake
No, no. He er... He overtook it.
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bode
- You're just kissing those lines so neatly. - That bode well.
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descend
JEREMY: ..because a thick fog descend.
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embark
JEREMY: Before we embark on our practice laps,
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8)
exert
The forces being exert on the outside tyres are unbelievable.
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9)
reckon
I reckon it's got more to give.
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10)
roar
Er... He roar off. Unbelievable speed. I couldn't keep up.
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11)
remake
If Lancia remade the Fulvia now&
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12)
articulate
and an articulate lorry came in front of me,
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13)
admire
It's because they secretly admire our dragging knuckles.
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14)
chop
for two hours we chop wood for a living,
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15)
lend
- Well, you lend them to your family. - (CHUCKLES) Yes.
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16)
accelerate
I can only brake when I'm accelerating. Seriously.
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rub
- Yeah. - Which has rub off on you.
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18)
retire
And after they retire that from racing,
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cheer
"This vote cheer the whole of Britain up."
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squash
and the back of a truck ran over and squash my Hillman Minx like a bug.
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21)
gum
I think it's the spark plugs are all fouled up and gum up.
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22)
bust
Got bust by the constabulary,
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bother
You have got a point, because the police are more bother around here
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24)
foul
I think it's the spark plugs are all foul up and gummed up.
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25)
crest
But as we crest the Pyrenees, the fog lifted.
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26)
screw
God, you're completely screw.
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27)
approve
- JEREMY: I approve of the... - STEWART: It's looking really dramatic.
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destroy
The tooling and the technical drawings were all destroy in the fire,
Adverbs
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authentically
This is very authentically '50s. I'm enjoying it.
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2)
unbelievably
- (CHEERING) - That looked unbelievably quick. Did you see it?
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elegantly
to make it work elegantly on the road.
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neatly
- You're just kissing those lines so neatly. - That bodes well.
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5)
amazingly
And Ford has decided, amazingly, they would like to sell more,
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secretly
It's because they secretly admire our dragging knuckles.
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genuinely
I promise you, I do genuinely like it.
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deliberately
I know some of you think I'm being deliberately obtuse
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9)
supposedly
who is supposedly in front of you,
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10)
presumably
You both presumably played really big ones over the years.
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11)
backwards
and then work backwards from that to make it,
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12)
technically
so technically only a Jaguar employee can drive it.
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13)
nicely
Holding it nicely there.
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14)
gently
...which will lower the car gently.
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15)
legally
you wouldn't legally be allowed to drive it on the road, would you?
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16)
literally
Literally the most pointless race in history.
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17)
meanwhile
RICHARD: Meanwhile, I'd got my car going again, and was starting to regret it.
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essentially
And remember, this is, essentially, a D-Type.
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occasionally
- And lend them out? - Erm... Not often, but occasionally, yeah.
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besides
...we have many other things besides.
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basically
- And really, well, it's second-hand values, isn't it? - Well, basically, yeah.
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somewhere
- Gun rack! "Somewhere for my gun!" - (LAUGHTER)
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apparently
- Seventy-eight degrees at the top, apparently. - (CRIES OUT)
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definitely
MAN: Cupholders. - Cupholders, definitely.
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25)
apart
And in this show, apart from James's weird jacket and T-shirt combination...
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26)
unfortunately
Unfortunately, in 1957 there was a huge fire at the factory,
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eventually
JEREMY: Eventually, though, the people of Pau wanted their town back,
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twice
I played it twice- you know, two nights running-
Adjectives
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potholed
on what, over the years, has become a bumpy, potholed deathtrap.
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unnerving
The bumps are so unnerving!
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revolting
It just... That's one of the most revolting cars I've ever seen.
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4)
obtuse
I know some of you think I'm being deliberately obtuse
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5)
thumping
You can't help thinking a thumping great V8
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6)
bakelite
you don't buy a Bakelite telephone.
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7)
inflamed
"Mine's inflamed. I can't pee." It's one of those things, isn't it?
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bewildered
Wow! So the mechanical device with a higher top speed beat the bewildered animal
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giddy
Oh, my giddy aunt! That is... Jesus Christ!
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peregrine
It does. A peregrine falcon does. It does 220.
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11)
staggered
- I'm staggered! He has! - He's won a thing!
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12)
terrifying
Shit! That's terrifying!
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bespoke
Ooh! There's a howl from the bespoke Michelins there.
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14)
wartime
which was full of wartime leaders and attack cows,
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15)
impending
However, the impending hypothermia was not my main worry.
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embarrassing
They really are, actually. That's quite embarrassing.
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miserable
You buy one of these so you can go to a track on a miserable Monday morning
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risky
Did you follow it into a tree? Because that would have been really risky.
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19)
unbelievable
Absolutely blistering. Unbelievable car, that.
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20)
antarctic
of that new, very serious Antarctic research vessel,
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21)
suspicious
And then I came across ASBO Man, who was immediately suspicious.
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amazed
JEREMY: I'm amazed he didn't notice.
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unreal
To be in one of them is unreal!
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24)
skinny
but I can just see... Let's have a look. That's really skinny, that bit.
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25)
steep
OK, congratulations, James. This is the steep banked circuit I've ever, ever seen.
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26)
ridiculous
on James's ridiculous route,
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sensible
because the public can't be trusted to be sensible.
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rude
JEREMY: May I just ask-it's a rude question, I know-
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