Wanting to see Top Gear Live

[skylock]

Best of luck to ya.

http://www.zercustoms.com/news/21-Ye...Gear-Live.html

The producers of the Top Gear Live show featuring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May announced today that the waiting list includes 336,000 individuals. For everyone on the waiting list to watch the Top Gear Live show would take 21 years and the line could stretch for 127 miles.

The tickets for the this year's first Top Gear Live event at the MPH The Prestige and Performance Motor Show just went on sale today and you can still find them, hopefully, online at www.mphshow.co.uk/info or by calling the ticket hotline on 0871 230 7150.

Not everything about BBC’s Top Gear is fast. Latest figures suggest that new applicants hoping to watch Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May film Top Gear can expect to wait 21 years.

Lined up, the 336,000 individuals on the waiting list could create a queue that would stretch a staggering 127 miles – 10 miles longer than the M25 motorway – and move at 0.0007 miles per hour. By comparison, the speed of an average garden snail is a scorching 0.03 miles per hour.

Public enthusiasm for the show is so high that some fans are known to have put their new-born children’s names down on the waiting list.

So, for those less inclined to give up 184,085 hours of their life waiting in line, the chance of seeing the presenters perform at Top Gear Live this year comes as a massive relief.

Tickets for the very first Top Gear Live event at this year’s MPH The Prestige and Performance Motor Show have just gone on sale and according to a team spokesperson they are “limited and expected to sell out fast.”

[Labcoatguy]

Er, so do they randomly draw names out of that pool, or is it first-come, first serve? Because just wow.

[mazdaddy]

wasnt this show rumoured to come to Aus in early 2009? I really hope so, i would be one of those nerds that camp out at the ticket office.

[Viper007Bond]

Er, so do they randomly draw names out of that pool, or is it first-come, first serve? Because just wow.

A little bit of both I hear.

[Mineworksfine]

I called Applausestore who handle the ticket applications the other day to see if I could blag a couple of tickets for 11x06 as it worked for me in 2005 when we watched the race to Oslo with the McMerc.

The waiting list is actually just over three years (they may have over 300k applications but a lot of them will be multiple ones from the same people I guess), they are processed strictly on a first come first served basis, and tickets for the last two shows of this run are being given to people who applied in April 2005. Although the studio change means capacity has gone from 300 up to 500 per show, the huge increase in popularity especially since Hammond's accident mean that the waiting list has gone up rather than down.

[Speedtouch]

I'm going to MPH08! But it would be awesome to go to TG filming. Actually, I have a friend whose dad works for the BBC...