What the hell happened to this????

[Leppy]

I was just watching a stone age Top Gear (Dec 1, 2002) and they put the Lotus Elise around the track... They have during the whole lap the time, a G meter, a speedometer and a map to show where the stig is on the track at that moment... I'm sorry but why aren't they doing this anymore?? Who told them it was a bad idea??

I was going to post a picture about what I am talking about but I have nought idea how to capture a picture from the video. (Tried printscreen... didn't work)

 

[Ultra_Kool_Dude]

Top Gear always seems to be deciding between information and entertainment, and I think in this case they decided that the information got in the way of the entertainment.

I think it would be cool to have the information about how fast each car went around each corner (and how many g's they were pulling. I think I'll suggest it in the BBC thread.

 

[Leppy]

I think I'd be pissed off about you taking credit for my idea... if I wasn't so lazy I couldn't be bothered doing it myself haha

 

[Ultra_Kool_Dude]

I meant to say that they should add the information to their site.

 

[jeffy777]

I'd certainly like to see the corner speeds and avg./top speed if available.

 

[Renesis]

I didn't notice it in that, but in a Bentley video, I too liked it a lot...

 

[SL65]

I liked it but its more entertaining listening to what JC & others have to say about it.

 

[Overheat]

Re: What the hell happened to this????

I was just watching a stone age Top Gear (Dec 1, 2002) and they put the Lotus Elise around the track... They have during the whole lap the time, a G meter, a speedometer and a map to show where the stig is on the track at that moment... I'm sorry but why aren't they doing this anymore?? Who told them it was a bad idea??

I was going to post a picture about what I am talking about but I have nought idea how to capture a picture from the video. (Tried printscreen... didn't work)

To print screen in WMP, go to Options / Performance / Video Acceleration and set the slider to "None".

 

[tloekke]

I don't care about the G's, but a small speedometer down in the corner would be nice.

 

[YipMing]

They should do what BestMotoring/HotVersion do. Have a camera that points to the dash, another that points to the peddal, show it as a smaller screen at bottom corners and see how stig steers the car.

 

[mike_tseng]

my theory on it is that they got lazy and it cost to much

 

[Max Power]

if tg uses the vbox, which i assume they do, than it shouldn't cost them anything since it already displays these figures while timing the lap...i figure lazyness too

 

[SiR_dude]

What we should do is make a hi-res screenshot of how we'd like the fast laps to be shot, and send it off to TG....maybe along with a buncha digital sigs....might get their attention.

 

[Ethan]

Re: What the hell happened to this????

I was just watching a stone age Top Gear (Dec 1, 2002) and they put the Lotus Elise around the track... They have during the whole lap the time, a G meter, a speedometer and a map to show where the stig is on the track at that moment... I'm sorry but why aren't they doing this anymore?? Who told them it was a bad idea??

I was going to post a picture about what I am talking about but I have nought idea how to capture a picture from the video. (Tried printscreen... didn't work)

To print screen in WMP, go to Options / Performance / Video Acceleration and set the slider to "None".

Ctrl + I is what you're looking for

 

[Daniel]

^Yup, Its really easy. Even I managed to do it.