Abbie Eaton Races Clarkson and Hammond in a Broken Old Renault | The Grand Tour

What's you favourite race on The Grand Tour? 🤔

We need more Abbie in The Grand Tour

The message is: whatever how fast ur car is. U still lose if u was an idiot

Who is she ?
She is hot chick 🎉

I say "May"! He is the smartest of the three.

I had a Renault 9 GTL.....my first car!!! Was an awesome car!!! Fuel efficient and indestructible!!! I loved that car!!!!! ❤️🌹😼😎

My father had a Renault 9GTL just like this one, same color and everything. And yeah, i drove it like Abby when i was a teenager. 😂

" On tonight's show, a town is defaced by a man in a funny hat. " - Narrated by James May

Listen to all you simps…smh.

Love it

Gəncə my favorite city, you are welcome to Azerbaijan.

fantastic idea James

This reminds me of the Top Gear segment where a BMW M3 or something chased a Prius (again or something) going full-throttle over several laps, and it showed the Prius got 16mpg while the BMW got 19mpg.

and where was may at the end?!

Azerbaijan🇦🇿

Expensive shit 😀

Do someone know what episode?

If everyone's keeping to the speed limit there's no way they're going to catch her up, whatever she's driving.

They're all cursing him, but he's right

This reminded me.
I was once on a winding road in New Zealand. My friend was driving the two of us in her elderly Nissan Sentra. A "boy racer" flew by us in his tricked up Skyline. My friend, who has some car racing experience, said she could catch, and overtake, him WITHOUT breaking the 100km/h speed limit. I was a little doubtful.
Sure enough, on every bend boy racer slowed noticeably. Enough for us to catch up. Then he'd disappear on the straighter parts of the road. Finally, after about 15km, he didn't manage a particularly sharp bend and my friend got ahead of him.

When the road finally straightened he overtook us and disappeared. Not for long though. Going through the next town we saw him at a petrol station. My friend went and stopped alongside him and in a very cheery voice shouted over "good morning, lovely day for a drive". Silence and I do mean silence, from him. Then his two passengers, two women, burst into fits of laughter and yelled to him "go on mate, talk to her".

Even if they did catch her up, that’s a very expensive 2 minutes saved.

Where was that old town?

So James has pointed out every single Top Gear and Grand Tour race was pointless for using an expensive/fast car

One of the best segments of the Grand Tour

3 crap "cars" and one real car !

I had a 9 back in the day it had a wee secret under the bonnet in the form of a 5 turbo engine 😁
Keep yer multi hundred grand cars give me back my 9

Abbie's wall boop gets me every single time. Sublime production, this.

“Which means that there’s less chance of them becoming glue sniffers”.
Jeremy Clarkson

I genuinely like the way the Renaults engine sounded when Abbie first started revving

Am so sorry I can't watch you destroy this amazing cars man 😣😣

James logic makes sense if you don't drive illegally.
If you drive 90mph+ on a 60-70mph road yeah sure you'll beat everyone. If they didn't drive at high speeds it wouldn't be much of a contest then.

A while ago, I saw a similar race on Dutch television, where they had two identical cars start in the city of Arnhem to race to a finish about 50 km's away.
One car was allowed to drive as quick as possible while the other had to stick to speed limits.
The "slower" car arrived with a relaxed driver within about two minutes after the "fast" car arrived with a tired driver which really does prove the point that in the real world, it's just not worth driving fast.

to be fair, that last part isn't a normal everyday road xD

I used to want to see a car vs train race in the US from outside Boston to Washington DC. I’d love to hear James and Richard making fun of how slow “high speed rail “ is in the US.

😂

And this is why setting the speed limit in London to 20mph makes perfect sense. Average speed is already lower, so it won't affect journey times, but what it will do is stop people pointlessly racing to the next set of lights.

I pitty all of you you living in countries with Speed Limits. I do more than 150mph on my commute on the German Autobahn. Luckily living in Bavaria where there are fewer restrictions compared to the rest of Germany

i think they're missing the point,
GT doesn't equal fast "touring", it's all about lavish and enjoyable trips, for peeps who think, money is no object, have all the time in the world..
and prefer to drive, not chauffeured.

it is proven to go faster in a renault 9 but it won't be as comfortable of a trip as with grand tourers do, you could see the tension and exhaustion Abbie has.

I had a Reanult. Broken Renault is redundant.

That was a bunch of B.S.

What a beautiful woman but this hideous tattooing is such a shame. What will she tell her grandparents about this

I was so happy to see Abbie

Funny that James May, Captain SLOW, was the man to take the Bugatti Veron to its top speed of 268 MPH.

I don't think that's fair though.

The way Abbie is driving, most people don't do anyway.

I'm not one for pretentiousness and all that, spending money on something that does what cheaper things do just to show off, but I've always liked that Bentley, cos it's blue, or at least it was when they started....

I loved this test. Until Eurocrash came along, James and the crosley proved this test wrong.