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00:00This is my new Audi R8 daily driver and I need to have done a thousand miles before I can thrash it and so far
00:06It's only done 400 miles. So what I'm gonna do is drive it all the way to the Nürburgring
00:11I've got an early start here today. It's just gone 5 a.m
00:14And I'm gonna head to the coast get into France then drive to Germany. Let's do this
00:19I've been driving now on the motorway for about two hours just heading to the Channel Tunnel
00:29It's light finally. It's quite relaxing to drive in this is you know, but the roof up it's well insulated
00:34Not really revving it past 4,000 rpm, but that's still giving me the national speed limit
00:39Now we're heading to the Channel Tunnel to cross over into France. We're approaching the Channel Tunnel now
00:45Hopefully this is gonna go all smoothly cars registered, but you never can tell until you get there
00:50I also hope there's not a big cured traffic because you can be waiting here for blooming ages
00:54I hope I don't get stopped by customs whenever you're in a posh car
00:58You get stopped by customs not because I think you got drugs or guns
01:02It's because I just like to look at your car. Right, right, right, which is the correct lane? No, no
01:07No getting before him. There we go. Let's go. Yeah
01:10Take departure letter. I've got a letter. Oh, dear. Oh
01:13Oh
01:14Look, we're basically them in that TT but like with a serious upgrade. I might just get my willy out and wave it at them
01:20Oh, look, you're not allowed to take firearms on. I better get that ak-47 out of the boot
01:25Actually an ak-47 wouldn't fit in the boot
01:27this is the struggle where you have to get close enough to the keypad that you can operate it through your window without having to
01:33Open your door because if you open your door you end up smashing it on the kiosk
01:35If you get too close to the keypad you end up curbing your wheels and these wheels like 20 inches really easy to curb
01:42Unexpensive. So this is gonna be a bit of a
01:45traumatic experience
01:48Am I close enough
01:50Come for you. Didn't have to do anything. It knew who I was didn't know I was that famous
01:55There's a Ferrari in front of the van in front of us, which is good
01:58So what should happen is the custom guys will go for them because they're more like to be drug dealers than an Audi r8 driver
02:03We all know that so they'll stop them and then they'll let me through and I should be able to get the next train
02:07But passport control is always fun. This is the British side first. So they're quite nice. Hello
02:12You're all right
02:15Here we go customs. Come on. They didn't stop the Ferrari guy. They stopped the guy in the Kia. Actually, they're sending him back
02:22All out to France. Hello. How you doing?
02:25Are we gonna get a check?
02:28Okay, so this is customs check brilliant, right?
02:31So I think we're just about to pass the security check unless they actually pick up some kind of like
02:37Residue of explosives on the little swabs. They've just put through the car. How you doing?
02:43You can do if you want it, I don't know whether you're allowed to
02:46Is it all right that we've got about 20 kilos of cocaine in the boot? Okay, French passport time. Bonjour. How's it going?
02:53Yeah. Oh, it's mad now having a stamp. I forgot it's Brexit, isn't it? Merci beaucoup. Au revoir. Je parle bon français.
03:00That was I speak good French, but no French person would have understood it
03:05Here it is the weird
03:07Undersea train thingy-majig and we're going in separate carriage that is tall enough for big vans and stuff
03:13But it does mean that it's wide and I don't need to worry about my alloy wheels now
03:18perfect
03:20So the other one if you go for the normal size vehicles
03:23It's basically about as wide as that Tesla so it would get wedged and so that can be quite
03:28Traumatic you sort of like bounce your way down inside. That's a little bit of fun
03:33Actually with the carbon ceramic brakes you notice they are a little bit more grabby than steel brakes when you try and do those fine
03:38Maneuvers like get really close onto this train to that Tesla in front bit worried. I was gonna go
03:44Didn't know now we go to France
03:46So I've got a 30-minute crossing to France and it's gonna give me time to eat some food and what I'm doing here is warming
03:53Up my roll my pan au chocolat and my nuts just over the air vents for the engine
04:00I like warm nuts. Okay, that's the train arrived. I'm gonna get off it start the car. Here we go
04:07Right Viva. Allez. On y va en France. Oh, yeah
04:11That's what the French people just hating me in the comments. Please forgive me. Right? Let's put the roof down looks sunny
04:17I can do it while driving at speeds of up to about 32 miles an hour
04:21These people are gonna think I'm a right dick as I'm coming off the train doing that
04:26Wow, that is bright off we go to Germany, but first I need to pull over and have a wee don't know what's going on
04:33Hello
04:36No, no, who's that
04:41What are you guys doing here? Oh
04:45Really is it because it's the number green 24
04:48What's the best car you've seen so far? It's an Audi r8 spider, isn't it?
04:55What's the best car
04:58Yeah
04:59This is the petrol station to hang out at the car spot. Yeah
05:03Okay
05:04So if you want to go car spotting right head across the France and the first petrol station you come to that is the one
05:09Join these guys who are obviously very health and safety conscious in their high business. Don't know why he's got the orange
05:15Maybe he's the leader. Are you the gaffer?
05:18Okay, perfect you look a little bit like Charlotte Claire
05:20I feel like
05:22Let's prepare this car for being able to drive in Europe
05:27What I'm going to do now is make the r8 legal by adding this UK sticker
05:31Which I didn't need to do a couple of years ago because of the fact we're in the European Union
05:36But obviously we're not anymore. So little things like this actually make you feel special. They don't make you feel special
05:41It's a real inconvenience. There you go
05:44All right
05:47Lovely
05:49One of the problems with this r8 is that there is absolutely no luggage space
05:54So I've got a few bags in there and it's completely full want to put our coats in but in order to do that
05:59I need to remove this thing, which I think is the wind deflector
06:03So I can do that and do that never fitted it before but let's see how easy it is or isn't
06:08So I think it's going to be easy. It's just one
06:13He says as he struggles to get out the back
06:15Right, yeah, I don't know which way is forward. I'm sure it doesn't matter and I think I just slot those
06:23Don't I'm a pro. Let's go. So we've driven through France
06:28We're now in Belgium heading towards Germany
06:30The car has done over 700 miles and according to the manual after 700 miles
06:34I can start to rev it quite a bit higher. So here we go. First time revving it high
06:39Oh
06:44There we go, that sounds epic
06:47Well, I'm also surprised that is that the fuel economy when we've been cruising gets between 110 and 130 kilometers an hour
06:55So about 80 miles an hour
06:5723.5. That's all right. It's just a bit more revs though
07:03Oh, yes, very nice
07:05I've stopped at the fuel station because I've got 50 miles left in the tank seems that at French fuel stations
07:11They play music. Anyhow, let's fill up. No, not with that
07:1598 you're gonna save some money with my expensive supercar
07:18I can just go for 95 because I'm just cruising on the motorway and with that in mind, let's see how much
07:25It's gonna cost me for a full tank
07:28174 per liter so it's about the same as in the UK. Come on. Come on. I don't listen to this music any longer
07:35Come on, is it cuz I'm British and I need to go and give them my car cuz they don't trust me
07:39I bet I have to pre-authorize
07:41Okay, someone's just told me some guy over there this guy
07:45Thank you
07:46car open
07:48Point that I need to use this machine
07:50What an idiot come on get in the hole
07:53Now I can start filling up
07:5795 oh
07:59If you're wondering what this is, I've hurt my right arm from all the wank
08:04I've hurt my right arm from all the driving
08:08108 euros 62 liters. It always hurts when it's over 100, doesn't it?
08:14Anyway, let's get back on the road
08:15We are now in Germany are on the Autobahn and it is the restricted and we have done over 800 miles
08:26Still don't want to rev it too high, but I can go a bit quicker. So look 160 kilometers an hour
08:32Which is a hundred miles an hour car is actually really nice and stable
08:36But you seem catch it with other traffic such as old Vauxhall Astra's. Oh, and that's what happens
08:43Someone in a Hyundai 10 suddenly pulls out in front of you
08:47Fortunately, I've got carbon ceramic brakes so I can do plenty of that without losing any braking performance
08:53Yes, proper motoring journalism right there people. Come on. Get out my way
08:57Oh induction under the bridge
09:00Yes
09:01Stone chip can't get out of the way Astra. That's right. How fast is this now 200 kilometers an hour?
09:07Maybe yeah 200 look this is definitely a good way to run the car in. It's all right
09:12It's supposed to build up the acceleration over the range of 700 to 1,000 miles. It's fine
09:19This is good for it. Run it in quick. Make it quick. Everyone knows that what is impressive?
09:25It's well over a hundred miles an hour, it's still pleasant with the roof down
09:30So we're getting close to the Nürburgring now
09:32And I think I'm going to turn up in my Audi to meet the people from Audi while wearing my cameraman's
09:38Almost lost it
09:40Hot chicken that like that
09:42Yeah, be careful waving caps about in a convertible car because they'll soon be lost. Oh look. There's a sign
09:50It's a German man and his squatters right next to it. Yeah with a very big smile on his face. Oh tunnel
09:55I probably shouldn't do this
10:02Yeah, that was shouldn't do that but I did definitely do it here we are then this is it we are here
10:08There's the building up there the famous Nürburgring sign
10:11So that's the GP circuit on the left and then the full Nord Schleife over on the right
10:16And I think perhaps this is the most famous Nürburgring sign of all this one here now to find the place to get
10:22Accreditation so that I can get down into the pits and stuff like that for the race tomorrow, right? That's accreditation done
10:28Got my little pass. Let's head to the hotel now before we continue with the rest of the video on the r8
10:35Which I will launch for its first ever nought to 60 mile an hour test
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12:12All right, then let's continue with the video on the r8 and I will be launching it
12:17Okay, the Nurburgring 24 is about to start the cars are on a sighting lap. They're going to come through here
12:24This is the start finish straight and they're going to do a rolling start and we're just going to wait for them to come round
12:29They're with me. Okay, the cars are about to come through having done their sighting lap here
12:34They come I can hear them
12:38That's them off now got 24 hours to wait let's go off and find some cars in the car parks
12:45There's some interesting stuff out there time to come clean. I didn't actually go and look at cars in the car park instead
12:51I went straight to this r8 got in it drive it for some distance to take it over the
12:561,000 mile mark so it is now running which means I can now take it for its first
13:02Proper drive, let's see what this thing can do. So here we are first gear first go red line
13:14Wow this thing absolutely balls and screams
13:22Are the brakes are phenomenal very glad I've got the carbon ceramics when driving down this twisty road
13:29Lots of turns and steals could get a little bit hot towards the end of it
13:38And now there's an asterisk stays marvelous, but I do have 620 horsepower so
13:48This is
13:50Epic the way this holds on to the road and the way the suspension deals with the bumps the faster you go
13:55The beret smooths them out my god this thing hooks up and it's so stable and predictable
14:04Absolutely, love it. I've been waiting to do this for a thousand miles
14:10Gotta take my half
14:12To my cameraman who's actually doing a handheld job right here. And if that sounds a bit rude, it's not
14:18It's holding the camera in his hands. There's no mounts or anything and I'm driving like an idiot
14:23And if I was him I'd have thrown up all over this interior and not because it's a horrible brown color
14:29Just because I'd be suffering from some serious motion sickness me though. I'm having an awesome time
14:36Love this car and I don't feel like I've compromised by going for the spider because what you miss in like
14:45Dynamic capability you more than gain in the actual experience from having the Sun in your face that induction noise in your ear
14:53And the wind in your hair epic car. Love it, though. There is one last thing to do
14:58Let's launch it to see how quick it is from nought to 60 miles an hour. Okay, so this car supposed to do nought 60 in
15:033.2-seconds. Let's find out what it really does using my new specialist timing gear up here
15:07Which will send the data to my phone first ever launch. Here we go
15:18I think we've got a number so cameraman. What are we doing?
15:23What that's rubbish supposed to be 3.2
15:26It felt a bit smooth on the takeoff like it was like slipping the clutch or something
15:313.82. Yeah, I think we need to try it again. Okay, here we go round two do better this time. Alright do better launching now
15:47That took off better that time, let's see what we got
15:49Three point six four getting better one last go right now do one more go third time lucky. Come on
15:58That feels good
16:02Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right we've got a three point four six, you know, that's not bad
16:09New car only just run in it'll loosen up over time. Also, I've got my cameraman filming so that adds weight
16:15And I've got a full tank of fuel. I know that's all the excuses in the world
16:18But still I'll take that three point four six. Oh, and it's very hot today, which doesn't help your NA engine
16:23Three point four six is good
16:24I'm sure we'll get a three point two at some point during the time that I have this car. I'll make sure of it
16:31Do you know what?
16:32I wasn't particularly happy with those nought to sixty times and it probably wasn't fair because the car had only just been running
16:39However, you join me now a few weeks later and the cars done quite a few more miles
16:44I'm also on a runway
16:45So it seems right for me to launch it here and actually put in another time plus a quarter mile time
16:51So let's do this. Let's launch the car. What's it gonna do?
16:59Come on three point two two to sixty. That's it. That's what we wanted. What is the quarter mile time?
17:0711.2 that is better. It's doing the numbers. Let's give it one more run right last run
17:12And if you're wondering why I've got the roof up, I'm just guessing that it might help with the aerodynamics a bit
17:18I want to get as good a time as possible. So let's do it again
17:29Oh three point one seven, what's the quarter mile gonna be?
17:3711.0
17:403 I thought it was going to go in the tens. Oh
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