MR2? Hairdresser!

What about a TR2 or a Healey 3000, or a Healey Alvis or an Allard J2R or X, or an XK150? - all much better mannered at the limit, not least because the limit was lower. The E type driven hard was a bit like the Audi TT widowmaker - too sudden!

I did from time to time think that Top Gear was irresponsible, particularly when street-racing things like the Ford Asbo as Clarkson dubbed it.

Hammond could be a conceited git - his piece in the Mirror advocating queue-jumping at obstructions had me reaching for my horsewhip (and how I chortled a few weeks ago when an artic put a little twonk like Hammond right off the M1 when the said little twonk tried to jump the queue on the inside).

But we don't know whether driver error or overenthusiasm (like Donald Campbell) caused this crash, which did not endanger others, so to that extent I sympathise.