Chris Harris

But motorsport to some extent has always been complicated. As a pure sport, you had a machine that had a huge impact on the outcome. So it's always been like that. But there's something about, I use that phrase, the currency of the overtake. Once you diminish the importance of that particular maneuver, I think you're in a bit of trouble. Because then it's just cars sort of swapping positions. That's it. It's swapping positions rather than overtaking.

Ehkä minun pitäisi puhua tästä podcastista yhdestä päiväkertaa. Ehkä ei. Sinun pitäisi. Onko siellä paus-painikko? Tämä muuttuu marathonaan. Voimmeko liittyä kaksikarjaukselle? Olenko tämän oikein? Olen katsomassa 30 vuotta sitten, kun sinulla oli Ford RS Turbo. Kyllä.

Here we go.

Ja sitten toinen.

I obviously didn't read the two-door bit, so I've been scurrying myself now to replace what I really wanted to buy, which is a Renault 21 Turbo, because I'm stressed with them. But I can't have it, because it's got too many doors. I read this slightly differently. I think there's a strong tone of reminiscence going on here, and that what you buy really needs to hark back. I'm looking at the ages. I'm going first off for a Gen 1...

Esko RS Turbo, koska sinulla saattaa olla hieman vahvaa Fast Fordsin kanssa, mutta minä väitän mitenkään, ettei kerro minulle, että se auto vain katsoi Bobonin. He olivat täysin oikeassa. Ja luin ensimmäisen koneen magaazinin on the throne noin viikkoa sitten.

It reviewed well. Quite often these fast Fords didn't review well, but this had a locking diff, thick end of 130 horsepower, and they just said it was really remarkably exciting with not too much turbo lag. Oh, I didn't expect that review. Oh, it's good. Fair play. I'd have one of those. And Southend on C, you've got to be in a Ford, or one of you's got to be in a Ford. Yeah, you have. I've done exactly what Neil told me not to do, or said he wouldn't do.

Olen muuttanut koulutukseni, koska joku täytyy ostaa tämän. Jos tämä olisi 205, se olisi 30 000 rupia. Mutta se on 309 GTI. Se on tehty 24 000 kautta. Se on täysin Alan Minter. Katsokaa. Ja se on 15 000 rupia.

Is that the six-speed box? Is that the six-speed? No, it's a five-speed. They drive brilliantly. They handle better than a 205 in many ways. They look a bit awkward. But how much car for the money? So I've got a load of money left over. I presume I'll use it to insure them or to go on a holiday. Yeah. Let's do some music after this marathon podcast. Let's go first to Neil Clifford.

I think we've been sold short and they should be making more music. And on this time I listened to Giorgio by Moroda. That is just an extraordinary piece of pop music. It's a great tune, so go and listen to that. That was a bit of a marathon. Thank you very much for listening to episode 82.

Happy birthday, David Attenborough. National treasure. He hasn't had his birthday yet, has he? On Friday. Managed to being clever. Thank you very much to my co-hosts, Neil Clifford, Chris Cooper and Manish Pandey. We look forward to boring you again next week.

Hello and welcome to the Car Podcast with Chris Harris and his friends.

Everyone on this podcast works really hard.

In fact, they're not willing to remind each other we're going on a daily basis.

I think this is episode 85, is it?

Oh, there you go.

So I'll start with a factoid.

This is quite a good factoid this week.

I met with someone I used to work with on Sunday at the Bicester Scramble, and I said to him, his name is Richard Bremner.

He won't listen to this, but he's right up there in terms of being a car nerd.