-Sunrise meditation. -JAMES: Oh, that'll be good.
It isn't good. What would be good about that?
I don't know because I haven't seen it but I'm prepared to have a look.
Why don't we... You know those big Baja
off-road 28-inch suspension travel things?
-Dune racer type things. -Dune racers.
Why don't we get three of those and belt around in the desert?
-Yes. -Cos that would be bovine.
I wouldn't learn anything from that.
I'd rather go and do something cultural.
Blasting around a dune sounds like fun.
Come on. I tell you what,
-you want to go and do Native American art. -Mm-hm.
-We want to go dune racing. Yes? -Right.
Let's have a vote.
(REVVING)
JEREMY: I would be driving this.
A Jakes Fabworks JF5U.
James would be driving this.
An Alumi Craft Class 10.
And Hammond would have this.
A plastic green pick-up truck.
OK. Now, this is supposed to be...
Ow! ..a Volkswagen Beetle.
Because that is where this sport began -
people racing Bugs round the desert.
But it's got a 2.4 litre Chevrolet engine...
and a sequential gearbox.
The only thing it really has in common with a Beetle is nothing.
Jumping!
Ha-ha!
Over we go, 16 inches of suspension travel at the front.
18 at the back means landing is really very comfortable.
Oh, yes!
My 2013 Currie underneath this plastic pick-up body
has the same tubular space range chassis as the other two.
But I've only got a two-litre engine.
However, it's a Ford Eco Boost, so it's turbo-charged.
And they've tuned it so it's putting out just shy...
Landing!
...of 300 brake horsepower. (LAUGHS)
And now I'm gonna fly again.
Aagh! Ha-ha-ha!
This is bliss.
RICHARD: Meanwhile, in the Alumi Craft Class 10...
(COUGHS) I've got dust in my face.
It doesn't have a windscreen.
I don't like cars with no windscreen. (COUGHS)
Why do I let the others talk me into this?
Why don't I just tell them to bugger off?
RICHARD: Ahhh-ha-ha!
Last time I did that it ended very badly!
The races they do in these things are enormous.
Hundreds, sometimes 1,000 miles or more.
Sometimes they'll spend nine hours a day in the driving seat.
Oh! I so want one of these.
Come on, let's have some air here!
Yeah! Ha-ha-ha!
What a riot!
How can James May not enjoy this?
JEREMY: As it happened, he was starting to enjoy it.
And weeeee!
Getting sideways a bit.
Whoa.
Watch me fly! Here I go.
Ha-ha! I'm gonna do one more.
JEREMY: After Billy Bob May had had his fun...
Weeeee!
-...we all stopped for a breather. -Yes.
I don't like admitting you're right, but I can be magnanimous. It's brilliant.
You've wasted your life with Chopin and plywood.
You're a dune racer.
You've always been a dune racer, you just didn't know you were.