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- Forrestburn Hill Climb, Jethro, this place is gorgeous.
But tell me about it.
- Before we do that, tell me about your dress.
- This is my Scottish racing suit.
- In England, we call that a dress.
- Yeah well in America, we call this a dress too.
However, we're in Scotland, I'm going to wear it.
- (laughs) Okay, so why are we here?
- Yeah.
- Well, Audi's heritage is all hill climb.
They were king of the hill back in the
Auto Union days in Europe.
Aston Martin is named after a hill climb,
Aston Clinton Hill Climb back in England somewhere.
Somewhere in the middle of England.
- Yeah.
- So we want to test these cars
to see if they're proper sports cars,
and that's all about precision.
And we've got this narrow craggy perfect track.
So me and you are going to have a race.
- That's good because the one form of motor sport
I'm pretty decent at is a hill climb.
I mean I grew up in the Malibu Canyons,
I've done them before, I'm pretty good at them.
But didn't you just like win the 24 hours of Nürburgring?
- It was a class win, it wasn't overall, so.
- Oh, so alright let's do it.
- Alright let's do it, let's go.
I've never raced a bearded lady.
(laughs)
So yes, we didn't mention it before,
but we're in beautiful Scotland.
Hence Jonny's kilt.
Of course we don't call it a dress in England.
I'll proudly stand shoulder to shoulder
with our Scottish brethren.
I was just kidding, don't upset the Scots.
A good motto to live by, especially if they're drunk,
and let's face it, they often are.
Anyway, this is Forrestburn Hill Climb
and it's a real test of agility
and how much confidence a car conveys to the driver.
The tarmac is narrow and the dry stone walls
are awfully close in places.
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- [Jonny] It's a tiny course, just a kilometer in total.
That's 3,380 feet to us American types.
However, it packs in loads of blind crests,
hair pins, and fast corners that leap over hidden brows
into each breathless sub-one minute run.
It's beautiful too, if you're into that sort of thing.
This is going to be big, big fun.
- Okay so I'm making my way to the start line.
Can't help thinking that Jonny might have
the tool for the job on this hill climb.
He's got the R8, it's narrower, lighter,
better traction, better body control.
It might just be the weapon of choice.
But I can't let him beat me, no way.
Right so I am in track suspension,
track drive train, track ESP, so narrow,
I don't want to turn the ESP off around here.
- Okay Jethro, we're going to go on 'go'.
- Launch control should be a matter of hitting the brake
and punching the accelerator.
- On your mark, get set, go!
(car accelerating)
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This is a tricky corner here.
(screams)
(laughs)
- It shouldn't matter to me, should it?
But it really does.
- Okay Jethro, I'm going to call that 51.06.
- Not too bad, that was actually pretty good one.
- I'm thinking actually I'm going to have a
little advantage in the Audi.
I think it's a little more tied down.
- Jonny Lieberman, are you ready?
You know what to beat, so let's see what you've got.
We'll go on 'go', as we did before.
Three, two, one, go.
(car accelerating)
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