this is for the geeks if you don't like
cars and switch off now but for the few
that love cars stay with me the Lotus 79
arguably the most significant f1 car
it was one of those cars that was given
the ultimate accolade it was it was
pretty much banned or it was overtaken
into the technology very quickly and
when something profound happened in a
sport and everyone has to copy or follow
that idea it tends to have a very short
time at the top it's the original car
that Andretti drove so it's incredibly
special because Mario Andretti is he's
just a hero he's one of the motorsport
greats and he knows how to talking us
how to express what he went through it
defined ground-effect it's not been
owned by some collector that's tried to
turn in something it's not it still has
the original steering wheel you know
there's there's Mario's DNA on that
stool or the gear lever is the original
gear lever it's a bit like someone
saying this was Henry days toothbrush
you know is that has that sense of oh my
god that bloke actually touched that to
drive it's utterly sublime
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the vehicle didn't like idling for long
racing cars don't like hardly need to
keep him running and that doesn't have a
battery on board has not the scenery
starter so you have to just you know
stick a prod up his ass to make it start
I mean he'd skip between running and the
temperature wasn't too hot when we
filmed it so I went to the steering pad
at some happy where you drive cars ran
around the circles to test particular
steady-state cornering characteristics
of a vehicle and I thought wonder if
it'll drift
now this is that's really bad that's
really naughty because it shouldn't
really you shouldn't be doing now should
you that's you know em freeze and old
scam because drift but not multi-million
pound piece of of history doesn't when I
look round up at the notes evening so I
added two laps of it fully sideways on
opposite lock and Christina she runs the
car he's a really lovely man he could
hear what I was doing and when he came
over he gave me that very parental I
think I know what you've been up to look
I went oh nothing just keep the engine
running but in my mind I know I've done
two laps of the half of student pad
sideways in Merrion dressing vs. 79 and
frankly if I gave up this job now that
would be enough