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Chris and Marty both watch the original 1974 Gone in 60 Seconds film for the first time, and are surprised to find that no-one is annoying in the original as Kip Raines is in the remake. Also, we talk Clarkson doing farming, Henry Catchpole drives a Golf, and a man watches every Fast and Furious film.

But first, Chris has watched Clarkson's Farm and loves it, and Tim Jonze watched the entire Fast and Furious franchise for The Guardian.

For the main review, both Chris and Marty watched the original Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) having never seen it previously, despite the 2000 remake being so central to both's love of cars and films.

For our online picks, and in celebration of Pride month, we'd hoped to feature more LGBTQ+ content, sadly it is thin on the ground. However, we absolutely support Racing Pride in their work to bring more inclusivity to motorsport, welcoming the LGBTQ+ community to our paddocks and screens. Hopefully we can celebrate more of these voices as we find them.

Following on from our last episode, Henry Catchpole has done a follow up chat with DK Engineering on what's been described as the unicorn road test, and DK have also finished up their series of owner's guides with the Mclaren F1 in great detail. We'd love to chat with Henry about the group test, but frankly The Smoking Tire have done it brilliantly. Well worth a listen.

in a change of double clutched gear though, Henry Catchpole this week has been driving the new Golf R.

For Chris's YouTube picks he went for the fantastic F1 video looking behind the scenes of Mercedes' strategic masterclass at the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix. Marty chose Abby Eaton's onboard from Oulton Park in the small but quick Praga. Her channel is also well worth a watch too!

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In a step away from our usual format, Chris and Marty talk about motorsport TV, including what drives them mad about IndyCar coverage, why Monaco was the best Formula E race to date, and why Marty worries about whether Anthony Davidson can pay his mortgage.

But first, we discuss the great Car Trek Season 4 and Hagerty reports a screen used, Paul Walker-driven orange Toyota Supra from the first two Fast and the Furious films is going under the hammer.

For their YouTube picks, Marty went with Alex Brundle's excellent Good Lap vs Great Lap - Lewis Hamilton at Monaco 2019, and then Romain Grosjean's official channel, which includes his similarly excellent track guide to Monaco.

Chris combined the love of build channels and racing channels by highlighting Team Prawn Racing, with Nick Vaughn who both builds and races his Audi A3. This year has seen a big push by Praga to highlight their R1 race car, and Jimmy Broadbent has been taking his viewers with him into the cockpit.

Lastly, what has Henry Catchpole been up to this week? Well…this: McLaren F1, Porsche 911 GT1, Mercedes CLK GTR: The ULTIMATE Group Test, Part 1. In the first part is the McLaren F1, then the 911 GT1 in the second, with the CLK GTR to follow.

DK Engineering’s user guides for the CLK GTR and 911 GT1 are also well worth a watch to really geek out about every detail of both of these super, super rare cars!

While we're talking about Henry, while we do focus on moving pictures, we also love great long-form written content and Henry has joined the roster of writers on The Intercooler app. If you appreciate great automotive writing, for just a few pounds a month you get daily content from some amazing writers!

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In this episode, Chris and Marty get geeky about Formula 1 with a deep dive into the latest season of Netflix's Drive to Survive, plus reviews of both 1966's Grand Prix and 2013's F1: Life on the Limit.

But first, Fast 9 is gearing up for release with a rather silly trailer, Motortrend TV is closing outside the US and becoming part of Discovery+ (and you can get 12 months subscription to Discovery+ free in the UK with Sky VIP), and we give our thoughts on season 3 of the Netflix hit Drive to Survive!

In this episode Chris is finally watching John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix (1966) for the first time, and Marty revisits an old favourite documentary 1: Life on the Limit.

In 'What has Henry Catchpole been up to this week?' the answer is driving the rather pretty Peugeot 508.

For their YouTube picks, Chris went with a Behind the Scenes video on the Driftworks Lamborghini GT1 inspired Murcielago, and if you haven't watched the Driftworks channel it is well worth a look. Marty chose the excellent, though largely overlooked, Alex Brundle racing classics, and while his channel pick is the Tavarish sister channel Wrench Every Day.

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Cartoon connections link this episode's movies as Chris watches The Great Race (which inspired Wacky Races) and Marty watches the The Wachowski Brothers' 2008 movie Speed Racer, based on the 1960s anime.

But first, we lament the loss of the great Murray Walker - and thanks to F1 for a great compilation of some of his greatest moments - and Sabine Schmitz. It would be utterly remiss of us to not include one of Sabine's most electric opening laps.

Thanks to Ed Bolian from VINWiki for recording a trailer for us, and we have donated $100 to the Atlanta Children's Shelter as a thank you.

Listener Nigel Fanning brought the Blue Danube deleted scene from the 1969 Italian Job to our attention.

We catch up with the very good Top Gear now on BBC 1 in the UK.

Chris talks The Great Race (1965), and Marty reviews the visual fest of Speed Racer (2008).

In 'What has Henry Catchpole been up to this week', he's been very clever with canals reviewing the Ford Puma ST.

For their YouTube picks, Chris went to Kara and Nate's visit to the world's largest gas station in Texas - and it's called "Buc-ee's", while also nodding to Seen Through Glass's UK version in a Rolls Royce just off the M25. For a channel pick, it's Dale Lomas's BTGDale as he sheds more light on what's going on at and round the Nurburgring.

Marty also picked another hot Nurburgring lap, but followed Chris's lead on cheating by naming many, many channels that have been creating lots of great content.

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In honour of the new series of Top Gear America, hosted by Dax Shepard with Rob Corddry and Jethro Bovingdon, Chris and Marty watch a double bill of Dax movies with Hit and Run and CHiPs. In other news, Marty drinks some whisky and Chris wants to be a racing driver.

But first, Drive to Survive Season 3 has been announced to arrive on Netflix on March 19th. The Australian V8 series have also added a lot of old races to their YouTube channel.

Chris and Marty also review Top Gear America, now streaming on Motortrend and hosted by Dax Shepard with Rob Corddry and Jethro Bovingdon. While this is not available in the UK directly, it can be with a VPN.

With Dax front and centre, this is a good opportunity to review two films written, directed and starring Dax. Chris talks Hit and Run (2012) while Marty discusses CHIPS (2017).

Since our last episode Henry Catchpole has gone to Hethel for Lotus Elise Sport 240 - The LAST EVER Elise.

For our YouTube picks, Chris has just finished building a Lego Bugatti Chiron so has picked a video looking at how a full sized Lego Bugatti was built and run under its own power. At the other end of the scale is Chris's channel pick - The HERO-ERA. This is historic, long distance rallying recorded by HERO-ERA (Historic Endurance Rallying Organisation) for those who love properly old cars doing properly epic rally routes.

Marty picks a classic of David Evans in an Elise at the Bathurst Mount Panorama circuit, finding gaps where they shouldn't exist, and moving through the grid at pace. For a channel, it's the compelling, honest vTuned Garage rebuilding all manner of cars.

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It's all about superchargers this episode as Marty watches the original Mad Max and Chris brushes up on his Norwegian for Asphalt Burning. Also we look at the great content released over Christmas and we discuss overheating i8s.

First though we review Evo Car of the Year coming to ITV in the UK (and now on YouTube), and the Car Trek Christmas Special came out - and we issued a $100 charity challenge to Ed Bolian. Sky Documentaries released Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie (with discovered footage shared by Motorsport Magazine) and Chris revisited the series Fernando.

While not car related, we're also looking forward to Richard Hammond and Tori Bellachi in Amazon's new The Great Escapists and Mark Kermode has a new series of the always brilliant Secrets of Cinema too!

For this episode, we're watching movies featuring big superchargers sticking through bonnets. Marty reviews the original 1979 Mad Max while Chris watches Asphalt Burning (or Børning 3) which Misha Charoudin did a great behind the scenes video, where he was one of the police car drivers!

Catching up with Henry Catchpole, he's been driving the new Jaguar F-Type P450, but all this talk of Singer recently reminded Chris of the Reimagined by Singer video from Carfection. Also launched is Carfection news in Henry's Cupboard of Lockdown.

For our YouTube picks, Chris went with the Smoking Tire's Land Rover Defender off road One-Take and highlighted Will Buxton's new series on his YouTube channel of This Week in Motorsport. Also if you're into your American car content, the Hagerty Youtube channel has some consistently excellent, if specific, content.

Marty chose Group B - The Age of the Supercar because the coolest rally cars are even cooler with Highway to the Danger Zone over the top. For his channel pick he chose Samcrac who's recently gained notoriety trying to revive a BMW i8, but has a back catalogue of fixing all sorts of cool cars.

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On this episode of Intermission by the Automovie Podcast, Chris chats to motoring journalist and presenting Henry Catchpole about his start at Evo magazine, the state of WRC coverage, how a Carfection video is put together and how cycling videos have influenced his car content.

During this chat, Henry shares his love for Brandon Semenuk's Raw 100 series, the films of Danny MacAskill, Martyn Ashton, and Chris Akrigg's latest e-bike film Full Force.

Henry also highlights the excellent YouTube channel - VHS Rallies.

You can follow Henry on the following:

Twitter: @henrycatchpole

Instagram: @henrycatchpole

And of course his excellent films on Carfection.

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In this episode we look for the best Top Gear episodes to introduce friends who've never seen a single show, we question Dario Franchitti's t-shirt style and marvel at Michael Fassbender's low body fat.

But first, we discuss The Grand Tour Presents: A Massive Hunt, and we very much enjoyed the final episode of Michael Fassbender's Road to Le Mans series with Porsche.

We look at content coming out this Christmas:

• Evo Car Of The Year comes to ITV 4 in the uk!
• There's a Car Trek Christmas special on Tavarish's channel soon
• A Race of Champions documentary 'On the Line' premieres on Motorsport.tv
• Travis Pastrana took over the Hoonigan drive, with an excellent behind the scenes on his 862hp Gymkhana Car too!
• On MotorTrend is the excellent Pikes Peak: On The Edge

Also on Jan 29th is the start of Top Gear America on MotorTrend. So far the fun-looking Hollywood trailer is out.

Jalopnik have listed the most exciting films ACCORDING TO SCIENCE.

For this episode Marty was asked "What are the best episodes of Top Gear to show someone who has never seen it?" Chris and Marty have tried to answer it with extensive research (but no science).

Chris:

• Series 10, Episode 9 - Britcar 24 Hours
• Series 20, Episode 5 - SUVs for towing caravans
• Series 25, Episode 5 - Building an electric all-terrain ice cream van (largely for the insurance write-offs)
• Top Gear: Polar Special (It was supposed to be three episodes, but Chris - again - cheated)

Honourable Mentions:

• Series 7, Episode 5 - Veyron vs Cessna
• Series 11, Episode 5 - Mercedes Grosser vs Rolls Royce

Marty:

• Series 7, Episode 7 - Winter Olympics
• Series 7, Episode 3 - Supercar road trip to a French bridge
• Series 13, Episode 1 - Race to the North

Honourable mentions:

• Series 10, Episode 7 - British Leyland cars
• Series 24, Episode 2 - US road trip in convertible supercars

This week Henry Catchpole has driven the stunning Volvo P1800 Restomod By Cyan Racing on Carfection, leading Chris to compare his manhood to a Jaguar.

Chris has gone slightly obsessive this week, choosing a nearly 55 minute video of a Fanatec Porsche 911 GT3 R Podium wheel kit Review, featuring the fantastically voiced Sim Racing Garage. He's cheated, again, on his channel pick, highlighting a series Matt Farah of The Smoking Tire is doing driving the pinnacle of the Porsche GT series cars.

Marty found and is sharing a car that looks like a real life Photoshop with the NONE MORE BLACK Evo, while his channel pick is Gordon Murray Designs looking at the design and build of the T50, as well as IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti's wardrobe choices.

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The Fast & Furious marathon concludes as Chris and Marty take on the biggest and silliest movies of the Fast franchise so far, Furious 7 and Fate of the Furious, where cars jump through buildings, baddies hack into nuclear submarines and none of this matters because Kurt Russell! In other news, Porsche's excellent Road to Le Mans series continues and we get excited by A Massive Hunt.

Michael Fassbender's Road to Le Mans continues, and we think it's one of the best documentary series we've seen this year. Also Pistonhead's Sam Sheehan has done a great video driving the 991 RSR GTE.

We already covered Bad Obsession Motorsport's series racing a C1, but the end of season review has a great ending, and is recommended.

We've had the first trailer for The Grand Tour's special A Massive Hunt, which looks ace. Also a new series called Sorted has started, which could be great but has a fairly major flaw.

Chris Harris has had a busy month for content. First doing a very revealing 2 part interview with Jonny Smith on The Late Brake Show. Then a good discussion with Remove Before Race talking about the influencer approach and where AMG is going wrong. He's also started doing longer form interviews on the Top Gear YouTube channel, the best of which so far is Chris Harris talks EVs with Graeme Cooper from the National Grid.

For the last part of the current Fast and Furious marathon, Chris talks Fast and Furious 7 while Marty rounds out the series with The Fate of the Furious. Thank God we're done, let's move on.

In this episode's 'What has Henry Catchpole been up to this week?', The gloriously bonkers Nomad R gets an outing in the hills and beautifully moody introduction.

Chris's YouTube pick this week is not  Carfection's The Greatest F1 Cars Ever - All In One AMAZING Place: Williams Heritage (Yes, he's cheating again), but instead Chris Harris doing what he does so well on YouTube which is making content for us. Chris Harris Let Loose on Audience Cars. For his channel pick... He's also cheated. We've talked about Tavarish's channel before, but he did a project rebuilding one of the Fate of the Furious's hero cars. An orange Lamborghini Murcielago.

Martin picked up on Top Gear's new series call Stig Drifts, where gratuitous drifting shots meet a video game aesthetic. The channel pick is the brilliant land speed record channel Scarf & Goggles. Well worth a look!

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The Fast & Furious marathon continues as Chris and Marty dig into Fast Five and Fast 6, where the vehicular mayhem takes on a whole different level of crazy and Vin Diesel's voice disappears into the realms of sub-bass and frequencies only whales can hear.

The nominations for the Motor Film Awards 2020 are up, and it's well worth taking a look at their show reel!

The BBC reports that Justin Lin will wrap up the Fast and Furious with 10 and 11.

Michael Fassbender's racing journey continuing in season 2 of Porsche's excellent Road to Le Mans series as he enters the ELMS.

If you're of a certain age or watch along with us, you'll love the reference in this great car ad - LiftMaster Secure View - Oh Yeah!

The Fast and Furious marathon continues; Chris watches Fast 5 while Marty goes flipping mad with Fast and Furious 6.

In this episode's 'What has Henry Catchpole been up to this week?', he's been doing another awesome film, this time going back to the 80s with the Lamborghini Diablo SV.

Chris' YouTube pick this week is a 330 HP / 1000 KG Mk 2 Ford Fiesta! For a channel pick, Jonny Smith's excellent work continues as he launches The Late Brake Show.

Marty chose Kimi Raikkonen's supremely chilled out Nurburgring lap, and then went Down Under for the Mighty Car Mods channel!

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