Jason Plato drives the Ferrari 599 GTO

Proper video review Plato! Axis approved!


(Fifth Gear online)
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Tiff turns Jason Plato into Patrese's wife

She's still way better looking though.


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Jason avoids future platonic relationship...

All that sideways training with Tiff obviously paid off and Jason Plato avoids his wife's promised punishment this time!


(thanks Sorrento205!)


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Three Blondes and a Scud.

Nice work if you can get it.  Jason Plato cannot but be smug, wouldn't you be?

Best part is really the first half of the clip when Plato slides the Ferrari F430 Scuderia around a wet track.  Of course it's wet,  it's Great Britain, it's always wet.

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Proper Hooligans

With Top Gear getting all the attention it's easy to forget about the lower budget competition. Fifth Gear may have copycat opening credits and you may get annoyed at host Tom Ford wearing oversized Bart Simpson shorts all the time but they do have Vicky Butler-Henderson, that sideways driving, squealing, motorhead's fantasy poster girl and they do provide actual useful consumer information. You saw the show investigating what it takes to change a Renault Megane headlight bulb? Over $500 for a trip to the dealer apparently. Or that it takes 28000 miles of driving to realize a savings on a set of low rolling resistance "eco" tires.

But what we wait for is when Fifth Gear unleash Tiff Needell and Jason Plato to do their hooligan act on the track.  While Clarkson may just dismiss cars he decides  not to like, the Porsche GT2 for example, Jason Plato and Tiff might tell you the same car is just more of a challenge, more like a race car and proceed to tear up a track with it. 

Then again they are both actual professional racers and their comments on car handling are more interesting if less colorfully described than their BBC counterparts. For example when to sum total of the motoring press was reviewing the Nissan GT-R and finding absolutely no fault whatsoever in its handling characteristics, Jason Plato was the first to say it actually felt a bit heavy and tended to plow mid-corner. After that, laws of physics started timidly showing up in subsequent reviews of the Gorilla from Ginza. 

But I digress, I think this clip will illustrate my point well.



A proper track test




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Making the girls scream: Tiff vs Plato vs Patrese

Fun clips of Tiff Needell and Jason Plato trying to scare each other ... then they load up the cars with big boobied tarts and attempt to scare them.




While we on the "make the girls scream" theme, an even better video if you haven't yet seen it, is ex-F1 driver Riccardo Patrese taking his wife for a italian style sunday drive. His grin is priceless. After the jump.

Even Tiff can't hold it on the road!

I always liked the Fifth Gear tests better than Clarkson and the Top Gear crew. Sure TG has the Stig and some of the best snarkyiness on TV but you get the impression that the hosts are better, well,....hosts than drivers and that the money shots in they fantastically photographed segments, you always suspect there is someone else behind the wheel.

Tiff and Jason Plato on the other hand are both racers and you know it is those two tracktards doing the work.

Anyway, poor Mercedes.



The Merc blows the most smoke! from Axis of Oversteer on Vimeo.