..Incase you didn't know, lol.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6994946.stm

i love it when a 'conclusion' to something includes the word 'probably'

an 88 page report to tell us that

I thought we already knew it was a dodgy tyre from seeing the footage months ago??

Quote:
The "catastrophic disintegration" of the jet car's front tyre was probably caused by an object like a nail, a BBC report has concluded.

Surely they could spot a 'nail like' object in the tyre.

depends if it was in the tyre before the started . if it got in part way down the track ........ it could be in the next county the way it disintegrated.

Eyup lad , Yorkshires a Bloody big place.
not one of those tiny Shires tha knows.

its not how big, its what you do with it lad.

Now start growing your roses in the right (red) colour and wash thi mouth out.

Interestingly, from what I recall the HSE Investigation which was released a few months ago didn't mention a nail, just said about damage to the tyre.

Reading between the lines it sounds like he started the run with a flat tyre --- they don't want to say the checks between runs weren't carried out properly.

"According to the report, the underlying cause of the incident was "the inability to spot the damage to the tyre".


Quite hard to do I would have thought when doing 288mph - that damage could have been caused anywhere on that final run so any amount of safety checks would have not changed a thing!!
Glad to see the BBC have spent our licence fees so wisely to come up with these genius level conclusions!!

" The 88-page document criticised the Top Gear team for not having anyone present "with sufficient knowledge to assess the adequacy" of the safety checks. "

I am disgusted with this in that the Top Gear Team didnt have a suitably qualified checker to check that the other checker was doing his checking in a proper manner.

Is it me .......... of can you see the entire next series being presented with a man in a white coat behind clarkson for comedy effect?