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Star Ranger4
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"James May"
 
   Well, on tonights Top Gear on BBCA they had May drive a Bhugatti Super sport, where he broke (and then the their test driver shattered) a particular speed record for fastest PRODUCTION car.

May, however, is known as "Captain Slow"... (He even seems to revel in the title for some reason) however last night he was anything but

Can anyone point me at links about how May earned his moniker?

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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: James May Meagen Jan-18-11 1
  RE: James May The Traitor Jan-18-11 2
     RE: James May Hyakushiki Jan-18-11 3
         RE: James May The Traitor Jan-23-11 8
  RE: James May Gryphonadmin Jan-18-11 4
     RE: James May JFerio Jan-19-11 6
         RE: James May MoonEyes Jan-20-11 7
  RE: James May drakensis Jan-19-11 5

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Meagen
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1. "RE: James May"
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   From the couple episodes I watched, May just seems to be the designated woobie. No other particular reason seems needed.

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The Traitor
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2. "RE: James May"
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   Because he generally prefers to drive large, comfortable cars that look, handle and reach 60 in the same time as a wheeled coal barge. Oh, and he gets lost.

A lot.

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Hyakushiki
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29 posts		 Jan-18-11, 01:19 PM (EDT)
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3. "RE: James May"
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   The hosts think it was because his mother traumatized him with her driving. In one episode they brought their mothers on to test drive compact cars on their track and she drove like a bat out of hell, and is also quite knowledgeable about cars.

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The Traitor
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8. "RE: James May"
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   As of S16E1 he has been given the Ariel Atom V8 500.

You remember the car that caused Jezza's epiglottis to become full of bees? That had 275bhp. The new model has 500bhp. And they gave it to James.

Yay spaniel!

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4. "RE: James May"
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   It's mostly schtick. In the Top Gear family, James is the middle child - consistently bullied by the eldest (Jeremy) and harassed by the youngest (Richard). He's portrayed as the slowest driver of the three because he's the most deliberate, and because he does have a poor sense of direction, which often causes him to be late for rendezvous - but it has been shown on a number of occasions, such as their three-supercar road trip to the Millau Viaduct in France, that under the right conditions he can, in fact, drive like hell. He just doesn't do so at the drop of a hat, whether the conditions are really right for it or not, like the other three.

This tradition is continued in UF by moments like the one in The Most Outrageous Top Gear Episode in the World... Ever when he's the one who takes the Jet Car to the 8th dimension, and the "Honorless dogs! Make way for Captain Slow!" moment in Road Film with Fighting.

Basically, James takes the view that traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy. :)

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JFerio
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6. "RE: James May"
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   >It's mostly schtick. In the Top Gear family, James is the
>middle child - consistently bullied by the eldest (Jeremy) and
>harassed by the youngest (Richard). He's portrayed as the slowest
>driver of the three because he's the most deliberate, and because he
>does have a poor sense of direction, which often causes him to be late
>for rendezvous - but it has been shown on a number of occasions, such
>as their three-supercar road trip to the Millau Viaduct in France,
>that under the right conditions he can, in fact, drive like
>hell. He just doesn't do so at the drop of a hat, whether the
>conditions are really right for it or not, like the other three.

I've been told that he's been to a well-respected performance driving school at some point... and was considered a pretty good student.

Sometimes you become quite deliberate when you can basically EAT 90% of the drivers out there in a contest. As for the occasional races, I get the impression that, even normally, hard competition just doesn't actually excite him when he's directly involved.





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MoonEyes
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7. "RE: James May"
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>I've been told that he's been to a well-respected performance driving
>school at some point... and was considered a pretty good student.
>
>Sometimes you become quite deliberate when you can basically EAT 90%
>of the drivers out there in a contest. As for the occasional races, I
>get the impression that, even normally, hard competition just doesn't
>actually excite him when he's directly involved.

Sir Jackie Stewart, who as Hammond says is a very wise woman, noted that of the three, May was the one he thought not only was the best driver. It should also be noted that he was, in may of 2009, one of the highest-flying people in the world, and certainly one of the highest flying civilians, having travelled to the edge of space in a U-2.

And, he has excellent taste in real, proper, brown beer. To wit, London Pride.

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drakensis
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5. "RE: James May"
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   On an almost unrelated note, Series 16 of Top Gear kicks off on Sunday evening.

D.


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