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You know the rules, James. If a car can't get over a sleeping policeman it can't go on that board. We've always said that and look at the nose on this, I mean never mind a sleeping policeman, you'd rip that off if you ran over Gandhi.
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Jeremy Clarkson: "Now because this has a hydraulic lifting nose, which we can see here, it is able to get over speed bumps and that means it is a road car and that means it can go on our board."
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Jeremy Clarkson: "We subsequently discovered he was doing that on slick tyres. Now we have rules on this Power Board here, ok? You can't use slicks, so this time is coming off."
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- ↑ "Top Gear". Series 14. Episode 7. 3 January 2010. BBC 2.Richard Hammond: "Critically, I want to write on there it's wet, very wet." Top Gear website lists conditions as "w" (wet).
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