AshesFromStars

How good was Top Gear tonight? First in the new series and their ‘Top Gear Top Fuel Consumption Tips’ were excellent, pretty much if you want a good mpg in a supercar, get an Audi R8. Which I actually had the pleasure of sitting in about two weeks ago. Granted it was in the Audi garage but oh my goodness the urge to hot wire it, drive through the huge glass windows and some how escape onto the M8 motorway without being caught just to say that I’d driven one, was massive. It’s the sexiest car I’ve ever, ever seen.

Anyway, aside from proving that yet again Audi cars are the best; Jeremy, James and Richard (oh wow how cute did he look tonight?) actually had a good few tips and they can all be found on the Top Gear website.

1. If you see the lights ahead are red, take your foot off the throttle immediately. If you wait and then use your brakes you are simply wasting the fuel you used to achieve a speed you didn’€™t need. Remember, a modern engine uses no fuel at all when it’€™s coasting in gear.
2. Next. Speed. Wind it down. You don’t need to do 25 mph, but instead of doing 80 on the motorway, try 75. Or if you normally do 120, try 110.
3. 56 mph, by the way, really is the optimum speed for good fuel consumption in most cars. Don’€™t try this in villages though or you will have to spend some time in a prison.
4. When leaving the lights, accelerate smartly. Not like a bat out of hell. But don’€™t dawdle. Get the car into top gear as quickly as is reasonable. Fifth gear, remember, is no good at all.
5. Don’t buy a Toyota Prius.

Fair enough, I find most of them useful because of the injection of humour that possibly only British readers will get, or indeed just Top Gear fans. Whatever, I thought I’d share anyway.

For anyone who is going to this year’s T In The Park festival in three weeks I’ve found a copy of the map of the campsite from the eFestival’s Forum.

I’m quite excited that the arena is bigger than previous years, but there’s still the walk of death up the side of the NME/Radio 1 stage to get in and out of the arena to the campsite. I hate that walk with a passion, especially when everyone is leaving the arena to get back to the campsite and it’s mobbed with people - it’s a nightmare in the mud.

I am worse than a kid at Christmas waiting for T In The Park - bring it on! The worse bit is not the waiting but the remembering what to take with me. It’s a long walk from the campsite bus drop of to the area where we like to pitch our tent (yellow area, usually). And I’ve got all my clothes, food, drink, sleeping bag, airbed etc to carry that distance so I like to pack my luggage light, but also have to remember that I need to pack items for sunny weather, rain, cold, scorching heat - Scotland is notorious for it’s random weather patterns.

We’ve managed to get most of our stuff in, all I have to buy is a double airbed - it’s the one luxury I allow myself all weekend.