Author Profile: Jamie Hibbard

Jamie Hibbard is the news editor of TopGear.com and is, well, a massive Formula 1 geek. As evidenced by his blog posts...

Climb attack

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 11:58 am on Friday July 31, 2009

On Wednesday we brought you rally champ Marcus Gronholm’s charge up the Pikes Peak hillclimb, but this film of Rhys Millen doing the same is way better:

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A Peak performance

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 11:12 am on Wednesday July 29, 2009

This is worth nine minutes of your life: rally champ Marcus Gronholm charging up the Pikes Peak hillclimb in his 800bhp Ford Fiesta RallyCross:

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Tron is back

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 11:51 am on Monday July 27, 2009

When they first announced the Tron movie remake last year, I was somewhat sceptical and thought it a bad idea. The 80s original was great, and I didn’t think they’d do any good with a reboot. Seems I was wrong:

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Alfa’s YouTube

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 2:44 pm on Thursday July 23, 2009

There’s this thing called YouTube right, that’s on the internets or something, and what it does is show, like, video clips of stuff. Apparently, companies can use it as some kind of marketing tool. It’s well clever and that, so Alfa Romeo has set up its own channel:

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Range Rover’s magic screen

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 12:02 pm on Monday July 20, 2009

You’ll have read in Paul Horrell’s review of the new Range Rover that it has a clever twinview sat nav screen, that shows the driver one thing and the passenger another. You no doubt wondered what it looks like in action:

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Rally tribute

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 11:07 am on Wednesday July 15, 2009

Do yourself a favour, and find five minutes in your day to sit down and watch this tribute to rallying that some guy on YouTube has cut together. It’s really rather good:

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Shoot’ to play?

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 2:14 pm on Tuesday July 14, 2009

We got quite excited last week when this Porsche Cayman shooting brake appeared on TopGear.com US, because we’re big fans of two-door estates. We assumed this was just an after-market tuner job, though, but maybe we were wrong…

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‘Ringside shopping

Posted by Jamie Hibbard at 4:05 pm on Monday July 13, 2009

It’s all go for the Nürburgring this week. Following yesterday’s cracking Formula One race, which saw Mark Webber claim his maiden victory, two new ‘Ringside stores have been announced. One is Nissan, the other, rather predictably, is Ferrari.

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