This article is about the TV series. For other uses of "5th Gear", see 5th Gear. Fifth Gear (formerly 5th Gear) is a motoring magazine show on British television channel Five. The programme began its eleventh season on 30 April 2007. Fifth Gear has also aired on the SPEED Channel in the United States for a short period in 2006 to early 2007. 5th Gear is a motoring magazine shown on British TVs Channel 5. ...
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Driving is the controlled operation of a vehicle, usually a motor vehicle such as a truck, bus, motorcycle, or car (for bicycles and mounted animals and—at least in the U.K. and U.S.—motorcycles, the corresponding activity is called riding). ...
Auto racing (also known as automobile racing or autosport) is a sport involving racing automobiles. ...
Timothy Tiff Needell (born October 29, 1951 at Havant, Hampshire) is a British racing driver and television presenter. ...
Vicki Butler-Henderson (born February 16, 1972, in Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom) is a racing driver and presenter on British TV. She was educated at The Perse School for Girls in Cambridge. ...
Tom Ford is television presenter currently most noted for his presence on the staff of the BBCs Fifth Gear. ...
Jason Plato is a British auto racing driver, born in 1968 in Oxford and currently living in Monte Carlo. ...
Five, launched in 1997, is the fifth and final national terrestrial analogue television channel to launch in the United Kingdom. ...
Five, launched in 1997, is the fifth and final national terrestrial analogue television channel to launch in the United Kingdom. ...
is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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SPEED Channel, based in Charlotte, NC, was launched on New Years Day 1996, by Roger Werner, as SpeedVision. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
Fifth Gear first aired in 2002 as a replacement to the original incarnation of the BBC show Top Gear (as opposed to the current format), which was cancelled in 2001 due to low ratings. Five originally wanted to carry on using the Top Gear name, however the BBC refused. Several of Top Gear's ex-presenters, including Quentin Willson, Tiff Needell and Vicki Butler-Henderson were hired by Five to present Fifth Gear. After the completion of Fifth Gear's first series, the BBC relaunched Top Gear in a new hour-long format presented by Jeremy Clarkson. For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...
Top Gear in its original 30 minute format was a BBC television series about cars produced by BBC Birmingham. ...
Top Gear is a BAFTA[1], Multi-NTA and Emmy Award-winning BBC television series about motor vehicles, mainly cars. ...
Quentin Willson (born 23 July 1957) is a British TV presenter and personality. ...
Timothy Tiff Needell (born October 29, 1951 at Havant, Hampshire) is a British racing driver and television presenter. ...
Vicki Butler-Henderson (born February 16, 1972, in Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom) is a racing driver and presenter on British TV. She was educated at The Perse School for Girls in Cambridge. ...
Top Gear is a BAFTA[1], Multi-NTA and Emmy Award-winning BBC television series about motor vehicles, mainly cars. ...
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster and writer who specialises in motoring. ...
Show format
The original format consisted of a 30 minute programme, including approximately 7 minutes of adverts. The eighth season returned in the autumn of 2005 in a longer format of 45 minutes, and the ninth series (which went to a 13-week run) was increased to a one hour airtime slot (approximately 46 minutes excluding adverts). Besides giving out a car in each episode, Fifth Gear is distinguishable from the current Top Gear in that it is typically less outrageous and more of a straightforward motoring show[citation needed].
The tenth season, in addition to the arrival of Soccer AM's Tim Lovejoy as one of the main presenters, saw the introduction of filming the feature sections at the Ace Cafe in London, rather than the previous format of filming the links between features in the production company's offices in Birmingham. The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...
The 11th season saw Tom Ford replace Tim Lovejoy as main presenter alongside Vicki Butler Henderson. Tom Ford is television presenter currently most noted for his presence on the staff of the BBCs Fifth Gear. ...
The Simpsons character, see Reverend Timothy Lovejoy Timothy Paul Lovejoy (born 28 March 1968), is a British television presenter, famous for his Saturday morning football programme on Sky Sports - Soccer AM - alongside co-host Helen Chamberlain. ...
Vicki Butler-Henderson (born 1970s??) is a presenter on British TV. From 1998 until the shows conclusion in 2001 Vicki Butler-Henderson was a presenter on the BBCs motoring magazine Top Gear. ...
Accidents During Season 12 two accidents took place during filming. - Tom Ford broke his foot and several toes when he rolled a modified Bedford Rascal van. Ford was recording a piece about drifting when the van he was driving (painted to resemble the A-Team GMC Van) toppled onto its side wheels and crashed into a safety barrier. He and co-host Johnny Smith were racing each other around a private track. The incident was very similar to a Top Gear crash involving Richard Hammond who rolled a Suzuki Supercarry while being chased by The Stig in a Vauxhall Astra police patrol vehicle during a white-van-man challenge. The incident was alluded to in the Autumn 2007 series of Top Gear by presenter Jeremy Clarkson.
(Fifth Gear star Tom Ford hurt in crash. Retrieved on 2007-10-10.) The Bedford/Vauxhall Rascal (also known as the Suzuki Supercarry) was a small van. ...
A Toyota Supra in drifting exhibition in Atlanta in 2005. ...
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The Bedford/Vauxhall Rascal (also known as the Suzuki Supercarry) was a small van. ...
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is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
- BTCC driver Jason Plato suffered multiple burns when a Caparo T1 he was driving at Bruntingthorpe proving ground, burst into flames. The car, capable of 200mph, burst into flames at an estimated 150mph. Plato said: "There was a slight loss of power, I looked in the mirror and saw some smoke, there was a slight smell of oil and then suddenly there was this intense heat. The car spontaneously erupted into a ball of flames and I was sat in the middle of a fireball." The presenter was initially taken to Market Harborough and District Hospital by former BTCC driver Phill Bennett before being treated at Kettering General Hospital. He later received specialist burns treatment at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
(Plato injured as Caparo T1 bursts into flames. Retrieved on 2007-10-10.) The Caparo T1 is a British mid-engine, rear-wheel drive, two-seater car built by Caparo Vehicle Technologies, (formally known as Freestream), founded by design director Ben Scott-Geddes and engineering director Graham Halstead, former engineers involved in the development of the McLaren F1. ...
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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Viewing figures According to BARB [1] viewing figures for October 2006, Fifth Gear averaged around 0.9 million viewers and is about the 20th most popular programme on Five, ignoring repeats. In comparison, similar figures for the summer 2006 series of Top Gear were approx 4.5 million viewers, and it was almost consistently the most popular programme on BBC2 by a margin of up to 1.2 million, aside from two weeks when it was placed second to closing episodes of The Apprentice[citation needed]. BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts and...
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The Fifth Gear awards Each year, the programme gives out various awards:
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2007 Fiat 500 in Piazza San Carlo, Turin. ...
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Shoot outs Fifth Gear claims to be 'world renowned' for their 'infamous' shoot outs, between similarly priced, similarly powerful cars, or, recently, cars versus bikes. These shoot outs take place at the Ty Croes circuit on the Isle of Anglesey. Ty Croes is a small station on Anglesey and is a request stop. ...
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The Mazda MX-5, also known as Miata (IPA: /miαrÉ™/ or /miαtÉ™/) in North America and Roadster (IPA: /ÉºÌ odosɯta/) in Japan, is a sports car built by Mazda in Hiroshima, Japan, since 1989. ...
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