This is a flashback to when Top Gear England had its first rivals (from across the Channel, even!)


Indeed, we have to flash back to a year before the Winter Olympics, during that "Top Gear England v. Top Gear France" era. This challenge was between Jamiebel and Davina, and Judit and Katia. You see, the English duo think that nothing can actually beat the bobsleigh, whereas the French duo think that a rally car (specifically, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6 rally car) can do so.

"Here's the point – our bobsleigh can get down from the start to finish in under a minute," Jamiebel informed. "You've had it."

"Yes, but you and Davina have only got gravity to get to the finish," Judit rebutted. "Whereas Katia and I have 300 hp, a huge turbocharger, 420 spikes on each tire and gravity to take us to the finish."

"But our bobsleigh was custom-built for the ice, whereas yours was modified to it."

"You're wearing tights. I can't take a lesson of physics from a woman in tights. Dancing, yes. Physics, no."

So, as both teams warmed up, they studied each other's strategies. When the time came, they prepared themselves.

Since Judit was driving, Katia would time the car with a stopwatch, and Jay-bee and Dee-jae's (Jamiebel and Davina's) bob was timed by the officials. When they both started, both had good starts. The real challenge for Judit is that she has to do 2 km on ice in under one minute. That's some hard work there. Back to the bob – it may have started slow, but it just kept getting faster and faster. And the team never use the brakes. Ever. At 1000 meters, it could go either way, so both teams were just giving their all. Upon approaching the end, Judit gave it the full beans – like Henning Solberg, the Norwegian Rally champion. As they all finished, Jamiebel and Davina exited the bobsled to check their time: 59.68 seconds. They ran over to Judit and Katia.

"What have you done?" Katia asked.

"59.68," Jamiebel replied.

"Go on!" Davina added. The look on Katia and Judit's faces were less than pleased.

"1:02.24,"Judit revealed.

"Yes! We won!"

Indeed we won. So mark that as a victory for England. And fast-forward to now, where the scores are, France 3, England 3, everyone else 0.