So to our next challenge, made for me, Nina, Jeff, Bernan, JT, Jaime, Tanya, Adam, Crystal and Taylor P.: car speed skating. We would have 10 different cars: I'd have the Jaguar XKR-S, Nina got her beloved Ferrari 458 Italia, Bernan using the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560, Jeff got the Nissan GT-R, Adam in the reins of the Fiat 500 Abarth Essesse, Taylor P. has control of the Porsche 911 GT3, JT has the Mercedes SLS AMG, Tanya making do with the McLaren MP4-12C, Jaime in control of the Lexus LFA, and Crystal has the Land Rover Discovery. All of us will be racing against Eskil Ervik, the world record holder of the 1500-meter Speed Skating – but he's not the one we're concentrating on – it's the rest of us.

3 laps around the Vikingskipet Olympic Arena; and when the gun set off (thanks to Davina), the eleven of us all set off. Of course, Ervik had the best start. And extraordinarily, none of our cars had remotely any grip (even Crystal's Land Rover was struggling)! When we crept into the second corner, all of the ten (myself included) spun out. Ervik took this opportunity to lap us all. He was doing 40 mph through the bends. We were barely touching...4. I noted that this may not come in as an Olympic sport. Eventually, I was able to rein in the control of the big Jag, and was able to do...24 mph through the bends, leaving the others behind. However...

"You could slow down a ruddy funeral at this rate!" Davina joked, running.

"I'm going as fast-!" I exclaimed, before Davina "shot" me. I laughed. "This is so irritating – having a man, keeping up with me!" And soon enough... "He's just gone past me again!"

This farce went on until we reached the finish. "He's just toying with me now..." He put his body into the wide-spread "X" position, in victory. "No!" Ervik did finish first, but at least I won out amongst the cars, followed by Crystal, then Nina, JT, Jeff, Tanya, Adam, Taylor P. and finally, Bernan.

If anyone's to blame, it's all of us – the cars weren't made for such an idea, speed skating. But what if they were used for figure skating? Could the idea be rectified? Well, there's only one way to find out – do it...tomorrow.

The next day...

The next day, we arrived at our perfect lake, and brought the cars we used in the last challenge. The only problem is, the lake is only very thin. So as Crystal built our track, I decided to get some practice in. I just couldn't be able to rein in the power of the Jag like last time, and began spinning out.

"You know in real Ice skating, how they're always elegant, how they're doing pirouettes and all that good stuff?" Crystal asked.

"Yeah," I responded.

"Do you know what you're doing?"

"What?"

"You're going out onto an ice rink and flapping your arms out aimlessly, like that!"

I laughed.

However, it was time for our Top Gear Figure Skating competition to begin. And Crystal went first. She had a smooth start, and slowly drifted through the corners.

"This is the best way of getting the power of the big V8 down onto the ice: with 4WD, intelligent differentials, intelligent traction control - not just booting it, and shouting," she noted. However, the rest of us disagreed.

"You just don't need 4WD out here – you don't need it," I rebutted. And afterwards, she finally finished. "So, very safe. Very steady. And it took her 2:03." I walked over to Crystal. "Pathetic."

"Rubbish, man!"

"You were hardly moving."

"Rubbish! I was going at a good, consistent speed and in control, which is the point I'm trying to make."

"The other disappointment is that you didn't fall through the ice, 'cause do you know how thick it is?"

"4 feet?"

"No. 5 inches!"

"You're kidding!"

"No, that's what they said – 5 inches!"

Crystal definitely looked surprised. Next to go was Nina, and she ended up doing the same technique, and ended up with 2:29. The same could be said for Taylor P., Adam, JT, Bernan, Tanya and Jeff, who recorded a 2:10, a 2:40, a 2:04, a 2:20, a 2:15 and a 2:25, respectively. So now, how will my 2WD Jag get on? Amazingly, I had been more lax, because I wasn't in a closed space. But...

"Power – oh, no!" I exclaimed. As expected, I've spun out, but stood on the course. "That's a pirouette in ice dancing circles, that is."

"This is rubbish!" Adam and Crystal thought.

I was able to keep going fast and flamboyant, although with some problems along the way.

"It's good!" I noted. But then... "It's bad!" And I was still on the bloody road, pirouetting! "Oh, yeah! I want one of these cars. No, wait, I want one of these lakes!" And as I finished, I ended up crashing into a pile of ice. "Crystal!"

"Very good!" she replied, walking over with the rest of the group.

"I won!"

"What do you mean, 'you won'?"

"I won!"

"No, come on – you went round there in 2:33, when you crashed!"

"Ice skating is not against the clock – it's about poise and beauty, and I much more flamboyant!"

However, when I said that, I tripped over the same ice block, nearly taking Crystal and Nina with me.

"But this is against the clock, and proves that 4WDs will slash 2WDs on ice," Crystal reminded. "That was another victory for the French."

"That is true," Nina agreed. "However, we don't have enough time to argue, because we have to show the last time that any Top Gear presenter arrived here in Lillehammer."

"Also, have you seen the front of your car?" JT asked me.

"It looks like Richard Hammond having his teeth whitened!" I jokingly responded. We all laughed.