Gallery: all the power laps from series 17

Phew. What a series. And now the tyre smoke's settled, it's time to ask some Very Important Questions. Chiefly: what was the season's fastest lap time? Also: which car got lavished with the fruitiest adjectives?

Click on to remember how our six Power Lap Board inductees fared, and read some choice quotes from the boys' reviews. We've even slapped up iPlayer links to each episode so you can watch them again and again until you're broadband connection's slumped in the corner rocking itself to sleep.

Fancy some anonymous heckling? Head to our post-show blog and tell us what you thought of the latest season.

Before you go, watch the boys ride across Vietnam. It'll make your Friday.

BMW 1-Series M Coupe (watch it on iPlayer)

6th place: 1:25.0 secs (damp)

Jeremy says: "This does to today's sports cars what the Golf GTI did to the MGB and Triumph Spitfire - renders them pointless."

Aston-Martin Virage (watch it on iPlayer)

5th place: 1:24.4 secs
James says: "I've got everything turned off and it's still too jiggly... It's just another pointless bone-shaking race car."

Jaguar XKR-S (watch it on iPlayer)

4th place: 1:23.3 secs
Jeremy says: "It feels and sounds like it's being fueled on a blend of plutonium and wild animals."

Lamborghini Aventador (watch it on iPlayer)

3rd place: 1:16.5 secs
Richard says: "It's a proper car. It's not a machine that, overall, wants to kill you. And that makes me a bit sad."

McLaren MP4-12C (watch on iPlayer)

2nd place: 1:16.2 secs
Jeremy says: "McLaren's won one in every four Grand Prix they've ever entered, so they certainly know how to make a car go round a corner... My God, they've worked their magic with this."

Lotus T125 (watch on iPlayer)

1st place: 1:03.8 secs
Jeremy says: "It really is an animal, this thing."

CAVEAT: this one's not road legal, so it doesn't strictly count. But it's black and gold so we'll let if off.