Welcome to the Top Gear Heptathlon

Published: 06 Aug 2012

100m hurdles
Richard takes on a man on a small plank of wood with wheels, bouncing a Raptor into the air several times before the line...

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High Jump
You can't get much higher than a Reliant Robin rocket heading into deep space...

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Shot put
Take something big and heavy and make it airborne... (OK, there are two caravans, they're suspended from cranes, and they all get destroyed, but it's basically the same)

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200 metres

What better sprint than two of the greatest cars of all time - the Bugatti Vetron and the McLaren F1 - going head to head?

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Long jump
When the producers of new film The Sweeney needed to film spectacular footage of a car flying through the air, they engaged our services. It went very well, we thought.

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Javelin
The javelin is basically posh darts, isn't it? And we invented car darts years ago

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800 metres
OK, so this race went on a fair bit more than 800 metres, but it was suitably epic and a great way to finish...

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