Has anyone been to a Top Gear filming???

cow

About ten minutes ago, I was spacing out whilst driving, wondering how one gets to go to a filming of Top Gear.

Tell me/ us more, please?

DEpointfive0

You're supposed to sign up online and you get chosen by a lottery... Now, there are over 100,000 people on the list at any given time and they choose a MAXIMUM of 1000 people per filming...

That means there is a waiting list for 100 shows, since they film roughly 15 episodes a year, that means their waiting list is about 8 years long, but with the shows growing popularity, and since those who go put their names back on the list, they estimate their wait list, or odds of getting chosen will happen in 15+years...


God bless my parents, they have a family friend from 40 years ago who now works for the BBC...
While I was there last year I thought, hmmmm, they SHOULD be filming right now...... (I am a HUGE FAN, you have no idea, I SENSE these things)
So I called my dad to call his friend to see what was up... I knew they film on Wednesday and it was Tuesday... Got a call Wednesday morning from the family friend and he said they couldn't add me to that day's list, BUT that my name was added to the NEXT Wednesday's list!


I also bought 2 copies of Jeremy Clarkson's book and gave it to the family friend to have signed...


At the show I DID have James May sign a copy of the Top Gear magazine, and I talked to him a bit about his other shows, he was super chill