{"id":53242,"date":"2011-08-14T10:09:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T17:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53242"},"modified":"2011-08-14T10:09:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T17:09:04","slug":"top-gear-fakery-row-clarksons-200mph-lamborghini-stunt-was-really-carried-out-by-racing-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53242","title":{"rendered":"Top Gear fakery row: Clarkson&#8217;s 200mph Lamborghini stunt &#8216;was really carried out by racing driver&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His outspoken comments and motoring expertise have helped make him one of the BBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s highest-paid stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But it has now been claimed that many of the scenes filmed by Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson are actually performed by professional drivers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sources say a large proportion of the stunts on the BBC2 series which appear to show Clarkson careering around the show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s racetrack at high speed are actually executed by professional racing drivers hired by the BBC\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-2025731\/Top-Gear-fakery-row-Clarksons-200mph-Lamborghini-stunt-really-carried-racing-driver.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His outspoken comments and motoring expertise have helped make him one of the BBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s highest-paid stars. But it has now been claimed that many of the scenes filmed by Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson are actually performed by professional drivers. Sources say a large proportion of the stunts on the BBC2 series which appear to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53243,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53242\/revisions\/53243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}