Tiff Needell Talks Top Gear, F1 Racing Secrets & The Scariest Car He's Ever Driven

And, um, the wildest driver you've ever driven with, against, the, just the scariest, craziest driver?

Oh, God, you can't throw questions like this out of the blue.

The wildest driver-

They're all out of the blue, 'cause you don't know what they are.

[laughs]

When you see some, when you see someone in your rear view mirror and you think, "Oh."

[laughs] Well, that's, that's a long time ago.

That'd be you for me.

[laughs] Yeah, that... [laughs]

Ja- Jason Plato was bad enough when we filmed together, 'cause he'd never listen.

I would work out the logistics for our little overtaking maneuvers and what to do.

And then I'd tell Jason, "This lap needs a yeah, right, yeah, of course, yeah." And then when it got to the point when he was supposed to come up my inside and the corner's getting closer and closer and he hasn't come, he hasn't come.

[laughs] And we nearly had a couple of big shunts.

But that wasn't because he's a wild driver, just because he wasn't attentive to my-

Right

... suggestive scenarios.

And wildest?

I don't really know.

N- no real wild child has come to my mind.

None.

I mean, because you're racing drivers, so you're all-

You're all a bit wild, I suppose

... yeah, [laughs] you're all a bit wild

wild[laughs] You've gotta be, haven't you?

I would go back.