Top Gear host Chris Harris has announced that he wants the UK motorway speed limits lifted.
He explained that this is so “lunatics” like him can travel at an eye-watering speed of“190mph”.
The TV host said the 70mph limit was set in 1967 and cars can “travel safely at much higher speed these days”.
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The 47 year old said that 70 miles per hour makes “perfect sense” on busy roads.
However he doesn’t think that they are needed “at 9pm, on an empty stretch of motorway, with excellent driving conditions, in a car that’s capable of cruising at double the limit.”
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He said: “The issue here isn’t so much people like me who the anti-speeding lobby views as murdering lunatics wanting to travel at 190mph the whole time, it’s just the sensible application of a limit where it is necessary.”
But Road Safety GB’s James Gibson said there was a “link between speed and severity of collisions and casualties”.
And Becky Guy, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said: “Studies have shown that lower motorway limits help maintain smoother traffic flows, reduce air pollution and save drivers fuel. Slower is always safer.”
Prime Minister Liz Truss has said she is “prepared to look at” scrapping the 70mph limit.
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Chris is a former racing driver who has been involved with Top Gear for since 2017 and is currently a presenter alongside Paddy McGuiness and Freddie Flintoff.
In the past Chris was a journalist and he spent a lot of time reviewing cars.
However he wasn’t afraid to tell the truth, even when it get him banned from reviewing the brand again.
In 2011 Chris was banned from reviewing Ferrari cars after writing an article titled, “How Ferrari Spins” where he criticised the brand for trying “to win every test (review) at any cost” and said it was “profoundly irritating.”
Then in 2014 Chris was banned from reviewing Lamborghini cars, because of an article he wrote entitled “Lamborghinis Are The Perfect Cars For People Who Can’t Drive.”
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Harris stated that the brand “can’t support its looks with adequate (driving) dynamics”.
He also noted several Lamborghini malfunctions: in one case, as he was driving, “the brakes (on the Lamborghini) caught fire”
However he has recently started reviewing the brand again on Top Gear by driving the Lamborghini Huracán under his Chris Harris Drives brand.
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