Vuk (our capper for those who don’t know) is 200 miles away from his home in the UK at a management training course for work. It had been planned for quite a while, long before we knew when Top Gear was back. Top Gear was recorded just fine by his brother (back at home), but his brother is having issues encoding it, so it’ll have to wait until Vuk gets back home. This will be Wednesday at the very latest.

And don’t fret, Vuk will be home and working hard as always next week, so we should have much of a delay (other than the normal encode and upload time) from now on.

EDIT: Can’t wait that long? A 700MB torrent link is in the next post down.

UPDATE 2/1: Update on the update, Vuk is uploading his rip now, hopefully there will be a release by the end of the day…GMT -6 :P -Cruzz563

UPDATE 2/2: Upload’s been stalled at 328MB for like 6-8 hours now. :( -Viper

Vuk had previous plans (management training I believe) for a couple weeks now and his brother (who was supposed to rip and upload) hasn’t started uploading it yet (so it’ll be a while), so I thought I’d post a link to the 700MB scene rip for those who can’t wait:

http://www.mininova.org/tor/561772

We will still be releasing our 425MB rip, but it just may be a while sadly.

Please come join us on our IRC chat channel and hang out with fellow Top Gear-heads as we all await the next season to begin! No, there’s no prize giveaways or anything like that and our countdown timer bot is sadly offline, but I still think you’ll have a good time. ;)

A few rules though of course: please read the topic (at the top of your screen and said when you first enter the channel), no asking when a rip will be available (we’ll have one as soon as we possibly can), no spamming, don’t be annoying (good way to get banned from the room), no spoilers, etc. Simply put, behave yourself please.

For those who can’t wait another 8.25 hours, here’s the James May Top Gear trailer in high quality, once again thanks to danbarnesdavies.

We also have a high quality version of the Clarkson trailer that was previously posted in poor YouTube quality.

You can also download both trailers if you wish.

TopGear.com has posted a description of what will be on this Sunday’s episode of Top Gear. It’s obviously somewhat of a spoiler, so don’t read it unless you don’t mind knowing. ;)

Someone was kind enough to upload the following video to YouTube. It’s been squished to the wrong proportions by YouTube and is kinda crap quality, but it’s the only rips we can find of the other commercials that are airing for the show, so take it or leave it. ;)

The rest of Top Gear season 2 is now available for download.

And no, we haven’t forgotten about 1×03, we’re just still sorting out which rip out there is the least crappy. ;)

With Top Gear returning soon, we’re trying to get some of the missing episodes torrented up. We plan on doing a couple a day. Enjoy.

• Top Gear - [02x02] - 2003.05.18
• Top Gear - [02x03] - 2003.05.25

A short, 20 second preview of the new season of Top Gear aired tonight on TV. danbarnesdavies, a member of our forums, was kind enough to record it for us.

You can also download the clip and discuss it in our forums.

Images of Richard Hammond’s 288 MPH crash from last year are in this month’s Top Gear magazine. A preview can be found at TopGear.com. An article by Richard (and some photos) are also in today’s Daily Mirror. You can discuss both on our forums.

Video of the crash will not be shown (as far as I know) until the first episode of the new season of Top Gear which starts on January 28th. Details on that episode can also be found on our forums.