With the 24 Hours of LeMons race having started a few hours ago at the Flat Rock Speedway in Michigan, Team FinalGear is doing well in the black BMW. What race? Well, read all about it on the forums, as most of you must’ve already. And if not, where have you been?!

So far Quiky and Serajadeyn have been racing for 5 hours with 400 laps in the BMW, best position was 12th and they are currently 19th.

FliPP has posted some pictures and videos taken today from his visit to the track.

As always there is the FinalGear chat with both drivers making guest appearances from the track side whenever they can!

Thanks to all the sponsors and donations that helped get us this far. Good Luck to both our drivers for the remainder of the race.

The Sun is reporting (contains spoilers) that Tom Ford recently crashed a Bedford Rascal while filming a segment for Fifth Gear and “badly” broke his foot in the process. We all hope he’ll be alright.

UPDATE: Driftworks has an account of the day and there’s a discussion going on our forums.

You know, you run outta things to say in “episode released” posts pretty quick, so I’ll just stick to giving you a link to the episode. Enjoy.

TopGear.com has confirmed that Top Gear will be back October 7th! The BBC press office has also released a description for the episode. Woo hoo!

On the 14th of October, a bunch of members of our forums who are located in and near Melbourne, Australia will be meeting up and going for a drive. If you’re nearby and would like to join them, details can be found in this forum thread.

What’s to say? It’s out now.

According to the Times Online (contains spoilers), Top Gear will be back on the 7th!

The Top Gear team, filming the race for a new series that starts on October 7, [...]

It’s obviously not 100% official, but it’s better than “sometime in October”. ;)

Yeah, this isn’t Top Gear or Fifth Gear related, but I’m sure many of you were Colin McRae fans, so I’m posting anyway.

The former rally driving champion Colin McRae was killed and his five year-old son feared dead in a helicopter crash yesterday (it’s Sunday now in the UK. -Viper) afternoon. The aircraft came down in Jerviswood, Lanarkshire, half a mile from the family’s home and burst into flames just after 4pm.

Jean-Eric Freudiger, McRae’s agent, said the 39-year-old driver had been piloting the helicopter himself. Also on board were believed to be his son Johnny, another adult - said by locals to be a school friend of McRae - and another child. McRae’s wife Alison and their daughter Hollie, 9, were not on board, friends said.

More details at the Times Online and discussion on our forums.

Rest in peace, mate.

UPDATE: The Telegraph has a good article / obit. Worth checking out.

A BBC report has concluded that an object such as a nail caused the jet car’s front tire to disintegrate last year in a crash that nearly killed Richard.

James was in Second Life earlier today as a part of a promotion for Sky News. While there, he answered some questions, including one asking how many episodes would be in the upcoming season. His response? Ten!

There’s a streaming video replay available on Sky News’ website, as well as some screenshots on our forums.