The Scene was a little late, but they finally got their rip out.

This week, Tiff and Jonny go behind the scenes at the NASCAR Daytona 500, Vicki heads to Anglesey for another shoot-out, Tom drives the new Citroën C5 in Lisbon and Jason meets skier Chemmy Alcott, who tries out a Group N rally car.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the NASCAR Daytona 500 is one of the world’s truly great races – and Fifth Gear is lucky enough to have been granted privileged behind-the-scenes access to this American phenomenon throughout the race weekend. While Tiff Needell gets behind the wheel of one of the 200mph race cars, Jonny Smith talks to some of the fans, team owners and competitors – including ex-Formula One driver Juan Pablo Montoya – ahead of the big event.

The episode is now available.

EDIT: Whoops, post title changed. Tiff will be in a stock car next week, not this week.

The Scene is being slow with their release of today’s Fifth Gear (so far they’re 30-45 minutes behind). We’ll have it as soon as they put a rip out.

This week, Tiff feasts his eyes on the new V8 Lexus IS F. Tom ventures to the Arctic Circle to try out the Volvo XC70. Vicki test drives the new electric Smart car, before staging a shoot-out between two hot hatchbacks. And Jason sets a tough off-road challenge for England rugby skipper Phil Vickery.

Today’s Fifth Gear is now available.

Yep, unlike two weeks ago, today is actually the 25th and that means that Fifth Gear had the Nissan GT-R on. However, I’m told it was only on the screen for about 5 minutes, but still, better than nothing.

You can snag the episode right now.

UPDATE: It was indeed only about 5 minutes, but Jason made pretty good use of those 5 minutes. You shouldn’t be disappointed as it’s a fairly good review.

In this programme, Tiff and Jason race a pair of top coupes (the new BMW 135i Coupe and the Porsche Cayman); Tom tests a couple of 4×4s on an estate in Scotland; Jonny searches for the ideal car for a 17-year-old; Vicki road tests a pair of hot hatchbacks; and Freestyle Motocross star Travis Pastrana talks about his incredible stunts.

All that and more on today’s Fifth Gear. Enjoy.

Today’s Fifth Gear episode is out now.

In other news, I need to learn to use a calendar as today is the 11th, not the 25th, so no Nissan GT-R review today. (This post had previously mentioned the GT-R review being today.)

On February 25th’s episode of Fifth Gear, Jason Plato will be driving the much anticipated and much hyped Nissan GT-R.

Of course just like on every Monday, make sure to stop by here as we’ll be having the episode for you.

Today’s Fifth Gear is out and you can snag it right here.

BigJ was great enough to find me a copy of yesterday’s Fifth Gear and I’ve torrented it up for you all. Enjoy.

The Scene was slow today with releasing their rip (some group named “iNGOT” did today’s rip) and I’m unable to find a copy of it. I am looking though and will have a torrent out ASAP.

If you just can’t wait for our super fast public torrent, MotorWorld.net (previously known as Jabba’s World) has their own rip, but you’ll need to sign up to download.