大世界之旅（2016）

The Grand Tour S03E12

Part 5 May 6, 2021, 12:15 p.m.

Top speed, 224 miles an hour.
极速360km/h
And it was built without compromise,
在制♥造♥上它毫无妥协
using the absolute bare minimum of materials.
尽可能地用最少的材料
So, for example, this bodywork,
比如说它的车身
which is very close to my head,
离我的头非常近
it's fibreglass,
是玻璃纤维的
1.2 millimetres thick, that's it.
只有1.2毫米就这么薄
Now, in front of me I have a big rev counter,
在我面前有个很大的转速表
an oil temperature gauge, and an oil pressure gauge.
一个油温表一个油压表
That's all the information you get.
只有这么多信息了
If those are reading correctly,
如果一切读数正常
that means the engine isn't going to blow up,
就表示引擎不会爆♥炸♥
and that means you can pin it!
那就意味着你可以深踩油门了
Jeez! It's the world's fastest canoe!
天哪这简直是世界上最快的独木舟
The five-litre 12-cylinder engine
5升的12缸引擎
produces 621 horsepower,
能产生621匹马力
which is modest by the standards of today's road-going hypercars.
对于如今的公路超跑来说不算什么
But this thing weighs just 800 kilograms.
但这辆车只有800公斤重
As a result, the power-to-weight...
结果就是它的功率质量比
is off the scale!
高到爆表
Bloody hell, this is special.
我的天哪无与伦比
I'm amazed Porsche let me drive it at all.
不敢相信保时捷肯让我开这个
I mean, they didn't give me any training.
我是说他们都没让我训练
They just put me in and said,
就让我坐进来然后说
"Pull zis und turn zat and, oh, you'll be fine, mm."
"拉一下这个转一下那个就可以了嗯"
What's more amazing than that, actually,
比这还要难以置信的
is that this car exists at all,
是这辆车的存在本身
because its gestation was...
因为它的诞生…
let's say... it was quite difficult.
这么说吧…非常的不容易
The story of its birth starts in 1968,
它诞生的故事始于1968年
when the governing body for sports car racing,
当时赛车运动的管理机构
alarmed that the top-end, unregulated prototype cars
发出了警告高端的非量产原型车
were becoming too fast, too expensive, and too dangerous,
开始变得过于快过于昂贵而且过于危险
decreed that such machines should have engines no larger than three litres.
并下令这些车不能配备排量大于3升的引擎
However, the governing body also said that if you could build
然而赛事机构也声称如果你能造出
25 road-going versions of your racing car,
25辆公路版的赛车
that engine limit would be raised to five litres.
那么引擎排量的限制可以提高到5升
Although, secretly they knew that no small sports car manufacturer
尽管他们私下清楚没有哪家小规模的跑车厂商
could actually afford to do that.
能负担得起这个
They didn't think there'd be any takers.
但他们没想到真的有接受挑战的
What they hadn't reckoned on was Porsche's head of motorsport Ferdinand Piech.
他们没考虑到的是保时捷赛车部的老板费迪南德·皮耶希
Back then, Porsche was a tiny cash-starved outfit,
当时保时捷只是个资♥金♥短♥缺♥的小作坊
nothing like the prosperous company we know today.
完全不是今天大公♥司♥的样子
But Piech was so consumed with scoring an outright win at Le Mans
但皮耶希非常渴望能在勒芒赛场上取得大胜
that he decided he was going to build those 25 cars,
他决定造出那25辆车
even though the next Le Mans was only a few months away.
尽管离勒芒只剩几个月的时间了
So, everybody, and I do mean everybody -
所以每个人真的是每个人
the accountants, managers, office juniors, secretaries -
会计经理杂工秘书
they were all hauled away from their desks
所有人都被赶离办公桌
to go down to the production line and work on getting those cars ready.
跑去生产线上拧螺丝
They actually became known as the "secretary cars".
这些车被称为"秘书之车"
The ragtag Porsche team just made the deadline,
狼狈不堪的保时捷团队勉强完工了
and the motorsport inspectors gave the road cars the sign-off,
赛事审查员验收了这些公路车
presumably not inspecting them too closely
他们应该没有太仔细检查
or they would have noticed that most of them had truck axles.
不然就会发现大多数车都装了卡车的轴
With the green light given for Porsche to enter the Le Mans race,
当保时捷被获准参与勒芒赛事之后
Piech got to work getting some cars ready in time.
皮耶希及时准备好了几辆赛车
Now, on the plus side, they were blindingly fast.
从好的方面说它们速度极快
One car clocked 238 on the Mulsanne Straight.
有一辆车在慕尚直道上跑到了383km/h
On the downside, though, they were terrifyingly unstable
但从坏的方面说它们非常不稳定
and virtually undriveable.
几乎无法驾驭
The drivers simply didn't know
车手根本不知道
what the car was going to do next.
车子接下来会做什么
There was so much chassis flex
底盘的形变太大了
that the gear lever would move around all over the place.
挡把会到处乱跑
They'd make a gear change, put their hand there the next time,
车手换完挡下次再去摸挡把的时候
and it'd be somewhere else.
它就不在那里了
Piech hoped for a big win at the 1969 Le Mans race,
皮耶希本想在1969年的勒芒上大获全胜
but it was a disaster.
但结果是一场灾难
One of the privately-entered cars crashed on lap one,
这几辆独♥立♥参赛的车其中一辆在第一圈撞了
killing its driver.
车手因此丧生
The others broke down as the race wore on
其他几辆在比赛过程中接连故障
until just one remained, driven by this man,
只有一辆完赛它的车手
British driver Dickie Attwood.
是英国车手迪基·阿特伍德
"Difficult" would be, er, putting it mildly.
"困难"这个说法太婉转了
Um... er, "life-threatening" could be another one.
嗯…"有生命危险"可能更贴切
Um... Right.
嗯… 好吧
It was, um, a monster.
它是一头怪兽
It was made for speed,
它是为了速度而生的
like a bullet, to go through the air,
就像一颗子弹穿透空气
but the, er, there wasn't enough pressure on the bodywork
但它的车身无法产生足够的下压力
to keep it on the ground.
把车子按在地上
And so the faster you went, the more unstable it was.
所以你开得越快车辆越不稳定
It was so horrendous,
太吓人了
I was waiting, hopefully, that the car would break.
我一直指望着这辆车能出故障
And eventually it did.
最终真的故障了
But it was 21 hours before it broke.
但故障时已经过了21个小时了
We were six laps in the lead, so we hadn't got far to go.
我们领先了6圈所以不用撑多久了
But I was, I was happy the car broke.
但车坏了我真的很高兴
Undeterred, Porsche hired British race engineer John Wyre,
不畏险阻保时捷请来了英国赛车工程师约翰·怀尔
who'd helped to develop the Ford GT40,
他协助开♥发♥了福特GT40
to sort out the 917's evil handling.
让他来解决917吓人的操控问题
And he cracked the problem,
然后他把问题解决了
with a little help from Mother Nature.
借助了一点大自然的力量
After one really long test session,
在一次非常漫长的测试过后
Wyre and his drivers noticed that although the front of the car
怀尔和车手们发现虽然车头的部分
was absolutely plastered in dead bugs,
布满了昆虫的尸体
there were none here on the rear wing,
但尾翼上却干干净净
which must have meant the air wasn't flowing over it,
说明并没有空气流过
and it wasn't producing any downforce,
也就没有产生任何下压力
and it wasn't pressing the car down into the track.
并没有将车辆按在赛道上
Having reworked the aerodynamics of their problem child,
重新调整了空气动力学特性之后
Porsche arrived at the 1970 Le Mans race with renewed hope
保时捷带着新的希望来到了1970年的勒芒
and Dickie Attwood once more at the wheel.
而迪基·阿特伍德再次出任车手
During the race, the 917s were blisteringly fast -
在比赛中 917的速度非常快
as ever -
跟以前一样
but this time, mercifully, they were much more stable.
但幸好这次要稳定得多
And although heavy rain claimed victim after victim,
尽管大雨不停地引发事故
Attwood and the 917 took the chequered flag
阿特伍德驾驶917夺下格子旗
and gave Porsche their first ever outright win at Le Mans.
为保时捷赢得了勒芒赛场上的首场大胜
It was a win they badly needed,
他们亟需这场胜利
because they had, quite literally,
因为他们真的
gambled the company on it.
赌上了全部家当
It's also true to say that this car
可以说这辆车
nearly broke Porsche, as well, didn't it?
差点让保时捷破产是吗
Because they were a very small company.
因为他们当时是个小公♥司♥
It did. Um...
是的嗯…
Again, it was Ferdinand Piech
还是因为费迪南德·皮耶希
and, er, he was a guy who was, um, quite extreme.
额他是一个非常极端的人
He was so enthused to do what he's done that
他怀有满腔热情所做的事
that nearly broke the company, it did.
几乎让整个公♥司♥破产确实如此
Yeah, the racing programme nearly destroyed Porsche.
赛车项目几乎毁掉了保时捷
From then on, there was no stopping the 917
从那以后 917无人可挡
as it set about building its own legend.
它建立起了自己的传奇
The following year at Le Mans,
次年的勒芒上
on the way to another crushing victory,
在又一次大获全胜的途中
it would go through the speed traps
它驶过测速点时的速度
at over 241 miles an hour,
超过了每小时387公里
a record that stood for more than 20 years.
这项纪录保持了超过20年
And in that same race, it was so fast
还是那场比赛它的车速之快