
The car won, possibly because May did not have his instrument rating and therefore could not fly after dark. The objective was to deliver a truffle from Alba, Italy, to a restaurant in Tower 42 in London. private plane (Cessna 182) flown by May, with Hammond riding shotgun.
Car (Bugatti Veyron) driven by Clarkson vs. May and Hammond would probably have won handily if the destination hadn't been about the only ski resort in Switzerland without a rail service. In one of the most ludicrously unlikely (and hysterical) moments of the series, May and Hammond arrived in Verbier and were yards from the finish when Clarkson drove past them on the town's high street. commercial airliner/public transport to Verbier, Switzerland. The car did one mile, there and back, horizontally.
Hammond drove the Veyron in this challenge, making him the last of the three to try it and the only one to lose his challenge. car races, but such unlikely contests as :