POLICE VS X-STIG

Get an exclusive holiday deal! Enter promo code BENCOLLINS to get up to 6 additional months for free at https://surfshark.deals/bencollins Police interceptors are the elite of Police drivers and some of the most experienced and highly trained drivers in the world. As the authority on roadcraft, I was curious to find out how my skills would fare against one of their best known drivers: ‪@BenPearson1965‬, aka “Benny Boy” of ‘Police Interceptors’ fame on Channel 5. Now it may be a show from the telly but those Police are facing real-life situations and having to cope with the enormous strain of making potentially life and death decisions in real time. On top of driving the machine, they have to co-ordinate a shed-load of communications and vehicle deployment while never losing sight of the tactical assessment. And if you watch enough Police Interceptors on TV, which I have because I’m addicted to it, there’s a general theme.. the bad guys nearly always get caught… But what if the bad guy was a racing driver…? We couldn’t perform this test on the road, obviously, so a proving ground seemed like the best location. Without the element of the unknown that real life brings to the equation, it seemed fair to hobble the racing driver slightly with a fairly rubbish vehicle by comparison to the Police BMW. OK.. I still got a Golf GTi, hardly a slug, but honestly it was knackered with bald tyres, shot suspension and I needed a tetanus jab after driving it because it was so filthy. See what you think of the result. It did get me wondering… what would be the ultimate cop car? Maybe I’ve watched Mad Max too many times.