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I am the motorsports editor for German-World, the only bilingual magazine dedicated to Austrian, German and Swiss culture. German-World is produced in Los Angeles, California, as a bimonthly publication.

As the motorsports editor, I will bring our readers articles covering the stars and cars of European auto racing, in particular the exploits and personal adventures of the many German, Swiss and Austrian racing drivers as they race on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Click on the Logo below to visit the German-World web site.

Above is a link to the BBC's Top Gear television show. Unlike the numerous SPEED TV and ESPN shows that cannot crack a smile and take themselves a bit too seriously, Top Gear is irreverent, zany and a whole lot of laughs. They do throw in a real road test or two but only just.

Presenters in size order from tall to not so tall are: Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond. Hammond by the way, is sort of like an over-active lap dog. James May doesn't really understand cars (or so you'd think) and Jeremy Clarkson is an older "Tim 'The Tool Man' Taylor," preferring horsepower to common sense.

The show also features celebrities such as Hugh Grant, Formula One racer Jenson Button, Trevor Eves (Waking the Dead) or Gordon Ramsay (Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares) attempting to navigate the Top Gear test track in a "reasonably priced car."

Then there's "The Stig!" "Some say he fell out of his mother's womb dressed in his racing suit and ready to have a go." Dressed, as he is, in white from the top of his crash helmet to the ends of his toes, The Stig is the engimatic yardstick against which the others attempt to beat.

To view Top Gear in America, you must first have BBC or BBC America on your satellite or cable system. If you are on the East Coast of America, the show is on at 8:00 PM on Monday evenings. If you are out here where I live it is on at 5:00 P.M., also on Mondays. Lucky that the BBC didn't just use Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). We'd all be screwed.