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Lewis Hamilton ruled Top Gear's 'star in reasonably-priced car' until F1 rival beat him

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Top Gear's Star In a Reasonably Priced Car challenge was the one which gave the winner the best bragging rights.All the big names in the F1 world have taken part - including Lewis Hamilton, Nigel Mansell, Sebastian Vettel and Damon Hill.READ MORE: Top Gear reveals nation's favourite cop cars - from the Sweeney to Inspector MorseBut as the challenge drew to a close, there was a shock result when a young upstart not only knocked the reigning champion off the top spot - he smashed the fastest ever time.The BBC One show ran the weekly feature where famous faces got behind the wheel of a bog-standard car and did laps of the Top Gear circuit.There was also a spin-off which put F1 drivers in the same ordinary car, a Suzuki Liana, to see how fast they could drive it around the track.

The iconic car from the 2002 series of the show gave all the professional drivers a level playing field when taking it for a spin around the Top Gear test track.For years, Lewis Hamilton topped the leaderboard having completed the lap in a speedy 1 minute 42.9 seconds.But then, in 2015, he was dethroned by his young rival Daniel Ricciardo, who blitzed the circuit in 1 minute 42.2 seconds.Ricciardo, who was 25 at the time, whizzed round the lap a whopping seven-tenths of a second faster than Hamilton’s previous benchmark, which had stood for two years.Below is the Top Gear F1 drivers' league table, with the weather conditions which affected their performances: 1:42.2 - Daniel Ricciardo1:42.9 - Lewis Hamilton1:43.1 - Mark Webber1:44.0 - Sebastian Vettel1:44.3 - Rubens Barrichello1:44.4 – The Stig (II)1:44.6 – Nigel Mansell1:44.7 - Lewis Hamilton (Damp, oily)1:44.7 – Jenson Button (HOT)1:46.0 – The Stig (I) Black-Stig1:46.1 – Kimi Räikkönen (Very.

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