A HEREFORDSHIRE vintage car event has been featured on BBC Top Gear.
The latest series of Top Gear ended on Sunday evening with presenters Paddy McGuiness, Freddie Flintoff and Chris Harris taking on trialling in vintage cars at How Caple Court, near Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire.
Top Gear's visit to the county for the rally was part of it's celebration of 100 years of the BBC.
The episode saw the trio attempting to tackle motorsport 1920's style by driving a classic Invicta car not only through the country roads of Herefordshire but tackling a muddy course at the Herefordshire Trial hosted by the Vintage Sports Car Club.
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The two-day rally is organised by the Vintage Sports-Car Club and was held in late March.
Competition events involved the drivers coaxing the vintage cars up and down steep hills with the passengers bouncing up and down in the back to stop the cars getting bogged down in the mud.
Chris Harris, Freddie Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness, pictured, took part in the Vintage Sports-Car Club rally at How Caple Court, Herefordshire. Picture: Karen Lynch.
The standing start feature of the courses proved to be a challenge too far for the trio who ended up stalling and rolling back to the start on numerous occasions.
Although not featured in the episode, Richard Hammond was also present at the rally, filming for a seperate series.
The former Top Gear host, who lives in Weston-under Penyard was there filming for his 'Richard Hammond's Workshop' programme which features on Discovery Plus.
Richard Hammond at Vintage Sports-Car Club rally at How Caple Court. Picture: Karen Lynch
The Top Gear presenters, perhaps unsurprisingly finished a long way down the rankings but thoroughly enjoyed their day in the Herefordshire countryside.
Paddy McGuiness, speaking after the segment described the How Caple event as 'proper eccentric motorsport'
Freddie Flintoff also said on the show: "I love the fact that all over the UK every weekend there's people out there doing daft things in cars.
Not just trialling, banger racing, side car racing and hill climbs. It makes you proud to be British."
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