Anyone that thinks a straight shoot out between a bike and a car on a track both at the same time is fair is out of their trolly quite frankly. On behalf of those of us that have actually ridden a motorcycle I'll let all the rest of you in to a little secret. Being anywhere near the same peice of road as a tonne and a half of wildly swinging metal is going to put you seriously off your riding. Self preservation (no matter how mad you are) will kick in and prevent you from actually riding as well as you might otherwise be apt to do so. Bikes and cars take completly different lines through corners etc and they are always going to get in each others way to a dangerous degree. Cars are big and wide and very hard to pass, (especially on narrow ciruits), bikes on the other hand are not.  So irrespective of how Mr Jeremy "i hate motorcycles (because I'm too much of a scaredy cat to actually ride one myself)" Clarkson would like to have you believe he put up a fair test, he has done nothing more than pull the wool over your eyes and contrived a test that he knew full well the motorcycle was going to loose.

GTM