Top Gear roadshow zooms into town

Top Gearpresenter Jeremy Clarkson has apologised to fans who will have to use public transport to get to their shows in the RDS Simmonscourt in Dublin.

All 49,000 tickets priced at €75 each for the four day event have sold out for the show, which is a global phenomenon, but the organisers have warned there is no car parking in the vicinity.

Clarkson, who arrived in Dublin with the other presenters, Richard Hammond and James May last night, said he only heard about the parking restrictions this morning.

"It's like the sign at Silverstone which says, 'please drive carefully'," said Clarkson at a press conference held in Brown Thomas in Grafton Street this morning. "I can only apologise for that. Any one who finds themselves on public transport after the age of 26 must consider themselves a failure."

At the press conference, the three presenters promised fans an improved show from the one which has been going on in London and Birmingham and also audience interaction. Dublin is their first show outside the UK

The 70 minute show will feature many of the stunts and driving sequences from the televised programme and the audience will be given the chance to set a time around the Top Geartest track.

There will be ten shows in total over the course of four days at the RDS. There will also be a dedicated exhibition featuring Top Gear'sfavourite cars including a Bugatti Veyron, Ferrari 599 GTB and the Koenisegg.

"Every single show is different. You can't possibly predict what is going to happen. If the three of us have a race, you can't possibly predict if one of us will crash," said Clarkson.

"I drove out of a massive powerslide in Birmingham and found the floor was completely different from the floor in Earl's Court (London) and nearly got sucked into the audience."

The three were mobbed when they signed books in Brown Thomas after the press conference and left for the RDS in a black Audi.