Pro Driver Breaks Down 16 Driving Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED

hi my name is Wyatt knocks Wyatt knocks is an American Rally Champion and today I'm breaking down more eclipses for movies and TV about driving all-wheel drive car control baby driver [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so an all-wheel-drive turbocharged car is gonna have a distinct advantage over a two-wheel drive car whether you have a front-wheel drive car or a rear-wheel drive car you need to put all of your power through those wheels in order to get traction and go we're an all-wheel drive car with all wheels driven you can have more power a turbocharged engine like this and to put a lot of power down and get actual acceleration instead of just wheel spin [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's also really nice to see that they've got a lot of the kind of clips to foot and hands and things inside the car pretty spot-on in this I mean the driving is highly exaggerated if you were you know running away from a bank robbery you're not just gonna be chucking at this sideways but for the sake of what it is it's on point corkscrew jump the man with the Golden Gun [Music] so this junk believe it or not is completely legit so it looks here like the driver kind of takes off and goes right off this jump I'm sure there was a longer run-up and the driver had a little bit of time to get up to speed find a steady speed and then really just accelerate smoothly off of it it was really well planned out as far as the curvature of things and the distance and the calculated speed they actually slowed the clip down a little bit for the movie just because it happened so fast in real time I had a little slide whistle over it and it's good to go neither by actually car chase through San Francisco bullet [Music] so the thing about San Francisco is as a driver you've got these steep uphill steep downhills big off cambered corners and obviously the jumps that make this car chase so famous this seems legendary and I don't have too much bad to say about it the one thing you will notice is the little green Volkswagen need some information they go by that beetle at least four times in this car chase other than that fantastic driving really good stuff there's the great Volkswagen there's the green Volkswagen there's the green Volkswagen there's a game modes like it right the only thing I've had to save up a whole day pit maneuver fast and furious [Applause] in any sort of normal form of motorsport this would be taking your license away and you'd be black flag forever you can't be good for business yeah well that depends on how you look at things essentially a pit maneuver is when you hit the rear quarter-panel of another car with the intention of spinning them out and around and crashing them so you can keep going it's definitely something to be avoided it's not that big a danger of crashing and going off the road but what you'll see is especially your front fenders bend in and get bound up on those tires real easily and then you're just giving yourself a flat tire and giving yourself a lot of problems down the road you're lucky man though you're still breathing you're a lot better off just driving faster but you know illegal street racing is what it is sling shot Talladega Nights link shot engage rival robber passive teammate in order to understand drafting it's easy to think about one car traveling through the air the resistance of pushing through all that air at the front of the car but then also at the back if you have two or three cars on the same team out there you can do a lot to help each other out using that drafting phenomenon it's just exciting that we're trying to think like yeah so the slingshot move there's two ways to do it the way that they do it here the two cars line up both of those cars are now gaining a bit of an advantage on that lead car I'm not sure what to do with my hand as the two cars approach the lead car the rear car comes out and has a bit of a burst of speed for a moment to try and overtake that lead car we're real happy with them with what was going on what's also very common in NASCAR is when you get three cars close together that lead car has a lot of drag on the front and the rear car has a lot of drag on the back but that middle car sort of just in a slipstream for a second that's going to give him a really good potential acceleration for a moment and if they capitalize on that you can get that pass where you might not be able otherwise to have the horsepower to do so thank you we find it like handbrake turn die hard with a vengeance I mean it's pretty good it's conceivable that with enough speed if you did a handbrake turn on a wet paved road like that you could get the car to do a 360 because I'm no expert on you know shooting out the window left-handed while you were trying to pull it off but you would definitely want to get rid of any ABS stability control traction control and that kind of stuff if you try that in a modern car with the ABS still active and that kind of thing it's just not gonna work pin break turn vacation all right so this is computer-generated but it does depict a pretty real scenario so this is the fast and furious syndrome if in diesel can do it so can i things that are exaggerated through movies give people a little bit of the wrong idea on what works and what doesn't so in a sports car or a rally car something kind of low slung and wide you get away with sliding around and chucking it sideways and doing handbrake turns and things like that anything that's a little bit narrower and a little bit taller you've got a much higher center of gravity that your risk of rollover is much much higher that's not what I was trying to do off-road driving the Dukes of Hazzard [Music] high-speed driving on some of these rougher surfaces like they're doing here with the old charger the main risk is going to be flat tires broken suspension parts and definitely damaging kind of the soft underbelly of your car and your tires well I guess there are definitely measures that you can take to protect you know skid plates underneath the car heavy-duty suspension heavy-duty tires maybe a little extra air pressure it's all real driving back that and honestly it's really pretty good car chase Ronin [Music] high-speed pursuits in narrow city streets like this chase through Paris there's a lot of curbs there's a lot of obstacles vegetable carts as they love in the movie chase scenes and everything else nice okay my kind of job the biggest key is really just always looking for your opening in your window and your gap and your spot where you can fit the car why it's your human instinct a lot of times to be looking at the pedestrian and the vegetable cargo to know just like skiing or mountain biking or anything else you know if you look at the bad things you hit the bad things you look in the good places you go in the good places car chase through a mall the Blues Brothers you got us into this parking lot answered burgers yeah lots of space in this mall so there's not a lot not to love about the Blues brothers chased through them all there's nothing in there that your normal car couldn't really do they drove through a lot of glass so you might get a flat tire but there wasn't really you know computer stuff back then to really fake anything with looks like a lot of fun chopper some constructive criticism should have put their seat belts on that's all to say about that one burn out the transporter [Music] the foot camera of doing that burnout isn't exactly right in order to do that burnout you'd either need to rev the engine dump the clutch and quickly left foot brake specific dumping the clutch is when you rev the engine and quickly release the clutch in order to shock load those rear tires and give them a lot of quick acceleration to get them to break traction and start spinning long speeches just keep it simple or manage both those tasks with just your right foot and heel and toe it to stay still doing a burnout but also you know obviously once he tries to jump the bridge it all just goes into computer-generated land and he lands on a trailer and magically drives away very good spikes on the hub caps grease the idea of putting spikes on your hubcaps to try and get into someone else's bodywork and their wheels and tires and disabled their vehicle well it's sort of bad sportsmanship I suppose yeah so what you find though is that he only mounted them kind of to its hubcaps and so when they really needed them they kind of fell off and you probably wouldn't want to make it out of aluminum like you see this one is is gonna crack and break apart pretty easily you probably want to use some high-strength steel bolted through your lug nuts you'd have some useful wheel spikes horsepower the fate of the Furious we've got up about 2,000 horsepower in that thing drop 3,000 ah two things on that one as long as both rear tires are spinning it doesn't matter if you have 2,000 horsepower 20,000 horsepower he's not getting any traction on the road he's not getting any grip he's not pulling anyone anywhere at that point some about this whole thing that just doesn't have up to me he might have 500 horsepower he could have closer to a thousand perhaps and in this situation where you're trying to pull something it's the difference between horsepower and torque is where you really might want to spend a little bit of time doing some homework I'm gonna keep it about the cars acceleration at higher speeds you're worried about horsepower but really pulling and moving and getting things going you need a huge amount of torque jumping a car the Dukes of Hazzard [Music] one of the mainstays of the old Dukes of Hazzard were these massive car jumps 30 40 feet in the air and everybody lands and drives away like they're fine helicopters many helicopters jumping a car is just like jumping anything else what you need is a pretty smooth takeoff and then a nice smooth downhill landing right before they go off the jump the driver takes his hands off the wheel and puts one sort of like in the middle of the wheel like this something you never really want to do good hand position always especially in that situation sure don't be a player too with you the real professionally yeah but you definitely want to be at the right angle on the takeoff on the throttle with a nice smooth landing on the way out in order to accomplish that successfully with a car crashing a car Spector [Music] so he drives off a little jump in an Aston Martin and rips the entire top off another car without doing any damage to his completely fake so in almost every vehicle in the world you've got a B and C pillars you're a pillars are the pillars on either side of your windshield those strong metal bars that go up and support the roof by your doors you've got the B pillars kind of on your shoulder length those are the B pillars and the C pillars if you have them if you've got you know not a really small car would be in the back again those rear most pillars that support the roof structure those a B and C pillars are some of the strongest points of your car so that if your cars roll over it doesn't just crumple the idea of an aston martin cruising through there with his bumper cover still intact is not realistic driving down the stairs the Bourne Identity so this is a great car chase it's all real driving there's no kind of CG stuff going on I'm just trying to do the right thing as far as the mini it's cool to see in a movie like this because in a real situation you're not gonna be driving you know the Astin's and the Jaguars and the real you know Bugattis or whatever it is you want to drive what everybody else is driving I got to figure this out whether or not a vehicle will be able to drive up or down stairs really you're looking at the approach angle which is the angle you'll be able to drive up something between the bumper and the tire the breakover angle which is in the middle and then your departure angle which is the same thing line between your rear bumper and the bottom of your rear tire that roughly tells you how much of an incline you could drive up or down or over you wouldn't obviously want to take off the top quite as quickly as they did you know go a little easier and roll over and same thing at the bottom for driving down staircases and over things like that a little mini it's actually a really good way to go conclusion as much fun as it is to kind of poke around and see what could be more realistic if you adhered by all of the actual laws of physics in the world a lot of these car chases would be really boring if one car spins out and the other ones just gone and that's the end of the scene nobody wants to watch that the way that they're filming some of these action chases today is pretty spectacular to watch and really enjoy a lot of it just as a viewer [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 15min 30sec (930 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 16 2019