Sunday, April 18, 2010

Mulholland Drift Session

Tanner Foust is just got promoted to my hero list. Sorry, Ghandi, you had a good run, but you never drifted through public roads like my buddy, Tanner, does. In what basically is a TRD Nascar cloaked in a Scion tc costume, Tanner Foust drifts through a 2 mile section of the famous Mulholland Hwy. Cameras are strategically placed to capture him outlining the road w/ two lines of rubber and a helicopter chases him too. Pretty sweet stuff but my favorite camera shots are the ones under the car, filming the suspension travel and smoke spewing tires.



For those who don't know, Tanner Foust is a former race car driver who has become a TV host for a few shows on speed channel and may possibly be one of the hosts on Top Gear US. He was one of the three who filmed the original US pilot before the show got canned. However, since then, his co-presenter, Adam Corolla (perfect name for a car show host), has leaked that TG US will be picked up after all and he was in process of filming it. Hopefully Mr. Foust will be part of the cast. I would like to see more of his driving antics.