Ben Collins Stunt Driver Page #2

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touch the throttle

and the back end lights up,

because the axle's pointing

the wrong way as well.

It's like driving, I don't know...

A wheelie bin.

Here we go.

There's another tight hairpin.

I'm dreading this.

Keep turning, keep turning,

nothing's happening.

I think I'll be doing that all day long.

I love this baby, but I think I'll have

to retire it and find something else.

Something like that looks pretty nice.

Now, I know Barry said no old cars,

but if it was good enough for Steve

McQueen in Bullitt, it'd be rude not to.

Now, this is a bit more like it!

A proper American muscle car.

The 1965 Ford Mustang was built to

chew up road courses like this one.

Now I should have no problem

tackling a few lefts and rights.

I love these old cars.

You can feel the heritage of it.

You can smell the leather.

You can smell some gasoline,

actually, to be honest.

You've got lots of movement in the Tyre

that, really, you can embrace it

and drive the car to its limit.

I drove a car just like this one

in Fast and Furious,

chasing through the streets of London.

Now, that high-pitched

sound you're hearing

is the inside wheel spinning,

so there's obviously...

There's no lock diff

in the back putting traction

through both rear tyres, which is

not good for making forward progress.

It's, uh, pretty spongy

and not really that stable,

and the jelly-like suspension...

Well, you can't exactly say

it corners like it's on rails.

Oh!

It's all right, granddad.

The beauty of the '65 Mustang, though,

is it does look the part,

and I'll give it that.

But I don't think

I'll get many points for that

when I'm under attack from live rounds,

from whatever it is that

Barry's got in store for me.

And as much as I love this track

and these machines,

my search is going to

have to Cary on elsewhere,

because I think that when

it really comes down to it,

these old boys are going to let me down.

You have one new message.

Ben, don't think I'm not

monitoring your every move.

I told you, no old cars.

Stop disobeying orders

and carry out the mission.

Otherwise, I will be forced

to take extreme measures.

Now, as much as

I love old school American muscle cars,

those ones just threw up far

more questions than answers.

They are totally impractical,

fragile even by modern standards.

But, what I do still need is something

with the NASCAR top speed

that corners like it's on rails.

In short, what I think

I need is a supercar.

And there's none more capable

or more loaded with technology

than the one I'm driving next.

Welcome to the future.

This is the 650S,

the latest creation from McLaren

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