Ben Collins Stunt Driver Page #4

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its gonna be like a space shuttle.

Apollo 13. No, Interstellar

is a better example.

So, get it into D,

set the launch control on.

Okay, so it's ready.

All I have to do is floor it.

And the turbo spools up, it's ready,

and I just dump the brake and we're off!

Oh, the braking, blimey.

Literally, you're peeling

the back of your head off the chair,

and the next thing is you're trying to

keep your nose off the dashboard.

And the distance compared to the Audi,

this is half the space.

0 to 60, back to naught

in hardly any space at all.

The McLaren certainly

has the straight line speed

to escape an aerial threat.

But, does it have

the manoeuvrability I need as well?

A striking feature of this car

is the aerodynamics.

Of course, McLaren

calls it the Active Aero.

Get on the brakes,

it pops up like a barn door,

acting as an air brake and stabilising

the car with extra downforce

to push the rear into the deck

and give you maximum braking force.

It's like having an R2-D2 on your shoulder,

setting X Foils into attack position.

Really incredible.

And it gives you

the confidence to attack these corners.

At the heart of this ship

is an ultra lightweight V8 engine,

powered with two turbochargers.

You just hear those

spooling up behind you,

there's this beautiful whistling sound

when you lay down the power.

This car only takes 5.7 seconds

to reach 100 miles an hour.

It's ridiculously fast.

The supercars of yesteryear

took that long to get from 0 to 60.

That engine just keeps on pushing

this car all the way up to 207 miles an hour.

So I love it.

It seems to be almost unbreakable.

Of course the question is,

will it be good enough for Barry?

Well, stopping power is, well, unbelievable,

acceleration, yep, phenomenal.

Handling-wise,

it's totally out of this world.

I think the other thing to

think about is, uh, off road.

Hmm, that could be interesting.

Right, now, there's an off-road course

around here somewhere.

Here we go. Bit of a ski jump.

Let's give this a try.

Whoa, there's some nasty gravel.

Don't want to chip the paint

on this baby.

And I don't want

the dust going in the air intake either.

The ride height on the McLaren

is not exactly high.

There's a bit of a dip,

let's have a... Whoa!

Well, that's enough.

That's going to rip the splitter off.

Right, I can't get over that.

As painful as it is to admit,

the McLaren 650S may not be

the ideal tool for off-roading.

So, I think this is going to

have to come off the menu.

Sorry, baby,

let's get you back off here.

What an amazing car.

The McLaren is just

a feat of engineering and design.

It's as good as anything I've ever driven

in terms of balance and performance.

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