Want a quick tour of Paris?

[RagingSamster]

Google Video

If I was cool I could embed it, but now you can resize it to your preference!

Amazing that no one was seriously injured

On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had ... all » a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.

No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.

The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets.

Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film went underground until a DVD release a few years ago.


***FIXED*** /target self /bonk

[Ghryphen]

If you were cool you wouldn't have copy and pasted a truncated url!!

[Stoke]

Ohhh BURN!

[CannonBall]

That is incredible.... I wasn't sure he was gonna make that turn 2:44 and the street at 6:45 is just wow, wow.

[Ardamir]

Stupid slow drivers...