- We got a bug coming up. [engine revving]
[glass shattering] [woman screaming]
If Kenevil can do it, so can I.
Hi, my names Wyatt Knox.
[bell dinging]
- [Narrator] Wyatt Knox is an American Rally Champion.
- And today, I'm breaking down more clips
from movies and TV about driving.
All wheel drive car control, Baby Driver.
[upbeat rock music] [tires squealing]
[engine revving]
[tires squealing] [siren wailing]
[brakes squealing]
[car honking] [siren wailing]
[car smashing] [car crunching]
So an all wheel drive, turbo charged 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.
Where an all wheel drive car
with all wheels driven, you can have more power
a turbo charged engine like this,
and put a lot of power down and get actual acceleration
instead of just wheel spin.
[siren wailing] ♪shes got them ♪
♪blues explosion♪ [siren wailing]
[horn honking] [tires squealing]
- [Passenger] whoa! [tires squealing]
It's also really nice to see that they 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 running away from a bank robbery
you're not just gonna be chucking it this sideways
but for the sake of what it is, it's on point.
Corkscrew jump, The Man With the Golden Gun.
- You're not thinking of...
- I sure am boy. [tires screeching]
[driver] I know how to Evel Knievel
[slide whistle up] [slide whistle down]
[screaming]
so this jump believe it or not is completely legit.
So it looks here that 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, the distance and the
calculated speed.
They actually slow the clip down a little bit for the movie
just because it happened so fast in real time.
[slide whistle up]
Add a little slide whistle over it and it's good to go.
- I've never done that before!
- Neither have I actually.
Car chase through San Francisco, Bullet.
[tires screeching] [engine revving]
[car crunching] [tires squealing]
So thing about San Francisco as a driver
you've got these steep uphills, steep downhills
big off-cambered corners and obviously the jumps that
make this car chase so famous.
This scene's 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.
[engine roaring]
There's the green Volkswagen. [engine accelerating]
There's the green Volkswagen.
Right?
Its the only thing I have bad to say about the whole chase.
Pit maneuver, Fast and Furious.
[engines revving]
[car hits car] [tires squealing]
In any sort of normal form of motor sport
this would be taking your license away
and you'd be black flagged forever.
- Can't be good for business.
- Yeah well that depends on how you look at things.
[tires squealing]
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.
[tires squealing] [engine revving]
- No!
- It's definitely something to be avoided.
It's not that big a danger 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 a lucky man.
- How's that?
- You're still breathing.
- You're a lot better off just driving faster
but you know illegal street racing is what it is.
Slingshot, Talladega Nights.
♪ Ride out of the sunset♪ - Come on man slingshot it!
- Shake and bake buddy!
Slingshot engage.
[engine revving] ♪'cause I'm TNT, I'm dynamite♪
[Narrator] Here's something, a rival driver pass a 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 phenomena.
- It's just exciting we're trying things like that.
- 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 hands.
- 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 what was goin' 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 is sort of just in
the slipstream for a second.
That's gonna give him a really good potential
for 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.
- Shake it before you bake it!
- Handbrake turn, Die Hard with a Vengeance.
- Hang the [beep]
on all right? [rapid gunfire]
[tires squealing] [gunfire]
[glass shattering] [gunfire]
[car crashing]
- 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.
- Yippie ki-yay
- I'm no expert on you know shooting out the window
lefthanded while you're 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 tried that in a modern car with the ABS
still active and that kind of thing,
it's just not gonna work.
- What the [beep]
happened?
You got a AAA card?
- Handbrake turn, Vacation.
- Hang on! [handbrake clicks]
[tires squeal] [car crashing]
[screaming] [car crashing]
Alright so this is computer generated
but it does depict a pretty real scenario.
So this is the Fast and Furious syndrome.
- If Vin Diesel can do it, so can I.
- Why are you as good as Vin Diesel?
- Things that are exaggerated through movies give people
a little bit of the wrong idea on what works and
what doesn't.
[handbrake clicks] [tires screech]
[car crashing]
so in a sports car or a rally car or something
kind of low long and wide, you get away with
sliding around and chucking it sideways
and doing handbrake turns and things like that.
In anything that's a little bit narrower
and a little bit taller you've got a much
higher center of gravity that you're risk of rollover
is much much higher.
- That's not what I was trying to do.
- Off road driving, The Dukes of Hazzard.
[engine revving] [car crashing]
[gravel sliding]
[water splashing] [engine revving]
[tires squealing] [engine revving]
High speed driving on some of these rougher surfaces
like what they're doing here with the old Charger.
[engine revving] [water splashing]
[gravel sliding] [tires screeching]
The main risk is gonna be flat tires,
broken suspension parts and definitely damaging
kind of the soft underbelly of your car and your tires.
- Well I guess we only got one choice.
[engine revving] [fence breaking]
- There are definitely measures that you can take
to protect the skid plates underneath the car
heavy-duty suspension, heavy-duty tires
maybe a little extra air pressure.
It's all real driving back then
and honestly it's really pretty good.
Car chase, Ronin.
[tires squealing] [engine revving]
[tires squealing]
[engine revving]
[tires squealing]
So these 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.
I like that.
My kind of job.
- The biggest key is just always looking for
your opening, and your window and your gap and your spot
where you can fit the car.
- Why?
Why?
- It's your human instinct a lot of times to be
looking at the pedestrian and the vegetable cart.
- Go to what you know.
- Just like skiing or mountain biking or anything else
you look at the bad things you hit the bad things,
you look at the good places, you look in the good places
you go in the good places.
Car chase through a mall, The Blues Brothers.
- You got us in this parking lot pal.
Now you get us out!
[car crashes] [tires squealing]
[screaming] [siren wailing]
[horn honking]
- Hey there's pants and burgers.
- Yeah, lots of space in this mall.
- So there's not a lot not to love about
The Blues Brothers chase through the mall.
There's nothing in there that your normal car
couldn't really do.
[tires squealing] [glass shattering]
[tires squealing] [car crashing]
[tires squealing]
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.
- Why don't you offer some constructive criticism?
- They should've put their seat belts on.
That's all I'm gonna say about that one.
Burnout, the Transporter.
[tires squealing] [engine revving]
[intense music] [yelling]
- Go go go go! [screaming]
- The foot camera of doing that burnout isn't exactly right.
- I'm listening.
- In order to do that burnout, you'd either need to
rev the engine, dump the clutch and quickly left foot brake.
- Be 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.
- No 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.
[engine revving] [screaming]
[car crashing]
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 hubcaps, Grease.
[engine revving] [taunting laughter]
[metal shearing] [engine revving]
The idea of putting spikes on your hubcaps to try
and get into somebody else's bodywork and their wheels
and tires and disable 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 his 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, it's gonna crack
and break apart pretty easily.
Probably wanna use some high-strength steel bolted through
your lug nuts.
You'd have some useful wheel spikes.
Horsepower, The Fate of the Furious.
[engine revving]
- You gotta have about 2000 horsepower in that thing.
- How about 3000? [engine revving]
[switches clicking] [air pressure releasing]
[engine revving] [metal cable tightening]
- Whoa! - Yeah!
- Two things on that.
One, as long as both rear tires are spinning
it doesn't matter if you have 2000 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.
- Something about this thing just doesn't add 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 wanna 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.
[engine revving]
[high tempo hillbilly music]
[Driver] Yeehaw! [car crashing]
[high tempo saloon piano music]
- One of the mainstays of the old Dukes of Hazzard
were these massive car jumps.
Thirty, forty feet in the air and everybody lands
and drives away like they're fine.
[car crashing] [siren wailing]
[high tempo saloon piano music]
[siren wailing]
[car crashing]
- Helicopters. Ready helicopters.
[siren wailing]
- 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 wanna do.
Good hand position always, especially in that situation.
- Sure gonna be a pleasure to work with
a real professional aint it?
- Yeah.
- But you definitely wanna be at the right angle
at 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, Spectre.
[intense chase music] - [Driver] Gah!
[engine revving] [car crashing]
- So he drives off a little jump in an Aston Martin
and rips the entire top off another car.
[engine revving] [car crashing]
without doing any damage to his.
Completely fake.
So on almost every vehicle in the world
you've got A, B, and C pillars.
Your 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 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 if your car is in a rollover 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.
[engine revving]
[scream]
[engine revving] [screaming]
[car crashing]
[engine revving] [tires squealing]
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 Aston's and the Jaguars and the real
you know, Bugatti's or whatever it is.
You wanna drive what everybody else is driving.
- I gotta 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 break-over 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
can drive up or down or over.
You wouldn't obviously wanna take off the top
quite as quickly as they did.
Go a little easier roll over and same thing at the bottom.
For driving down stair cases and over things like that,
a little Mini is actually a really good way to go.
[bell dings] [Narrator] 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 one is 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 chase scenes today is pretty spectacular to watch
and really enjoy a lot of it just as a viewer.
[singing bowls] [hands clapping]
Ah!