00:00www.mesmerism.info
00:30Going from Colorado Boulevard to Hamden in second gear, I went around the corner a little bit aggressively, a little
00:35bit of tire noise.
00:36From that moment, I paid attention to every single shift of every car I was ever a passenger of.
00:41I began to obsess about cars, but never really thought I could make it a living.
00:46And I volunteered as a mechanic on a race team.
00:49Terrible mechanic, but traded that time for seat time in a race car.
00:54Got my license, went SCCA racing.
00:56From there, I got into stunt driving, did Dukes of Hazzard in 2005, and done a lot of movies since
01:02then.
01:02And got into television a little bit as a drifter, a sport of drifting.
01:06When I was doing drifting, I started doing a show on the Speed Channel and on ESPN.
01:11And so that developed three careers.
01:13Driving, hosting TV shows, and stunt driving.
01:16And I love each one of them.
01:21In my career, I've really focused on doing things that keep the fun in driving.
01:25Whether it's Top Gear, which is a show that's basically about having fun with cars.
01:29Whether it's Rallycross, which is a sport which I think looks like a video game and looks like about the
01:34most fun thing you can do with a car.
01:36Or, you know, just in social media and stuff like that.
01:39Everything that I usually like to talk about is keeping driving fun.
01:42I still love driving.
01:44I just love how to make downshift noises when I'm pushing a grocery cart going from aisle to aisle.
01:51And I'm just into it.
01:56I love rally racing.
01:58When I was a kid, and I was never a motorsports fan.
02:01I never really followed IndyCar or NASCAR or anything like that.
02:04I just wanted to see what the job was.
02:06What, you know, what was a driver going through to do the job?
02:11And with rally racing, I remember seeing a Colin McRae video in the early 90s.
02:15And you could see the front tires turning and spinning.
02:18And it's so dynamic, you can see what the job is.
02:20You can see exactly what the driver is going through to get the job done.
02:23I was lucky enough for eight years to race rally through the forest.
02:26And you have a co-driver there telling you notes on exactly how sharp every single corner is.
02:31And it is scary, dangerous, it's so committed, and it's spectacular.
02:38The nice thing about the U.S. Top Gear is they never try to slot us into individual roles.
02:46So we get to just be ourselves.
02:48We're competitive.
02:49I'm competitive, obviously, from a racing background.
02:52Rutledge is goofy and always afraid to push the gas pedal.
02:56And Adam crashes just about everything he gets his hands on in real life.
03:00So why fake it?
03:05When we did the Hot Wheels jump at the Indy 500, I was like, yeah, it sounds good.
03:09We'll, you know, go down the road, see how it goes.
03:11And then they showed this engineering diagram of this ramp, the landing ramp,
03:15and then a little piece of lint in the middle, which was the truck in the air.
03:19It's a daunting, scary thing.
03:21But when you build up to it slowly and suddenly you find yourself in the air
03:26and you are in that little piece of lint in front of 300,000 people hoping to land at some
03:30point,
03:31you know, that's when the world records happen.
03:34I don't want to do the loop again.
03:36That was, that's why the loop is something you can't start small and build from it.
03:41You just basically have to Rochambeau with the other stunt guy and see who goes first.
03:53Every single turn of every single track that you've ever driven
03:57in either Motorsport 5 or in Horizon 2, it's mind-boggling.
04:03The amount of detail that goes in.
04:05There's literally a sculptor that comes in to shape a statue in the virtual world
04:13that is in reality in Prague, and that's just one of the statues that you blaze by on a racetrack.
04:18And you apply that to just being able to drive off on Horizon 2 off into a world
04:21and decide where you want to go, and it is absolutely difficult.
04:25It's impossible to comprehend.
04:31Having my race car in Forza is very strange.
04:35You know, I meet a lot of people at the track, and I love talking to car enthusiasts at the
04:38track,
04:38but when they say, oh, yeah, no, I drove your car, and, you know, we have that bond together
04:45where we have, we've driven the same car, we've raced the same thing,
04:48sometimes we've raced against each other, and, I mean, it's really cool that people have access to that.
04:54And the number one question that I get asked from anybody that I interact with
04:59on a professional level is, how do I get your job?
05:01And so for those people on Forza Motorsport to be able to experience the car
05:07and have my job there at that moment, it's a great thing,
05:10and I think people should do what they love for a living,
05:12so hopefully somehow that inspires them to go chase down their dreams and make it their job.
05:22The Beetle I'm racing this weekend, it is a 1.6 liter, 540 horsepower,
05:27all-wheel drive Beetle that goes 0 to 60 in 2 seconds flat.
05:29It is a monster. You don't hear that about the Beetle very often,
05:33but it is a vicious little Beetle.
05:34They are so wickedly quick and so awesome.
05:38I wish I could just take every single person in the bleachers for just one lap,
05:42and they would be absolutely hooked for life.
05:45Drive the Rockstar Energy Drink Rallycross Beetle and Forza Horizon 2
05:50and download the Rockstar Car Pack today.
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