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00:00wow oh so it looks like trash box but it's a communist era car with a very special engine
00:09this is what you call a sleeper it's a tvr you know tbr it's a british race car yeah it's a monster
00:15damn it's guttural this thing is saying i'm an old communist era car but inside yo man
00:28i got some meat i got some juice for you i'll just take it up the road don't drive too slow i won't
00:50everything a car should be how is this car coming out of poland
00:58i love this car oh my god it just it it revives me it revives my soul
01:07oh i want this car i want a car like this in my life
01:10this in my life you can always come to point the wizard oh my god
01:17i'm sung kang you may know me from the fast and furious
01:22i'm passionate about cars in real life too
01:24and it's not just the thrill of driving cars are a gateway into diverse and often overlooked cultures
01:33connecting exciting communities and people sounds like a jet engine so this is my dream job taking
01:39you on a global road trip to see how cars are changing our world and making all of us a little
01:46better this is the right life
01:52it's my first time in poland and i'm kick-starting my deep dive into the nation's car culture
02:07by getting to grips with the legacy of its communist era
02:15hey hey sang how are you good you must be martin
02:19good to see you welcome to sunny poland thank you it was nice it was a beautiful country
02:28while most poles are driving cars from western europe's popular brands
02:33martin tetzlaw is keeping alive memories of the communist era cars that once ruled poland's roads
02:38it's like the warshaw the serena and the legendary polski fiat it has a lot of soul this car yeah it's
02:48uh you know every car is not only a piece of metal and nice technical ish things inside it's history
02:55so every scratch every sticker has its own history yeah so this is a fiat this is a fiat 125 polski fiat
03:02polski it's based on an italian license but made in poland outside of poland communist era cars were
03:12labeled as unreliable and outdated but for poles a chronically inefficient government-controlled
03:18industry made owning a car a highly coveted luxury my grandma drove a car like this so my memories from
03:27childhood are connected to this car and i always love this car can i check inside of course check
03:34so cool everything is strange you can't start the car by key you need a procedure so you have to
03:41make this the fuel pump uh it's on a separate uh button i love the zip ties it has so much character
03:49martin so why this car though it was so fascinating and i love the shape it's nice it looks good it's
03:5640 43 years old 43 years old yes i'm not driving slow with the car so i'm using it as it would be new
04:05this power steering yes it's posted it is yeah it's one of my tuning modifications yeah it's like a knife
04:14it's so nice this is my first communist era car i've ever driven but there's a familiar feeling to
04:25this car because i like old cars
04:30this is so easy to drive i love this one so how was it growing up in the communist era compared to now
04:39how did people get cars during that era you had to know someone you get a coupon for a car you got
04:45from the polish government every month yeah coupons for food you couldn't buy food for money and the
04:51coupon for car was for example like you get the car in seven or eight years wow everything is government
04:59controlled you go to work live eat and go to work live eat no freedom no no nothing it doesn't really work
05:06though especially if you love cars spreading the love for these communist era cars has become martin's
05:14mission he's drawn together like-minded car buffs to an epic annual road trip called slumball which
05:20loosely means trash cars it's the main rule when you want to go slumball you need a communist era car
05:30everyone is equal you are cool when you have a shitty car
05:33yeah so you can't be special and when you live this adventure and you go somewhere this one mission
05:40we go we sit we speak we drive and it's it's fantastic and this i think thanks to slumball many cars
05:49survived today's slumball meet is being held on the sacred ground of a former polski factory yacht cars
05:58were produced in this factory and also tested in this track martin's called together some of his
06:04lumball community to show how they've given old cars new means what's that warsawa it's a pole it's
06:13this is the original polish car oh i like that it's a russian four by four fso tarpan wow i like the
06:23hood still has something from alfa romero and i like the corners yeah oh nice in the past the people
06:36didn't like this colonist style cars and they they stopped taking care for them fresh trash trash trash
06:42trash and suddenly everyone wants to have one hi how are you fine sorry pronounces look
06:50look what did they use this car in the communist era for police have this car oh this was a police
06:56car yes yes this car was made for fire police okay it was only 30 cars like this 30 cars like this
07:04he wants to do this like pickup style and his friends told him that it's better to make party car
07:12party car
07:27welcome to our little home
07:30this is this is a russian yeah it's from russian it's but before russian it's from soviet republic
07:38but with polish heart yeah with polish engine so what is this called it's was yeah 452
07:48it feels so cozy here we choose this car because we were looking for a car from eastern europe and
07:56we love off-road so it's only one car with four-wheel drive
08:00yeah and it's a van so we can make our our home our little home and it has polish heart yeah yeah
08:11i love the contrast of taking something that represented a dark time represented repression
08:18made it into this beautiful thing a beautiful community i have something for you uh
08:24this is for your stay in poland wow this is your right so no special modifications stock car
08:38so now you get the real communist car era experience driving around poland in this car no rental car no
08:48nothing well it has us it has a seat belt somewhere this is a seat belt right wait this is just a lot of
08:58fabric i guess it's just a it's a scarf
09:09the thing that i learned from martin is that he just goes for it but then you have a purpose behind
09:20it it's to build this community build this country to do it together to extract the positives out of a
09:30dark time they love this car here i think it reminds everybody of their childhood
09:44many many decades we just thought that poland equal communism well from the limited experiences
09:51that i've had with polish people i know that they have a can-do attitude that they are flexible
09:58they make do with what they have and they make the best out of it so i'm sure it reflects with
10:05their car culture i'm sure that they had to create a new identity that when something is new
10:15everything is fresh everything is exciting my quest in poland is still to get some personal answers
10:23i have to keep my heart open and i have to be willing to learn from anywhere i go new culture
10:32can teach you a lot it can change you for the better i'm heading north to meet a man who embodies
10:40the resilient and optimistic spirit of the polish people he's a world record holder and a role model
10:46on and off the track mortosh osuloski or bart lost his arms in a tragic accident but that hasn't held
10:55them back from being a professional racer hello man hello nice to meet you nice to meet you oh it's a
11:06pleasure to meet you bartosh yes or bart in in short version yeah okay bart yeah wow this is your drift car yes
11:16g92 with a special setup for me i think that this is only one piece of car like this in the world
11:27because here we have a v8 engine from chevrolet corvette special modified plus two turbocharged
11:35so this is over a thousand horsepower thousand horsepower yeah oh not bad yeah
11:41why do you keep drifting even after your accident i was a passionate of motorsport from an early age
11:50and when i was child i dreamed to be a racing driver i did everything in my life to realize
11:57these dreams then unfortunately i had the accident the car cut my road and i had to turn right very fast
12:06to don't hit the car we slide along the road i crashed into the old roadside barrier i woke up on the
12:15hospital one and a half hour after and the doctors told me that they had to amputee both my arms i was
12:23crushed that i i i couldn't be a driver anymore but after a few months i started thinking okay it's done
12:34i can't change anything with this i started to understand that everything is still possible
12:41i have a goal to to to fight for my dreams again wow yeah i think that's the polish spirit is to find
12:47a way as i'm meeting like people in poland i'm realizing that is kind of a trait of the polish people
12:54is that even in the darkest times like you find a way yeah right you know bart has etched his name
13:00into the record books setting the fastest ever drift speed while steering with his feet a phenomenal
13:07231.66 kilometers an hour here we have a basically normal situation the gas pedal brake uh and the
13:19steering wheel okay which i can use operate like this here is gas uh brake and here is also handbrake
13:29uh-huh so this is not normal uh position for handbrake but i can uh press the you know gas gas gas and
13:36fast here is special shifters where i can change in gears with my shoulders so i put forward to change
13:44gear up and put backwards to to change gear down well i can we go for a ride then yeah yeah i think all right
13:53let's go yeah let's not break any records today speed records we'll take it easy okay
14:05okay okay okay so you're ready i'm ready okay
14:16amazing i mean because he has such a candid attitude i mean part is the teacher that i've been waiting for
14:44teach me how to drift people think because of the movies like i know how to drift like and i'm some
14:51drift expert but to be honest with you is like i don't know how to drift okay so you're actually
14:57gonna teach me all right you don't know how to drift after the uh this is a clutch you have to fast kick
15:11the clutch to initiate drift push and off just like that yeah yeah yeah exactly so clutch handbrake and
15:19steering wheel okay let's try let's try all right let's go drifting first gear first
15:32too too much gas oh oh this clutch is yeah it's just different it's sharp it's so sharp
15:40okay okay and then you can start clutch handbrake and clutch okay okay okay it's not easy right
15:59you have to first put the gas and then clutch okay oh yeah yeah
16:04try the kick back
16:10oh yeah
16:12good good good good good good
16:14and brake let's go
16:15yes
16:15you got this
16:18yeah
16:18you got this
16:19yeah
16:23yeah
16:23good
16:24good
16:25nice
16:29nice
16:30Oh, good job!
16:32Whoo-hoo!
16:35Wow, I feel alive!
16:39Oh!
16:42Great?
16:43Wow.
16:44Amazing, Bart.
16:45Yeah, good job!
16:46Thank you for my first official drifting lesson.
16:49Knuckles?
16:50Yes, knuckles.
16:51Boop!
16:52I feel like you just gotta be really patient, too,
16:56and just, like, relax.
16:58Like, I'm gonna, like, do too much, huh?
17:00You did this.
17:01You did this.
17:02Thank you, Bart.
17:03Yeah.
17:04I mean, it's just been a real honor to meet you.
17:06Thank you very much.
17:07Thank you for this amazing day.
17:08You were such an inspiration.
17:10Oh!
17:11Man, it's so exciting.
17:13Did you have a lot of, like, crashes when you were learning,
17:16especially with this car?
17:18Not really.
17:19No?
17:20No.
17:21Oh.
17:22I was, uh, good for start.
17:23Yeah?
17:28Bart's someone I'm always gonna remember whenever I doubt myself.
17:32Yeah, Bart represents perseverance.
17:35He represents a renewed enthusiasm for life.
17:39They can break my heart, but they'll never take my soul.
17:43Poland has enjoyed decades of peace,
17:46but there are constant reminders of how fragile that can be.
17:50It's crazy to see tanks just...
17:55It tells you, man,
17:57the war is just a few miles away.
17:59Right next door,
18:01Ukraine has been devastated by Russia's invasion.
18:06Since February 2022,
18:08over 15 million Ukrainians have fled into Poland.
18:12But even the way Polish people have went out and embraced the Ukrainians, right?
18:19That's the spirit of the Polish people.
18:22I want to find out how the Poles and their cars are bringing hope to their neighbors.
18:28Let's go learn.
18:29Let's get inspired.
18:31Hi.
18:32Hi.
18:33How are you?
18:34Good, how are you?
18:35I'm Ella.
18:36Lovely to meet you.
18:37Hi Ella.
18:38So what is this place?
18:40So it's called Polygon 4x4.
18:42Uh-huh.
18:43And this is like an off-road training place.
18:46Ella was a 39-year-old project manager
18:49who'd never dreamed of driving off-road
18:52until war broke out across the border.
18:54Basically, like, five days after the war,
18:57I went to the border first time.
18:59Uh-huh.
19:00Because I'm thinking, like, how can I help?
19:02And I didn't know what to do at all.
19:04But then I look at all these women and kids,
19:07and I raised my hand back then.
19:09I thought my car can carry on three people.
19:11And that's why I wrote on Facebook,
19:14girls, sisters, mothers, grandmas, you know, let's go.
19:19Let's go pick up our sisters from the border.
19:22Let's, we can drive.
19:23How many total people have you brought over from the Ukraine, do you think?
19:27Uh-huh.
19:28So we, as women, take the wheel around one and a half thousand.
19:31One and a half thousand?
19:32Yeah.
19:33Plus, like, 500 pets, I would say.
19:37And pets, too.
19:38Aww.
19:40Drivers from Ella's group need a unique set of driving skills
19:43to navigate a war zone.
19:45Let's not forget that during the war, the fear will be there.
19:48Yeah.
19:49The fear of the bomb.
19:50Yeah.
19:51Ella's instructor, Grigouche, is hoping to turn her
19:54into the ultimate getaway driver.
19:56And now, let's start this maneuver.
19:58Let's go.
19:59Let's go.
20:00Let's go.
20:01Let's change it to 1K.
20:04This is basically a very good terrain
20:06to show how the roads in Ukraine look sometimes.
20:08It's going to be a bumpy ride.
20:10Okay.
20:11I put it on three days.
20:13What's he having you do right now?
20:15So basically, the point of it is,
20:17I just see something in front of me.
20:19Yeah.
20:20Let's say a tank,
20:21and I immediately am able to go back.
20:24Yeah.
20:25Let's go.
20:26Let's go.
20:27Let's go.
20:28Let's go.
20:29Let's go.
20:30We have to go.
20:31Let's go.
20:32Let's go.
20:33Let's go.
20:34Now, it's like.
20:35Let's go.
20:36Let's go.
20:37Let's go.
20:38Let's go.
20:39Let's go.
20:40Let's go.
20:41Let's go.
20:46Oh my God.
20:48This is like a gym work.
20:50Yes.
20:51Yeah.
20:52Excellent.
20:53It's okay.
20:54In recent months,
20:55Ella's Ukraine missions have focused on delivering humanitarian supplies.
21:00So when's your next trip?
21:01Today.
21:02Tonight.
21:03Yeah, I'm leaving tonight.
21:04Wow.
21:05Hello.
21:06It's time to head back to Ella's base,
21:07where she'll be loading up before driving through the night.
21:09How do you like this car?
21:10I love this car.
21:11Yeah.
21:12I love this car.
21:13Yeah.
21:14Stand up.
21:15I know it's time to stand up.
21:16Stand up.
21:17Stand up.
21:18Stand up.
21:19I know it's time to stand up.
21:20Stand up.
21:21Ooh.
21:22Aren't you scared that you're going to get hurt, Ella?
21:29You don't think about that?
21:31Well, I think, I don't know, you program yourself that you're on a mission.
21:37These people depend on you.
21:38And even though they tell you stories that are horrifying sometimes, you kind of you
21:50are in a zone that this is not your time to cry.
21:57Has any of the drivers that helped gotten hurt?
22:03Yeah.
22:04Well, we had one situation and the shelling happened.
22:13And one of the girls, she unfortunately lost her leg in Ukraine.
22:20So, yeah, that was like so hard.
22:26Sorry.
22:28Ella's group runs a shelter that houses displaced Ukrainians.
22:32So, we have 26 right now.
22:35We have seven women and 19 kids.
22:39It's nice.
22:40It's, you know, like a community.
22:42Yeah.
22:43Welcome.
22:44Wow.
22:45This is where everything happens.
22:46All the supplies in here, huh?
22:47Yeah.
22:48This is the warehouse.
22:50Hello, ladies.
22:51Hello.
22:52Hello.
22:53Hello.
22:54Hello.
22:55Hello.
22:56Hello.
22:57The shelter offers women and children a safe haven, why they plan for a new life away
23:03from the war.
23:04So, what is this called?
23:05What's the name of this?
23:06Bilmini.
23:07Bilmini.
23:08Bilmini.
23:09Bilmini.
23:10Bilmini.
23:11Bilmini.
23:12Bilmini.
23:13Can I try?
23:14Yeah.
23:15Thanks.
23:16If there is anything that can rival Carr's ability to forge instant human connections,
23:23it's food.
23:24Okay.
23:25This kind of reminds me of what my family would do during the Korean holiday.
23:29my aunts would sit down and make mandu, which is the Korean name for this.
23:36Mandu.
23:37Ah, mandu.
23:38Mandu.
23:39Mandu.
23:40Mandu.
23:41Mandu.
23:42Sitting in this cozy kitchen, it's hard to comprehend that the war is still raging in
23:46their homeland.
23:47Andrew quartier.
23:48Like, mandu.
23:49They go very well.
23:50We love you very well.
23:51And here doing this?
23:52You get a good食 Wolfpot?
23:53Can you arrive?
23:54We may not leave you alone.
23:55Yes, and he will get the tourist overlapping compared to myself with a Etsy.
23:56Youió, the intermittence.
23:57I will remember that the desire to stand with me after you in July, you do love you.
24:00We will take almost mean it's alright.
24:01You go down to Seoul in secrecy, you speak Spanish, but I will speak Spanish or matter.
24:04You'll serve yourself.
24:05And I will speak Spanish after you in peculiar distress.
24:10It's a great lord.
24:11I feel very cool.
24:12This is a really good thing very close cudowing.
24:14That's it for you, my wife.
24:15Are they able to still contact family members back in the Ukraine?
24:35This car has a long journey.
24:39Alizé Deliverer must be ready to depart under the cover of darkness.
24:45They're loading up everything from urgent medical supplies to diapers
24:48in the reliable Ford Transit van.
24:52Coming all the way to Poland, you know, you think about, like,
24:57how am I making the world a better place?
25:00What am I doing?
25:02Compared to Ella and all her friends,
25:06it makes me think about, I got to do more, you know?
25:12And you can use a car to do more.
25:16This is the best way to use a car.
25:18I mean, this is what a car was made for, right?
25:24So what is the distance you'll be going on this trip?
25:281,400 kilometers.
25:31So it's like 1,700 miles the round trip.
25:34Not calculating, you know, that you actually cannot go to certain places.
25:40I wish you well on your trip, you know, and I'm forever inspired.
25:45Thank you for coming.
25:47I wish you luck.
25:48Sorry about this time.
25:50No, you don't stay.
25:51I stay.
25:52It's when the others goes first, I think.
25:58Boys will be boys.
25:59Bye, guys.
26:01Bye.
26:03I think she'll be all right.
26:04When you meet someone like Ella,
26:22it makes you realize it's not just about you.
26:26There are people that are in worse situations than yourself.
26:30If you go out there and you give the best of yourself to others in need,
26:37your problems start to look a little smaller.
26:43This morning, I'm going to see what it's like to give it your all in a rally car.
26:48It's going to be interesting to go and experience rally racing in Poland.
26:54This new excitement, this new identity when it comes to motorsports in Poland.
27:00The track we're going to, Tol Kieche,
27:03it represented a place for the elites.
27:08The government officials that had access to this track,
27:13it was a place for the very few.
27:16Now it's a place for anyone and everyone.
27:22What's happening?
27:23They're overheating.
27:33Smells like food.
27:36It just stalled.
27:40What happened to you, man?
27:42That's the problem with these old cars.
27:47Things break.
27:49I have a feeling we don't have any gas because the fuel gauge doesn't work.
27:53It says half a tank, but it said half a tank since the beginning of the trip.
27:59It said half a tank.
28:03Thank you so much.
28:08Come on, baby.
28:21Woo!
28:22Yes!
28:24Yeah!
28:26Yeah!
28:28Like I was saying, fingers crossed, we're headed to a rally event.
28:34So we're headed to Kirche to go meet a man named Marcin who used to be a lawyer but found his light through rally racing.
28:45Like, what is it about rally racing that fuels people's passions?
28:50And I think Marcin and Kirche will be a good guide into why the Polish people love rally racing and what it means to the Polish people.
29:03Hello, my friend.
29:04Hello! You must be Marcin.
29:07Welcome to Classic Cup, my friend.
29:08Nice to meet you.
29:09Yeah, nice to meet you too.
29:14We're competing on the oldest track in Poland. It is the legendary track. It is from the 70s.
29:19Like during the communist era.
29:21Yeah, but it was not for us. Our life was so close for 50, 60 years. We were so pushed to the ground. You know what I mean? Pushed to the ground.
29:32The only last 20 years we were able to rally and race. So everything is new for us.
29:38For Marcin, that man is starting to race in his 20s. Since then, he's racked up dozens of Polish rally wins and podiums.
29:45Ooh, that's, that is cool.
29:47Yeah, I feel it.
29:48Fiat 131. It's a drift car.
29:49Oh, it's a drift car?
29:50That looks, that looks nice.
29:51It's a drift car.
29:52It's a drift car.
29:53It's a drift car.
29:54That looks.
29:55It's very light and powerful. Something about 500 horsepower, yeah? And very light, of course.
29:59Awesome. That's a cool car.
30:02Hello.
30:03Hello.
30:04Hello.
30:05This is so cool.
30:06Bosuzuku.
30:07Bosuzuku.
30:08Look at this blend of communist era Fiat. And then Bosuzuku stuff. Influence from Japan. It's a hooligans back in Japan. How they would modify. They make everything all big and extreme. And it was like a, it's a nice fusion. Very cool.
30:28Why did you get into racing?
30:30I was dreaming about it all the time.
30:32Dreaming since you were a little kid?
30:33Yes.
30:34Yeah?
30:35I loved, I loved it.
30:36Uh-huh.
30:37I, I, I couldn't forget about it. And every night I dream about corners, how to be precise, how to make it better, faster.
30:43Are you ready, girls and boys?
30:46I've never rallied before, Marcel.
30:48No.
30:49It's a nice feeling. You feel freedom, freedom, passion, speed.
30:53Let's get twisted.
30:55After that result, but not the most important thing is result. Of course, winning is great.
31:02In this event, all 125 entrants do a lap of the circuit six times across the day.
31:08The fastest average lap takes the prize, and Marcin is currently sitting in first place.
31:18I love the day when you win. I love this. I love being a racing driver, rally driver, teaching people how to drive smart.
31:24Oh, so you teach as well?
31:25Yes.
31:26Oh.
31:27Starting at what, what age?
31:28Seven years old.
31:29Seven years old?
31:30Yeah.
31:31I try to teach this child how to find the best line, how to find the best solution for the track, and how to be the winner.
31:39Yeah?
31:40Mm-hmm.
31:41Here, we have Rafael.
31:42Uh-huh.
31:43He's my student for the last three years.
31:44Mm-hmm.
31:45He's karting master of Poland.
31:47So what is this, a Fiat?
31:49Yeah.
31:50Wow.
31:51This is a cool car.
31:52Yes, the cool car.
31:53It's a weak car.
31:54I mean, not a strong car, but...
31:55But great to learn, right?
31:56Yeah.
31:57Hello, Rafael.
31:58Hi, Rafael.
31:59Hey, how are you?
32:00Nice to meet you.
32:01Nice to meet you.
32:02So you're only 13 years old?
32:03Yes.
32:04Wow.
32:05Why do you like to race?
32:06It makes me fun.
32:07It's good for me.
32:08Yeah.
32:09I like this.
32:10He's crazy.
32:11He's one of the fastest.
32:12What makes a fast driver?
32:13Feel it.
32:14You have to feel.
32:15Feel what?
32:16Feel it on your back, with your butts, using your leg.
32:19What happens with the car?
32:21Is your dream to be a race car driver?
32:23Yeah.
32:24Yeah.
32:25Do you feel like it's possible, like anything is possible today?
32:27I think it's possible.
32:28And you should show your skills.
32:30Maybe you will drive with me?
32:31Yeah.
32:32I'd love to drive with you.
32:33Okay.
32:34Great.
32:35Let's do it.
32:40Every lap is a chance for Rafael to get noticed by sponsors.
32:44He needs that to support his racing ambitions.
32:47Whoa.
32:48I'm stressed, you know?
32:54I can't do mistakes.
32:55It's okay to make a mistake.
32:57Yeah.
32:58You learn from the mistake, right?
32:59Yeah.
33:02Okay.
33:03Five seconds.
33:04Let's go.
33:05Three.
33:06Two.
33:07One.
33:08Go.
33:19Yeah!
33:21Yeah!
33:35Good job.
33:36Woo-hoo-hoo!
33:39Okay, we have this.
33:43Yes.
33:45That was good.
33:49I drive my 100%.
33:52Yeah.
33:55The new generation taking the track.
33:59Very good.
34:01He did great.
34:02Wow, this is future F1 driver right here.
34:07You have fun?
34:08Yeah, I have fun.
34:09Do you have any situations?
34:11Yeah, but no, that was so good.
34:13He's amazing.
34:14Yeah.
34:14He knows how to drive.
34:16Great teacher.
34:17You're an amazing human being, Marcin.
34:20Anything is possible when it comes to motorsports for the Polish people.
34:24It's beginning here.
34:25It's beginning with people like Marcin, who teaches the youth.
34:29But what it represents is your ability to be free.
34:32To be free to follow your dreams.
34:35Dreams equals freedom.
34:40Freedom equals happiness.
34:43Pretty simple.
34:44Wow, that's beautiful.
34:59It's so old and has so much soul.
35:05So much history.
35:07Right at it.
35:08It's personality and character.
35:11It doesn't get any better than this.
35:14Countryside of Poland.
35:16Just cruising.
35:17Suspension is perfect for these back roads.
35:20Not far up ahead in the forest of Kashmish Dhani, the tarmac ends and the road turns into rutted tracks, impassable to most cars.
35:29It's where I'm meeting a guy from a special breed of off-roaders, drawn to tackling some of the most daunting trails on the continent.
35:38I want to know why he does what he does.
35:41What gives him enthusiasm?
35:43Because this guy has enthusiasm, not just for cars, but for life.
35:47He's here.
35:48He's here.
35:49He's here.
35:50Hey.
35:51Hey.
35:52It must be Edward.
35:53Nice to meet you.
35:54Nice to meet you.
35:55Cool cars.
35:56That's a lot of cars.
35:57That is my friend's cars.
35:58We're going to use them today to show you what the off-road is.
36:01Oh, I love those cars.
36:02Yeah.
36:03Edward is an entrepreneur who runs the Red Fox Extreme off-road team.
36:08They compete in some of Europe's toughest 4x4 races, like the Breslau and the Balkan rallies.
36:17Man, this thing is truly built for off-road.
36:21This thing looks like a military vehicle, man.
36:24When you're designing it, what are you thinking, like, that you need to incorporate into an off-road vehicle?
36:29What's important, to build as strong as possible.
36:32Strong as possible.
36:33As strong as possible.
36:34It has to be waterproof, dustproof, idiot-proof, mistake-proof.
36:39It has to be some kind of a tank.
36:41We can do almost everything with this car.
36:43It looks like the Fender, but the engine we've got is from...
36:48It's LS3 from Chevrolet Corvette.
36:51So how much horsepower is in this?
36:53500.
36:54On each wheel, you've got three different suspensions.
37:00One, two, three.
37:02Look at those axles.
37:04Yeah.
37:05It's custom-made.
37:06Wow.
37:07That's amazing.
37:09I used to live in Warsaw, working a lot, and I've got big health problems.
37:16And I started looking around what I can do with my health to not sit in a wheelchair.
37:23Because the doctors decide, when I was 20, that I have a problem with my Spain.
37:29So I started looking for some kind of a natural way.
37:33How can I improve my health and stop those diseases?
37:37But do you think, you know, when you're off-road in these vehicles, there is a degree that you're also killing nature, right?
37:45We have to remember that we can influence the nature doing other stuff.
37:50My companies, I plant over 17 million trees around the world.
37:55What, 17 million?
37:5617 million, yes.
37:57We've got big plantations here in Europe, now in Spain, in Portugal.
38:02I'm making so big impact for good ecological conditions in the world.
38:06So those small trips by those cars in the forest, I think, is balanced.
38:18P1 and P2 is the automatic.
38:21All other programs is the manual.
38:23Let's start with the automatic.
38:28Yes, yes.
38:296.2 liter, 500 powers.
38:32That's so slow.
38:36You can get it.
38:43Who would have thought that a car like this was actually gonna, like, save your life, save your health, you know?
38:51You've got a healthy body.
38:54Your brain is the part of your body.
38:56Healthy body, healthy brain.
38:58In a healthy brain, you've got a healthy soul.
39:01You've got disconnected.
39:02When I meet people here, there's this, like, fresh enthusiasm for everything.
39:07If you woke up and you do not have any difficult and tough things to do this day, you're not growing.
39:15Right.
39:16Oh, look at this one.
39:17Whoa!
39:18All of a sudden, wow, the nature is, like, ramping you.
39:23Exactly, look.
39:24You're under the trees.
39:25You've got the roots of the trees.
39:26Wow.
39:27Now there is no more road.
39:30It's all just dirt.
39:32Yes.
39:33And what's important now, when your car is going left and right, do not try to, you see,
39:40even now, you see, we go up and many people want to turn the wheel.
39:45You almost let the road guide you.
39:47Yes, yes, yes.
39:48Don't force it.
39:49Yes.
39:50Coming to Poland and meeting, you know, all these amazing people, including yourself,
39:59you know, all these amazing people.
40:00Edward, this advice you're giving me and your point of view, I'm going to, you know,
40:04take it from here and use it and apply it to my life.
40:08Edward, this is crazy.
40:10I've never done this.
40:12It's not crazy yet.
40:13You'll see what's crazy.
40:14Okay.
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40:41Oh.
40:42good I feel alive so maybe it's the moment you're gonna try it yeah let's do that all right
41:12okay now left left left okay go for and now straight straight left and left okay now Gus
41:29you have to just also really feel the car too yes you have to feel it it's like the
41:43physics you're heavy but you've got the kinetic energy yeah it can helps you or it can kill you
41:49right it looks simple but this car weighs 2300 kg and has an extremely high center of gravity I
41:56have to be subtle in my steering and get my angles right or else we could end up on our roof not too
42:03many moves on your steering wheel braking turning the wheels panic go go go you can touch it oh yeah
42:10no don't care gas pedal gas pedal gas oh right right right right right no no okay okay okay easy easy yes
42:19yes it's coming wow your natural tendency is to press the brake when you don't do it excellent
42:26good it exciting yes my heartbeat yes this is the way
42:36our destination is equally exhilarating as the high octane journey it's the perfect place to reflect on the
42:47gifts that gain from Poland and it's inspiring car culture you can eat the best steak in the best
42:54restaurant in the biggest city in the world but it doesn't give you the same energy when you're eating
43:00a normal sausage with the great people somewhere in the sitting on the soil it's better you know it's
43:09better yeah the best sausage I've ever had in my life I'm so excited for the future of Poland because no one's jaded here you know no one is
43:23used to something no one is complacent because everything is fresh and when something is new the enthusiasm is real
43:32you know they're emerging they're emerging economy emerging car culture but wait till the world comes and
43:43visits and gets to experience what the Polish people have to offer I will forever be grateful to the Polish people
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