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We've never really paid much attention to how pace cars turn up at race tracks. We always assumed they just, sort of, drove there.
But at last weekend's NASCAR race at the Texas Motor Speedway (somewhere in the US, so we're told), the Chevrolet Camaro SS pace car demonstrated that there's only one way to arrive at a race in style.
In a Chinook helicopter.
As a salute to US military veterans, the monster double-rotor chopper touched down by the side of track before releasing the Chevy from its belly in a sort of, er, glorious metallic birthing act.
The Camaro was driven by NASA astronaut Doug Hurley, who is not only a US Marine Corps colonel, but also holds a Texas Motor Speedway season ticket and piloted the shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station in July. We think Doug Hurley might be coolest man in the world.
Anyhow, this got us thinking: surely F1 must respond in suit? We want the Merc SL63 (or whatever car it'll be next year) to arrive at the first race in Bahrain next year... carried by a pack of mechanical winged monkeys. We shall settle for nothing less.
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Amitiel commented on this article
at 11:42 am on 11 November 2009
Bring on the monkeys! And I think Chevrolet's ego just skyrocketed..
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Winbolt commented on this article
at 12:10 pm on 11 November 2009
At Silverstone (have faith), we should drop the SL63 by parachute, from the last flying Lancaster, supported by a brace of Spitfires. Perfect.
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AlKim commented on this article
at 12:23 pm on 11 November 2009
Fly a cargo plane extremely close to a straight, deploy a parachute attached to the car so that it gets dragged out of the cargo bay like a MOAB. Resume normal flight.
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Stapo(#1fan) commented on this article
at 01:48 pm on 11 November 2009
Quality!!!!
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Capitaine_Lente commented on this article
at 02:42 pm on 11 November 2009
Not bad, but I think a touch & go out of a Hercules down the back straight would be so much better
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