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Video: arrivin’ in style

11 November 2009 - 10:00

Video: arrivin’ in style

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.

TAGS// Chevrolet Camaro, Chevrolet, Mercedes, Mercedes SL, F1

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Amitiel commented on this article

11 November 2009

Bring on the monkeys! And I think Chevrolet's ego just skyrocketed..

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Winbolt commented on this article

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

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

11 November 2009

Quality!!!!

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Capitaine_Lente commented on this article

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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Ben27 commented on this article

11 November 2009

WOW! That's freaking cool man! How about the SL Black gets dropped from the back of a Eurofighter... on fire!!!

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airbuggy commented on this article

11 November 2009

i i thought nascar was for dumb hillbillies.

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nHeroGo commented on this article

11 November 2009

How about shooting on out of an air cannon?

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carz4life commented on this article

11 November 2009

that would be stupid how about tellingsomeone to throw the car

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NiN_O_Negative commented on this article

11 November 2009

Launch the car from the international spac station! Or failing that, the space shuttle. Just like the intro sequence from Heavy Metal.

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toast247 commented on this article

11 November 2009

finally i found a reason to watch the stupidity of NASCAR racing, but only for that stunt.

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Torch(USA) commented on this article

11 November 2009

USA! USA! Yeah, thats how we roll. Your move Europe

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bringbackgroupb commented on this article

11 November 2009

in f1 the pace car should be dropped from the wing of eurofighter .

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bringbackgroupb commented on this article

11 November 2009

i didnt get the point of nascar but this stunt proved me wrong

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bringbackgroupb commented on this article

11 November 2009

does the chinnok get included in the price of a normal camaro

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Robert4 commented on this article

11 November 2009

i dont get it. why does the car have to get there in some special way. its pointless. i just think they should be at the race track all the time for every race that happens there. it pointless

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XakaB commented on this article

11 November 2009

that is seriously cool entrance..... why not bring the sl black inside a big bomber than deployed from a low altitude and brought down by some parachutes and those flying mechanical monkeys

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LP560-4 commented on this article

11 November 2009

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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quattro commented on this article

12 November 2009

Awesome marketing strategy... pity about NASCAR though..

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mehojevich commented on this article

12 November 2009

cool drop off......I also dislike nascar.

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mehojevich commented on this article

12 November 2009

cool drop off......I also dislike nascar.

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bigredtexan42 commented on this article

12 November 2009

How can you not know where TMS is? It's in a state 3 times larger than the UK! You can't miss it. Make a left, then another left, oh yes and then another left....I must be thinking of Nascar.

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IronicalBalls commented on this article

12 November 2009

I live in the US and i hear Chinooks nearly everyday transporting/training. Nothing special. Doesn't replace the fail in NASCAR, which is going through a civil war with itself. Many of the diehard fans are finally understanding its a boring sport. Oh Top Gear should post the video of the driver for the US Army NASCAR team basically calling out the NASCAR fanbase as boring people watching a boring motorsport.

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rwm72 commented on this article

12 November 2009

The good old US of A. More money than sense ... no wait, more national debt than sense.

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LP560-4 commented on this article

13 November 2009

I live in the US and their is nothing wrong with NASCAR... its like F1 in the '70s it's about racing not about a guy with a beard eating a churro typing on a laptop telling it to give more fuel to cylinder 4

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