Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
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Speeding
On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a
Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris early
in the morning. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine , through the
Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur. No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit. The driver completed
the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red
lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHrCLt3Geo
On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a
Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris early
in the morning. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine , through the
Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur. No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit. The driver completed
the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red
lights, nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHrCLt3Geo