Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Paris at high-speed
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 him at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The video can be found here.
It's amazing footage. The car reached nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. Looks like it was shot very early in the morning. Fortunately there are few others cars or pedestrians. And several times the car races through startled pigeons flying off the street. (Via Metafilter)
It's amazing footage. The car reached nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. Looks like it was shot very early in the morning. Fortunately there are few others cars or pedestrians. And several times the car races through startled pigeons flying off the street. (Via Metafilter)
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