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I also enjoy when they quickly pull up alongside then match speed and remain side by side rather than overtake.
poignant nod
It’s so funny how everyone here discusses how the race scene in this or that spy movie is unrealistic. Actually the most unrealistic thing is that the Chinese spy and the US spy would be racing to steal their secret in the first place, while in reality they would just seduce one another to steal their secrets. In a realistic movie, the bank robber wouldn’t race against the police either, he would just shut down his computer.
Shift gears again.
Shift gears agressively
I maintain that Rush is one of the best racing movies ever made.
Both Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl were DEEP in their respective roles. And to top it off the score by the LEGENDARY Hans Zimmer.
The fact that it won no academy awards is proof that the Oscars are run by a bunch of idiots.
Entire movie: “This guy always overtakes on the inside”.
Final race: “OH MY GOD! Is he overtaking on the outside?!? HE NEVER DOES THAT! He is! He is overtaking on the outside!!!”
Yes, it was a Nascar movie.
What do you expect from a ‘sport’ that’s all left turns?
For something they like to say is all about skill, they sure do spend a lot of time on the beginner track.
I used to watch NASCAR with my dad as a kid (and play racing sims). There’s a lot of fuel, tire management, and drafting effects involved, so they actually don’t go all out at all times. It’s actually kinda interesting from a strategic perspective; just not interesting to watch, IMO.
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One of the best car chase sequences ever filmed.
The Seven Ups.
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This was actually pretty cool in that one Animatrix short where the dude runs so hard he almost breaks free of the Matrix… And then his leg muscles explode.
But what if it’s a story like the Australian olympic speed ice skater?
Coasting a bit to the back and everyone slips and falls before the finish line but he.That’s why Speed Racer is the best racing movie. It knows it’s bullshit but goes hard as fuck with it anyhow.
I absolutely lost it when that one guy >!drew a fucking gun!< Out of all the outlandish random stuff going on, that felt like way too normal to fit into the film.
And then they shift in a higher gear, allowing them to drive nearly twice as fast, because they didn’t think of that before
An infinite number of times too. I don’t know what’s more infinite in this world, the number of gears in a car in a fast and furious movie, or the number of bullets in their guns.
Drive, which is otherwise an excellent movie, has a car chase where you can hear a gear shift while they’re reversing.
A few cars had two reverse gears, and I think they were valued as getaway cars for that reason!
They shift gear and suddenly the car lurches forward… Were they in the wrong gear all along?
This is really a metaphor for life.
Well I think that when they’re drafting behind another car they may be in top gear and shifting down definitely helps to accelerate, just not maintain a certain speed.
That works well in real life when youre in top gear at 2-3k RPM and downshift and accelerate through 5-7k RPM.
In the movies theyre racing already and should be at high RPM basically the entire time, so if they downshift then they would just red line it lol
I assume that drafting allows them to drive a lower rpm than the front guy, so the car still has done extra from the overtake
You assume wrong, rpm correlates directly with road speed, so if you’re going a certain speed in a certain gear you’ll be at the same rpm, drafting or not.
What drafting allows you to do is use less throttle to maintain the speed (or go faster with the same throttle position).
Change gear and disappear
They just raise their universal limiter
Nitro button, the grandparent of drift button.
Losing in a car race? Just change gear!
