maclarenf1
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Liked tanner driving the 12C, loved the challenge. but they should not waste every episode like this where car is reviewed for the last 2 min only.
This episode was great, I enjoyed a lot, 9/10 to counterbalance the overscoring of the UK version.
I'm glad they included Rutledge for the race against the Nascar stock car.
The taxis were very entertaining, much better than any similar thing TGUK has done in the several past seasons. The biggest difference is that the US team isn't deliberately trying to fail.
And was that the real Robert De Niro?
Those are all pickup shots. TGUK does it all the time. Any show about cars does it as it is the only way to get those angles and make the film (race) more dynamic. That's the benefit of not having a live race. They run them multiple times and then edit it together. I see where you are coming from as it does pull you out of it if you actually start thinking "wait I should be seeing a camera car right now" but you just need to suspend reality for the sake of entertainment. You could tell Tanner was pushing the MP4 pretty hard on the road portion of the track whenever they were shooting from sidelines. So you can bet that he legitimately tried to beat the stock car.They really, REALLY need to stop with the "car X races car Y" while both cars stay BEHIND the camera car "racing" at 40mph.*
3)- Tanner is a racer. There's no excuse to not go absolutely FLAT OUT in a race track. Specially if apart from the camera SUV, the only other car in the circuit has also a racing driver in it (Unless the McLaren actually wiped the floor with the Nascar but American pride kept them from showing it. Wouldn't surprise me, I don't really think a Nascar is thaaaaaat good in a non-oval circuit)
Watch towards the end of the race when theyre on the oval and the driver looks like he kept in low gear longer than he should've. As soon as he changed it rocketed ahead.