Top Gear (US) s02e07 Episode Script
Beating Tanner
Ferrara: Now on "Top Gear" It's a about beating Tanner It's moving around a lot.
As we force him to defy death while trying to break the indoor speed record Stunt-drive the most ridiculous and dangerous vehicles Oh! Oh! And Tanner tries to out-race our virtual cars 90 miles an hour through turn 5.
While we cheat our way around the track.
Wood: Tanner's a professional driver, which means basically his job is to travel around the world and race cool cars.
This also means he's super-competitive See you! - Confident - Kind of raring to go here.
And shows off his driving skills any chance he gets.
America! America! So, Adam and I thought it was time to bring him down a notch and came up with three challenges to see if we could make him fail.
Our first challenge was to see if we could beat him around Infineon raceway.
But this wouldn't be like any normal race.
Adam and I would be playing a video game, Forza Motorsport 4.
We would set the fastest time we could around the virtual track and crash as many times as we liked.
But Tanner would have to beat that time in a real car, on the real track.
And since we wouldn't have to be doing the real driving, we chose Infineon raceway because it's known for being extremely dangerous.
It's a high-speed track filled with turns that are easily misjudged.
Elevation changes with blind drops and a wall so close to the track, one mistake means total carnage.
And since we chose the track, we let Tanner pick whatever car he wanted.
And of course he chose one of the most race-worthy super cars on the market The $375,000 Lexus LFA.
Packed with so much technology, it's almost like driving a video game.
[Tires screeching.]
[Car door closes.]
And there they are.
Adam and Rutledge their gamer names are "Rut-Roh" and "Karkilla.
" What's up, Tanner? Are these your gaming pajamas? Oh, yeah.
It is time to die, my friend.
What makes you think that you could possibly be like a gaming master jedi and conquer this track on a game? You might be good in a car in real life, but in the virtual world, we are the best.
- Mm-hmm.
- See that? It's reflex.
- I'm not even aware I'm doing it.
- In the virtual world.
Have you ever been on the Forza game here? Look at me.
I'm the biggest dweeb you know.
- Have you ever been on the Forza game? - Please.
How hard could this possibly be? We can reset.
You can't.
Have you ever even raced here? I mean, I haven't drifted.
I've been around the track before.
Oh, you've been on just a portion of the track.
Sideways.
Left and right.
- Maybe.
- We're losing focus, fellas.
We get an hour to practice and then we meet on the field of battle.
- Fair enough? - Done.
- Le Mans start? - Sure.
Go ahead.
Run.
Do you know what that means? Yeah, it means you run, and I walk that way.
[Laughs.]
I hate when he's right.
Damn it.
[Car dinging.]
[Engine turns over.]
[Engine revs.]
You ever played this game before? No.
You? No.
Tanner doesn't need to know that, though.
- Very good point.
Foust: While the gamer geeks got plugged in to their video-game and racing simulators I got to know the real LFA.
Foust: Sometimes you got to just love Toyota.
Sure, they've built some lame cars that are purpose-made for accountants in Missouri, but other times they just get it.
They've got loads of cars out there that punch above their weight the Corolla AE86, the 1960s exotic, the 2000GT, Toyota Supra turbos, or this, the first real super car from Japan.
And it's a Lexus.
[Tires screech.]
The suspension of the car feels like one that took 10 years to develop.
These Japanese they devote absolutely everything to a project, put their whole beings into the smallest detail, and in a car like this, it shows.
[Tires screeching.]
The LFA can do 202 miles per hour or do zero to 60 in 3.
6 seconds.
Its mid-front-mounted 552-horsepower V-10 engine gives it the perfect balance for handling.
And the fact that it's a Lexus means it'll have no problem starting up in the morning.
The engine in the LFA is already legendary.
They actually had Yamaha do a lot of the development of the sound and of the engine.
It revs from idle to 9,000 rpm in 0.
6 seconds.
Every time you get on the gas [Engine humming.]
It changes your whole day.
Oh, my God.
Listen to that thing run! It's like a formula one car! [Humming continues.]
It's the sound that rips at the fibers of your inner gear and just dives into you and grabs your spine and says, "live it!" The experience of the LFA was so visceral, i began to wonder if tho basement trolls were having the same experience with their high-tech racing simulators.
- Did you fart? - Ferrara: No.
Wow.
This is different from "spy hunter.
" Little bit less guns.
Look at all the great cars you can have on here.
The '84 Rabbit MK1 GTI.
You can't find those in real life.
Do I have to use the LFA? If we're gonna beat Tanner's LFA, - we have to beat him with an LFA.
- Okay.
What color you want? Is there a red? I'll take a red.
You want a red? All right, I'll take blue.
"Wrong way warning.
" You need that.
I'm gonna turn that off.
Are you sure you want to mess with all that? Do you know what you're doing? No, but I don't know how to get out of here.
We were 15 minutes into our practice session.
And the more I drove the LFA, the more confident I was feeling about winning this race.
I chose this car because it's right at home on the track.
Its handling capabilities and acceleration were just off the charts.
The shifts happen in 2/10 of a second if you keep your foot to the floor in sport mode.
Now, the shifting could have been the double-clutch system that you get in the Ferrari 458, but the engineers at Toyota felt it wasn't authentic enough because you didn't feel the shifts.
On paper, I completely disagree.
But in practice, man, they are right.
It is so much better being able to feel that pop.
It feels Faster.
Listen to that.
[Engine revving.]
That sounds like a real car.
It doesn't sound like a video game just going, "brr, drr, drr.
" You can actually feel the thrust and back on it again.
Are you supposed to be sweating while you play this? It just means you really want it.
Grass is bad.
Grass is bad.
[Chuckles.]
The idea is, in theory, to stay off the grass.
This is really hard on you.
I feel like I'm on the actual racetrack.
I'd spent the first 30 minutes of the practice session playing with the car, but now it was time to start doing laps around the track and prepare to put the game nerds in their place.
Traction control off.
Little pedal on the right.
On it! On it! On it! On it! I love it! A strong lap time in a stock sports car on this track is 1:51.
Expert video gamers can do it in the same car in 1:41, so I knew it was gonna be close.
I liked my chances against ADD Ferrara, but Rutledge? He has the looks and physique of a bona fide video-game champion.
Come on.
Come on.
That's not there's a wall.
Aw.
[Laughs.]
Okay, that turn is sharper than you think.
Put the spoilers up.
Go! Go! Go! Grass is bad.
Grass is bad.
Oh.
Oh.
Cones.
Hello.
Whoa.
Whoa.
This is where the guys are gonna go off and crash every time.
It's downhill.
You can see it in real life.
But in the game, you can't see that downhill as much.
But, God, it's like this car is made for this track.
I wonder if it's that good on the game.
Wood: Oh.
Ohh! Come on! How do you think Tanner's doing right now? I would say he is having the same struggles.
I hope not.
'Cause he'd be dead.
Ferrara: Coming up, Tanner tries to break a world record Holy cow.
Stop, baby.
Stop.
And a former "Playboy" bunny stops by.
Now, why don't you run your front plate? Because it ruins the look of the front of the car.
Man: Yeah! Right? Wood: When you work with someone who's good at everything with a car, it gets annoying.
So Adam and I set out on a mission to put Tanner in his place.
Our first challenge was a virtual race.
Tanner was armed with the Lexus LFA.
We were driving the same vehicle, but in Forza motorsport 4.
The problem was We weren't very good.
Ferrara: There's the wall again.
Aah! Solution? Video games always have an "easy" setting.
Wood: Is there a game difficulty "easy"? Let's try that.
That's your strategy.
If you're gonna beat Tanner, you apparently have to cheat.
I like it.
I'm in.
What the hell? Here we go.
Adam, in "easy," it will break for you.
Oh, I've been breaking it by myself.
I broke everything.
Dang.
I'm back on the grass again.
You are really, really terrible at this me right now.
Yeah, I am.
Game companies should really hire you to test these.
That way, they'll know, like, "can a 4-year-old play the game?" Having executed our new strategy, we were in the zone Into the wall.
And ready to beat Tanner.
Whoo! That was fun.
Whew! Hey, Tanner.
Ferrara: How you doing? I am good.
How's it going? Real good.
How you doing out there? [Exhales sharply.]
I'm out of breath.
That thing is awesome.
Yeah, big dog can eat, can't it? I don't know what that means.
You guys are completely cheating.
You've got these arrows telling you where the line is and everything.
Woods: No, no, no, that's a suggestion.
Yeah, but it tells you exactly when to brake.
It tells you when to hit the gas.
I bet we're set up just the same way no traction control.
Sliding it all around.
You changed the traction you're full-throttle right there.
You would have spun around if you were in the real car right there.
No, I'm modulating.
I'm modulating my throttle.
I thought you'd know that.
- I see it all on the screen - No, I don't have any of that.
Traction control, STM light is flashing.
That's, like are you calling me a liar? No, I'm just saying what is "TCS"? Traction control.
No, that is "totally cool stuff.
" All right, whatever.
You've been practicing for an hour.
- Are you ready to race? - Yeah.
- Ready to do this or what? - What do you want to do 3-lap shootout? All right, it's on.
Okay.
All right.
Ready? Here we go.
[Engine revving.]
[Engine revving.]
[Cheers and applause.]
You know, one of the great things about Tanner is he's the kind of guy that just can't say no to a challenge, which got us thinking could we come up with something so difficult that he might actually fail for once? Yeah, like putting something on the top shelf.
[Laughter.]
It's hard because the guy set the record for the longest truck jump, right? He's won three gold medals at the "X" games, and he's driven over 200 miles an hour.
Then it came to us we'd challenge him to try to break the world indoor speed record.
I mean, he's a daredevil, but he's not crazy enough to try that.
Or is he? Foust: If I was going to break this world record, I was going to need a high-powered vehicle.
If I was gonna break it in an American car, there was really only one choice the Corvette ZR1 The fastest-accelerating vehicle ever to come out of GM 638 horses of raw American fury, the perfect machine to bring the record home.
[Electronic beep.]
I'm standing in a one-million-square-foot box.
And today it could be, for me, a million-square-foot coffin.
In order to break the record, I'd need to reach a speed of 83 miles an hour.
Now, that may not sound like much, but trying to hit that speed while headed straight towards a concrete wall could be a little dangerous.
With wheels spinning and grabbing gears the whole way down the straight, if I get offline at all, well, I'm into one of these a 10x10 steel beam.
And my car becomes a mesh of metal and meat.
Am I making this sound dangerous enough? The floor was smooth, almost like ice, which made it incredibly difficult to stop before crashing into the wall.
Because we're going for an actual world record, we had to be able to verify the speed of the car.
So we are going to use a system called Lidar.
It uses laser, well, to give you speed tickets.
But it's the most accurate way to determine the speed of the car on the planet.
And we have a police officer with such a piece of equipment.
How you doing? [Lidar gun beeping.]
I was ready, but wary of the ZR1's power being able to make it to the ground and getting enough grip.
So, they got me in a helmet, I think, really, just to raise confidence because it's not gonna do squat if I hit one of these poles.
Basically, I was about to drive a muscle car on ice as fast as I could towards a wall.
[Tires screech.]
Good launch.
Short shift to second gear a little bit too much wheel spin there.
It's moving around a lot.
Feathering.
Looking for a braking point.
65, 68, 69.
And brake.
[Tires screech.]
[Exhales sharply.]
That was close.
That was close.
I tried hard on that one.
The floor was just too slick for this much motor.
The ZR1 just couldn't put the power down.
And brake.
I couldn't get the ZR1 past 77.
To break the world record of 82 miles an hour, I was gonna need an upgrade, from a $120,000 car to a $160,000 super car.
This is an Audi R8 V-10.
It's got a Lamborghini engine, putting out over 500 horsepower.
And crucially, it's all-wheel-drive, which will give me more grip.
Okay, so, it's got 100 less horsepower than the Corvette, but I don't think horsepower was the problem.
It was putting the power to the ground.
And I think, with the Audi, because it's a very sophisticated all-wheel drive system, that even its measly 520-some-odd- horsepower Lamborghini engine should be able to do the job.
Helmet on.
Our police officer is ready.
I'll have to remember not to tap the brakes as I go by him, which is an instinct.
[Engine revving.]
Oh, it's a good launch.
Shift to second little bit of wheel spin at second.
Going to third.
65.
Oh, it's pulling.
70.
[Lidar gun beeping.]
Holy cow.
Stop, baby.
Stop.
[Tires screech.]
[Exhales sharply.]
[Laughs.]
[Tires screeching.]
We have a speed on that? Man: 81 miles an hour.
Ohh! One mile an hour short is that right? Affirmative.
The R8 was giving me the grip I needed.
It was now about finesse less wheel spin on my take-off and timing my braking point perfect.
Whoa.
50.
60.
[Lidar gun beeping.]
And braking.
Ah! [Tires screech.]
[Sighs.]
Why do I feel too old for this? [Tires screech.]
We have a speed on that? That speed was a world-record-setting 83 miles per hour.
Yeah! That's what I'm talking about! World record Audi R8.
I cannot believe it.
We had done it brought the indoor-speed record to America.
But there was something about it that just didn't feel right.
If this record was gonna be American, it needed to be all American.
And the Germans have a lot of world records.
It almost doesn't seem fair.
You know, Porsche has all kinds of world records.
Audi has all kinds of world records.
I was really hoping the Corvette would do it.
I wanted this world record to be homegrown, you know? We're gonna have to think outside the box on this.
We needed something from the good old U.
S.
of A.
, something like a Ford Fiesta.
But not any Fiesta.
My Fiesta.
This is an all-wheel-drive, purpose-built rally-cross car.
It's claimed "X" games gold and various trophies, and now it had its sights set on a world record.
Now, I'm not one to brag, but this little car is vicious.
It's 600 horsepower, goes zero to 60 in 2.
2 seconds, is all-wheel-drive, and to get one it's not just like the $14,000 Fiesta in the dealership you'd have to trade in four of those V-10 R8s back there.
At $500,000, this car is a completely different animal than the ZR1 or the R8.
This car required a hands-on team of technicians.
It went down in pressure? [Speaks indistinctly.]
Did the tires get up to temp? - I went and did a couple doughnuts.
- Yeah.
My crew adjusted the suspension, checked the tire pressure, and I was ready for take-off.
Now, it may look like I'm wearing a giant clown suit, and that's because I kind of am, but I still want some fire protection because with this car, the fuel is a lot closer to the driver than in a street car.
All right, here we go.
[Engine revving.]
Oh, too much wheel spin.
[Lidar gun beeping.]
80.
Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! [Tires screech.]
Stop! Stop! Ferrara: Coming up, we find out if Tanner's Ford fiesta broke a record, our virtual race hits a snag It was like this bahh.
Damn it, Tanner.
And one of the girls next door stops by to hit the track.
We're going.
We didn't stall.
That's a good sign.
Adam and I were trying as hard as we could, to find something Tanner couldn't do in a car, and we thought challenging him to break a world record of how fast you could drive indoors would be close to impossible.
Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! [Tires screech.]
Stop! Stop! [Cheers and applause.]
Ladies and gentlemen, your new indoor-speed world-record holder, Tanner Foust.
[Cheers and applause.]
At 87 miles an hour, no less.
Now, you make it sound like that wasn't that fast.
To get the record, it had to be in the same room, starting and stopping, and it was slippery.
And you set that record in your Ford Fiesta rally car.
- Yes.
So now there is a world speed record on this planet held by a Ford fiesta.
- Yes.
- But you know what? We wanted to see just how fast that car was outdoors, so we gave it to our tame racing driver, the Stig, to put around our test track.
[Engine buzzing.]
Wood: Launch control, and it's off.
Zero to 60 in 2 seconds.
Just incredibly fast through the gears.
You can hear how close the gear ratio is.
A little bit of nosedive as he comes under the first corner.
Stig really keeps his speed.
A little brake lockup through there.
Pretty composed through the chicane as he comes into the teardrop.
Working the shift lever.
That's what that is near the steering-wheel lever.
And then this is the hand brake that he's pulling here as he comes into the tightest section of the track.
Probably using the hand brake here.
Yes, gets a little rotation, but very clean on the exit.
All-wheel drive.
Putting the power down.
Getting some of cleanest exits out of the teardrop.
Little bit in the grass.
That's all part of rally-cross.
Very strange to see a fiesta 129 miles an hour through a corner.
Still looking very composed.
You can see that suspension just absorbing everything as the stig comes into cameraman's corner.
Working a little bit on the steering wheel.
Indicative of a short-wheel-based car that the Fiesta is.
It is a little bit twitchy as he comes into the s's.
This is gonna be a pretty exciting part to drive through here.
Extremely fast through there 90 miles an hour.
Into the last corner.
Just sliding through the last turn.
And across the line.
[Cheers and applause.]
Now, that looked crazy fast.
- Really fast.
- Where is it? Oh, the time? You want the time? Yeah, where does it fall here? Well, where do you think it fell? I mean, there's a lot of good cars on there.
Are you gonna put the time up, or are you just gonna stall? Well, I just honestly, you know a lot about cars.
Do you think it's faster than, say, a Panamera, or is it faster than an SLS? [Sighs.]
The Murcielago has about the same power.
The Ferrari's got less power, but is pretty good.
I would guess I mean, I'd be pretty excited if it was right in here somewhere.
You think a Ford Fiesta's gonna live up here? [Light laughter.]
I know it sounds cra it's not just any Ford Fiesta.
It's not just any Ford fiesta.
This is a $500,000 Fiesta.
So it's roughly $485,000 more than any Fiesta that normal people would buy.
[Laughter.]
Okay, it's expensive, but you're stalling still.
What was the time? It feels good to be on this side of the board for a change.
- Yeah.
Oh, that's fun for everybody.
- Do you want to see it? All right.
I'm gonna make room right here.
I'm just gonna slide this down just in case you need No kidding? A little something right in here.
Well, you may not need that spot 'cause the Ford fiesta rally cross car did it in 1:19.
5.
[Cheers and applause.]
Top of the board.
Yeah! Top of the board! We're moving to car one! That's what I'm talking about.
I'll give it up 'cause that's your car.
Unbelievable.
Okay, so, we've learned you can also drive fast indoors.
So, for this next one, Adam and I came up with something a lot harder.
So far, our plan to find something Tanner couldn't do in a car was proving to be more difficult than we thought.
So, we knew this next challenge would need to be something completely ridiculous.
All right, you got me out here at some God-awful time.
- What do you got? - Look, as you know, - you're a pain in the ass, okay? - Fair enough.
'Cause you think you can drift anything.
- I didn't say I could drift anything.
- Yes, you did.
"Oh, I can drift anything.
I'm Tanner Foust.
I make it go sideways.
" - I never said that.
- So what? - We got a bunch of vehicles, and we're gonna see exactly what it is you can and cannot drift.
Basically, the exercise is to prove to you that you're not as good as you think, okay? Great.
You'll thank us later.
Trust me.
This will make you a better person.
[Chuckles.]
Come on in, Rut! Really? Yeah, it's prom season.
A limo? - So, this shouldn't be a problem, right? - No.
I thought you were gonna bring a truck or like something dangerous.
This is what we're starting with.
You ride inside.
- Okay.
- And I will stay out here and make sure that the drift is legitimate.
Make sure you buckle up for safety! I'm not I'm not buckled yet.
You're buckled? Good.
Good to hear it.
No, I'm not I said, "I'm not buckled yet"! Ferrara: To qualify as an official drift, Tanner would need to slide the rear end of the vehicle while not losing forward momentum or spinning out.
Rutledge is in t back like a big plaid hair ball.
Aah! [Tires screeching.]
[Grunting.]
That's enough.
I think this counts as a drift! [Tires screeching.]
He's so stupid.
Is everybody okay? Yeah.
All right.
He's already done it.
But I think he's doing it again just to make Rutledge sick, which is always fun.
Oh, crap.
Oh, really? Ah, here he comes.
Ohh! Ohh! Oh! Oh! That counts.
Oh, God! Oh [Bleep.]
- Ahh! - Come on out, sir.
Oh, gosh.
- You okay in there? - You all right? No.
Don't throw up in my limo.
No, I was just thinking about the prom.
Oh, God.
That was awful.
What else you got? - [Burps.]
- Ugh.
Ohh.
Rut almost losing his lunch was appropriate, given our next challenge.
Wait till you see this one.
A food truck.
Yeah.
It's already leaning to one side.
That's the side he's sitting on.
This is now flat-out dangerous.
Hi, Candela.
Buenos días.
Really? Su coche está aqui.
I call this "dorifito impossible.
" Which is Spanish for "[Bleep.]
Die.
" That is not a direct translation at all.
I'm paraphrasing.
All right, you ready?! - I think so.
- Game on.
Drift-o! I'm gonna have to try a couple different techniques, I think, here.
You take your time.
You look good in that, by the way.
Thank you.
There he goes.
He got that uh-oh.
[Metal clanging.]
He's on that "E" brake a little bit, isn't he? I think that's a partial.
Oh, man.
[Laughs.]
Don't spill the milk! More speed! There you go! Wood: You need more speed! Ferrara: Hit it! There it is.
There it is.
Oh, damn, he did it.
[Tires screech.]
Aw.
I think he just drifted a food truck.
He drifted a food truck.
- Did it work? - Yeah.
Thank the lord 'cause I want out of this thing.
We saw spin.
It was breaking.
I don't know how and just a little bit it slid just a little bit there? Yes! - What's next? Food truck's done.
- All right.
- We got something for you.
- Yeah.
Is it lunch? Wood: Tanner seemed to have a difficult time drifting the roach coach, so we decided to go with something even bigger.
So, what do you think? The RV - You guys are just making them more and more top-heavy in hopes that I'll maybe hurt myself and die.
You know you can do it.
That wheel's coming up.
Oh, he's gonna pick up.
Oh, picking the front tire up! Holy [Bleep.]
He's gonna tip it.
Oh, he's gonna dump that thing over.
All right, let's rethink our approach.
He's not giving up.
You can respect that about him.
I'm not giving up on you yet.
Come on! [Tires screech.]
Oh! Oh! [Both laugh.]
Oh, yeah.
[Tires screech.]
- What the hell? Ferrara: Mm -hmm.
I feel like I just got in a wrestling match with a freakin' orangutan.
How did you pick up the front wheel like that? Aw, man, that thing I kicked it in the balls like four times.
So far, Tanner was two for three.
So we gave him one more shot to prove that he really could drift anything.
Okay.
No, you stepped up the game.
And this time Adam went along for the ride.
When you're in the midst of stupidity, it's hard to know exactly where to stand.
Yeah, let's back up.
Wow.
Yeah.
A little bit of body roll.
Wow.
This is gonna be so dangerous.
[Laughing.]
Oh, look at that.
Okay, let's go again.
All right, it's coming in hot.
It's got a good lean to it.
Oh, that is gonna tip over.
[Tires screech.]
[Laughing.]
Oh, look at [Laughing.]
Are you okay? Almost didn't slide.
Just kind of skidded.
I don't think that counts.
Almost rolls it over.
The bus shuts itself off.
I'm confused.
Where we doing "will it drift?" Or "will it almost flip over?" at the end? I was getting a little bit desperate.
I'm not gonna lie.
I don't think you did it.
The back didn't slide? - It didn't come around? - Mnh-mnh.
- 'Cause I felt that it started to swing.
- Mnh-mnh.
And, you know, we're in front of the front tire, so it like pulled backwards a little bit.
- Mnh-mnh.
It's a long, sad story you're telling, but it didn't do it.
So, you're right not everything can be drifted.
I was wrong.
- I'm sorry.
What did you say? - You were right.
- That feels good.
- I didn't hear him.
I know that was hard for you to say.
And you were right.
Yes.
Yes, we were.
I want another shot at the bus.
Can we do another shot at the bus? Let's get out of here.
- All right.
- Good work.
This bus was genius.
- Where did you come up with that? - Good work to you.
Well, you know, you're trying to trump somebody.
Ferrara: Coming up, a "Playboy" bunny - stops by to race our track - Everybody, go back inside.
And we get one last shot at beating Tanner with our video game.
1:52.
5! That's really fast.
Tanner's a race car driver who wins medals and gets girls in short, one of the most annoying people on the planet, especially if you have to spend as much time with him as we do.
So, we came up with a way to finally beat him a virtual race.
After an hour of practice, we were ready to lay down our time on the video game.
Ferrara: Gentlemen, gentlemen, can we focus, please? What is the challenge? Is it three laps? It's three laps.
It's your best out of three laps.
- Okay.
- All right, ready? [Sighs.]
Here we go.
[Engines revving.]
I like that you guys both started at the same time.
Adam's actually a little bit ahead of you, Rut.
Don't get excited about that too hard.
Come on, Rut.
We cannot let him win this.
It's the pressure that is hard, isn't it? In the car, there's birds flying.
There's like sometimes a little spider that kind of like, bugs.
Did you touch my ear? No, I didn't.
- I know that's not true.
- There are.
I had a fly in my helmet earlier.
Really? I think it was a fly.
I don't know what it was, but it was like this bahh.
Gets all in my face.
- Really? That's not - Damn it, Tanner.
- You're fine.
I'm off the track! You can get right back on it.
I've been doing that all day.
You guys are on the exact same time right now.
- Come on.
This is gonna be doubly horrible.
Uh-oh.
Ah, there's the wall.
Rutledge is going for the time record right now! Here it is.
Here is the last turn.
And Should be a good time.
1:52.
5! Thank you.
[Laughs.]
[Laughs.]
Is that your fastest time? That has to be your fastest time.
Okay, he got a 1:52.
5, and I hit a wall, so you have to beat a 1:52.
5 in three laps.
- That's really fast.
- I know.
Or you can crash once and beat a 1:57.
And you get one crash.
I think I don't want to crash that.
Okay, then you got to beat a 1:52.
A 1:52.
5.
- Gotcha.
- No problem.
And now it's time for "Big Star, Small Car," and today is, without a doubt, the most beautiful woman to ever be behind the wheel of Suzuki.
It's Bridget Marquardt from "The Girls Next Door.
" [Cheers and applause.]
Aww.
- Thank you so much for being with us.
- Thank you.
Now, I know you've been at a lot of fancy parties before.
Have you ever seen such a high-class vehicle up close? [Laughter.]
I have not.
- Can I touch it? - Yeah, please.
Don't be intimidated by it.
Are you ready to put down some laps? You nervous? Yeah, I'm a little bit nervous, but I'm excited.
Okay.
Here let me get the door for you.
- All right.
Thank you.
- All right, you go to lay down your laps.
- We're all gonna move inside.
- We'll meet you in the hangar.
- Okay.
All right, good luck.
Let's go, you guys.
Wood: Here's Bridget, chewing gum with a gentle roll there at the start.
Marquardt: That's good.
Okay, clutch, into second.
And she's made it to second gear.
All right.
[Exhales sharply.]
We're going.
We didn't stall.
That's a good sign.
Going ever so gently.
[Whimpers.]
Fast, fast, fast.
Go.
Go.
Go.
This is where you would normally hear some tires squealing.
Aah! Everybody, go back inside where it's safe.
I don't know if we told Bridget that this is timed.
Picking up a little speed on the backstretch there we go.
Faster.
Oh, my gosh.
I have it all the way to the floor.
Aah.
Yep.
I'm not sure what gear you're in, but you're doing great.
Just a little speed would help.
Hard on the gas, please.
And she's across the line.
[Cheers and applause.]
Yay.
Wood: Come on out, Bridget.
[Cheers and applause continue.]
Bridget Marquardt, everybody.
We're so glad you could be here.
Have a seat.
We don't really have you can see from the board there's only a few mildly attractive people that show up here.
[Laughter.]
So, really, you've upped the ante today.
A lot of guys on there.
[Laughs.]
- Yeah.
- Well, that's all right.
We're gonna get you your lap time in a minute.
I want to talk about you, the car girl that you are.
Okay.
You have a pretty fun ride.
- What do you have? - I have a Cayman S.
- A Porsche Cayman S? - Porsche Cayman S [Audience oohs.]
Yeah.
And I love it.
It's this beautiful ride there.
There it is ta-da! Where is the car? [Laughter.]
Oh, it's right there.
I see it now.
I see it now.
And since then, I understand it's been rimmed up.
Yes, I did some stuff with Asanti, and they put on custom "Playboy" wheels for me.
So, they have a little "Playboy" bunny in the center, with a rhinestone eye.
[Laughter.]
For the record, fellas, that only works on Bridget's car.
That's not [Laughter.]
That look doesn't carry over.
But now let's be honest.
From a little bit more humble beginnings than that car, your first car was what? A Camaro.
[Laughing.]
A T-Top Camaro.
Z28, fellas.
- T-Top.
- With the T-Top.
And I thought it was really cool.
Well, at the time it was really cool, right? Yeah.
I loved it.
What's the fastest you've driven? In my Porsche I'm from northern California, so when I go home to visit my family, it's the 5 boring, nothing going on there.
One day I was driving down the road, and there was this car going so slow.
And I thought, "gosh, this truck is going so slow.
" So, I'm in the fast lane, just zoom right past him.
And I looked down at my speedometer, and I'm going 110.
So it wasn't him.
[Cheers and applause.]
Yeah.
I thought, "uh, I think" I'd better slowly adjust this a little bit," 'cause there is one thing on I-5, and that's highway patrol.
[Laughter.]
Yeah, which have greeted you several times - in your Porsche, right? - They have.
It's usually not for speeding, though.
I'm usually pretty good in my Porsche.
I get pulled over for no front license plate constantly.
[Audience ohhs.]
Almost every time I drive it.
That's a big California thing.
Now, why don't you run your front plate? Because it ruins the look of the front of the car.
Man: Yeah! Right? [Cheers and applause.]
I know.
It's I just can't do it to my Porsche.
I mean, the holes aren't even all the way drilled through.
So, am I supposed to do that? - No.
- No, right? No.
That's what I say.
Your vehicular street cred just went up so much in this state.
[Laughter.]
There are so many people right now let me ask this.
When you get pulled over, have you ever received a ticket since you've been on the shows and everybody knows you? Yes.
I have.
What was her name? [Laughter.]
Let's talk about some other cars you love.
If money was no object, what are some of the cars you're going after? Oh, I really want the Audi R8.
But that's not the only thing, right? What is the Mercedes that you love so much? - Oh, I kind of want the "G" Wagon.
- Mm-hmm.
It's just really cute.
It's boxy, and it's fun, and I feel like I could decorate it really cute and have fun with it.
So, for you, you're decorating, you're customizing.
That's what makes a car fun.
I love doing that.
I love the aesthetics of a car.
To me, it's not so much about the engine.
I know that's probably a bad word here, but But I love just the way it looks and the way it makes me feel.
Are you guys ready to see her time? Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! [Cheers and applause.]
All right.
Ohh! I'm so scared.
First of all, can I say that I did not know how to drive a stick shift? So I had to learn that today.
- Really? - Yes.
Um, Bridget? Yeah? [Laughs.]
Wow.
Oh, no.
Don't say that.
I am I am taken aback.
Uh-oh.
This was not what I expected.
Oh, my God, the suspense.
[Laughter.]
Bridget, I don't know how to tell you this, but it's not the first time you've made an old man happy.
You have bumped Buzz Aldrin from the bottom.
Oh, no! [Cheers and applause.]
[Laughs.]
2:06.
Oh, no.
Let's give Bridget a hand, huh? [Cheers and applause.]
Ferrara: Coming up, it's Tanner's turn to lay down his fastest lap.
Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Wood: It was time for the final competition.
I'd gotten a blistering 1:52 with the LFA around the virtual track.
Now Tanner would have three laps to try and beat me around the real track.
- All right, you ready? - I'm ready.
Wood: Here we go.
Three, two, one.
Go.
I think I'm winning already.
Wow.
You see how fast he's going up the hill? Ferrara: How does he do that? Foust: Nice and tidy.
[Tires screech.]
I have to remember not to grab that shift mid-drift.
Second to third works, but that's about it.
Oh, look at that! Look at that! Right there that's gonna cost him right there.
Yeah.
He's way out of shape now, see? Oh, sliding it a little bit.
Look at that.
Don't drift too much.
[Speaks indistinctly.]
Oh, this is the hardest part right here.
1:48.
How does he miss that wall? I hit it every time.
What is it? What is it? 1:56? He didn't do it.
There's no way he's gonna beat us.
Oh, my God! That's hard on the brakes, hard on the brakes.
Now, these seats are good, but not quite holding me for the G's of this track.
Here he comes.
1:35.
[Tires screech.]
Little too early on the gas, got a little opposite lock there.
- How's he doing? - 1:40.
Short-shifting into third as we come through turn 11.
Holy crap.
Damn it.
What was his time? Wood: A 1:53.
8.
He's got to shave 2 seconds to win.
Foust: This was it.
No more drifting around.
Without being able to see the lap time, all I could do was push it to the limit.
Oh, my God.
This is so quick.
He is really going fast.
120.
125.
Braking.
Whoa! All right, I need to tighten it up a little bit.
How's he doing? Good.
1:30.
Ferrara: The clock was running down.
Things were looking good for me and Rut.
Tucking a little glide.
Whoo! This is really tricky.
Come on.
Come on.
110.
120.
Here he comes.
Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! [Chuckling.]
Yes! What was it? I don't know what that time is, but [Sighs heavily.]
that was fun.
1:44.
Don't tell him that.
Don't tell him.
Damn it.
[Cheers and applause.]
Foust: Oh, yeah.
No.
That doesn't prove anything.
No, all that proves is it's harder to do something on a video game than it is in real life.
Absolutely not.
You can't die in the video game.
[Scoffs.]
I did.
[Laughter.]
Okay, that was kind of impressive.
Engineers sort of were a little freaked out when you rolled the thing over.
They said that couldn't be done.
[Laughs.]
Yeah.
So, let's see in us trying to prove you wrong and set you up to fail, you set a new world record for indoor speed, you did a fast lap at one of the nicest tracks in the world So fun.
Your car is now at the top of the leaderboard.
- This just went great.
- Yes.
- We should do that again some time.
- We should.
Thanks for watching, see you next time
As we force him to defy death while trying to break the indoor speed record Stunt-drive the most ridiculous and dangerous vehicles Oh! Oh! And Tanner tries to out-race our virtual cars 90 miles an hour through turn 5.
While we cheat our way around the track.
Wood: Tanner's a professional driver, which means basically his job is to travel around the world and race cool cars.
This also means he's super-competitive See you! - Confident - Kind of raring to go here.
And shows off his driving skills any chance he gets.
America! America! So, Adam and I thought it was time to bring him down a notch and came up with three challenges to see if we could make him fail.
Our first challenge was to see if we could beat him around Infineon raceway.
But this wouldn't be like any normal race.
Adam and I would be playing a video game, Forza Motorsport 4.
We would set the fastest time we could around the virtual track and crash as many times as we liked.
But Tanner would have to beat that time in a real car, on the real track.
And since we wouldn't have to be doing the real driving, we chose Infineon raceway because it's known for being extremely dangerous.
It's a high-speed track filled with turns that are easily misjudged.
Elevation changes with blind drops and a wall so close to the track, one mistake means total carnage.
And since we chose the track, we let Tanner pick whatever car he wanted.
And of course he chose one of the most race-worthy super cars on the market The $375,000 Lexus LFA.
Packed with so much technology, it's almost like driving a video game.
[Tires screeching.]
[Car door closes.]
And there they are.
Adam and Rutledge their gamer names are "Rut-Roh" and "Karkilla.
" What's up, Tanner? Are these your gaming pajamas? Oh, yeah.
It is time to die, my friend.
What makes you think that you could possibly be like a gaming master jedi and conquer this track on a game? You might be good in a car in real life, but in the virtual world, we are the best.
- Mm-hmm.
- See that? It's reflex.
- I'm not even aware I'm doing it.
- In the virtual world.
Have you ever been on the Forza game here? Look at me.
I'm the biggest dweeb you know.
- Have you ever been on the Forza game? - Please.
How hard could this possibly be? We can reset.
You can't.
Have you ever even raced here? I mean, I haven't drifted.
I've been around the track before.
Oh, you've been on just a portion of the track.
Sideways.
Left and right.
- Maybe.
- We're losing focus, fellas.
We get an hour to practice and then we meet on the field of battle.
- Fair enough? - Done.
- Le Mans start? - Sure.
Go ahead.
Run.
Do you know what that means? Yeah, it means you run, and I walk that way.
[Laughs.]
I hate when he's right.
Damn it.
[Car dinging.]
[Engine turns over.]
[Engine revs.]
You ever played this game before? No.
You? No.
Tanner doesn't need to know that, though.
- Very good point.
Foust: While the gamer geeks got plugged in to their video-game and racing simulators I got to know the real LFA.
Foust: Sometimes you got to just love Toyota.
Sure, they've built some lame cars that are purpose-made for accountants in Missouri, but other times they just get it.
They've got loads of cars out there that punch above their weight the Corolla AE86, the 1960s exotic, the 2000GT, Toyota Supra turbos, or this, the first real super car from Japan.
And it's a Lexus.
[Tires screech.]
The suspension of the car feels like one that took 10 years to develop.
These Japanese they devote absolutely everything to a project, put their whole beings into the smallest detail, and in a car like this, it shows.
[Tires screeching.]
The LFA can do 202 miles per hour or do zero to 60 in 3.
6 seconds.
Its mid-front-mounted 552-horsepower V-10 engine gives it the perfect balance for handling.
And the fact that it's a Lexus means it'll have no problem starting up in the morning.
The engine in the LFA is already legendary.
They actually had Yamaha do a lot of the development of the sound and of the engine.
It revs from idle to 9,000 rpm in 0.
6 seconds.
Every time you get on the gas [Engine humming.]
It changes your whole day.
Oh, my God.
Listen to that thing run! It's like a formula one car! [Humming continues.]
It's the sound that rips at the fibers of your inner gear and just dives into you and grabs your spine and says, "live it!" The experience of the LFA was so visceral, i began to wonder if tho basement trolls were having the same experience with their high-tech racing simulators.
- Did you fart? - Ferrara: No.
Wow.
This is different from "spy hunter.
" Little bit less guns.
Look at all the great cars you can have on here.
The '84 Rabbit MK1 GTI.
You can't find those in real life.
Do I have to use the LFA? If we're gonna beat Tanner's LFA, - we have to beat him with an LFA.
- Okay.
What color you want? Is there a red? I'll take a red.
You want a red? All right, I'll take blue.
"Wrong way warning.
" You need that.
I'm gonna turn that off.
Are you sure you want to mess with all that? Do you know what you're doing? No, but I don't know how to get out of here.
We were 15 minutes into our practice session.
And the more I drove the LFA, the more confident I was feeling about winning this race.
I chose this car because it's right at home on the track.
Its handling capabilities and acceleration were just off the charts.
The shifts happen in 2/10 of a second if you keep your foot to the floor in sport mode.
Now, the shifting could have been the double-clutch system that you get in the Ferrari 458, but the engineers at Toyota felt it wasn't authentic enough because you didn't feel the shifts.
On paper, I completely disagree.
But in practice, man, they are right.
It is so much better being able to feel that pop.
It feels Faster.
Listen to that.
[Engine revving.]
That sounds like a real car.
It doesn't sound like a video game just going, "brr, drr, drr.
" You can actually feel the thrust and back on it again.
Are you supposed to be sweating while you play this? It just means you really want it.
Grass is bad.
Grass is bad.
[Chuckles.]
The idea is, in theory, to stay off the grass.
This is really hard on you.
I feel like I'm on the actual racetrack.
I'd spent the first 30 minutes of the practice session playing with the car, but now it was time to start doing laps around the track and prepare to put the game nerds in their place.
Traction control off.
Little pedal on the right.
On it! On it! On it! On it! I love it! A strong lap time in a stock sports car on this track is 1:51.
Expert video gamers can do it in the same car in 1:41, so I knew it was gonna be close.
I liked my chances against ADD Ferrara, but Rutledge? He has the looks and physique of a bona fide video-game champion.
Come on.
Come on.
That's not there's a wall.
Aw.
[Laughs.]
Okay, that turn is sharper than you think.
Put the spoilers up.
Go! Go! Go! Grass is bad.
Grass is bad.
Oh.
Oh.
Cones.
Hello.
Whoa.
Whoa.
This is where the guys are gonna go off and crash every time.
It's downhill.
You can see it in real life.
But in the game, you can't see that downhill as much.
But, God, it's like this car is made for this track.
I wonder if it's that good on the game.
Wood: Oh.
Ohh! Come on! How do you think Tanner's doing right now? I would say he is having the same struggles.
I hope not.
'Cause he'd be dead.
Ferrara: Coming up, Tanner tries to break a world record Holy cow.
Stop, baby.
Stop.
And a former "Playboy" bunny stops by.
Now, why don't you run your front plate? Because it ruins the look of the front of the car.
Man: Yeah! Right? Wood: When you work with someone who's good at everything with a car, it gets annoying.
So Adam and I set out on a mission to put Tanner in his place.
Our first challenge was a virtual race.
Tanner was armed with the Lexus LFA.
We were driving the same vehicle, but in Forza motorsport 4.
The problem was We weren't very good.
Ferrara: There's the wall again.
Aah! Solution? Video games always have an "easy" setting.
Wood: Is there a game difficulty "easy"? Let's try that.
That's your strategy.
If you're gonna beat Tanner, you apparently have to cheat.
I like it.
I'm in.
What the hell? Here we go.
Adam, in "easy," it will break for you.
Oh, I've been breaking it by myself.
I broke everything.
Dang.
I'm back on the grass again.
You are really, really terrible at this me right now.
Yeah, I am.
Game companies should really hire you to test these.
That way, they'll know, like, "can a 4-year-old play the game?" Having executed our new strategy, we were in the zone Into the wall.
And ready to beat Tanner.
Whoo! That was fun.
Whew! Hey, Tanner.
Ferrara: How you doing? I am good.
How's it going? Real good.
How you doing out there? [Exhales sharply.]
I'm out of breath.
That thing is awesome.
Yeah, big dog can eat, can't it? I don't know what that means.
You guys are completely cheating.
You've got these arrows telling you where the line is and everything.
Woods: No, no, no, that's a suggestion.
Yeah, but it tells you exactly when to brake.
It tells you when to hit the gas.
I bet we're set up just the same way no traction control.
Sliding it all around.
You changed the traction you're full-throttle right there.
You would have spun around if you were in the real car right there.
No, I'm modulating.
I'm modulating my throttle.
I thought you'd know that.
- I see it all on the screen - No, I don't have any of that.
Traction control, STM light is flashing.
That's, like are you calling me a liar? No, I'm just saying what is "TCS"? Traction control.
No, that is "totally cool stuff.
" All right, whatever.
You've been practicing for an hour.
- Are you ready to race? - Yeah.
- Ready to do this or what? - What do you want to do 3-lap shootout? All right, it's on.
Okay.
All right.
Ready? Here we go.
[Engine revving.]
[Engine revving.]
[Cheers and applause.]
You know, one of the great things about Tanner is he's the kind of guy that just can't say no to a challenge, which got us thinking could we come up with something so difficult that he might actually fail for once? Yeah, like putting something on the top shelf.
[Laughter.]
It's hard because the guy set the record for the longest truck jump, right? He's won three gold medals at the "X" games, and he's driven over 200 miles an hour.
Then it came to us we'd challenge him to try to break the world indoor speed record.
I mean, he's a daredevil, but he's not crazy enough to try that.
Or is he? Foust: If I was going to break this world record, I was going to need a high-powered vehicle.
If I was gonna break it in an American car, there was really only one choice the Corvette ZR1 The fastest-accelerating vehicle ever to come out of GM 638 horses of raw American fury, the perfect machine to bring the record home.
[Electronic beep.]
I'm standing in a one-million-square-foot box.
And today it could be, for me, a million-square-foot coffin.
In order to break the record, I'd need to reach a speed of 83 miles an hour.
Now, that may not sound like much, but trying to hit that speed while headed straight towards a concrete wall could be a little dangerous.
With wheels spinning and grabbing gears the whole way down the straight, if I get offline at all, well, I'm into one of these a 10x10 steel beam.
And my car becomes a mesh of metal and meat.
Am I making this sound dangerous enough? The floor was smooth, almost like ice, which made it incredibly difficult to stop before crashing into the wall.
Because we're going for an actual world record, we had to be able to verify the speed of the car.
So we are going to use a system called Lidar.
It uses laser, well, to give you speed tickets.
But it's the most accurate way to determine the speed of the car on the planet.
And we have a police officer with such a piece of equipment.
How you doing? [Lidar gun beeping.]
I was ready, but wary of the ZR1's power being able to make it to the ground and getting enough grip.
So, they got me in a helmet, I think, really, just to raise confidence because it's not gonna do squat if I hit one of these poles.
Basically, I was about to drive a muscle car on ice as fast as I could towards a wall.
[Tires screech.]
Good launch.
Short shift to second gear a little bit too much wheel spin there.
It's moving around a lot.
Feathering.
Looking for a braking point.
65, 68, 69.
And brake.
[Tires screech.]
[Exhales sharply.]
That was close.
That was close.
I tried hard on that one.
The floor was just too slick for this much motor.
The ZR1 just couldn't put the power down.
And brake.
I couldn't get the ZR1 past 77.
To break the world record of 82 miles an hour, I was gonna need an upgrade, from a $120,000 car to a $160,000 super car.
This is an Audi R8 V-10.
It's got a Lamborghini engine, putting out over 500 horsepower.
And crucially, it's all-wheel-drive, which will give me more grip.
Okay, so, it's got 100 less horsepower than the Corvette, but I don't think horsepower was the problem.
It was putting the power to the ground.
And I think, with the Audi, because it's a very sophisticated all-wheel drive system, that even its measly 520-some-odd- horsepower Lamborghini engine should be able to do the job.
Helmet on.
Our police officer is ready.
I'll have to remember not to tap the brakes as I go by him, which is an instinct.
[Engine revving.]
Oh, it's a good launch.
Shift to second little bit of wheel spin at second.
Going to third.
65.
Oh, it's pulling.
70.
[Lidar gun beeping.]
Holy cow.
Stop, baby.
Stop.
[Tires screech.]
[Exhales sharply.]
[Laughs.]
[Tires screeching.]
We have a speed on that? Man: 81 miles an hour.
Ohh! One mile an hour short is that right? Affirmative.
The R8 was giving me the grip I needed.
It was now about finesse less wheel spin on my take-off and timing my braking point perfect.
Whoa.
50.
60.
[Lidar gun beeping.]
And braking.
Ah! [Tires screech.]
[Sighs.]
Why do I feel too old for this? [Tires screech.]
We have a speed on that? That speed was a world-record-setting 83 miles per hour.
Yeah! That's what I'm talking about! World record Audi R8.
I cannot believe it.
We had done it brought the indoor-speed record to America.
But there was something about it that just didn't feel right.
If this record was gonna be American, it needed to be all American.
And the Germans have a lot of world records.
It almost doesn't seem fair.
You know, Porsche has all kinds of world records.
Audi has all kinds of world records.
I was really hoping the Corvette would do it.
I wanted this world record to be homegrown, you know? We're gonna have to think outside the box on this.
We needed something from the good old U.
S.
of A.
, something like a Ford Fiesta.
But not any Fiesta.
My Fiesta.
This is an all-wheel-drive, purpose-built rally-cross car.
It's claimed "X" games gold and various trophies, and now it had its sights set on a world record.
Now, I'm not one to brag, but this little car is vicious.
It's 600 horsepower, goes zero to 60 in 2.
2 seconds, is all-wheel-drive, and to get one it's not just like the $14,000 Fiesta in the dealership you'd have to trade in four of those V-10 R8s back there.
At $500,000, this car is a completely different animal than the ZR1 or the R8.
This car required a hands-on team of technicians.
It went down in pressure? [Speaks indistinctly.]
Did the tires get up to temp? - I went and did a couple doughnuts.
- Yeah.
My crew adjusted the suspension, checked the tire pressure, and I was ready for take-off.
Now, it may look like I'm wearing a giant clown suit, and that's because I kind of am, but I still want some fire protection because with this car, the fuel is a lot closer to the driver than in a street car.
All right, here we go.
[Engine revving.]
Oh, too much wheel spin.
[Lidar gun beeping.]
80.
Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! [Tires screech.]
Stop! Stop! Ferrara: Coming up, we find out if Tanner's Ford fiesta broke a record, our virtual race hits a snag It was like this bahh.
Damn it, Tanner.
And one of the girls next door stops by to hit the track.
We're going.
We didn't stall.
That's a good sign.
Adam and I were trying as hard as we could, to find something Tanner couldn't do in a car, and we thought challenging him to break a world record of how fast you could drive indoors would be close to impossible.
Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! [Tires screech.]
Stop! Stop! [Cheers and applause.]
Ladies and gentlemen, your new indoor-speed world-record holder, Tanner Foust.
[Cheers and applause.]
At 87 miles an hour, no less.
Now, you make it sound like that wasn't that fast.
To get the record, it had to be in the same room, starting and stopping, and it was slippery.
And you set that record in your Ford Fiesta rally car.
- Yes.
So now there is a world speed record on this planet held by a Ford fiesta.
- Yes.
- But you know what? We wanted to see just how fast that car was outdoors, so we gave it to our tame racing driver, the Stig, to put around our test track.
[Engine buzzing.]
Wood: Launch control, and it's off.
Zero to 60 in 2 seconds.
Just incredibly fast through the gears.
You can hear how close the gear ratio is.
A little bit of nosedive as he comes under the first corner.
Stig really keeps his speed.
A little brake lockup through there.
Pretty composed through the chicane as he comes into the teardrop.
Working the shift lever.
That's what that is near the steering-wheel lever.
And then this is the hand brake that he's pulling here as he comes into the tightest section of the track.
Probably using the hand brake here.
Yes, gets a little rotation, but very clean on the exit.
All-wheel drive.
Putting the power down.
Getting some of cleanest exits out of the teardrop.
Little bit in the grass.
That's all part of rally-cross.
Very strange to see a fiesta 129 miles an hour through a corner.
Still looking very composed.
You can see that suspension just absorbing everything as the stig comes into cameraman's corner.
Working a little bit on the steering wheel.
Indicative of a short-wheel-based car that the Fiesta is.
It is a little bit twitchy as he comes into the s's.
This is gonna be a pretty exciting part to drive through here.
Extremely fast through there 90 miles an hour.
Into the last corner.
Just sliding through the last turn.
And across the line.
[Cheers and applause.]
Now, that looked crazy fast.
- Really fast.
- Where is it? Oh, the time? You want the time? Yeah, where does it fall here? Well, where do you think it fell? I mean, there's a lot of good cars on there.
Are you gonna put the time up, or are you just gonna stall? Well, I just honestly, you know a lot about cars.
Do you think it's faster than, say, a Panamera, or is it faster than an SLS? [Sighs.]
The Murcielago has about the same power.
The Ferrari's got less power, but is pretty good.
I would guess I mean, I'd be pretty excited if it was right in here somewhere.
You think a Ford Fiesta's gonna live up here? [Light laughter.]
I know it sounds cra it's not just any Ford Fiesta.
It's not just any Ford fiesta.
This is a $500,000 Fiesta.
So it's roughly $485,000 more than any Fiesta that normal people would buy.
[Laughter.]
Okay, it's expensive, but you're stalling still.
What was the time? It feels good to be on this side of the board for a change.
- Yeah.
Oh, that's fun for everybody.
- Do you want to see it? All right.
I'm gonna make room right here.
I'm just gonna slide this down just in case you need No kidding? A little something right in here.
Well, you may not need that spot 'cause the Ford fiesta rally cross car did it in 1:19.
5.
[Cheers and applause.]
Top of the board.
Yeah! Top of the board! We're moving to car one! That's what I'm talking about.
I'll give it up 'cause that's your car.
Unbelievable.
Okay, so, we've learned you can also drive fast indoors.
So, for this next one, Adam and I came up with something a lot harder.
So far, our plan to find something Tanner couldn't do in a car was proving to be more difficult than we thought.
So, we knew this next challenge would need to be something completely ridiculous.
All right, you got me out here at some God-awful time.
- What do you got? - Look, as you know, - you're a pain in the ass, okay? - Fair enough.
'Cause you think you can drift anything.
- I didn't say I could drift anything.
- Yes, you did.
"Oh, I can drift anything.
I'm Tanner Foust.
I make it go sideways.
" - I never said that.
- So what? - We got a bunch of vehicles, and we're gonna see exactly what it is you can and cannot drift.
Basically, the exercise is to prove to you that you're not as good as you think, okay? Great.
You'll thank us later.
Trust me.
This will make you a better person.
[Chuckles.]
Come on in, Rut! Really? Yeah, it's prom season.
A limo? - So, this shouldn't be a problem, right? - No.
I thought you were gonna bring a truck or like something dangerous.
This is what we're starting with.
You ride inside.
- Okay.
- And I will stay out here and make sure that the drift is legitimate.
Make sure you buckle up for safety! I'm not I'm not buckled yet.
You're buckled? Good.
Good to hear it.
No, I'm not I said, "I'm not buckled yet"! Ferrara: To qualify as an official drift, Tanner would need to slide the rear end of the vehicle while not losing forward momentum or spinning out.
Rutledge is in t back like a big plaid hair ball.
Aah! [Tires screeching.]
[Grunting.]
That's enough.
I think this counts as a drift! [Tires screeching.]
He's so stupid.
Is everybody okay? Yeah.
All right.
He's already done it.
But I think he's doing it again just to make Rutledge sick, which is always fun.
Oh, crap.
Oh, really? Ah, here he comes.
Ohh! Ohh! Oh! Oh! That counts.
Oh, God! Oh [Bleep.]
- Ahh! - Come on out, sir.
Oh, gosh.
- You okay in there? - You all right? No.
Don't throw up in my limo.
No, I was just thinking about the prom.
Oh, God.
That was awful.
What else you got? - [Burps.]
- Ugh.
Ohh.
Rut almost losing his lunch was appropriate, given our next challenge.
Wait till you see this one.
A food truck.
Yeah.
It's already leaning to one side.
That's the side he's sitting on.
This is now flat-out dangerous.
Hi, Candela.
Buenos días.
Really? Su coche está aqui.
I call this "dorifito impossible.
" Which is Spanish for "[Bleep.]
Die.
" That is not a direct translation at all.
I'm paraphrasing.
All right, you ready?! - I think so.
- Game on.
Drift-o! I'm gonna have to try a couple different techniques, I think, here.
You take your time.
You look good in that, by the way.
Thank you.
There he goes.
He got that uh-oh.
[Metal clanging.]
He's on that "E" brake a little bit, isn't he? I think that's a partial.
Oh, man.
[Laughs.]
Don't spill the milk! More speed! There you go! Wood: You need more speed! Ferrara: Hit it! There it is.
There it is.
Oh, damn, he did it.
[Tires screech.]
Aw.
I think he just drifted a food truck.
He drifted a food truck.
- Did it work? - Yeah.
Thank the lord 'cause I want out of this thing.
We saw spin.
It was breaking.
I don't know how and just a little bit it slid just a little bit there? Yes! - What's next? Food truck's done.
- All right.
- We got something for you.
- Yeah.
Is it lunch? Wood: Tanner seemed to have a difficult time drifting the roach coach, so we decided to go with something even bigger.
So, what do you think? The RV - You guys are just making them more and more top-heavy in hopes that I'll maybe hurt myself and die.
You know you can do it.
That wheel's coming up.
Oh, he's gonna pick up.
Oh, picking the front tire up! Holy [Bleep.]
He's gonna tip it.
Oh, he's gonna dump that thing over.
All right, let's rethink our approach.
He's not giving up.
You can respect that about him.
I'm not giving up on you yet.
Come on! [Tires screech.]
Oh! Oh! [Both laugh.]
Oh, yeah.
[Tires screech.]
- What the hell? Ferrara: Mm -hmm.
I feel like I just got in a wrestling match with a freakin' orangutan.
How did you pick up the front wheel like that? Aw, man, that thing I kicked it in the balls like four times.
So far, Tanner was two for three.
So we gave him one more shot to prove that he really could drift anything.
Okay.
No, you stepped up the game.
And this time Adam went along for the ride.
When you're in the midst of stupidity, it's hard to know exactly where to stand.
Yeah, let's back up.
Wow.
Yeah.
A little bit of body roll.
Wow.
This is gonna be so dangerous.
[Laughing.]
Oh, look at that.
Okay, let's go again.
All right, it's coming in hot.
It's got a good lean to it.
Oh, that is gonna tip over.
[Tires screech.]
[Laughing.]
Oh, look at [Laughing.]
Are you okay? Almost didn't slide.
Just kind of skidded.
I don't think that counts.
Almost rolls it over.
The bus shuts itself off.
I'm confused.
Where we doing "will it drift?" Or "will it almost flip over?" at the end? I was getting a little bit desperate.
I'm not gonna lie.
I don't think you did it.
The back didn't slide? - It didn't come around? - Mnh-mnh.
- 'Cause I felt that it started to swing.
- Mnh-mnh.
And, you know, we're in front of the front tire, so it like pulled backwards a little bit.
- Mnh-mnh.
It's a long, sad story you're telling, but it didn't do it.
So, you're right not everything can be drifted.
I was wrong.
- I'm sorry.
What did you say? - You were right.
- That feels good.
- I didn't hear him.
I know that was hard for you to say.
And you were right.
Yes.
Yes, we were.
I want another shot at the bus.
Can we do another shot at the bus? Let's get out of here.
- All right.
- Good work.
This bus was genius.
- Where did you come up with that? - Good work to you.
Well, you know, you're trying to trump somebody.
Ferrara: Coming up, a "Playboy" bunny - stops by to race our track - Everybody, go back inside.
And we get one last shot at beating Tanner with our video game.
1:52.
5! That's really fast.
Tanner's a race car driver who wins medals and gets girls in short, one of the most annoying people on the planet, especially if you have to spend as much time with him as we do.
So, we came up with a way to finally beat him a virtual race.
After an hour of practice, we were ready to lay down our time on the video game.
Ferrara: Gentlemen, gentlemen, can we focus, please? What is the challenge? Is it three laps? It's three laps.
It's your best out of three laps.
- Okay.
- All right, ready? [Sighs.]
Here we go.
[Engines revving.]
I like that you guys both started at the same time.
Adam's actually a little bit ahead of you, Rut.
Don't get excited about that too hard.
Come on, Rut.
We cannot let him win this.
It's the pressure that is hard, isn't it? In the car, there's birds flying.
There's like sometimes a little spider that kind of like, bugs.
Did you touch my ear? No, I didn't.
- I know that's not true.
- There are.
I had a fly in my helmet earlier.
Really? I think it was a fly.
I don't know what it was, but it was like this bahh.
Gets all in my face.
- Really? That's not - Damn it, Tanner.
- You're fine.
I'm off the track! You can get right back on it.
I've been doing that all day.
You guys are on the exact same time right now.
- Come on.
This is gonna be doubly horrible.
Uh-oh.
Ah, there's the wall.
Rutledge is going for the time record right now! Here it is.
Here is the last turn.
And Should be a good time.
1:52.
5! Thank you.
[Laughs.]
[Laughs.]
Is that your fastest time? That has to be your fastest time.
Okay, he got a 1:52.
5, and I hit a wall, so you have to beat a 1:52.
5 in three laps.
- That's really fast.
- I know.
Or you can crash once and beat a 1:57.
And you get one crash.
I think I don't want to crash that.
Okay, then you got to beat a 1:52.
A 1:52.
5.
- Gotcha.
- No problem.
And now it's time for "Big Star, Small Car," and today is, without a doubt, the most beautiful woman to ever be behind the wheel of Suzuki.
It's Bridget Marquardt from "The Girls Next Door.
" [Cheers and applause.]
Aww.
- Thank you so much for being with us.
- Thank you.
Now, I know you've been at a lot of fancy parties before.
Have you ever seen such a high-class vehicle up close? [Laughter.]
I have not.
- Can I touch it? - Yeah, please.
Don't be intimidated by it.
Are you ready to put down some laps? You nervous? Yeah, I'm a little bit nervous, but I'm excited.
Okay.
Here let me get the door for you.
- All right.
Thank you.
- All right, you go to lay down your laps.
- We're all gonna move inside.
- We'll meet you in the hangar.
- Okay.
All right, good luck.
Let's go, you guys.
Wood: Here's Bridget, chewing gum with a gentle roll there at the start.
Marquardt: That's good.
Okay, clutch, into second.
And she's made it to second gear.
All right.
[Exhales sharply.]
We're going.
We didn't stall.
That's a good sign.
Going ever so gently.
[Whimpers.]
Fast, fast, fast.
Go.
Go.
Go.
This is where you would normally hear some tires squealing.
Aah! Everybody, go back inside where it's safe.
I don't know if we told Bridget that this is timed.
Picking up a little speed on the backstretch there we go.
Faster.
Oh, my gosh.
I have it all the way to the floor.
Aah.
Yep.
I'm not sure what gear you're in, but you're doing great.
Just a little speed would help.
Hard on the gas, please.
And she's across the line.
[Cheers and applause.]
Yay.
Wood: Come on out, Bridget.
[Cheers and applause continue.]
Bridget Marquardt, everybody.
We're so glad you could be here.
Have a seat.
We don't really have you can see from the board there's only a few mildly attractive people that show up here.
[Laughter.]
So, really, you've upped the ante today.
A lot of guys on there.
[Laughs.]
- Yeah.
- Well, that's all right.
We're gonna get you your lap time in a minute.
I want to talk about you, the car girl that you are.
Okay.
You have a pretty fun ride.
- What do you have? - I have a Cayman S.
- A Porsche Cayman S? - Porsche Cayman S [Audience oohs.]
Yeah.
And I love it.
It's this beautiful ride there.
There it is ta-da! Where is the car? [Laughter.]
Oh, it's right there.
I see it now.
I see it now.
And since then, I understand it's been rimmed up.
Yes, I did some stuff with Asanti, and they put on custom "Playboy" wheels for me.
So, they have a little "Playboy" bunny in the center, with a rhinestone eye.
[Laughter.]
For the record, fellas, that only works on Bridget's car.
That's not [Laughter.]
That look doesn't carry over.
But now let's be honest.
From a little bit more humble beginnings than that car, your first car was what? A Camaro.
[Laughing.]
A T-Top Camaro.
Z28, fellas.
- T-Top.
- With the T-Top.
And I thought it was really cool.
Well, at the time it was really cool, right? Yeah.
I loved it.
What's the fastest you've driven? In my Porsche I'm from northern California, so when I go home to visit my family, it's the 5 boring, nothing going on there.
One day I was driving down the road, and there was this car going so slow.
And I thought, "gosh, this truck is going so slow.
" So, I'm in the fast lane, just zoom right past him.
And I looked down at my speedometer, and I'm going 110.
So it wasn't him.
[Cheers and applause.]
Yeah.
I thought, "uh, I think" I'd better slowly adjust this a little bit," 'cause there is one thing on I-5, and that's highway patrol.
[Laughter.]
Yeah, which have greeted you several times - in your Porsche, right? - They have.
It's usually not for speeding, though.
I'm usually pretty good in my Porsche.
I get pulled over for no front license plate constantly.
[Audience ohhs.]
Almost every time I drive it.
That's a big California thing.
Now, why don't you run your front plate? Because it ruins the look of the front of the car.
Man: Yeah! Right? [Cheers and applause.]
I know.
It's I just can't do it to my Porsche.
I mean, the holes aren't even all the way drilled through.
So, am I supposed to do that? - No.
- No, right? No.
That's what I say.
Your vehicular street cred just went up so much in this state.
[Laughter.]
There are so many people right now let me ask this.
When you get pulled over, have you ever received a ticket since you've been on the shows and everybody knows you? Yes.
I have.
What was her name? [Laughter.]
Let's talk about some other cars you love.
If money was no object, what are some of the cars you're going after? Oh, I really want the Audi R8.
But that's not the only thing, right? What is the Mercedes that you love so much? - Oh, I kind of want the "G" Wagon.
- Mm-hmm.
It's just really cute.
It's boxy, and it's fun, and I feel like I could decorate it really cute and have fun with it.
So, for you, you're decorating, you're customizing.
That's what makes a car fun.
I love doing that.
I love the aesthetics of a car.
To me, it's not so much about the engine.
I know that's probably a bad word here, but But I love just the way it looks and the way it makes me feel.
Are you guys ready to see her time? Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! [Cheers and applause.]
All right.
Ohh! I'm so scared.
First of all, can I say that I did not know how to drive a stick shift? So I had to learn that today.
- Really? - Yes.
Um, Bridget? Yeah? [Laughs.]
Wow.
Oh, no.
Don't say that.
I am I am taken aback.
Uh-oh.
This was not what I expected.
Oh, my God, the suspense.
[Laughter.]
Bridget, I don't know how to tell you this, but it's not the first time you've made an old man happy.
You have bumped Buzz Aldrin from the bottom.
Oh, no! [Cheers and applause.]
[Laughs.]
2:06.
Oh, no.
Let's give Bridget a hand, huh? [Cheers and applause.]
Ferrara: Coming up, it's Tanner's turn to lay down his fastest lap.
Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Wood: It was time for the final competition.
I'd gotten a blistering 1:52 with the LFA around the virtual track.
Now Tanner would have three laps to try and beat me around the real track.
- All right, you ready? - I'm ready.
Wood: Here we go.
Three, two, one.
Go.
I think I'm winning already.
Wow.
You see how fast he's going up the hill? Ferrara: How does he do that? Foust: Nice and tidy.
[Tires screech.]
I have to remember not to grab that shift mid-drift.
Second to third works, but that's about it.
Oh, look at that! Look at that! Right there that's gonna cost him right there.
Yeah.
He's way out of shape now, see? Oh, sliding it a little bit.
Look at that.
Don't drift too much.
[Speaks indistinctly.]
Oh, this is the hardest part right here.
1:48.
How does he miss that wall? I hit it every time.
What is it? What is it? 1:56? He didn't do it.
There's no way he's gonna beat us.
Oh, my God! That's hard on the brakes, hard on the brakes.
Now, these seats are good, but not quite holding me for the G's of this track.
Here he comes.
1:35.
[Tires screech.]
Little too early on the gas, got a little opposite lock there.
- How's he doing? - 1:40.
Short-shifting into third as we come through turn 11.
Holy crap.
Damn it.
What was his time? Wood: A 1:53.
8.
He's got to shave 2 seconds to win.
Foust: This was it.
No more drifting around.
Without being able to see the lap time, all I could do was push it to the limit.
Oh, my God.
This is so quick.
He is really going fast.
120.
125.
Braking.
Whoa! All right, I need to tighten it up a little bit.
How's he doing? Good.
1:30.
Ferrara: The clock was running down.
Things were looking good for me and Rut.
Tucking a little glide.
Whoo! This is really tricky.
Come on.
Come on.
110.
120.
Here he comes.
Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! [Chuckling.]
Yes! What was it? I don't know what that time is, but [Sighs heavily.]
that was fun.
1:44.
Don't tell him that.
Don't tell him.
Damn it.
[Cheers and applause.]
Foust: Oh, yeah.
No.
That doesn't prove anything.
No, all that proves is it's harder to do something on a video game than it is in real life.
Absolutely not.
You can't die in the video game.
[Scoffs.]
I did.
[Laughter.]
Okay, that was kind of impressive.
Engineers sort of were a little freaked out when you rolled the thing over.
They said that couldn't be done.
[Laughs.]
Yeah.
So, let's see in us trying to prove you wrong and set you up to fail, you set a new world record for indoor speed, you did a fast lap at one of the nicest tracks in the world So fun.
Your car is now at the top of the leaderboard.
- This just went great.
- Yes.
- We should do that again some time.
- We should.
Thanks for watching, see you next time