txtom Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 Movies inspire people, as this story and video show................ Victory Lane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SASPEEDRACER24 Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 Thats some funny chit... Wonder what track it was... looked like a fairly large track with a figure 8 inside it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
97car Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 Altamount speedway in California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maz1438 Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 from what i understand and heard about is that incident was a prank that was set-up on purpose for a commercial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truck99 Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 from what i understand and heard about is that incident was a prank that was set-up on purpose for a commercial. That's what Fox7 news reported tonight. Must have been a setup deal, because I've never seen that many girls in bikinis at a regular race event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fast18 Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 There'd be a serious ass woopin' if that happened around here ....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modracer Posted August 18, 2006 Report Share Posted August 18, 2006 This was taken from Jayski: Winning car 'stolen' from Victory Lane: A man jumped into a NASCAR race car and tried to drive away before he was stopped by track officials, who didn't know he was an actor and the apparent heist was a prank for a commercial. Justin Philpott, a 16-year-old NASCAR competitor, was taking part in an awards ceremony at the Altamont Motorsports Park on Sunday when the actor jumped a fence and hopped into his Chevrolet, the Tracy Press reported Thursday. "I heard my race car start up and slide away, so I turned around and started yelling and running after it," said Philpott, a third-generation racer. "No one knew what was going on." The stunt was cut short when track officials blocked the car's path with tow trucks, the newspaper reported. Philpott's older brother, also a racer, chased down the car, pulled out the unidentified man and tackled him to the ground. The incident was caught on tape and widely circulated on the Internet. The "thief" turned out to be an actor filming a scene for a commercial for one of Philpott's sponsors, TaxBrain.com. The Philpotts had not been told about the commercial beforehand, Justin Philpott said. A spokeswoman for Altamont's parent company, Riverside Motorsports Park, said only a few track officials knew the prank would take place. A spokesman for TaxBrain.com did not return calls for comment.(ESPN.com/AP see the video link there)(8-17-2006) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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