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Cool Tom Cruise F1'ing @ Willow Springs
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 5:45 pm
by Mako Koiwai
Re: Cool Tom Cruise F1'ing @ Willow Springs
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 6:41 pm
by Mako Koiwai
Tom did A LOT better then when Richard Hammond/Top Gear tried to drive the Renault F1 at Silverstone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9773pisjCSw
Re: Cool Tom Cruise F1'ing @ Willow Springs
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:24 am
by Q V
neato!
but maybe they just didn't show Tom Cruise messing up the first half day, haha.
Re: Cool Tom Cruise F1'ing @ Willow Springs
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:06 pm
by Arthur Grant
I'm not a Tom Cruise fan, but he has learned to fulfill his need for speed with skill. Among his personal aircraft he owns a P-51, and regularly pushes it and others. I work with a host of navy pilots who at various times and places have gotten to fly with him at special events and all claim he is very good. Wouldn't surpise me at all if he was reasonably quick and comfortable in an F-1 car. Of course running hot laps and racing are two different things, but when you feel comfortable above 300 knots flying airplanes in tight formation, might not be that big of jump.