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Lap of Honor

it's all tied into his close-up coverage.
It's so much better for the actors to
actually physically experience this.
We made extensive use of a
'Pod-Car,' which is an actual race car
riding on its own tires, but with an
extended chassis so that a 'controlpod' can be mounted at the front,

when the camera is looking back at
the actor behind the wheel, or in the
back, when the camera is looking
forward over the actor's shoulder.
The Pod-Car is controlled by the
stunt driver.
We also had a 'Frankenstein'
car, which is essentially a custom-

built race car that's set up for rigging
cameras in multiple positions. This
was the best tool to keep up with our
Ford GT40s and Ferrari race cars. It
allowed us to go around high-speed
corners inches away from our picture
cars. Again, low, wide and close was
the formula.
The G-forces in high-speed
turns were too much for standard carmounted remote crane arms, but we
had a Porsche Cayenne set up with a
vertical column - which they called
the 'elevator rig' - instead of the
arm. That allowed us to zip from an
extremely low camera position to
about eight feet high in seconds,
without dealing with the inertia
limits of an arm. Allan Padelford was
able to drive this thing so closely to
our hero cars that it was scary being
along for the ride - imagine our
camera crew pulling focus and iris
from inside the Cayenne at the same
time!
➔

A contingent of lawyers and executives from the Ford Motor Co. - including Lee Iacocca (Jon Bernthal) - visits the Ferrari factory in Italy.
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