High Performance Driving 1973
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Channel: Historic Films Stock Footage Archive · 2013 · Education
For licensing inquiries please contact Historic Films Archive (www.historicfilms.com / [email protected]) 01:15:25 HIGH PERFORMANCE DRIVING: BOB BONDURANT, GRAND PRIX DRIVER OF DISTINCTION, DRIVES MERCEDES ONTO SUZUKI TEST TRACK. SIGN ON FENCE: "BOB BONDURANT SCHOOL OF HIGH PERFORMANCE DRIVING," LARGE POINTING ARROW. CU SHOTS OF HIS TROPHIES. 01:16:00 PAN OF MECHANICS WORKING OUTSIDE HIS GARAGES, TRAINING SCHOOL, ON HIS RACING CARS, MOSTLY RED. BONDURANT PARKS MERCEDES. CU BONDURANT TALKS TO MEN, WOMEN ASPIRING GRAND PRIX DRIVERS, IN CLASSROOM. HE TEACHES SKID CONTROL. 01:17:07 CU WOMAN AT WHEEL. LS SPEEDS AROUND CONES ON OBSTACLE COURSE AT TEST GROUNDS. SCREECHING, SKIDDING. BONDURANT EXPLAINS, WITH DRAWINGS ON BLACKBOARD, HOW TO DO IT. CU WOMAN BEHIND WHEEL SPEEDING AROUND SHARP CURVES. 01:17:30 CU BONDURANT, USING SMALL MODEL OF RACE CAR, SHOWS WHY CAR ACTS AS IT DOES IN SKID. MS REAL CAR SKIDDING. BONDURANT VOICE TELLS HOW TO CONTROL IT. 01:18:04 POLICE CAR FOLLOWED BY AMBULANCE ON WET PRACTICE ROAD AT SCHOOL. CU POLICEMAN AT THE WHEEL. LS AMBULANCE SKIDS IN COMPLETE CIRCLE ON WET ROAD. IS KEPT UNDER CONTROL. 01:18:27 POLICE CAR CHASING PANEL TRUCK WITH LARGE BOX IN ROOF RACK. BOX FALLS, POLICE CAR SWERVES TO AVOID IT, DOES. POLICE CAR CUTS OFF SPEEDER, WHO COMES TO STOP. 01:18:56 BONDURANT, WHO TAUGHT ACTORS PAUL NEWMAN, JAMES GARNER, HOW TO RIDE, ACCOMPANIES TWO ASPIRING RACE CAR DRIVERS TO THEIR RACE CARS, STRAPS THEM IN, WATCHES THEM TAKE OFF. RACE CARS ON TRACK, SPEEDING TOWARDS CAMERA.
