1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,080 On this turbocharged episode of Mythbusters, the whole team feels the need for speed in 2 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:19,640 an IndyCar special. 3 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:23,480 First up, it's a sporting superstar showdown. 4 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:25,920 I'll show you how we do it in the Olympics. 5 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,160 In a short course sprint, let's do this. 6 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,160 That'll knock your socks off. 7 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:31,160 Go! 8 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:32,160 Can men beat cars? 9 00:00:32,160 --> 00:00:33,160 That was close. 10 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:36,160 Then there's some sensational suction. 11 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:38,560 Wow, look at that. 12 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:44,200 As the guys see of a road-hugging race car, really can mobilize a manhole cover. 13 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:46,520 You're getting faster. 14 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:47,520 Beautiful! 15 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:50,560 Meanwhile, Cari Torian grants stripped down. 16 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,720 Apparently, my intestines are measuring 101 degrees. 17 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:54,720 Then, suit up. 18 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,000 I'm about to drive an IndyCar for three hours. 19 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,880 To test out a race day weight loss myth. 20 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,240 Goodness gracious, that's fast. 21 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:07,400 That pushes them all to the brink and beyond. 22 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:09,400 I am exhausted. 23 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,400 I feel like I just got beat up. 24 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:18,080 Who are the Mythbusters? 25 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:22,480 Adam Savage and Jamie Heineman. 26 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:24,280 Crack, damn you. 27 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:28,880 Between them were then 30 years of special effects experience. 28 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:30,680 Together with Cari Byron. 29 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:32,440 That's all them dragons. 30 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:33,440 Tori Bellachy. 31 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,120 Why are we doing this? 32 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:36,120 And Grant Himahara. 33 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:37,120 Somebody ordering explosion. 34 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:51,600 They don't just tell the Myths, they put them to the test. 35 00:01:51,600 --> 00:02:04,040 Test out of the blocks is a myth that hits hamstrings against horsepower. 36 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:05,680 What are you doing? 37 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:06,680 Research. 38 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,840 Only you could call playing around with toys research. 39 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,200 So what's up first? 40 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:12,640 First up, we've got a doozy. 41 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:16,880 There is a myth that a man can actually outrun an IndyCar. 42 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,680 I'm sorry, I don't know any dudes that can run 220 miles an hour. 43 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:25,960 He doesn't have to because this race takes place over only a distance of 30 feet. 44 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:27,800 Ah, well that's different. 45 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,040 That's all about the physics of it. 46 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:31,760 Traction, mass, that kind of thing. 47 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:32,760 That might just work. 48 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,320 You feel like running? 49 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:35,320 Maybe after lunch. 50 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:37,760 Good idea. 51 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:42,160 The incredible Indy 500 is renowned for its rolling starts. 52 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:48,120 One reason for this go, go, go game plan is that IndyCar's struggle to get a grip from 53 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:54,840 a standing start, but is their traction really so terrible that in a 30 foot man versus car 54 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,920 race off, it's the human who take the checkered flag? 55 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:04,840 Well, what better place to test it than America's Mecca of Motorsport? 56 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:08,440 We've been lucky enough in the course of doing this show to film at some pretty iconic 57 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:10,160 locations. 58 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:11,960 We got to escape from Alcatraz. 59 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,800 Welcome to the Rock. 60 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,720 We got to throw pennies off the roof of the Empire State Building. 61 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:19,720 Wow. 62 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:24,680 And we looked for Jimmy Hoffa on the 50 yard line of the Meadowlands. 63 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:31,320 But today, today, I am standing on the starting line of the most famous track in racing, the 64 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:35,840 Indianapolis Motor Speedway, known because of this strip I'm standing on as the brick 65 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:36,840 yard. 66 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:42,760 These bricks are some of the 32 million used to build the original two and a half mile long 67 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,280 track back in 1909. 68 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:52,240 The Speedway scene speed record smashed and a lot of cars trekked in its 100 year history, 69 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:56,440 but safe to say it's never seen anything quite like this. 70 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:58,480 Well, our track is all set up. 71 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:00,040 You ready for some sprinting Hoosier? 72 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:01,040 I'm good to go. 73 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:02,720 All we need is a car and a driver. 74 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,520 I'm no psychic, but I believe one is showing up post haste. 75 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,520 Hey, everybody. 76 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,520 Hey, Ryan. 77 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,520 How's it going? 78 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:13,520 Good. 79 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:18,360 Here's a little bit of a legend around here, not just for his driving, but for walking 80 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:22,040 away from this calamitous crash back in 2005. 81 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:28,480 Today, he's offered to coach Adam on how to get off to a flying start. 82 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:33,160 This is the car I'll be racing against Jamie in our head to head match, but I've never 83 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:34,680 driven one before. 84 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:39,480 Ryan, what would you say to a novice about getting this thing off the line and driving 85 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:40,480 it? 86 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,760 I'm going to get a little bit of horsepower here, and the key is really going to be getting 87 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:48,280 that feeling with the clutch and not stalling it because it's got a very touchy clutch. 88 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:52,280 So you're going to have lots of RPM and then just find that bite point, get those tires 89 00:04:52,280 --> 00:04:54,320 spinning and off you go. 90 00:04:54,320 --> 00:05:00,960 With a top speed of over 240 miles per hour, these are the fastest race cars in the world, 91 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,080 and Adam's pretty quick to get his butt behind the wheel. 92 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,680 All right, I'm going to start it up. 93 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:07,680 Wow. 94 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,880 I feel a rumble in my soul. 95 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:17,200 Rumble is right because this car goes from 0 to 100 in three seconds flat. 96 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,880 Let's see how Adam handles the horses. 97 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:24,080 Well, that was a little spotty. 98 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,520 I'm going to give it another few tries. 99 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,760 Any minute now, I'll be ready for the Heidemann. 100 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:35,640 The challenge is a 30-foot match race between man and car, and there's just a few minutes 101 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:37,640 for Adam to get up to speed. 102 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:39,520 He's getting a little better. 103 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:41,840 Okay, here we go. 104 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:44,040 One more try, and then I'm coming for you, Hoosier. 105 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,040 Here we go. 106 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:50,400 Yeah, that's it. 107 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:55,120 After four practice starts, Adam's convinced he was born to burn rubber. 108 00:05:55,120 --> 00:06:00,960 So Q-Test number one, 700 horsepower versus one hopeful Heidemann. 109 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,560 You wouldn't think it would be much of a contest, but here's the thing. 110 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:09,360 I weigh a little over a tenth as much as that car does, so I might just be a little 111 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:11,960 quicker getting off the line. 112 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,720 The feeling trackside is it's going to be close, so let's see. 113 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:16,720 Are you ready? 114 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:17,720 Start your engines. 115 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:18,720 Go. 116 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:25,720 Sure enough, there's barely the width of a moustache between them. 117 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:26,720 I don't know. 118 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:27,720 It was a close finish. 119 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:28,720 That was close. 120 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:33,640 The high speed shows Adam flashing through for a win in the last fraction of a second. 121 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,840 It's so close, there's no question this calls for a do-over. 122 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:42,160 Start your engines. 123 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:43,800 Go. 124 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:51,280 To the naked eye, it's another close call, but the high speed shows Adam has increased 125 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:52,280 his edge. 126 00:06:52,280 --> 00:06:53,880 How'd that go? 127 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,640 You were ahead of me by about three feet that time. 128 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:57,640 Really? 129 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:03,000 Yeah, it's amazing to watch it because I'm leading you right up until about, I'm ready 130 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,360 to cross the finish line and then there you are and you're gone. 131 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,880 I did spin out a bunch at the starting line. 132 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:10,280 You want to go one more time? 133 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:11,780 Yeah. 134 00:07:11,780 --> 00:07:21,080 This is Janie's last chance to confirm the myth and boost the morale of pedestrians everywhere. 135 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:26,200 But it's not third time's a charm. 136 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,040 I think I got my ass kicked. 137 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,640 This time Adam wins out by way more than a nose. 138 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:36,000 We just did a very exciting three tests, man versus machine. 139 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:42,640 The first one I won by a few inches, second one by a couple of feet, third one by a mile. 140 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:44,600 Two things are happening that I think causes that. 141 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,360 One is I'm getting better at starting off the line each time. 142 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:51,160 Two, the tires are getting hotter and that makes them stick better. 143 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:52,480 I thought I did pretty well. 144 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:57,720 A couple of those runs I was neck and neck with the car, but I'm just wearing street 145 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:03,560 clothes and maybe if we put somebody in proper gear and maybe if that person happened to 146 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:09,720 be a little younger than me, aka Adam, he might have a fighting chance. 147 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:16,560 Yep, just down the track we've got Sprint King Savage up against Hair Trigger Heinemann. 148 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:26,040 He's no Usain Bolt, but the finish of this race is certified gold. 149 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:31,960 This stuff is a lose weight real fast myth that should get anyone's motor racing. 150 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:33,880 Okay IndyCar special, what have we got? 151 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:37,160 Alright, this one sounds a little fishy, but here it goes. 152 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:41,360 It's that during the course of a race an IndyCar driver can lose 10 pounds. 153 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:42,880 Seriously, 10 whole pounds. 154 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:43,880 That's what they say. 155 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,880 Wait a minute, does this mean we're going to be driving race cars to test this myth? 156 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:48,880 Oh, so? 157 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,800 I'm going to go suit up. 158 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:53,800 Excited much? 159 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:01,400 If this diet dilemma is true, it's one of the most exciting and potentially perilous 160 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:06,240 ways ever to slim down in a hurry. 161 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:13,160 The weight these drivers supposedly shed is due to extreme exertion and plenty of perspiration, 162 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:18,120 but 10 pounds is more than most of us could hope to lose in a month. 163 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:19,640 Alright, I'm ready to race. 164 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,680 Since this is about sweat, maybe we should narrow it down first and find out how much 165 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:26,080 water weight you would lose in three hours from just heat alone. 166 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:27,520 That's a good idea. 167 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,880 That way we could get a baseline before we hit the road and see if driving itself causes 168 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,360 you to lose more or less weight than that. 169 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:35,360 Exactly. 170 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:36,360 Carrie, no any good spas? 171 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:37,960 Well, that's a stupid question. 172 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,080 The better question is, where did you have a race suit? 173 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:43,840 I'm always prepared. 174 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:49,640 The green flag drops on the control test, so for now, Tori can leave the race suit behind. 175 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:53,080 Down here, the dress code is, well, let's call it relaxed. 176 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:59,320 Now we do a lot of crazy things on MythBusters, and most of them aren't that pleasant. 177 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:06,160 But finally we're doing an experiment where it sounds like it's not going to be so bad. 178 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:10,840 Think again because the sauna gets up to 120 degrees, which is the same temperature as 179 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:13,280 the inside of an indie cockpit. 180 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:17,280 And we're going to be in there for three hours, which is the same length of time as a full 181 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:18,280 race. 182 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:23,360 In fact, things just might turn unpleasant enough for some medical monitoring, and we've 183 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:25,160 got that stitched up. 184 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:28,040 Dr. Clifford's stool will be monitoring us. 185 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:30,960 We have thermometers that we've swallowed. 186 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:32,200 For science. 187 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,200 Ingestible thermometers that are wireless. 188 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,360 You can take our core temperature and make sure that everything's okay. 189 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,560 Oh, that was a big one. 190 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:45,080 They'll weigh themselves now, then again when the three-hour furnace has finished. 191 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:48,640 Tori's the first to proclaim his poundage to the public. 192 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,800 Okay, so I weigh 176. 193 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,400 As for Kari's gross tonnage. 194 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:56,600 All right, it down. 195 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:04,280 Grant strains the scales up to 137. 196 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:08,080 Now all that's required is a sizable snooze in the sauna. 197 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,200 But how much of their mass will go missing? 198 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:12,200 Three hours of this. 199 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:13,440 This is hot. 200 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:15,640 Now normally when you're in your sauna, it's very steamy. 201 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:18,080 But as you can see, we're going with the dry sauna. 202 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:22,120 The reason why is if there's too much moisture in the air and it's too saturated, when we 203 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:26,080 sweat, our sweat won't evaporate, which means we won't be losing weight from losing the 204 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:27,080 moisture. 205 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:31,320 This is a common method for people to shed some water weight really quickly. 206 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,360 Models, jockeys, fighters, they all do this kind of thing. 207 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,520 So I mean, I think it's a possibility. 208 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:39,840 10 pounds is quite a lot. 209 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:41,520 I'm not looking forward to it. 210 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Hey, you guys coming to the sauna often? 211 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Ew! 212 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Really? 213 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:55,240 Just so we're clear, last night each of us swallowed a pill that contains a temperature 214 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,640 sensor and a wireless transmitter. 215 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:03,280 It's going to be picked up by this and displayed in real time. 216 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:08,840 As the minutes and hours melt away, the perspiration puddles and pools. 217 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:15,080 But it seems like each of our sweat hogs has his own odd response to heat stress. 218 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,640 For Tori, it's all just a drive in the park. 219 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:21,960 Yeah, I'm pretending like I'm driving an Indy car. 220 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:24,160 While Grant has his eye on the instruments. 221 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:28,040 Apparently, my intestines are measuring 101 degrees. 222 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,360 According to science, Grant's hot. 223 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:33,560 So is Carrie, and she's definitely starting to wilt. 224 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:37,120 Now I'm starting to feel why this is a dangerous experiment. 225 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:42,240 I feel a little dizzy, a little overheated. 226 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:43,240 Definitely sweaty. 227 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:53,000 But with just minutes of hot house hardship left to endure, the guys decide they can brazen 228 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,000 it out. 229 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,520 Thank God we are done with the experiment. 230 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:56,920 We've been in here for three hours. 231 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,840 Now it's time to go out and weigh ourselves and see if we lost weight. 232 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:02,840 It's a good thing because I was about to lose the towel. 233 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:05,000 Oh, I like it. 234 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,800 Mark, you weighed 137 before the test. 235 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,000 Get on the scale and see how much weight you lost. 236 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,000 136. 237 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,200 All right, so you lost a pound. 238 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,720 The news is no better for she who suffered most. 239 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:21,920 Looks like you lost one pound of weight. 240 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:23,720 That was just one pound. 241 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:24,720 Yeah. 242 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:28,000 And for the man who did get in some driving practice. 243 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,200 Wow, I lost two pounds. 244 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,640 That's far from the 10 pounds of myth talks about. 245 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:34,360 So it's got to be more than heat. 246 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,320 It's got to also be exertion and stress. 247 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:37,320 Well, you know what that means? 248 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:39,320 I think we need to add driving to the mix. 249 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:40,320 Let's hit the showers. 250 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:41,320 Sweet. 251 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:42,320 Sweet. 252 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:53,520 There's not much on four wheels that could outrun a turbocharged Indy car. 253 00:13:53,520 --> 00:14:00,520 But one myth says a man could do just that if the course was just 30 feet long. 254 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,320 And while vintage Jamie ran out of steam. 255 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:05,080 I think I got my ass kicked. 256 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,840 A slightly younger model might reverse the result. 257 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:09,280 Now it's my turn to run. 258 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,400 With the help of an added spring at the start. 259 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,800 Jamie was running from what I would call a standing start. 260 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,400 I'm going to use a little technology to help me. 261 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,880 A racers set of chocks. 262 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,480 This ought to give me an edge. 263 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:30,200 Jamie's first race was so tight that these slight advantages of age, clothing and chocks 264 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:35,200 could be enough to make Adam an unlikely sports legend. 265 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,200 Now I'm ready. 266 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,200 Start your engines. 267 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,200 Go. 268 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:43,200 Ah! 269 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,200 I think that was close. 270 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,200 I don't know. 271 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,880 It was up and close. 272 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:52,800 It's officially a photo finish. 273 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,200 And Adam's the first to consult with the stewards. 274 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,200 Oh my God. 275 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,840 It's so close. 276 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:01,480 It's crazy. 277 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,760 He's literally beating me by a nose. 278 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:09,120 By like the five inches of the nose of the Indy car. 279 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:11,480 Let's do it again. 280 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:17,000 If the course was just a foot shorter, we'd have a new champion and a confirmed myth. 281 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:22,400 That's incentive enough to race back to the blocks. 282 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,920 Wow! 283 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:25,920 I don't think I won. 284 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:28,400 But it was close. 285 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:29,920 Well that's one way to put it. 286 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:34,960 The replay confirms that this race was a frame perfect dead heat. 287 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,720 Jamie, that was a tie. 288 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:39,720 Way to go. 289 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:40,720 You want to go one more time? 290 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:41,720 Sure, why not? 291 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:42,720 All right. 292 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:44,520 This will be Adam's last run. 293 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:46,120 And boy does he know it. 294 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:47,120 I want to win. 295 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,120 I want to win so badly. 296 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:51,120 Go. 297 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,120 Ah! 298 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:58,240 I think he smoked me on that one. 299 00:15:58,240 --> 00:15:59,800 Shoot. 300 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,000 It's exactly what happened to Jamie with his runs. 301 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:07,600 Third time unlucky on those fast fading middle aged legs. 302 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:10,800 That might be some of the most fun I've had testing a myth ever. 303 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:12,000 Yeah, those cars are great. 304 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,760 I'll tell you what I'm seeing when I'm running and you're driving. 305 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:19,040 We've got a shot at the beginning that makes it look like I'm smoking the car way faster 306 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:20,040 off the line. 307 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:22,400 But 30 feet later, you're ahead of me. 308 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:23,640 Yeah, I saw the same thing. 309 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:27,680 I thought I was winning the race and then there's a car and it's gone. 310 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,080 I don't think we can call it based on these tests alone. 311 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:34,680 No, we're not done yet. 312 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:44,440 Grant, Dory and Carrie are sweating on a myth that says an IndyCar driver can drop 10 whole 313 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:48,280 pounds in body weight during a three hour road race. 314 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:53,560 But an experimental sweat-a-thon saw them shed just four pounds between them. 315 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:55,560 So it's time to shift up a gear. 316 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:59,680 All right, so to properly test this, we need to go to the source, which means we're also 317 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,640 going to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. 318 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:03,640 But there's a catch. 319 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,520 There's only one car so only one of us can drive. 320 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,520 All right, I'll do it. 321 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:10,520 I'll take the bullet here. 322 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:11,520 I'm willing to do this. 323 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:12,520 I'm waiting. 324 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:13,520 I think we should wrestle for it. 325 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:14,520 No, no, no. 326 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:15,520 Wait a minute. 327 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:16,520 Rosjambo? 328 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,520 It's the only fair way. 329 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:22,520 Yes! 330 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:25,800 I'm super happy for you. 331 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:26,800 Let's do this. 332 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:27,800 That felt good. 333 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:36,880 But as it turns out, Carrie will have a tail someday for the Grand Geeks if she holds 334 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:38,920 back just a bit on the detail. 335 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:39,920 Oh my God, look at this. 336 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:40,920 This is amazing. 337 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:44,400 I can't believe we're driving the Indy Speedway. 338 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:48,880 We're hitting peak speeds of 25, 30 miles an hour. 339 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:51,600 We decided to come here because we needed to step it up. 340 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:56,480 We need to find out if Tori can ride around this track and lose 10 pounds. 341 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,400 First, we're going to need a car. 342 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:01,960 And this is the car. 343 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:03,240 It's a DeLara. 344 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:10,320 It weighs about 1200 pounds, has 750 horsepower, is capable of driving at 210 miles per hour 345 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:11,960 and can pull 2 to 3 Gs. 346 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:13,600 Oh yeah, one more thing. 347 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:17,400 It costs about a million dollars to put this car on the track. 348 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,160 But before they let me jump into an Indy car, I need to learn how to drive one of these 349 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:22,200 seats. 350 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,360 Because these machines are a completely different beast. 351 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:29,600 Looks like dreams can come true. 352 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:32,640 And while Tori gets some intensive drivers' ed... 353 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,440 Don't be afraid to let out and gas at the same time. 354 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:36,840 You're going to want to go, wha! 355 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:41,800 Grant and Carrie get a first-hand account of the punishing pursuit these pro drivers go 356 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:44,480 through from Ryan Briscoe. 357 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,760 Each time I hit the brake pedal, it's like 150 pounds. 358 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:52,040 And I'll be doing that literally hundreds, maybe thousands of times in a race. 359 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:56,440 Your neck is really the only part of the body not supported in the race car. 360 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:02,320 So the weight of your head plus the helmet with 4G turns constantly every lap, you need 361 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:06,280 a really strong neck to hold yourself upright in the corners. 362 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:10,120 And the steering wheel is really heavy, no power steering. 363 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:15,960 It's like pushing probably 40 pound to 50 pound weights every time I'm turning the wheel. 364 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:20,480 That is like thousands and thousands of times during the race. 365 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:23,960 Sounds like racing at Indy amounts to a 3 hour boot camp. 366 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:30,520 Couple that with the heat and the pulse thumping terror of taking these 200 mile an hour turns. 367 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,920 Well you can see how you might kick a few calories. 368 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,040 Was that so much fun? 369 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:37,040 It didn't suck. 370 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:41,080 How much was your heart pounding around turn one? 371 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:42,840 Oh my gosh. 372 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:48,280 It's like you're so low to the ground you feel like you're, I can't even describe it. 373 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:50,080 It's the craziest feeling ever. 374 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:53,640 There's just one piece of business to tend to before the big race. 375 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:57,640 Alright Tourie, you're all hydrated, jump on the scale, let's see your weight. 376 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,040 Alright, so the weight in 184 pounds. 377 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:06,040 Alright, so that's your before race weight for this to be confirmed after you're done, 378 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:07,040 that's gotta say 174. 379 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:08,040 What are you waiting for? 380 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:09,040 Go get in the car. 381 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:10,040 Alright. 382 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:11,040 You got 3 o'clock hours. 383 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:12,040 Tick tock. 384 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:21,040 There's a lot of pressure on me right now and I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little nervous. 385 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:26,920 Oh my kid, I'm about to drive an Indy car for 3 hours. 386 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:33,800 All he has to do is stay on the track, go fast, pump some brake pedal iron and perspire freely, 387 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,560 which should be, well, no sweat. 388 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,360 I'm in the zone, let's do this. 389 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:40,360 Alright, good luck. 390 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:51,360 Meanwhile, an appreciative crowd of 2 settles into one of the world's biggest sports stadiums. 391 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:56,360 Team in for sale! 392 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:59,680 Tourie's losing weight while we're gaining it. 393 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:03,160 This whole experience is so surreal, I mean you're so low to the ground, you're going 394 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,880 at such high speed, the ground is basically just flying by you. 395 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:12,360 As fun as it is, I didn't realize how much energy I would be exerting by focusing on 396 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:13,360 the road. 397 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:16,880 Back in the bleachers, partisan fans are still hopeful. 398 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:18,880 That looks like so much fun! 399 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:22,200 Now here's why Tourie might lose 10 pounds. 400 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:27,080 He's covered head to toe in fire retardant material, including a head sock. 401 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:30,160 Then he's got his race uniform and his helmet. 402 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:34,120 He's gonna be hot and that means he's gonna sweat in order to cool down. 403 00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:35,120 And then there's the exertion. 404 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:40,080 Even at these speeds, this car generates a lot of downforce, which means the steering's 405 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,800 gonna be really hard in every turn. 406 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:44,800 Finally, there's the stress. 407 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,040 See, most of this course, the walls are concrete. 408 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:52,880 You make one mistake, you have one lapse in judgment, you're in the concrete and a million 409 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:53,880 dollar car is destroyed. 410 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,960 Not convention, risking injury or death. 411 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:58,960 That's a lot to think about. 412 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,240 In fact, there's almost no end to the stresses and strains. 413 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:06,160 On the turns, Tourie's pulling as much as 3 G's. 414 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:10,200 And that means he feels like he's carrying three times his own weight. 415 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:15,400 The neck muscles are definitely sore, trying to keep in position as I'm going around those 416 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,080 turns at high speeds. 417 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:18,560 My arms are getting sore. 418 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:23,880 I keep my foot slammed on the gas, probably harder than I have to. 419 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:32,000 The adrenaline is rusting so much that I kind of forget that I'm doing it. 420 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,080 The adrenaline's pretty much worn off for Grant and Karen. 421 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:40,760 There's a limit to how long you can watch someone else at the time of his life. 422 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:54,920 Back on the track, Tourie's delight has turned to disquiet. 423 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,000 So it has just started raining. 424 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,680 I don't have any rain tires on this car. 425 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:03,160 So the stress factor has just gone up because there's a very good chance that I could go 426 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,000 sliding into the wall. 427 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,680 My heart is racing a little bit faster now. 428 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:12,160 Tourie's heart might be faster, but his speed has dropped off in the drizzle. 429 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:16,160 For the last hour, his top speed is just over 120. 430 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:22,160 Oh, is that it? 431 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:23,160 Is that it? 432 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:24,160 Three hours is up already? 433 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:25,160 It is. 434 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:26,160 Man, you're done. 435 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:27,160 Oh my God. 436 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:31,040 I am exhausted and I feel sweaty as I could possibly be. 437 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:35,080 Why don't you get out of here and we'll weigh you, check your vitals and see what this myth 438 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:36,080 says. 439 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:37,080 Sounds good. 440 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:42,440 After three whole hours and with all that exertion, Tourie's just about swimming in 441 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:43,440 sweat. 442 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,440 All right, you ready for the final weigh-in? 443 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:46,440 Yes. 444 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,320 All right, after three hours of driving, I don't know if 10 pounds were lost. 445 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:54,040 181, I lost three pounds in three hours. 446 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:55,040 That's it? 447 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,320 That's nowhere near the 10 pounds the myth talks about. 448 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:02,160 The myth would seem to be just about dead in the water, but maybe not. 449 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:07,120 The rain slowed Tourie down for almost an hour and no other cars on the track means 450 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:11,080 less stress and less exertion and that's not the end of it. 451 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:15,320 Now, another factor, perhaps the biggest one, is the temperature. 452 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:19,600 We're here at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but we're here in the off season. 453 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,720 During the Indy 500, it wouldn't be rainy and it would be about 30 degrees warmer. 454 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:30,040 The one thing they can't do is hang here till summer, so it's time to warm up a plan B and 455 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:33,120 get this myth to the finish line. 456 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:45,480 Now, to tackle a myth that starts and might end in the sewer. 457 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:46,480 I've got one. 458 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:47,480 Okay, shoot. 459 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:52,600 You know, I've heard that about 150 miles an hour when Indy cars are doing a street 460 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:58,360 race, their aerodynamic effects are enough to pull manhole covers right out of the manholes. 461 00:24:58,360 --> 00:24:59,360 No way. 462 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,880 Dude, that is totally something we have to test. 463 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,120 I thought you'd like that. 464 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:11,960 When Indy cars take to the street, it's standard practice to well shut any manhole covers in 465 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,880 case the cars suck them right out of the ground. 466 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:20,400 That's because Indy cars are built to take full advantage of Bernoulli's principle. 467 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:25,520 As the air underneath the car gets funneled faster, it causes the air pressure to drop, 468 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:27,820 helping the car to stick to the road. 469 00:25:27,820 --> 00:25:32,020 Insane downforce can supposedly suck up a manhole cover. 470 00:25:32,020 --> 00:25:35,740 But is this myth destined for the drain? 471 00:25:35,740 --> 00:25:38,580 This manhole cover story is going to be hard to test. 472 00:25:38,580 --> 00:25:42,780 There's a ton of logistics just making sure we don't damage the Indy cars in any way. 473 00:25:42,780 --> 00:25:47,540 Well, what say we get our feet wet first with a small scale at NASA's water tunnel? 474 00:25:47,540 --> 00:25:51,300 See if there's anything to this suction effect at all and then go from there. 475 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:52,300 Exactly. 476 00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:53,300 Perfect. 477 00:25:54,300 --> 00:25:59,420 I'm standing in the NASA Ames Research Facilities Fluid Mechanics Lab, and this place is almost 478 00:25:59,420 --> 00:26:01,300 like one of our second shops. 479 00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:05,060 And that wind tunnel right there, we tested whether or not you should leave your windows 480 00:26:05,060 --> 00:26:06,060 open in a hurricane. 481 00:26:06,060 --> 00:26:08,140 It doesn't matter. 482 00:26:08,140 --> 00:26:13,660 We also tested the aerodynamic effects of a spinning baseball and a golf ball detent 483 00:26:13,660 --> 00:26:15,740 pockmarked car. 484 00:26:15,740 --> 00:26:19,060 Today, it's all about race cars. 485 00:26:19,060 --> 00:26:23,620 They're studying the car's aerodynamics, but they'll do it with water. 486 00:26:23,620 --> 00:26:27,380 Air and water are very different mediums, but when engineers work with them, they tend 487 00:26:27,380 --> 00:26:29,900 to think of them both as fluids. 488 00:26:29,900 --> 00:26:35,260 And because water is so much more dense than air, if we inject a dye into a moving column 489 00:26:35,260 --> 00:26:40,380 of it, we can more clearly visualize how it's interacting with another object. 490 00:26:40,380 --> 00:26:43,620 In this case, our object is the car. 491 00:26:43,620 --> 00:26:48,220 The first test is simply to see how the currents are moving around their 1-18th scale Indy 492 00:26:48,220 --> 00:26:49,220 car. 493 00:26:49,220 --> 00:26:51,580 All right, let's turn on the dye. 494 00:26:51,580 --> 00:26:54,580 This is where science gets seriously seductive. 495 00:26:54,580 --> 00:27:01,100 Oh, that is so beautiful. 496 00:27:01,100 --> 00:27:04,980 Once this smooths out, I feel like we might see something underneath. 497 00:27:04,980 --> 00:27:10,340 Looks like the bottom surface of the car is very incredibly low turbulence. 498 00:27:10,340 --> 00:27:14,300 The water tunnel, in addition to looking really cool, is actually giving us exactly what we 499 00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:15,300 were hoping to see. 500 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:20,180 That is, these cars are famous for their downforce, how much air pressure they're able to use 501 00:27:20,180 --> 00:27:23,540 to push themselves into the ground and give themselves more traction. 502 00:27:23,540 --> 00:27:28,260 If that's the case, we would expect to watch this move air over its top rather than under 503 00:27:28,260 --> 00:27:31,220 its bottom, and that's what we're seeing from the model. 504 00:27:31,220 --> 00:27:35,540 Now that we've seen that, it's time to find out what happens when we drive this model 505 00:27:35,540 --> 00:27:39,260 over a scaled manhole cover, and that's what our next test is. 506 00:27:39,260 --> 00:27:44,260 Adam's mini-manhole weighs next to nothing, but it might disclose a clue as to whether 507 00:27:44,340 --> 00:27:48,940 the shape of the car can show up some suction. 508 00:27:48,940 --> 00:27:53,900 For good measure, he pumps red dye into the tiny tunnel to see if the predicted change 509 00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:57,780 in pressure sucks it up to the surface. 510 00:27:57,780 --> 00:28:01,820 Wow, look at that! 511 00:28:01,820 --> 00:28:05,900 So our little car picked up our little plastic manhole cover and took it right along with 512 00:28:05,900 --> 00:28:06,900 it. 513 00:28:06,900 --> 00:28:10,980 So that means there is some kind of suction being created by this car. 514 00:28:10,980 --> 00:28:16,260 To be clear, the car never actually touches the cover, but the drag of its shape is sufficient 515 00:28:16,260 --> 00:28:20,500 to pry loose the plastic and release the red dye. 516 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:24,540 It really seems like the forces we were looking for might actually be there, and that gives 517 00:28:24,540 --> 00:28:30,620 us a perfect excuse as if we needed one to get to driving some real-size Indy cars. 518 00:28:30,620 --> 00:28:36,220 I'm going to need a new outfit, clearly. 519 00:28:36,220 --> 00:28:38,860 You know, the Indy car experience wasn't that great. 520 00:28:38,860 --> 00:28:40,220 It was awesome. 521 00:28:40,340 --> 00:28:44,340 But unfortunately, we were not able to test this myth thoroughly because the conditions 522 00:28:44,340 --> 00:28:45,940 weren't the same as a real race. 523 00:28:45,940 --> 00:28:49,700 Yeah, you know, it wasn't very hot in the car, and you didn't have the stress of a 524 00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:53,780 real competitive situation, both of which would have made you sweat more. 525 00:28:53,780 --> 00:28:55,220 I think I have a solution for this. 526 00:28:55,220 --> 00:28:58,140 I know a track nearby that's phenomenal. 527 00:28:58,140 --> 00:29:02,980 It's going to be hot, and we all can drive on it, so it's more like a real race. 528 00:29:02,980 --> 00:29:03,980 Cool. 529 00:29:04,980 --> 00:29:10,500 The new venue is Thunder Hill Raceway in Willows, California. 530 00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:14,220 It's a very different kind of track, and so are the cars. 531 00:29:14,220 --> 00:29:18,700 So these are the cars that we're going to be using to test this myth. 532 00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:21,900 Now, this one right here is a road-raising Sprint car. 533 00:29:21,900 --> 00:29:26,380 The one we have in the middle is a classic American muscle car, and the one at the end 534 00:29:26,380 --> 00:29:27,780 is another road-racing car. 535 00:29:27,780 --> 00:29:31,140 However, this one is an Enduro car, which means it's a little beefier. 536 00:29:31,340 --> 00:29:34,220 Now, the car in the middle is an automatic, and that is the car that Carrie's going to 537 00:29:34,220 --> 00:29:35,980 drive because she can't drive a stick. 538 00:29:35,980 --> 00:29:38,220 All right, now I know what you're thinking. 539 00:29:38,220 --> 00:29:43,380 These aren't Indy cars, but here's why this test might give us better data than the previous 540 00:29:43,380 --> 00:29:44,380 one. 541 00:29:44,380 --> 00:29:45,620 Number one, temperature. 542 00:29:45,620 --> 00:29:49,900 It's 90 degrees out here at Thunder Hill today, and that's not even inside the car. 543 00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:53,180 In these suits in the cockpit, we're definitely going to feel it. 544 00:29:53,180 --> 00:29:54,700 Number two, physical exertion. 545 00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:59,140 These cars, they don't have any power steering, so we're going to be constantly fighting the 546 00:29:59,140 --> 00:30:01,100 wheel to keep it on the track. 547 00:30:01,100 --> 00:30:03,820 Finally, number three, competition. 548 00:30:03,820 --> 00:30:09,140 All three of us are going to be on the track at the same time in a real race scenario. 549 00:30:09,140 --> 00:30:12,300 It's actually an ideal track for testing the myth. 550 00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:17,980 The corners should really add to the G-Force factor, and the prospect of misreading a turn 551 00:30:17,980 --> 00:30:20,380 will keep their adrenaline spiked. 552 00:30:20,380 --> 00:30:21,380 Should be fun. 553 00:30:21,380 --> 00:30:25,140 I got to tell you now, though, I'm sort of scared shiftless. 554 00:30:25,140 --> 00:30:26,780 You'd better believe it. 555 00:30:26,780 --> 00:30:33,060 In fact, Carrie's so distracted that this time, she announces her weight to the world. 556 00:30:33,060 --> 00:30:36,060 My beginning weight is 124. 557 00:30:36,060 --> 00:30:37,060 Grant follows. 558 00:30:37,060 --> 00:30:39,060 Oh, really? 559 00:30:39,060 --> 00:30:40,060 145? 560 00:30:40,060 --> 00:30:41,060 Then Tori. 561 00:30:41,060 --> 00:30:42,060 All right, 180. 562 00:30:42,060 --> 00:30:46,900 So after this race, I should weigh 170 if this myth is true. 563 00:30:46,900 --> 00:30:52,620 Let's start shifting those pounds off. 564 00:30:52,620 --> 00:30:55,140 Once they've all had a last minute health check. 565 00:30:55,500 --> 00:30:56,500 74. 566 00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:57,500 Excellent. 567 00:30:57,500 --> 00:31:00,140 Our three rookie racers get the green light. 568 00:31:00,140 --> 00:31:03,140 All right. 569 00:31:03,140 --> 00:31:08,020 After the minutes, they're feeling the heat. 570 00:31:08,020 --> 00:31:14,420 I'm feeling extraordinarily sweaty, and I feel a lot of exertion on, well, that would 571 00:31:14,420 --> 00:31:18,260 be turn number 11, where I'm having a hard time keeping the car on the track. 572 00:31:18,260 --> 00:31:22,260 Oh, goodness gracious, that's fast. 573 00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:29,780 Apparently, the car has a mind of its own and wants to go off-roading. 574 00:31:29,780 --> 00:31:34,420 Even with only three cars, I'm definitely feeling an adrenaline bump. 575 00:31:34,420 --> 00:31:39,420 Whenever I get close to Carrie, who's going much slower, or I try and catch Tori, who's 576 00:31:39,420 --> 00:31:40,420 going much faster. 577 00:31:40,420 --> 00:31:46,260 It just raises that level of adrenaline, and that adrenaline reverse raises your heart 578 00:31:46,260 --> 00:31:51,100 rate, and it turns a lot more calories. 579 00:31:51,100 --> 00:31:53,980 There's not one moment that I take my concentration off the road. 580 00:31:53,980 --> 00:31:56,980 As soon as I do, I lose control, and I might go off the track. 581 00:31:56,980 --> 00:32:01,660 It's so hot here, especially with all this fire retardant wear. 582 00:32:01,660 --> 00:32:06,980 It's hot, so I can feel the sweat, feeling enough. 583 00:32:06,980 --> 00:32:12,260 Just like at Indy, they'll stop twice through the race to refuel and regain some composure. 584 00:32:12,260 --> 00:32:15,340 You feel dehydrated at all? 585 00:32:15,340 --> 00:32:17,300 I'm like, my throat is super dry. 586 00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:22,420 Then it's back to the turn-up to hopefully forfeit another few pounds. 587 00:32:22,420 --> 00:32:27,100 I started out really freaking scared and very stressed, but at this point, I just fell into 588 00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:28,100 a zone of concentration. 589 00:32:28,100 --> 00:32:33,060 I'm just trying really hard to keep the car doing what it's supposed to do, but it's 590 00:32:33,060 --> 00:32:34,060 exhausting. 591 00:32:34,060 --> 00:32:42,820 This, it's constant mental concentration, and there's so much physical exertion, steering 592 00:32:42,820 --> 00:32:47,060 the car, braking, shifting. 593 00:32:47,820 --> 00:32:54,060 It occurs to me that there are three things that make this a much different test in the 594 00:32:54,060 --> 00:32:55,220 sauna. 595 00:32:55,220 --> 00:32:56,900 One is concentration. 596 00:32:56,900 --> 00:33:00,780 You have to focus entirely on keeping this car on the road. 597 00:33:00,780 --> 00:33:05,420 If you lapse for a second, you're off the road and in the dirt. 598 00:33:05,420 --> 00:33:07,260 Two, this is a workout. 599 00:33:07,260 --> 00:33:11,980 This is no power steering, so you actually have to muscle it into place. 600 00:33:11,980 --> 00:33:14,380 And the third thing is the G-Load. 601 00:33:15,100 --> 00:33:18,060 Now let's just wind back to that first thing again. 602 00:33:18,060 --> 00:33:21,380 I'm sure Grant murmured something about concentration. 603 00:33:30,380 --> 00:33:38,780 Ah, just a momentary lapse in concentration, and I was off the track, spinning out, dirt 604 00:33:38,780 --> 00:33:40,180 flying everywhere. 605 00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:45,700 This is hard. 606 00:33:46,700 --> 00:33:47,700 Real hard. 607 00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:54,380 It seems like an appropriate time for their second pit stop, and Carrie's got her own 608 00:33:54,380 --> 00:33:56,380 mini-crisis to deal with. 609 00:33:56,380 --> 00:33:57,380 Feeling dehydrated? 610 00:33:57,380 --> 00:34:00,380 I'm feeling dehydrated and I have to pee. 611 00:34:00,380 --> 00:34:01,380 You want to take a break? 612 00:34:01,380 --> 00:34:02,380 Step out? 613 00:34:02,380 --> 00:34:03,380 I think I'll be alright. 614 00:34:03,380 --> 00:34:08,380 Back on the track, Tori's still pushing the pedal as hard as he did on lap one. 615 00:34:08,380 --> 00:34:13,060 This is probably the best day of experimenting ever on this show. 616 00:34:13,060 --> 00:34:18,060 I'm exhausted, I'm sweaty, I'm hot, my body's getting fatigued, I'm sore, my neck is sore 617 00:34:18,060 --> 00:34:19,700 from holding the weight of the helmet. 618 00:34:19,700 --> 00:34:25,180 I don't know if I'm losing 10 pounds of sweat weight, but man, it's tough work. 619 00:34:25,180 --> 00:34:30,940 With Carrie and Grant also back on the road, well, mostly on the road, the minutes melt 620 00:34:30,940 --> 00:34:33,700 away to the magic three-hour mark. 621 00:34:37,540 --> 00:34:38,540 I am exhausted. 622 00:34:38,540 --> 00:34:41,980 I honestly didn't think I would be this tired. 623 00:34:41,980 --> 00:34:44,580 I feel like I just got beat up. 624 00:34:44,580 --> 00:34:48,340 The truth of this myth rests on the numbers they'll read on the scale. 625 00:34:48,340 --> 00:34:53,740 They know they've put everything into this last ditch attempt, and it's ladies first. 626 00:34:53,740 --> 00:34:54,740 Let's see. 627 00:34:54,740 --> 00:34:57,540 Five and a half pounds I lost. 628 00:34:57,540 --> 00:34:58,540 What? 629 00:34:58,540 --> 00:34:59,540 Wow! 630 00:34:59,540 --> 00:35:00,540 That's amazing. 631 00:35:00,540 --> 00:35:01,540 Oh my gosh. 632 00:35:01,540 --> 00:35:02,540 What a diet. 633 00:35:02,540 --> 00:35:03,540 That's almost half the weight of the myth. 634 00:35:03,540 --> 00:35:04,540 Alright, Grant. 635 00:35:04,540 --> 00:35:05,540 Alright. 636 00:35:05,540 --> 00:35:06,540 Let's see how much you lost. 637 00:35:06,540 --> 00:35:08,540 Four and a half pounds. 638 00:35:08,540 --> 00:35:09,540 Oh. 639 00:35:09,540 --> 00:35:10,540 I have no idea. 640 00:35:10,540 --> 00:35:13,620 That's incredible. 641 00:35:13,620 --> 00:35:15,980 I lost five pounds after three hours of racing. 642 00:35:15,980 --> 00:35:18,940 I mean, that's half the weight that the myth talks about. 643 00:35:18,940 --> 00:35:23,060 There's no question that race car reducing works like a charm. 644 00:35:23,060 --> 00:35:26,820 But is it thumbs up or thumbs down for this IndyCar myth? 645 00:35:26,820 --> 00:35:28,380 So how are we going to call this one? 646 00:35:28,380 --> 00:35:33,060 Well, after three hours of racing, we did manage to lose on average five pounds, but 647 00:35:33,060 --> 00:35:35,180 that's not the 10 pounds that the myth talks about. 648 00:35:35,180 --> 00:35:38,340 Yeah, but what we're doing out there in a real Indy race are a little different. 649 00:35:38,460 --> 00:35:42,260 Yeah, you know, I could see a real Indy race being a lot more physically demanding. 650 00:35:42,260 --> 00:35:46,060 I could see under the right conditions with everything they have on the line that they 651 00:35:46,060 --> 00:35:47,740 could lose twice the weight that we did. 652 00:35:47,740 --> 00:35:48,740 Yeah, right. 653 00:35:48,740 --> 00:35:50,740 Set of circumstances, not an everyday occurrence. 654 00:35:50,740 --> 00:35:52,900 I think we could call this one possible. 655 00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:53,900 I agree. 656 00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:54,900 It's possible. 657 00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:55,900 Now who's driving home? 658 00:35:55,900 --> 00:35:56,900 Not you. 659 00:35:56,900 --> 00:35:57,900 Let's just say that. 660 00:35:57,900 --> 00:35:58,900 Me. 661 00:35:58,900 --> 00:35:59,900 What? 662 00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:08,540 Welcome back. 663 00:36:08,540 --> 00:36:13,980 We're at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and it's IndyCar versus Manhole Cover. 664 00:36:13,980 --> 00:36:18,820 We're going to bring an IndyCar up to full speed and see whether its aerodynamics are 665 00:36:18,820 --> 00:36:22,380 powerful enough to suck a Manhole Cover right out of the ground. 666 00:36:22,380 --> 00:36:25,260 Oh, look at that. 667 00:36:25,260 --> 00:36:27,620 A Manhole in the middle of nowhere. 668 00:36:27,620 --> 00:36:28,620 It's not in the middle of nowhere. 669 00:36:28,660 --> 00:36:32,820 We're in the middle of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Complex and they dug this just for 670 00:36:32,820 --> 00:36:33,820 our experiment. 671 00:36:33,820 --> 00:36:34,820 Cool. 672 00:36:34,820 --> 00:36:35,820 I'm going to get to work. 673 00:36:35,820 --> 00:36:37,260 And there's plenty to do. 674 00:36:37,260 --> 00:36:42,220 As well as installing a camera, they're hooking a force gauge up to the cover to measure how 675 00:36:42,220 --> 00:36:44,500 much it moves, if at all. 676 00:36:44,500 --> 00:36:47,740 When we first conceived of this experiment, we were concerned about the fact that we're 677 00:36:47,740 --> 00:36:50,940 not placing our Manhole Cover over a real sewer. 678 00:36:50,940 --> 00:36:53,660 We're placing it over a small hole with a bottom on it. 679 00:36:53,660 --> 00:36:58,700 Now the problem there is that just like when you pull a cork out of a wine bottle, you 680 00:36:58,700 --> 00:37:00,380 create a partial vacuum. 681 00:37:00,380 --> 00:37:02,660 That's why you hear that small pop. 682 00:37:02,660 --> 00:37:06,940 And in our case, we'd have the same problem if not for the fact that the good folks here 683 00:37:06,940 --> 00:37:10,620 at Indy have provided us with a vent that goes to the side of the road. 684 00:37:10,620 --> 00:37:14,620 But the star and the source of this myth is the cover. 685 00:37:14,620 --> 00:37:15,620 Beautiful. 686 00:37:15,620 --> 00:37:20,380 They made this one themselves from clear plastic so sunlight gets through for the cameras. 687 00:37:20,380 --> 00:37:23,540 It weighs 30 pounds. 688 00:37:23,540 --> 00:37:24,540 I know what you're saying. 689 00:37:24,540 --> 00:37:28,780 You're saying, Adam, your see-through Manhole Cover doesn't weigh near as much as a cast 690 00:37:28,780 --> 00:37:30,180 iron Manhole Cover. 691 00:37:30,180 --> 00:37:32,020 How can this be an accurate test? 692 00:37:32,020 --> 00:37:34,580 And you're right, except that we've already thought of it. 693 00:37:34,580 --> 00:37:40,020 We are going to make this way as much as this with these four chunks of four-inch diameter 694 00:37:40,020 --> 00:37:41,020 steel. 695 00:37:41,020 --> 00:37:44,500 We are going to bolt them to the see-through Manhole Cover and it will weigh exactly as 696 00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:46,940 much as a cast iron Manhole Cover. 697 00:37:46,940 --> 00:37:49,860 We got you covered. 698 00:37:49,860 --> 00:37:51,060 There it is. 699 00:37:51,060 --> 00:37:54,100 One scientifically accurate Manhole Cover. 700 00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:58,860 And while nobody knows how this full-scale test will pan out, they've all considered 701 00:37:58,860 --> 00:38:01,460 the possible perils of success. 702 00:38:01,460 --> 00:38:06,260 When the car comes down this road at 150 miles an hour and drives over it, it might just 703 00:38:06,260 --> 00:38:07,460 lift out of the ground. 704 00:38:07,460 --> 00:38:12,580 And that could be very bad for an instrument as precise as an Indy car with a ground clearance 705 00:38:12,580 --> 00:38:15,180 of as low as 7 eighths of an inch. 706 00:38:15,180 --> 00:38:20,220 So Jamie right now is tying some very high strength line so that when we have the Manhole 707 00:38:20,220 --> 00:38:23,100 Cover in place, it can only lift about half an inch. 708 00:38:23,100 --> 00:38:26,980 But it won't be able to actually hurt the car, but we'll still be able to measure the 709 00:38:26,980 --> 00:38:31,220 force that it's actually being pulled up with. 710 00:38:31,220 --> 00:38:33,100 Logan Gomez is our driver. 711 00:38:33,100 --> 00:38:35,300 Or should I say chauffeur? 712 00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:39,300 Because Adam will also have his but just an inch off the bitumen. 713 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:41,440 The car is a tandem. 714 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:47,440 This is where the literal rubber meets the literal road meets the Manhole Cover. 715 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:53,400 This Indy racing experience car exerts just as much down force as the real thing. 716 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:57,360 Target speed for today's test is 150 miles per hour. 717 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,480 Pretty much the top speed for a city street circuit. 718 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,720 In lieu of a steering wheel, my seat is equipped with these. 719 00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:04,720 We call them HCHs. 720 00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:07,720 They're known as Holy Crap Handles. 721 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:08,720 Holy Crap! 722 00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:10,520 Just hold on really tight. 723 00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:15,040 With Adam's knuckles whitening by the second, Jamie takes charge for the first run. 724 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:19,520 I'm going to call you guys on the radio when you're doing 100 miles an hour, alright? 725 00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:20,520 Copy. 726 00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:21,520 Have fun. 727 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:27,520 It's agreed they'll start off at a stately 100 per to get the lay of the land. 728 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,020 It's fast. 729 00:39:29,020 --> 00:39:34,600 Logan warms up the tires, shakes Adam around like a strawberry deckery, then gets down 730 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,100 to business. 731 00:39:36,100 --> 00:39:37,100 100. 732 00:39:37,100 --> 00:39:43,100 Logan's fast, focused, and right on target. 733 00:39:43,100 --> 00:39:44,100 Haha! 734 00:39:44,100 --> 00:39:45,100 Perfect! 735 00:39:45,100 --> 00:39:46,100 Right about 100. 736 00:39:46,100 --> 00:39:48,700 Did we go right over the Manhole Cover? 737 00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:49,700 I believe so. 738 00:39:49,700 --> 00:39:51,060 Did you see any movement? 739 00:39:51,060 --> 00:39:55,540 I couldn't see it, but then it only comes up about a half an inch before it stopped. 740 00:39:55,540 --> 00:39:56,540 It's true. 741 00:39:56,540 --> 00:40:04,060 The key tool in measuring lift is the force meter, and they just can't go on without 742 00:40:04,060 --> 00:40:05,060 sneaking a peek. 743 00:40:05,060 --> 00:40:07,820 Nope, it's totally blank. 744 00:40:07,820 --> 00:40:12,460 It's a rare myth that has to suck to succeed, and this is one of them. 745 00:40:12,460 --> 00:40:16,060 The aim now is for Logan to crank up the speed to 150. 746 00:40:16,060 --> 00:40:19,940 Hey Adam, I could try one from the end of the runway, see if we could get a bit more 747 00:40:19,940 --> 00:40:20,940 speed. 748 00:40:20,940 --> 00:40:23,340 Let's do it! 749 00:40:23,340 --> 00:40:29,260 If the car gets close enough to 150, it's time to throttle down and either bust or confirm 750 00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:31,900 the myth of the flying Manhole Cover. 751 00:40:31,900 --> 00:40:38,900 With Adam Latch tight to his HCH, Logan whips the horses up to a full gallon. 752 00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:40,900 140. 753 00:40:40,900 --> 00:40:42,900 149. 754 00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:52,900 You're getting faster. 755 00:40:52,900 --> 00:40:53,900 149. 756 00:40:53,900 --> 00:40:54,900 Beautiful. 757 00:40:54,900 --> 00:40:57,180 Shall we go look at the evidence? 758 00:40:57,180 --> 00:40:59,660 Let's go look at the evidence. 759 00:40:59,660 --> 00:41:04,980 The physics suggest that the split second near vacuum the car creates will have a lifting 760 00:41:04,980 --> 00:41:10,180 effect, but at 130 pounds, this Manhole Cover is no push over. 761 00:41:10,180 --> 00:41:13,380 Alright, my favorite part, high speed review. 762 00:41:13,380 --> 00:41:15,380 I'm not seeing it. 763 00:41:15,380 --> 00:41:17,260 Nothing, absolute nothing. 764 00:41:17,260 --> 00:41:19,260 It did not budge. 765 00:41:19,260 --> 00:41:20,260 Nope. 766 00:41:20,260 --> 00:41:21,260 Boom. 767 00:41:21,260 --> 00:41:23,060 That's pretty definitive. 768 00:41:23,060 --> 00:41:24,060 I think so. 769 00:41:24,060 --> 00:41:28,420 We had our clear Manhole Cover weighing the same as a cast iron Manhole Cover, and Logan 770 00:41:28,420 --> 00:41:33,420 passed it several times at a top speed of almost 150 miles an hour. 771 00:41:33,420 --> 00:41:36,420 And how much movement did we see on it? 772 00:41:36,420 --> 00:41:37,420 Bupkis. 773 00:41:37,420 --> 00:41:40,620 Now we're going to pull all the weight from it so our Manhole Cover only weighs 30 pounds 774 00:41:40,620 --> 00:41:43,500 and see if we can get anything at all out of this. 775 00:41:43,500 --> 00:41:45,740 And there is some science here to salvage. 776 00:41:45,740 --> 00:41:49,700 30 pounds is the weight of an average flat screen TV. 777 00:41:49,700 --> 00:41:52,740 And try lifting that with your home vacuum cleaner. 778 00:41:52,740 --> 00:41:56,460 That's a lot like what Adam and Logan are trying now. 779 00:41:56,460 --> 00:42:02,020 With the natural suction of a low slung race car, whatever happens, this will be the day's 780 00:42:02,020 --> 00:42:05,140 last Indie Drag Race. 781 00:42:05,140 --> 00:42:12,980 Well, that was a good speed. 782 00:42:12,980 --> 00:42:13,980 It was 148. 783 00:42:13,980 --> 00:42:15,740 It's right up there with your top. 784 00:42:15,740 --> 00:42:16,740 Bingo. 785 00:42:16,740 --> 00:42:17,980 Let's see what we got. 786 00:42:17,980 --> 00:42:18,980 Let's see it. 787 00:42:18,980 --> 00:42:22,180 I'm going to need some help getting out. 788 00:42:22,180 --> 00:42:25,940 Finally, the car is confirmed a related lift off. 789 00:42:25,940 --> 00:42:26,940 Oh, movement. 790 00:42:26,940 --> 00:42:28,940 That is so cool. 791 00:42:28,940 --> 00:42:29,940 Yup. 792 00:42:29,940 --> 00:42:30,940 It is lifting. 793 00:42:30,940 --> 00:42:31,940 It is totally lifting. 794 00:42:31,940 --> 00:42:32,940 Yeah. 795 00:42:32,940 --> 00:42:33,940 It came right up. 796 00:42:33,940 --> 00:42:34,940 That is awesome. 797 00:42:34,940 --> 00:42:35,940 Let's check the force gauge. 798 00:42:35,940 --> 00:42:36,940 Okay. 799 00:42:36,940 --> 00:42:37,940 37. 800 00:42:37,940 --> 00:42:38,940 37. 801 00:42:38,940 --> 00:42:39,940 37 pounds. 802 00:42:39,940 --> 00:42:47,940 It would have been enough to lift this out of the ground, but only just. 803 00:42:47,940 --> 00:42:50,260 Well, here's the thing. 804 00:42:50,260 --> 00:42:55,980 We did pull up our plastic manhole cover and that weighs 30 pounds, which means it's not 805 00:42:55,980 --> 00:43:03,580 exactly a paper bag, but then it's also not exactly a cast iron manhole cover, is it? 806 00:43:03,580 --> 00:43:08,140 I am disappointed with all of our small scale tests showing that there was definitely a 807 00:43:08,140 --> 00:43:10,500 force trying to lift that manhole cover. 808 00:43:10,500 --> 00:43:14,820 And we did see a significant amount of lift on the lighter manhole cover, but it wasn't 809 00:43:14,820 --> 00:43:20,380 enough to pull up the full sized 130 pound one and not with 150 mile an hour car. 810 00:43:20,380 --> 00:43:21,380 It's busted. 811 00:43:21,380 --> 00:43:22,380 Yup. 812 00:43:22,380 --> 00:43:23,380 It's busted. 813 00:43:23,380 --> 00:43:30,380 Let's go. 814 00:43:30,380 --> 00:43:33,820 So far on our IndyCar special, we've seen sweat. 815 00:43:33,820 --> 00:43:38,420 I am exhausted and I feel sweaty as I could possibly be. 816 00:43:38,420 --> 00:43:39,420 Spills. 817 00:43:39,420 --> 00:43:40,420 It was gracious. 818 00:43:40,420 --> 00:43:41,420 That's fast. 819 00:43:41,420 --> 00:43:42,420 At most of all, it's not a big deal. 820 00:43:42,420 --> 00:43:43,420 It's just a little bit of a mess. 821 00:43:43,420 --> 00:43:45,420 At most of all, it's speed. 822 00:43:45,420 --> 00:43:48,420 You're getting faster, 149. 823 00:43:48,420 --> 00:43:52,620 But there's one fast fable they haven't seen through to the checkered flat. 824 00:43:52,620 --> 00:43:59,380 The 30 foot match race between man and car is about to be rerun with some serious sports 825 00:43:59,380 --> 00:44:00,880 talent. 826 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:01,880 Let's tally up. 827 00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,620 When I was driving the race car, I beat Jamie three out of three. 828 00:44:04,620 --> 00:44:09,940 When he was driving the race car, he beat me two out of three with one tie. 829 00:44:09,940 --> 00:44:13,740 Neither of us is a professional driver, neither of us is a professional runner. 830 00:44:13,740 --> 00:44:16,500 I think we need one of each to continue this test. 831 00:44:16,500 --> 00:44:20,380 Lining up for the showdown are two of the speediest guys on earth. 832 00:44:20,380 --> 00:44:23,860 Ryan Briscoe's the man who'll be driving this home. 833 00:44:23,860 --> 00:44:29,900 As for the runner, well, only six men in history have run a faster 200 meters. 834 00:44:29,900 --> 00:44:32,660 You may recognize our runner for today's episode, Wallace Spearman. 835 00:44:32,660 --> 00:44:38,020 He's not only the seventh fastest man on the planet, being the 2012 200 meter Olympic trials 836 00:44:38,020 --> 00:44:39,020 champion. 837 00:44:39,260 --> 00:44:41,900 But he's also been on an episode of MythBusters before. 838 00:44:41,900 --> 00:44:46,780 We asked him to run on the water, something it turns out surprisingly humans can't do. 839 00:44:46,780 --> 00:44:48,420 I don't think he's working guys. 840 00:44:48,420 --> 00:44:49,420 Try harder. 841 00:44:49,420 --> 00:44:56,380 Today, we are asking him to do another super human feat, race himself against an Indy car. 842 00:44:56,380 --> 00:44:59,420 I don't mind telling you, Wallace is a little nervous about it. 843 00:44:59,420 --> 00:45:01,420 You're losing those stinking car. 844 00:45:01,420 --> 00:45:02,420 Car? 845 00:45:02,420 --> 00:45:04,420 Go faster than a car. 846 00:45:04,420 --> 00:45:06,340 I got this. 847 00:45:06,340 --> 00:45:09,700 In order to keep this fair, I have to use a starting method that both our contestants 848 00:45:09,700 --> 00:45:10,700 are familiar with. 849 00:45:10,700 --> 00:45:13,100 So for Ryan, it's the flag. 850 00:45:13,100 --> 00:45:15,420 For Wallace, it's the pistol. 851 00:45:15,420 --> 00:45:21,100 I will raise them above my head, say on your marks, get set, go, and hit the gun at the 852 00:45:21,100 --> 00:45:22,500 same time. 853 00:45:22,500 --> 00:45:29,020 I have to ride on this center console here because if I fall to either side, I'm dead. 854 00:45:29,020 --> 00:45:34,500 Well, so long as he doesn't dent the car, we can live with a little collateral damage. 855 00:45:34,500 --> 00:45:38,700 Now to find out if upping the talent quotient will swing the result. 856 00:45:38,700 --> 00:45:48,660 All right, gentlemen, on your marks, get set, go. 857 00:45:48,660 --> 00:45:49,660 That was close. 858 00:45:49,660 --> 00:45:54,260 Do you think you beat him there? 859 00:45:54,260 --> 00:45:55,260 Not sure. 860 00:45:55,260 --> 00:45:58,540 Probably the first 10, 15, what he kind of caught me. 861 00:45:58,540 --> 00:46:00,580 So yeah, I might have to go out and change a few things. 862 00:46:00,580 --> 00:46:02,620 I think I can get him though. 863 00:46:02,620 --> 00:46:08,100 One went to Ryan with that familiar flying finish, but Wallace is just getting warmed 864 00:46:08,100 --> 00:46:09,100 up. 865 00:46:09,100 --> 00:46:14,940 I can't tell who won. 866 00:46:14,940 --> 00:46:21,060 In test two, they both got off to a whip crack start, but 30 feet on, it's another come from 867 00:46:21,060 --> 00:46:23,420 the clouds win for the car. 868 00:46:23,420 --> 00:46:24,420 How'd that one feel? 869 00:46:24,420 --> 00:46:27,940 I think he'd give boat problems. 870 00:46:27,940 --> 00:46:29,060 Look at it this way. 871 00:46:29,060 --> 00:46:30,780 We got the best car, the best runner. 872 00:46:30,780 --> 00:46:32,260 All we're doing is answering a question. 873 00:46:32,260 --> 00:46:36,660 There's no shame in whatever happens here because it's just a solid question. 874 00:46:36,660 --> 00:46:37,820 I just don't like losing. 875 00:46:37,820 --> 00:46:38,820 Good, good. 876 00:46:38,820 --> 00:46:40,460 Let's keep that energy for the last run. 877 00:46:40,460 --> 00:46:41,460 I got you. 878 00:46:41,460 --> 00:46:42,460 All right. 879 00:46:42,460 --> 00:46:47,500 Unless Wallace gets off to a near perfect start in the last race, this myth is about 880 00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:49,820 to be roadkill. 881 00:46:49,820 --> 00:46:53,060 Maybe the smart thing to do is to rethink his tactics. 882 00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:54,060 What's going on, Will? 883 00:46:54,060 --> 00:46:55,700 I'm not really knowing from my block start. 884 00:46:55,700 --> 00:46:56,940 I think I'll be quicker with Adam. 885 00:46:56,940 --> 00:46:58,540 It's all about that first start. 886 00:46:58,540 --> 00:46:59,820 You got to get an edge on it. 887 00:46:59,820 --> 00:47:00,820 Definitely. 888 00:47:00,820 --> 00:47:01,820 I'm going to need something. 889 00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:02,880 There is. 890 00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:07,180 Even though Wallace makes Jamie and Adam look like they're running backwards, Ryan's also 891 00:47:07,180 --> 00:47:10,220 putting their Miss Daisy driving to shame. 892 00:47:10,220 --> 00:47:16,180 His last run was just 1.48 seconds, while the boy's best was two seconds dead. 893 00:47:16,180 --> 00:47:19,780 Now it's pro versus pro for the very last time. 894 00:47:19,780 --> 00:47:23,340 All right, gentlemen, on your marks. 895 00:47:23,340 --> 00:47:27,340 Get set, go. 896 00:47:27,340 --> 00:47:33,340 Car beat him. 897 00:47:33,340 --> 00:47:39,220 I haven't got beat like this since kindergarten. 898 00:47:39,220 --> 00:47:44,660 It's a three from three wipe out for Wallace, but he can tell his friends that he's raced 899 00:47:44,660 --> 00:47:45,660 at Indianapolis. 900 00:47:45,660 --> 00:47:50,820 According to our experts, you can put out about a horsepower at max for an impulse. 901 00:47:50,820 --> 00:47:56,580 So one horsepower, 700 horsepower, that's not much of a contest, I guess. 902 00:47:56,580 --> 00:47:59,060 It shouldn't be as close as it is. 903 00:47:59,060 --> 00:48:02,380 And close it was from the very beginning. 904 00:48:02,380 --> 00:48:06,340 So why is it that we came closer to beating an Indy car than Wallace did? 905 00:48:06,340 --> 00:48:10,420 Well, let me tell you, it's not because we're faster than Wallace. 906 00:48:10,420 --> 00:48:15,780 The fact is that we're obviously not as experienced at driving them as Ryan is. 907 00:48:15,780 --> 00:48:17,180 Let's just leave it at that. 908 00:48:17,180 --> 00:48:20,940 And the last 10 feet, that's where it all is, isn't it? 909 00:48:20,940 --> 00:48:21,940 Yeah. 910 00:48:21,940 --> 00:48:23,180 In a 24 race, it's a dead heat. 911 00:48:23,180 --> 00:48:24,940 We should try that next time. 912 00:48:24,940 --> 00:48:31,940 Maybe even like a five or a 10 or something.