On the subject of France

OK, give some off topic here in Porsche, but also France… On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the pumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur. No stretches were closed, for Lelouch was un enable to maintain a permit. The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, approaching almost 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, nearly lifting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way streets. Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film went underground until a DVD release a few years ago.http://video.google.com/videoplay?… Gruss von Einem, who now has to have his ears tested…