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It's Gymkhana 10.
Maybe we've watched a couple before.
We have high expectations of what you're gonna get.
It starts, you get a quick little glimpse of
what's going on,
like we got five different locations,
and you're gonna kind of feel this
in the way we do the launch,
and then all of a sudden...
Here you are on ice.
And in your head you're like, ooh, it's ice?
That's something completely new.
I haven't seen them do it on snow before.
This has to be good,
because if this doesn't hook you in the beginning,
then you're out.
We get accused often of, like,
it's the same old shit every time, right?
So this is our attempt to try and to make it
not the same old shit.
But, I don't know if this is the right way of going about it
'cause, like, there's a lot of bands,
and I'm like, man, it's the same old shit all the time,
and then they do a fucking EDM album,
and I'm like, fuck you, that's not what I wanted you to do.
I just wanted you to stay punk rock.
Maybe this could be our EDM album.
And there's extra pressure on this segment,
'cause it's first up in the film.
I love that these boys just go about it like
this is just totally normal,
just like another day of winter in Sweden.
Oh, we're moving.
Translating what we've done,
and what we've been so successful of doing on pavement,
and now doing that on ice.
Does the car have that same energy?
One of things where I can picture it all in my head,
but this whole game is taking my picture in my head
and actually making that a reality on film.
I just kinda wanna see, like, yeah, if it...
I think it'll actually deflect less when it's spinning.
I actually, like, got out and, like,
drove some sections of this in the rental car,
like, I normally wouldn't do that.
I normally can kinda sit and look at it and say,
okay, yeah, that makes sense.
Knowing that there's so many variables with Sweden really,
I couldn't just depend on the art team getting this right.
Whoa!
I think the main thing is, as long as he
kinda comes off semi straight...
Yeah, he'll be fine.
Or at least steering into the edge,
so that he doesn't like.
But I guess if you're going, like, 60 miles an hour,
then it's a hell of a lot of a difference, right?
I think he would.
That was such a mellow hit!
It was all good until Matthew got in.
Yeah, I'm bad luck.
Just threw it off.
Uh, yeah.
Yeah, find the muzzlers,
we hit there so slow.
This thing is nowhere near as fun as Ken's cars.
Ken's always kind of had this thing
with, like, snow in his life.
That's why he moved to Park City,
'cause he loves the mountains and snow and stuff like that.
And when he did his first rally, with proper studs,
back in 2011, to go see Sweden.
That experience really kind of woke me up
to the idea of how much grip you could have
on the snow and ice, with that sort of tire.
There's more grip,
like, on a snowy, icy road with those tires,
than we would have on gravel with our gravel tires.
And that's just insane to me.
Now here we go again.
I was, like, oh, wow,
we should do a Gymkhana on ice.
That's really fucking cool.
But the biggest problem with that idea, though,
is really cost,
because the weather is so unpredictable.
So if you fly 50 people over to make this video,
you could literally spend a lot of money,
and get nothing.
It's rare that we go somewhere,
and it's actually better than the thought in my head.
Like, that's only happened a few times,
like, Gymkhana Five drift jump,
and, like, water's edge in Gymkhana Nine.
I think that we maybe hoped that those moments
would have happened at South Gate,
'cause it was something new and different,
and I think because of that,
we put a ton of pressure on that segment.
I think we all thought it was gonna be really, really good,
and it was, like, from the first moment,
it was just a realization that, like,
this is not going to be what we want it to be.
I would do things in a different order or...
I would like to go home at this point.
This all sucks.
We have what we have there, and I think in the end,
South Gate could be okay,
but the rest of them all have to be extra strong,
'cause we can't just have every piece be solid.
That's not what makes a film.
Like, there needs to be some moments that are just,
like, really big and really strong.
And I think that there's opportunity
for, like, really big moments here.
Beautiful.
I'm fucking cold. Mustache is already frozen.
The two of you telling Matt it's minus 26 right now?
Minus 26 and sunny.
Alright, so we'll look at this...
I'm sorry!
Okay.
The other day, we went over there
after they'd started to cut some roads out,
and we realized that they're construction workers,
so they don't really kind of understand
the corners that you want for, like,
a racetrack type set up.
Because it's way better if we can loop stuff.
If you can keep Ken hot,
he's gonna perform a lot better.
So, like, I wanna be able to have him, like,
rip through here, do this moment,
exit through here, and then feel comfortable enough
to come ripping down through here,
come back through here, loop through here,
and then come back in and do it again.
So, I had Will do a fly over
and just take some shots with the drone,
and that way I can hand this off
to the guys in construction and say,
go nip a little here, tuck a little there,
and cut a new road here,
so I've got, like, another kind of rotation.
Stuff like that.
We all learned a lot from L.A.
I'm glad Brian headed out early,
because when we shoot in such a remote location,
we need to be prepared for anything.
We simply can't afford to have another shoot
feel like L.A. did.
We woke up at about 4 a.m. to get here
for a 5:00 set up.
Drove the truck in and then the bottom fell out it,
and it's now stuck sort of in between
the ice and the bottom of the shore.
Yeah, one of the things that's kind of alarming about this
is we were told this wouldn't happen.
The locals haven't seen it happen like that before,
with the weight of the truck, they were quite happy with it,
but obviously the ice wasn't thick enough.
What's all that over your face?
Yeah, it is, it's like... look like Hare Krishna, mate.
It's always a bummer when,
on day one, you just know you're not gonna get
that cadence, 'cause, like these shoots
come together when we just get that motion
and everything starts to kind of flow and work together,
and there's no way that that's going to happen today.
We've already got a truck that's broken through the ice.
It's snowing, which it wasn't supposed to be.
So it's already a few things, a little slow,
and so hopefully by the middle of the day today
we start to pick up speed.
The main trick we want to film today is a tether shot.
We're strapping Ken's car to a pole
where he's going to do a tethered 360
until we release him with a small explosion.
This is going to be the opening of the film,
so it's really important that it looks as amazing as possible.
To get the traction we need,
in order to get the speed we need,
we are installing studs into the tires.
But, since our truck fell through the ice,
that was our garage,
so now the mechanics have to set this all up
in negative 30 degree weather.
Rally mechanics don't work in heated garages.
They're used to working without a vehicle there.
They're used to changing motors and trannies on their backs.
So it doesn't phase the guys, we got the right clothes,
we're keeping a good attitude and this is the first day,
so if it gets us now, Friday's gonna be really long.
By the way... by the way, this was Ken's idea.
- Oh, was it? - Yeah.
I wanted to go to Miami, but no,
we're in Sweden instead.
A choice between L.A. or Sweden?
- Matt to Jeremy. - Go ahead, man.
On the move with Ken coming over.
Himalayan Matt over here.
You might win the best outfit.
- It wasn't a competition. - No, it was a competition.
The thing I was looking forward to most
about filming in Sweden really was being able
to drive the WRC car.
This is the World Championship winning spec car,
and we get to play with it on the snow
with studded tires and fun obstacles.
Ken got in last night,
kind of reviewed everything this morning and I... you know,
I told him this is only gonna be as good as you drive.
It's, like, we normally don't shoot in wide open air
because wide open doesn't look fast.
Like, you have no point of reference,
and here we are shooting in, like, wide open snow,
and on ice and there's not as much reference for things.
So I guess my biggest fear is that
it just doesn't look good on camera.
Okay, here we go, rehearsal's up, please.
- Three, two, one. - Focus, please.
There he goes.
Oh, so this is kind of like Russian roulette.
This is totally Russian roulette.
- If you get ahead, keep going. - This is insane.
You see random videos of down south boys
doing this with, like, a UTV or something,
but never with a full on half million dollar WRC car.
Do you think he's dizzy yet?
All right, we'll cut you down.
I wish it was a little faster.
- We can probably go faster. - Yeah.
You were giving me no feedback,
I didn't know if I was going for five minutes, 10 minutes,
like, we were going for maximum speed.
Do you think you could go faster?
Oh, it was totally fine. But let's go again.
It's kind of crappy out, but...
We may as well shoot,
we can always come back when it gets sunny.
That worked perfectly, that was exactly what we wanted,
but this is our first shot up in the video and on camera
you just can't tell any definition or texture in snow,
'cause you got a white car,
you got a white ground, you got a white sky,
and this can't be the opening shot of the film.
In three, two, one, action, action, car.
We didn't fly halfway around the world
to not see Sweden.
We could have just shot this in Michigan.
This isn't gonna work.
They were just saying they might cut for the day
'cause they want more blue sky.
That's what I was saying. At least it's not snowing now.
It looked so much better yesterday.
I knew... I knew when you have five days of scouting
that are just beautiful,
you're gonna get boned on your day of filming,
so here we are, boned.
I knew getting texture was going to be tough,
so I had Matthew design some ice fishing huts
we can use as back drops for a little added color.
I like this one. This is really cool.
- It's wallpaper. - Yeah, I know, I like it.
It's nice, nice, fresh wood.
Swedish wood.
- I like them over there. - Yeah, I know, right?
They were literally built every single house
that was over there.
This is nice Swedish contemporary tutti frutti design.
We're painting 'em all sorts of crazy colors
so they really pop.
And then with the snowmen going around and everything else
it's just, like, super, super cool.
I saw an aerial shot,
and it looked just the way I wanted it to.
In fact, maybe even better.
I mean, really is... it's freakin' spectacular.
Who's there?
The basic idea of the carousel came from
just an Internet video, you know?
And we thought, hey, that would be a great obstacle
for us, for Gymkhana 10,
because we're trying to find things which,
if you lived in Mexico, or you lived in the Philippines,
and you didn't know much about it,
you would hopefully be blown away
by not only the driving and control on snow and ice,
but also the creativity that we brought to that.
Is there a chance that this thing cracks in half?
There is a dive team back there
ready to come in and get you.
It's like a weird thing to think about, like,
oh, well, if he screws up he's going to fall
into ice water that's 11 meters deep.
- Good luck. - Thank you.
The divers are talking about putting a light on the car
because it'll hit the ground so hard
that it'll bring up so much silt that
they wouldn't be able to find it.
Can I just say something while we're all together?
You're all fucking mad.
I always liked when Derek worries a little bit.
It means we're doing something right when Derek's, like,
alright, mate, just in case you need to have, like...
I need a safety word with Ken.
Are you ready?
Three, two, one, action, action.
Wild.
- Oh, wow. - Ooh, that exit looks rad.
That looked awesome.
Going on and off the disc.
Yeah, I mean, it's not gonna get
much better than that.
If you want to start addressing it differently
or doing something different, I'm down for that?
- The images, we want more... - Let's do it.
Not one more, two more. You never say one more.
Three, two, one, action, action.
Take ten and we'll move on.
See if they can fix it quickly, because it might be...
We'll see if they can get it clean in the next minute,
otherwise we'll move on.
I mean, even the single slide through there and out
looked really cool 'cause it was, like,
just nice super precision, tight and out so...
I like 'em both.
Oh, my God, what have you done, Pierre?
He sat on the banana and exploded banana in the backseat.
That's your seat for the rest of the day now buddy.
Clean up on aisle seven.
Three, two, one, action, action.
Oh, that was sick.
Nice work, nice work,
that is a take, that is a take.
Uh, we're gonna move on.
The pit crew and I were like standing there.
They actually wanted to put me in a Speedo.
Like a Union Jack British flag Speedo,
jump in there, and I was, like, I don't think so.
Once you're in the water,
how long can you be in there before you need to get out?
Probably take five, 10 seconds before
I can speak again because of all the shock on the body.
That sounds horrible.
Why do you do this?
- Because of you guys. - Okay, yeah, great.
As soon as I see you starting to go towards
the ladder I'll have Ken exit and then you can
get up and run to the back of the sauna.
Yeah, I just want to be in the water.
Yeah, swim and have fun.
- How are you? - Good.
I'm not gonna jump this, no, thank you.
Oliver's coming in to guest appearance for us.
Extremely talented driver and Petter Solberg's son.
It's good to get him involved
and I'm sure his personality is going to
come across quite well.
Originally it was gonna be Andreas' role.
It, you know, was up in the air,
'cause we were like, well, we can't use Andreas
if he signs with someone else.
But, you know, we wanted to use someone that was
somewhat local to the region.
And now we're here at Petter's shop.
Petter's gonna give us a tour with Oliver.
That's when we visited Petter's place.
Oliver was this big.
It's Oliver again. Hey, Oliver!
I tried to go up to you, and I was, like,
no, I can't go up to you.
Your dad was funny, he's like, I'm world champion,
and this dude who just makes videos is, like,
more popular to my son than me.
My son is a big fan of Ken.
I looked at all the Gymkhanas yesterday.
- Oh, did you? - Yeah.
You are the first... person with the first
other car in one of our Gymkhana videos.
Pretty cool.
Yeah, that's quite crazy.
I mean you've done... When was the only time
you've said you'd done donuts before?
After a race, with a super car, two times.
- Right, yeah, just a little celebration. - Yeah.
So do you think you should do more?
Yeah, because it's fun.
You're going in, we told you that, right?
Okay.
Did I not mention that?
We knew that you were driving,
but now you're swimming.
So Ken will come in the car, do the first rotation around,
after he does one full rotation,
you'll be over there and you're gonna come in,
and kind of follow him tandem.
So you'll come in and be behind him.
Good luck. The other option, too, is that he can come in
a bit late, and then I could catch up with him
and then it's on me to put my car next to him.
- We could do it that way too. - You know what I mean?
- Yeah, please? - Yeah, you want to do that?
'Cause I have a little more time in these cars
than he does.
Let's do that, then you can catch him.
See what I have to put up with?
Yeah, this is what your future looks like, Oliver.
Now you have to see what we have to put up with.
Alright, guys, we're gonna start clearing the ice, please,
if everyone can go back behind the diver's van.
Back to the video van.
Alright, so start moving the minute you see
him start walking.
- Everyone ready guys? - Yup.
Alright, we are rolling.
We very well may get blasted with ice.
And three, two, one, action, Johan.
So ridiculous. Go, go, go, Oliver, go.
I remember I was watching things happen,
and I was like counting, and they just kept
driving around and around and he's just in the pool,
and I'm like that's more than 20 seconds.
Like, if I was that guy, I would be bullshit
with us right now.
Alright let's exit and reset, exit and reset.
Nice commitment, Oliver, nice commitment.
Copy that, alright, let's get the cars
safely to one.
- How do you feel? - Wet.
It's getting colder and colder.
Yeah, it's getting colder and colder.
It's the kid's first time out.
I can only imagine he's super anxious,
feels super under pressure.
Hey, guys, we're really gonna focus on
just trying to get the, uh... the entry locked in,
so if we don't get it on the first rotation,
we'll exit from there and then try again
so we can keep our swimmer out of the water.
- Get the car ready a minute. - I just need a little break.
- I'm ready. - Alright, here we go guys,
we're rolling, rolling, car's on the move in...
Three, two, one, action, action.
Go, go, go.
His mind's, like, very, like, racing.
Like, you don't have to race there,
like, pace it yourself so that you get in there
like a cog in the gear, and he's, like, cool,
and I say three, two, one, go,
and he, like, full throttle races all the way in.
Alright, let's exit and try that again,
exit and try that again.
You want to go give him a pep talk?
'Cause I've called the timing three different times now,
so it's not, like, bad timing, it's that he's...
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I think now that he felt what it felt like
to have you chasing him, maybe he'll feel better.
Alright as soon the road's locked,
we'll get drivers to cover guys,
so stand by for picture please.
Alright, Ken, you're gonna take your call off of Johan.
- Green light green light. - Green light, green light,
guys, here we go. Picture's up, please.
Ready, ready, ready, ready.
And three, two, one, action, Johan.
Oliver, go, go.
That's gonna be it, that's gonna be it, that's gonna be it.
Ken, take your exit.
The kid just pass him?
Oliver, exit.
Alright, I think we got it.
When he's out the shot, he's gonna back up.
We're quite behind schedule at this point,
I think it's, like, almost 3:00.
We got like, I don't know, an hour and a half probably left
of usable light.
Matt, we flagged down Ken,
he's headed back to base camp. Can you be there,
pick him up and bring him back out here to the jump?
Ha, ha, Ken do.
It's pretty fucking hard.
Hello, Matthew.
The jump is the last trick of the day.
So it's the one I, like, get nervous about
because obviously if it's not right
and he rolls in and crashes it, we're in trouble.
The thing that sucks is that this wasn't actually
cut the way it needed to be.
Do we need to fix that now while we're talking?
- Can we get him over here? - It's too much of a fix.
I think we're bringing, like, actual airtime back
to Gymkhana, which people keep asking for.
We haven't had since like five, really.
And we've never had like two cars
interacting before on screen.
The ultimate goal for this jump
is to outdo what we did in San Francisco.
Not only will Ken be doing a drift jump
over a 10 foot gap,
but Oliver will be sliding his car underneath
at the exact same time.
If all goes well, we might have
one of the gnarliest jumps we've ever shot.
If it doesn't,
someone has to go tell Sébastien Ogier
we just wrecked his WRC car.
No pressure, right?
Yeah.
Ken, radio check, radio check, Ken.
If you have a $10 head, then buy a $10 helmet.
That's an old advertising tagline
my dad told me when I was a kid.
Since then, I've always liked to call my helmets
Brain Buckets.
For the five unique helmets in Gymkhana 10,
I asked Death Spray Custom to paint each helmet
in this rad brain bucket style
all carrying the same brain safety message.
Okay, Oliver's going to P one, Dan.
Watch out whoever's in the middle of the ramp.
Rolling, rolling.
Cars are on the move in...
Three, two, one, action, action.
This isn't gonna work.
Let's go back to straight jumping it.
Alright, well, I'm gonna keep Oliver on his current path, then,
'cause that'll work fine if you straight jump it.
Alright, let's just hit it straight this time.
- Rolling, rolling. - Alright, guys, here we go.
Three, two, one, action, action.
That was super mellow.
Yeah, we're gonna have to revamp this,
it's just not gonna cut it.
We need to have them plow that area tonight
so Ken can do drift jump.
Hey, Ken, this isn't even worth our time.
We're gonna need to re-shoot this tomorrow.
Why don't you, uh, just come and watch playback.
Okay.
We're done with you today, Oliver.
You can bring the car back to Derek, thank you very much.
Thank you.
- Did you have fun? - Yes.
Do you want to do more of this?
- Oh, yes. - Yeah, yeah?
That was really cool, you know,
exactly the same but he's jumping,
and it was nice.
Thank you, thank you.
Today was amazing, you know, it was a dream come true,
and I get to drive with Ken and all his crew like this.
It's not what we wanted.
I mean, I feel like it's a good job for him.
Shitty compared to what we wanted to get.
I wanted a cool drift jump.
I wanted you to be facing this way.
Yeah and that's not gonna happen
with the current situation.
Like it's pushing it.
- I thought it looked good. - I thought it was great.
Apparently, someone disagrees.
Look, to the average viewer, any jump looks cool. I get that.
But what you have to understand is that
jumping cars is actually a simple thing
because it's just mathematics.
For us, we want to add this skill level to it,
and when you add a drift, that's where the skill comes in.
It looks pretty mellow.
It looks fucking terrible.
Mellow, I used the word mellow.
It's all alright.
It looks cool from the side, but it looks pretty simple.
Yeah, I think we should push it and drift it.
I mean, that was the concept.
Yeah, I think that's unusual.
Alright, well, we'll have them plow it tonight.
Hopefully, Oliver can stay,
and you can kind of get the car sideways again.
Last night we sort of smoothed out the land.
Took out a lot of the bumps,
made it about five meters longer,
so it's a smoother transition for him.
I think it's so much better than it was yesterday.
It's way flatter, it's way harder,
and with a little bit more water...
Water. Water.
- Say it right, it's water. - "Wah-er."
There's no R, there's no T, there's a couple Ds in there.
That's why the bagels taste so good.
- Did you have fun yesterday? - Oh, yes.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
So much power on the ice, it's quite cool.
Yeah, it's too much power.
And this much, I'm 16, it's like, woo.
As a racecar driver you just never get to do that,
and for me, when I started racing rally cars,
I thought, man, these things are so much fun...
- Yeah. - But the only time
you get to play with them is, like, testing,
and then competition and that's it.
So I think it is fun to just do some
slides around some stuff.
We call it eye candy, meaning that, like,
we're trying to entertain people with fun visuals.
That's what a lot of people don't understand,
that we're basically entertainers.
I get to go drive, at the end of the day
that's what I want to do, I want to get in the car and drive,
but we've gotta sell, like, a lifestyle,
and sell cool content to people.
I've never thought about it like a big thing,
but now it's everything, it's like 50%
of your racing career if you want to go somewhere.
Well, the difference between, like, you and your dad,
is your dad didn't grow up with that.
Now a big part of it is how many followers do you have,
how much exposure can you give your sponsors,
how can you integrate with them.
It's just a different world. You know? So...
But that's... unfortunately, that's where it's going,
and the good thing is you're quite young
so you can kind of learn it and then
apply it and then use that to gain more sponsorship.
Yeah.
So might as well have fun doing it.
Exactly.
Cars are firing up now so, uh, say two minute warning.
Rev it up, E.
So did anyone write to see what we're doing here?
Going fast, taking big risks.
There we go.
Alright, here we go, guys,
in three, two, one,
action, action.
I mean the timing is... the timing looks pretty good.
I mean that right there is actually...
It looks better than yesterday.
Well, yeah, and it's the perfect turn
to actually be sliding but I'm just not getting a slide.
- Right. - So what we had in our minds
and what we want isn't happening.
I mean, let's just try a couple more and see what we get.
Yeah. I mean, I would incrementally get it more,
I wouldn't try to go huge.
That's a conversation you and I had
right before the slide, so good luck.
- And rolling, rolling. - Camera's rolling.
And three, two, one, action, action.
That exit's sick.
That was a great shot, we're moving on, we're moving on.
That was a great shot.
Thank you.
Hey. Thanks for staying the extra day.
- Thank you. - I appreciate it.
- It was good fun. - Yeah?
We're gonna move back to tether right now
to finish up over there.
We've got like two shots to do and then we're done.
- Here? - Yes.
- How much time? - Bryce is moving over, eh?
Oh, don't blame Bryce.
It looks way better, by the way.
- It looks way better. - How much time we got?
15 minutes?
30 by my fingers.
Oh, you're fucking crazy.
That looks really comfortable.
Okay, good, check can you hear me?
Brian. 25 bucks.
- What's that? - 25 bucks.
That we don't make the hole?
Alright, we'll take that.
Wait, pounds or dollars?
Whatever you want.
Okay, here we go guys.
Ready?
It's too far, it's not being recognized
as being in the camera whatsoever.
- Which camera? - Three.
He's trying to format it. He'll still format it.
Hey, Ken, we have a slight camera issue
we're trying to figure out, hold on another minute.
If I can't get it settled immediately, we'll work around it.
FYI, we have 11 minutes of light.
I know.
We had everything set up, everything was working fine,
and the red camera had a software malfunction or hardware,
maybe, I don't know.
So we're down a camera, we're just improvising.
We don't know VTR, we'll trust you.
We have just nine more minutes of light.
Let's get everyone in position.
Alright, we gotta go.
Please.
- Ready, ready - Roll camera.
Guys, we are rolling, rolling.
And car's on the move in three...
two, one, action, action.
I'm gonna give you one more rotation,
one more rotation.
Three, two, one, release.
- That looked good. - That looked good.
I mean, he looked tight on the exit though,
like, he clipped the exit.
Yeah, it looked a little... Let me see.
Can we get replay on the exit, please?
Yeah, it looks good, though.
You want the little... It looks a little more exciting that way.
Hey, Ken, that was a good shot,
thank you very much.
Alright, everybody, thank you, thank you very much,
that is a wrap, that is a wrap,
thank you, everybody.
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