Tarantino embraces his inner-redneck.

[Shockeye]

NASCAR Laps Leave Tarantino Speechless

08/27/2005  14:50:47 EST

By JENNA FRYER

AP Motorsports Writer

Quentin Tarantino has produced his share of action-packed, thrilling moments. For once, he was just along for the ride. Tarantino, a NASCAR novice, was treated to several hair-raising laps in a stock car Saturday that left the eccentric film director speechless at Bristol Motor Speedway.

"Yeah, baby! That's what I'm talking about!" he yelled after several seconds of silence. "That was incredible. I didn't 100 percent know what to expect when I got here. I was very open to be intoxicated, and I most definitely was."

Tarantino was introduced to NASCAR by good friend Mauricia Grant, a Busch Series official who lives near him in Hollywood. When he asked her about attending a race, she encouraged him to choose Bristol - a short track where the bumping, banging and post-race altercations can be as intense as an action scene from "Pulp Fiction" or "Kill Bill."

She also arranged for him to take a ride with TNT commentator Wally Dallenbach, who drives a celebrity around the track each week as part of his "Wally's World" segment. Recent ride-along partners have ranged from actors Ben Affleck, Jamie Foxx, David Spade and singer Lisa Marie Presley, who has made a point to publicly complain about how Dallenbach intentionally tried to scare her during a ride last month.

"You're not going to whine after this ride like Lisa Marie Presley, are you?" Dallenbach asked during the warm-up laps.

There was no whining when it was over. Just a brief silence as Tarantino soaked in the adrenaline rush. After, he said he asked Dallenbach to make the ride as scary as possible with close-calls with the Bristol walls.

"Ben Affleck, he looked like a little girl!," Tarantino said. "When I saw Ben Affleck and Dave Spade acting like little girls, I said I got this one. I'm all good. I don't have to worry about nothing.

"That part that was in the wall, that was the bomb. I wanted a lot of wall time and Wally gave me the wall time."

Tarantino's day didn't end with his ride. After watching Friday night's Busch race from one of the suites - he said he rooted for Kevin Harvick and had been cheering on Harvick to "crash (Greg Biffle) into the wall" - he was scheduled to stick around for Saturday night's main event and watch it from the pit Grant was working in.

But it was clear that Tarantino was hooked. He was making plans to take a lesson in the Richard Petty Driving Experience next week at California Speedway, and possibly attend the race.

"I love it," he said. "This is, in one word - adrenaline."

[Sky]

My dad raced in NASCAR in the 70s. It's so trendy now, everyone with their nice uniforms and whatnot. It was cool being in the pits back then. Those guys were nuckin futz.

Even better were nights he'd race on unsanctioned tracks, I remember repainting the number on the car and tarping it up with him. Good times.

Tarentino is how old and he just realized driving insanely fast is fun? Hell, it's how I learned to drive.

[schild]

i'm fairly certain Tarantino learned how to breathe on his own about 6 months ago.

[ahoythematey]

Tarantino is one of the greatest directors of all time.


 :-D

[schild]

He makes Uwe Boll look like House Party 2. Or 3.

[Fabricated]

I didn't know anything about Tarantino personally until I heard Henry Rollins describe him at the premiere of Kill Bill, where he screamed and practically exploded with crack-powered energy, cursing at the "Hollywood People" about all the horrible things he wanted to do to them.

[stray]

Henry?

Nah...

[Jain Zar]

Tarantino is cool in that goofy sort of way.  Im actually glad he had fun, even if it is Nascar.

The fact he made Spade, Affleck, and Presley look like asses while doing it is a nice bonus.

[MrHat]

On a recent expedition, a lost book of the Bible was discovered. The lost "11th plague of Egypt" was when Vin Diesel repeatedly kicked Ramses in the balls.