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Channing Tatum stars in Logan Lucky, a film whose plot revolves around a heist at the Coca-Cola 600, a famous NASCAR event. The perfect chance to talk cars with the star of 21 Jump Street, Magic Mike and moreTG: Have cars always been an interest for you?CT: I guess as an American kid, growing up, automobiles are engrained into our culture. My first car was a 1994 S10 Chevy, I was 16 and my mom gave me her truck when she got a Camry. The first thing you do is take the entire thing apart and clean everything, and then you just mess it up again as a kid.More recently I had a 1957 Chevy Stepside pick-up. I had that for about a year, but I bought it at a very unfortunate time. Well, I guess not unfortunate, I"d had a kid! But that meant I didn"t get to drive it at all. I fixed it up and ended up having to give it to my dad, because I just never drove it anywhere. That thing, you can"t put a baby seat in it!I love road trips, man. You never know what"s coming, you don"t know what"s around the next bend or when you"re stopping for gas, what characters are you"re going to meet. It"s one of my favourite things to sort of just go and explore.TG: You"re more into bikes though, right?CT: I"m really into bikes. Dirt bikes more than street bikes I don"t really ride on the street all that much. I"ll do lots of trail riding, but I just recently got into GP-style motorcycles. This last year I bought a Yamaha R1 and started racing my buddies on the track.Once a month we"ll go to some trackday and just, you know, try not to hurt ourselves! I"ve run Laguna Seca two or three times. The Corkscrew is insane! The g-force on that thing when you drop down is pretty significant, especially hanging off the bike - I mean if you"re doing some speed, you hit the bottom of that thing and you"re like "argh!" It"s pretty nuts.TG: Were you a NASCAR fan before this film?CT: Growing up in the States you"re just sort of around it. You know, especially in the South I grew up for the most part in Florida, and Daytona is right there. So you end up going over for the Daytona 500 and just being around it. I didn"t know a ton about it, but you grow up knowing Dale Earnhardt and Mario Andretti and names like that. But I didn"t watch all the races, I can"t like tell you super specifics about who"s won each year.I did get to go behind the scenes while we were filming this, and like you don"t even recognise them as cars. You almost have to be a scientist to even get to drive one or work on them. They"re spaceships with tyres.
Date written: 24 Aug 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 8942
Channing Tatum stars in Logan Lucky, a film whose plot revolves around a heist at the Coca-Cola 600, a famous NASCAR event. The perfect chance to talk cars with the star of 21 Jump Street, Magic Mike and moreTG: Have cars always been an interest for you?CT: I guess as an American kid, growing up, automobiles are engrained into our culture. My first car was a 1994 S10 Chevy, I was 16 and my mom gave me her truck when she got a Camry. The first thing you do is take the entire thing apart and clean everything, and then you just mess it up again as a kid.More recently I had a 1957 Chevy Stepside pick-up. I had that for about a year, but I bought it at a very unfortunate time. Well, I guess not unfortunate, I"d had a kid! But that meant I didn"t get to drive it at all. I fixed it up and ended up having to give it to my dad, because I just never drove it anywhere. That thing, you can"t put a baby seat in it!I love road trips, man. You never know what"s coming, you don"t know what"s around the next bend or when you"re stopping for gas, what characters are you"re going to meet. It"s one of my favourite things to sort of just go and explore.TG: You"re more into bikes though, right?CT: I"m really into bikes. Dirt bikes more than street bikes I don"t really ride on the street all that much. I"ll do lots of trail riding, but I just recently got into GP-style motorcycles. This last year I bought a Yamaha R1 and started racing my buddies on the track.Once a month we"ll go to some trackday and just, you know, try not to hurt ourselves! I"ve run Laguna Seca two or three times. The Corkscrew is insane! The g-force on that thing when you drop down is pretty significant, especially hanging off the bike - I mean if you"re doing some speed, you hit the bottom of that thing and you"re like "argh!" It"s pretty nuts.TG: Were you a NASCAR fan before this film?CT: Growing up in the States you"re just sort of around it. You know, especially in the South I grew up for the most part in Florida, and Daytona is right there. So you end up going over for the Daytona 500 and just being around it. I didn"t know a ton about it, but you grow up knowing Dale Earnhardt and Mario Andretti and names like that. But I didn"t watch all the races, I can"t like tell you super specifics about who"s won each year.I did get to go behind the scenes while we were filming this, and like you don"t even recognise them as cars. You almost have to be a scientist to even get to drive one or work on them. They"re spaceships with tyres.
Date written: 24 Aug 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 8942
