Epic prank: Racing driver gets revenge on journalist who called viral video 'fake'

Remember the NASCAR driver who took a terrified car salesman for a test drive? He's done it again - this time with a journalist who called the first video 'fake'.

Epic prank: Racing driver gets revenge on journalist who called viral video 'fake'

Remember the test drive from hell?

Last year we brought you that viral video made by Pepsi Max with top NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon, which showed Gordon taking an unsuspecting car saleman on a test drive he wasn't likely to forget in a while…

The original 'Test Drive' clip was a huge viral hit - over 41m views - but a lot of people were sceptical about how much of the hidden camera stuff was real, and how much was a set up.

One of the most vocal critics of the stunt was journalist Travis Okulski from motoring website Jalopnik, who wrote a pretty scathing article claiming that not only was the whole thing a setup, but Gordon wasn't even behind the wheel.

Now Gordon didn't like this one bit, so for 'Test Drive 2' he and Pepsi Max came up with an epic plan to prank Okulski - setting him up as the passengers in a taxi cab driven by an ex-con, with an andrenaline-fuelled police chase the icing on the cake.

Watch the journalist's terrified reaction as it all starts to kick off:

"Just as I was able to say with total certainty that the first Pepsi Test Drive ad was totally fake, I can say with total certainty that this second Pepsi Test Drive ad is unequivocally, one hundred percent, totally, absolutely real," Okulski wrote after the event.

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