In light of the recent release of Kim Dotcom, the eccentric Megaupload millionaire, from custody for allegedly orchestrating the biggest copyright infringement in US history, I thought it appropriate to write this piece.
Considered the internet's dark knight, Kim, a racing enthusiast with loads of disposable income, made this video a while back and stars none other than F1 World Champion Kimi Raikkkonen, Finn Batato and Kim himself on the Nurburgring Norschleife, with three highly modified Mercedez Benz AMG CLK DTM supercars.
Reason for making the film was threefold, said Kim. The German-born wanted to pay homage to the Nurburgring (1), the CLK DTM (2) and F1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen (3), and was partly inspired when he was playing Forza and Need for Speed on Xbox Live.
Even though some could argue Kim made the video for self promotion, that is him sitting on the hood of the Merc convertible, I must point out that this is still another high quality racing video that we didn't have before. Besides, one must have appreciation for people who "put their money where their mouth is".
When I want to make a video I get my car's keys and the GoPro, but when Kim decides he's gonna make one, he gets 30 cameras, 100+ crew, 2 helicopters, 2 camera cars and one fixed wing aircraft. And to top it off, the video is set to the song "Take me away" which Kim himself produced with Printz Board. By the way, they took 20 laps to get all the shots just right for this video.
Note: the last film on racing was the award winning documentary called "Senna" and the next one is Ron Howard's "Rush", which is currently in the editing phase and is scheduled for release in 2013.
Thanks for reading.
Source: Jalopnik, Bloomberg.
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