{"id":12592,"date":"2011-07-13T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/?p=12592"},"modified":"2016-05-12T17:05:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T21:05:26","slug":"tnt-nascar-wind-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/2011\/tnt-nascar-wind-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Crew Works with NASCAR on TNT in a Wind Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12593\" title=\"IMG_1455\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/12195236\/IMG_1455-600x336.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before this shoot I wasn\u2019t sure what it was like to film with 40mph winds knocking at me.\u00a0 Now I know, it\u2019s wild!\u00a0 I was out in Mooresville, NC with NASCAR on TNT at a wind tunnel testing facility.\u00a0 It was there that I met up with Larry McReynolds and Tony Stewart crew chief, Darian Grubb.\u00a0 Stewart\u2019s crew was busy gathering aerodynamics and drafting data when we first got there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-12594\" title=\"IMG_1454\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/12195235\/IMG_1454-600x336.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the challenges of this shoot, besides the high-speed winds, was that we only had an hour to shoot in here before the next team was scheduled to use the facility.\u00a0 We had to move quickly.\u00a0 Luckily for me the wind tunnel was not only lit well but looked super cool.\u00a0Once I was inside the wind tunnel with Larry and Darian they closed it up and let it rip.\u00a0With 40mph winds\u00a0gusting by them, Larry and Darian discussed the physics of drafting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Needles to say, it was kind of hard to hear\u00a0Darian and Larry with the high speed winds, so as a back up we also shot an interview in the control room.\u00a0 After the interviews I managed to grab as much b-roll as I could and before we knew it our time was up.\u00a0 Tune into TNT\u2019s pre-race show when they make it down to Daytona to catch the finished piece!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12595\" title=\"windtunnel\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/12195234\/IMG_1432-600x336.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before this shoot I wasn\u2019t sure what it was like to film with 40mph winds knocking at me.\u00a0 Now I know, it\u2019s wild!\u00a0 I was out in Mooresville, NC with NASCAR on TNT at a wind tunnel testing facility.\u00a0 It was there that I met up with Larry McReynolds and Tony Stewart crew chief, Darian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":26878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[1679,272,1680,33,1681,1682],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}