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Hot Wheels stunt recreated

Tanner Foust has set a new world record car jump in conjunction with Hot Wheels.

Big kids need big toys and Hot Wheels came up with the largest version imaginable of its famous orange track for a world record car jump.

Built to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis 500 race, the track was used by a real life racing pick-up truck. Dropping down the track from the height of a 10-story building, the truck then leaped 332-feet to set a new world record ramp-to-ramp car jump.

The mystery driver of the truck then revealed himself as Tanner Foust, a presenter of the US version of Top Gear and sometime stunt drive who has appeared in the Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift and Dukes of Hazzard films.

Foust said afterwards: "As a kid playing with Hot Wheels I could only dream of experiencing something as outrageous as a life-sized V-Drop track set, and today it became reality."

Click here for the full life-size Hot Wheels toy experience.

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Published on June 1, 2011