Keanu Reeves had no bother conserving his automobile above the 50 mph mark in his skilled auto racing debut on the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The Pace star competed within the first race of the Toyota GR Cup alongside Cody Jones from the sports activities and comedy group Dude Excellent, briefly spinning out on the observe however sustaining no accidents, per the Related Press.
Across the midway mark of the 45-minute race, Reeves spun out onto the grass sans collision on the exit of Flip 9. He rejoined the race after signaling that he was unhurt, finally ending twenty fifth out of 35 opponents with a excessive placement of 21. He additionally averted a primary lap crash in Flip 14.
The Matrix actor competed within the Toyota spec-racing sequence (through which racers drive similar or very related autos from the identical producer or provider), labeled as a help sequence (a lower-tier of racing that may assist gamers advance) throughout this weekend’s Indy 8 Hour occasion. He’s slated for a second race tomorrow.
Photographs and movies of the actor on-line confirmed him driving the No. 92 BRZRKR automobile, a nod to his speculative fiction novel co-written with China Miéville known as The E book of Elsewhere set within the BRZRKR universe, itself a comic book ebook world created by Reeves and Matt Kindt.
Beforehand, Reeves participated within the Toyota Grand Prix of Lengthy Seaside within the celeb race, profitable that occasion in 2009. The John Wick actor is a well known motorsport fanatic, typically showing at MotoGP and Method 1 occasions, together with narrating Hulu’s four-part docuseries Brawn: The Inconceivable Method 1 Story. In 2011, he and enterprise accomplice Gard Hollinger launched customized motorbike firm Arch, which served as a leaping off level for not too long ago greenlit Roku documentary sequence The Arch Mission.
The actor is slated to seem at American Cinematheque’s thirtieth anniversary Q&A and screening for Pace on Tuesday, alongside co-star Sandra Bullock.
