{"id":57098,"date":"2025-08-10T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/57098\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:29:08","slug":"hair-raising-photos-of-a-bmx-biker-jumping-over-a-moving-f1-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/57098\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair-Raising Photos of a BMX Biker Jumping Over a Moving F1 Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>BMX rider Kriss Kyle leaps over a moving F1 car. | Red Bull Content Pool <\/p>\n

BMX rider Kriss Kyle recently jumped over a moving Formula 1 car in a stunt for Red Bull that was expertly documented by photographer Dan Griffiths and Marcus Cole. <\/p>\n

Kyle used a custom-built kicker that was designed by Red Bull Technologies so that he could jump the required 4.2 feet (1.3 meters) to safely clear the car. The F1 vehicle was driven by ex-F1 racing driver David Coulthard, but the stunt was still perilous thanks to the danger of landing on one of the razor-sharp wings attached to the Red Bull RB7 \u2014 Sebastian Vettel\u2019s 2011 championship-winning machine. <\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Dan Griffiths \/ Red Bull Content Pool \"Four<\/a>Dan Griffiths \/ Red Bull Content Pool \"A<\/a>Marcus Cole \/ Red Bull Content Pool \"A<\/a>Dan Griffiths \/ Red Bull Content Pool<\/p>\n

Photographer Dan Griffiths<\/a> tells PetaPixel that the initial two-day shoot became elongated after the first attempt at the Knock Hill circuit in Scotland was scuppered because of poor weather. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe wind picked up a bit and it just scared him a little bit; kind of threw him off,\u201d Griffiths explains. \u201cHe bailed out of his attempt and went to the side. It was too windy to continue and we had to just call it a day.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Marcus Cole \/ Red Bull Content Pool <\/p>\n

Fortunately for the team, another opportunity presented itself at Goodwood a little while after. For Griffiths, his job is to capture spectacular images that drive people to the video. \u201cYou need to shoot it in a way that is going to immediately grab people\u2019s attention.\u201d <\/p>\n

Griffiths\u2019 photo features on the thumbnail of the YouTube video, which shows the car\u2019s trail, giving the photo a sense of motion. Griffiths says he got this idea in between the two shoots, meaning the delay actually benefited him. <\/p>\n

\u201cI just used the highest peak frame of Kriss because I didn\u2019t want to do a sequence of him; I just wanted a single frame of him. Then for the car, I used a few frames from a sequence, and then it was a Photoshop job to create that motion blur,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt Knock Hill, we were looking at it and it was like, okay, he\u2019s over the top of a car, but unless you\u2019ve seen the video, it does look like he\u2019s just jumping over a stationary car.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Dan Griffiths \/ Red Bull Content Pool \"A<\/a>Dan Griffiths \/ Red Bull Content Pool \"Two<\/a>Celebrations. | Dan Griffiths \/ Red Bull Content Pool \"A<\/a>Dan Griffiths \/ Red Bull Content Pool <\/p>\n

Griffiths was using a remote camera to capture two angles. Both were Canon R5s<\/a>; the one in his hand had an RF 70-200mm<\/a> and the remote had an RF 24-105mm<\/a> lens for a side-on shot. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really happy how it turned out,\u201d says Griffiths. \u201cThere was a lot of pressure on getting that shot\u2026 Between practice hops, I was running over to the side camera to check that the remote was firing\u2026 You have to hope the timing is right, there is a lot that could get in the way of the shot working and, fortunately, everything did work out.\u201d <\/p>\n

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