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11-11-2013, 07:15 PM
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If you're wondering what type of person makes a good police officer, it seems a racecar driver doesn't. Let us rephrase that: Justin Bell, a racecar driver and the host of Motor Trend's World's Fastest Car Show, recently got behind the wheel of a 5.0-liter Ford Mustang (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/mustang/) police car with Sergeant Daniel Shrubb, co-founder of DRAGG (Drag Racing Against Gangs and Graffiti), and proved that his high-performance-driving skillset is a bit too aggressive for police duty.
While it's easy to get carried away in a Mustang GT, a patrol car driver must maintain some sort of restraint while pursuing a criminal, so as not to come off as a reckless driver to the public. We'll admit, some pursuit techniques are counter-intuitive to performance driving (stay off the gas in a lane-change exercise?), but Bell's judicious use of the handbrake can't be normal procedure.
Watch "The One With The Ford Mustang 5.0 Police Car" (yes, we caught the Friends reference too) below (http://www.mnfords.com/2013/11/11/justin-bell-ford-mustang-police-car-video/#continued) to see some shenanigans in one of Michigan's finest patrol cars.Continue reading Justin Bell makes a horrible policeman (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/11/11/justin-bell-ford-mustang-police-car-video/)
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If you're wondering what type of person makes a good police officer, it seems a racecar driver doesn't. Let us rephrase that: Justin Bell, a racecar driver and the host of Motor Trend's World's Fastest Car Show, recently got behind the wheel of a 5.0-liter Ford Mustang (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/mustang/) police car with Sergeant Daniel Shrubb, co-founder of DRAGG (Drag Racing Against Gangs and Graffiti), and proved that his high-performance-driving skillset is a bit too aggressive for police duty.
While it's easy to get carried away in a Mustang GT, a patrol car driver must maintain some sort of restraint while pursuing a criminal, so as not to come off as a reckless driver to the public. We'll admit, some pursuit techniques are counter-intuitive to performance driving (stay off the gas in a lane-change exercise?), but Bell's judicious use of the handbrake can't be normal procedure.
Watch "The One With The Ford Mustang 5.0 Police Car" (yes, we caught the Friends reference too) below (http://www.mnfords.com/2013/11/11/justin-bell-ford-mustang-police-car-video/#continued) to see some shenanigans in one of Michigan's finest patrol cars.Continue reading Justin Bell makes a horrible policeman (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/11/11/justin-bell-ford-mustang-police-car-video/)
Justin Bell makes a horrible policeman (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/11/11/justin-bell-ford-mustang-police-car-video/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.mnfords.com/rss-term-of-use/).
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