Jeff Gordon takes blogger along on high-speed prank or did he?

(CNN) -- You insisted the first Jeff Gordon wild-driving viral video was a fake. What do you think of the second one, Travis Okulski?

Oh, this one is "unequivocally, one hundred percent, totally, absolutely real," he says.

How would he know? Because he's in it, the victim of a prank and Gordon's revenge.

A year ago, Okulski called out Gordon on the Jalopnik auto blog after the millions of views for a video in which Gordon dons a disguise and takes a supposedly unsuspecting car salesman for a high-speed test drive. It's one of those commercials masking itself as a video that begs the question: Is it fake?

 

As of Thursday evening, the video, "Test Drive 2," had 1,000,000 views in just a few hours. Test Drive, meanwhile, now has almost 41 million views. Okluski wrote on a blog post on how he fell for the cab gag. "I thought I was going to die," he wrote. "I yelled, I banged the glass, I actually tried to kick through the Plexiglas window between the driver and me. I pulled out my phone to call 911 but couldn't keep it steady enough to dial."

He insists this video was definitely real.

 

So for my first official blog on this odd sports page, I have decided to go with the hottest, most popular YouTube video out right now and it has to do with future NASCAR hall of famer Jeff Gordon. Last year, Gordon along with his sponsor Pepsi Max did a prank of him impersonating a taxi driver and using his driving skills to erratically drive and scare the living crap out of his passengers. As soon as the first video went viral people were so fast to call it fake and staged. So as an act of revenge, Gordon decided to make another video but this time getting back at a blogger who completely destroyed the validity to his first video. They BOTH claim that this one is 100% real.

 

I personally think that these commercials are great and completely hilarious. So why not believe it the second time around? Jeff Gordon is one of the best drivers out there and is very loyal to his fans, when he says something is true believe the guy. It is amazing to me that people and other news sources are still doubting this future legend of the driving world. Plus, 1,000,000 views is phenomenal and either way if its real or not the video is still entertaining our boring lives. Jeff Gordon could be the greatest prankster of all time or he could be the biggest scam artist of all time. Which ever way this story goes, he is still entertaining his fans on and off the track. -Rob

 

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/27/us/jeff-gordon-viral-video-revenge/index.html