Jeff Gordon got his revenge on journalist Travis Okulski by pulling an epic prank with the help of his boss from Jalopnik.
Okulski detailed the prank on Jalopnik, which featured Gordon posing as a cab driver who was kidnapping the reporter and taking him on a wild police chase.
It all started last year when Okulski questioned the validity of Gordon and Pepsi Max’s prank on a car salesman, in which he drove wildly during a mock test drive. This angered Gordon, which resulted in another prank.
Gordon teamed up with Pepsi Max again for this prank. In it, he tells an unsuspected Okulski, who thinks he’s in a cab in North Carolina on assignment, that he just got out of jail. He then gets pulled over, only to evade police and take the reporter on a scary chase.
Okulski is seen kicking and screaming for his life. He took to Twitter to share what happened, writing “This is a real thing. It really happened. It’s not fake. At all.”
This is a real thing. It really happened. It’s not fake. At all. http://t.co/tYguV1ZPg2
— Travis Okulski (@tokulski) February 27, 2014
He added:
.@JeffGordonWeb hey what's up I'm still screaming
— Travis Okulski (@tokulski) February 27, 2014
I sure hope I’m never really kidnapped, because I’ll just assume it’s @JeffGordonWeb trying to get me back for something again.
— Travis Okulski (@tokulski) February 27, 2014
He also called Gordon “one of the greatest drivers of our generation” but stands by his original story that calls the car salesman prank fake. “See, here’s a thing. I never said Jeff Gordon couldn’t do those stunts in the first video, I just said he didn’t. That stands true,” he wrote.
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