ROCKY ROAD STALLONE DRIVEN TO RACING FLICK.Byline: - Bob Strauss After a long absence from his writing desk, Sylvester Stallone is back scripting and starring in ``Driven,'' a drama set in the high-risk world of state-of-the-art auto racing. ``I think that 'Rocky' worked because it was pure metaphor for a lot of people and a lot of different situations,'' the 54-year-old movie muscleman says of his best-known, Oscar-winning creation. ``But instead of dealing with the fight of life, this one deals with life as a race. Racing symbolizes so much, and there's a reason why people are drawn to it on all different levels. ``It's, like, extraordinary: We race everything on the planet, from turtles to planes. Is that somehow tied into this clock that's always running in our mind, or the races that we have to run every day to get to work, for promotion, to overcome this or overcome that?'' Deep. But what about the cars? ``The champ cars “CART” redirects here. For other uses, see CART (disambiguation). Champ Car, an abbreviation of "Championship Car", has been the name for a class and specification of cars used in American Championship Car Racing for many decades. have about 950 horsepower horsepower, unit of power in the English system of units. It is equal to 33,000 foot-pounds per minute or 550 foot-pounds per second or approximately 746 watts. ; it's quite a feeling,'' Stallone understates. ``You're only 24 inches off the ground, the wheels are right next to your head, and you're in kind of a luge luge (l  zh), a type of small sled on which one or two persons, lying face up, slide feet first down snowy hillsides or down steeply banked, curving, iced chutes similar to those used in position; you're basically laying down in the car. So the visual sense of security is like if someone hooked up a rocket to your hammock hammock, suspended bed, usually of netting, canvas, or leather. The hammock and its name were introduced to Europeans by Christopher Columbus, who learned of them from Native Americans. . It's, like, wait a minute, I know the position's comfortable, but I'm going 230 miles an hour, feet first. ``Yeah, it's odd.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Sylvester Stallone and Christian de la Fuente De La Fuente is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning of the Source
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