{"id":129428,"date":"2024-10-06T06:01:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T06:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/06\/keanu-reeves-makes-professional-race-debut\/"},"modified":"2024-10-06T06:01:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T06:01:35","slug":"keanu-reeves-makes-professional-race-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/06\/keanu-reeves-makes-professional-race-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Keanu Reeves makes professional race debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-10-06\" datetime=\"1728194495\" pubdate=\"\">6 October 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/keanu-reeves\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,keanu-reeves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keanu Reeves<\/a> made his professional car racing debut on Saturday (05.10.24).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Keanu Reeves has made his professional racing debut<\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old actor is involved in the Toyota GR Cup in Indianapolis this weekend and his first race saw him finish a respectable 25th out of 35 cars.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, the &#8216;Speed&#8217; star spun into the grass without a collision on the exit of turn nine, but was able to re-enter and continue driving after signalling he wasn&#8217;t injured, and he successfully avoided a first lap crush at turn 14.<\/p>\n<p>Keanu made it as high as 21st at one point in the race.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Matrix&#8217; actor &#8211; who qualified 31st out of the 35 cars &#8211; has a second race on Sunday (06.10.24).<\/p>\n<p>\nHe is driving the No 92 BRZRKR car, which is decorated to promote his new graphic novel &#8216;The Book of Elsewhere&#8217; and he is teammates with Cody Jones from Dude Perfect.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile this is Keanu&#8217;s first professional race, he has previously taken part in the celebrity race in the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach and even won the event in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Keanu recently told how his knee &#8220;cracked like a potato chip&#8221; in a freak accident when he tripped on a piece of carpet on the set of &#8216;Good Fortune&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring an appearance on &#8216;The Late Show with Stephen Colbert&#8217;, Keanu explained: &#8220;I was filming a scene with Aziz Ansari and Seth Rogen and we were in a cold plunge.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I was loving it, I was standing there, and we finish the scene, and you know when you\u2019re cold and you\u2019re [shuffling]? I had a bathing suit and a towel, and you put it over your head and you do the cold shuffle?<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I\u2019m doing the cold shuffle in this room that had protective carpets down and then, just here, there was like a little pocket, and my foot got caught in the pocket in the shuffle, and then I went [down], but [my knee] didn\u2019t follow. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And then, in slow motion, I went falling. My arms came out, but then my knee failed because it\u2019s got some stuff, and I spiked it. And my patella &#8211; kneecap &#8211; cracked like a potato chip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nInitially, Keanu was convinced he was fine following the fall but he later realised something was wrong because his knee was &#8220;blowing up&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>\nHe quipped: &#8220;Comedy\u2019s hard, man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nKeanu continued working on the film, but his co-star and director Aziz Ansari later revealed they had to push back a scene involving salsa dancing until the actor&#8217;s injury had healed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/keanu-reeves-makes-professional-race-debut-1407425.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 October 2024 Keanu Reeves made his professional car racing debut on Saturday (05.10.24). Keanu Reeves has made his professional racing debut The 60-year-old actor is involved in the Toyota GR Cup in Indianapolis this weekend and his first race saw him finish a respectable 25th out of 35 cars. At one point, the &#8216;Speed&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1158],"class_list":{"0":"post-129428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-keanu-reeves"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}