Saif Ali Khan not passionate about car racing

April 25, 2007 |13:31 | Saif Ali Khan By : Team X

He might be playing a race car driver in this Friday’s release Tara Rum Pum . But in real life, actor Saif Ali Khan is not passionate about car racing.Though Saif enjoyed shooting the movie, the bit he found the toughest was when he actually had to sit in a race car and drive at high speeds.And once the G forces begin acting on the vehicle, that is when the driver’s mettle is tested.For the scenes that required driving at really very high speeds, a duplicate was used for security reasons. But for one scene Saif himself was at the wheels, driving the car at 150 miles per hour. The experience, Saif says, was very physically demanding.Firstly, the car was very hot from inside (as it had no doors or windows). Secondly, when the G forces began to act, Saif’s head hit the panel and “all the instruments were constantly crooked.” Saif says he found himself gasping for air.Regardless of this experience, Saif admits that he is not at all passionate about driving race cars. In fact, he says he is not even interested in watching car races.The sports that he loves are Cricket (his father Mansoor Ali Khan is an ex-cricketer) and squash.However, Saif’s son Ebrahim is very fond of car races.‘Tara Rum Pum’ will hit the theatres on April 27. The film has Saif pairing with Rani Mukherjee for the second time after Hum Tum .