What Happens When You Put Race Car Drivers In Fighter Jets?

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Australia's V8 Supercars drivers are used to close-contact, high-g-force machines, but can they handle riding in the back of two F/A 18s? Two RAAF pilots decided to test them with some 7g flight.

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The Holden and Ford drivers take the g's about as well as anyone could, though it sounds like their gall bladders are about to pass through their nostrils for most of the video. In the end, one pilot asks his racing driver about the experience.

"Like driving a car?"

"No..."

(Hat tip to ttyymmnn!)