for him, it was the ride of a lifetime. he s having a great time. oh, take it easy now. let me enjoy the last wee bit. finally, darius puts his mom out of her misery. that s when i realized i was going to live. that was something else. oh, my god. and then i asked if we passed everybody. did you beat everybody? yeah. all right. once she realizes she survived, it doesn t take long for rosemary s bravado to come out. i wanted to be the victorious mom. they better get their ass out of the way. we re the winners. she was yelling out the window, we re the winners, we re the winners. we beat everybody. but rosemary s victory dance is cut short in a hurry when darius lets his mom in on his little secret. wait until you see the
[ screams ] darius is a bona fide risk taker. normally don t have much fear when it comes to doing stuff. pretty much everything i like to do can kill you. he s a motorcycle stuntman and has performed all over the world. i like cars, motorcycles. they all, you know, can cause your demise if things don t go right. this is darius mom, rosemary. i like to drive fast, but only if i m driving. rosemary has long accepted her son s thirst for danger, even if she doesn t quite understand it. if that s what he wants to do, you pray a lot, buy him a lot of padding, and hope for the best. summer 2011. darius decides to play a joke on mom. i m definitely a little bit of a prankster. as a hobby, darius likes to race his corvette around a track in monterey, california. you just go there and pay your money and sign up.
are you serious? no. let him go, let him go. of course he couldn t let him go. he had to pass him. don t pass on the corner. i was definitely smiling behind the helmet. i couldn t see her face, so i didn t really know what was going on. oh, this is the worst one. [ screams ] i m like, mom, open your eyes. watch what we re doing here. if i could have saw her face while i was driving, i probably wouldn t have been able to drive. i wouldn t have been cracking up. oh, no, no, no. you think that you re going to crash. you think that you re never going to get out of there alive. don t take this corner, darius. please, please, please. it was hard to concentrate on driving while she was, you know, screaming at me. i just looked ahead and kept going.
You can go around the track pretty much all day. you get to go out there and go as fast as you want. how fast? the fastest you can get going there is probably 135, 140 miles an hour. one afternoon, he invites his mom along for a ride. as soon as i get in, i regretted it. i don t know what i was thinking. i really don t know what i was thinking. darius hasn t told his mom about the cameras he s rigged on the dashboard. i got a couple go-pro cameras, and i mounted one on the windshield facing back and mounted one in the back of the car facing forward. even before the car reaches the track, rosemary starts to squirm. oh, my goodness. oh. just calm down. instantly, she s already telling me to slow down. you know, before we even get on the track. mom, come on, we haven t gone on the track yet. thank god i didn t eat lunch first. [ screams ] as soon as i pushed the accelerator down, she was already squawking. [ screams ] i just kept telling him to slow down. not so fa
Cameras. camera right there. what? right here. you didn t put the camera on me. i got the whole thing. that was mean. i enjoyed every minute. i was scared i can tell you. later, darius and his mother watch the video. she s telling me don t show this to anybody. you better not show this to anybody. but does darius listen to his mother? what do you think? i thought, oh, man, i got to put this on the internet right away. now rosemary can t get enough of it. it s hysterical. every time i want a good laugh, i go turn on the computer and watch it. i didn t know i could make those many faces. that said, rosemary doesn t think racing is for everyone s mom. if you had a couple of margaritas before you went, you may be more relaxed, but no. i would not recommend that. don t try this at home. don t. [ screams ] well, what else can i say? i think rosemary says it all.