Only problem was, to both stunt coordinator Gary Powell and stunt driver Adam Kirley’s collaborative chagrin, the DBS refused to flip over, even with the ramp raked to an impressively precarious 2ft and while Kirley was travelling at nearly 130kph. Filmed by second unit director Alexander Witt (main unit director Martin Campbell was busy filming the airport scenes in Miami), original plans were to have the Aston Martin be flipped onto its side using a ramp off-camera. To mainstream fans though, the Millbrook Proving Grounds will mostly be remembered for that barrel roll sequence in 2006’s Casino Royale, in which the world’s most famous intelligence officer (played by Daniel Craig in his first time donning the Walther PPK), after a high-speed pursuit through the, ahem, ‘Montenegro countryside’, ends up destroying his brand new Aston Martin DBS after taking evasive action.
