Joe Tamborello

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Indianapolis makes an appearance in a new Netflix show starring the former "Mythbusters" build team.

In the sixth episode of Netflix's "White Rabbit Project," host Kari Byron tests the G-forces an IndyCar driver faces at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

IndyCar driver and "Dancing with the Stars" finalist James Hinchcliffe, along with IndyCar engineer William Anderson, helps Byron rate IndyCar racing on three criteria: number of G-forces, duration of G-force and extreme factor.

"All the butterflies shot up in my throat," Byron said as she takes a lap in a modified, two-seat IndyCar with Hinchcliffe at the wheel.

"Do that 196 more times and that's the Indy 500," Hinchcliffe says.

Hinchcliffe recorded faster solo laps in his Arrow Honda, registering 5½ Gs for five seconds.

In the episode, an IndyCar ride faces off against five other G-force subjects — jousting, bobsledding, a roller coaster, a fighter jet and human G-force guinea pig John Stapp — before they are ranked using the three criteria above.

The nine other Season 1 episodes of "White Rabbit Project follow the same basic structure with subjects ranging from jailbreak methods to hated technologies.

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