--- title: Watch Driving Instructors Get Pranked by a Pro Racer description: Malaysian professional rally driver Leona Chin fools driving instructors into thinking she's a learner, before letting loose with her skills canonical: https://time.com/3761155/prank-rally-driver-leona-chin-malaysia-driving-instructors/ author: Kevin McSpadden article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-27T09:03:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:43:31.271Z og:title: Watch Driving Instructors Get Pranked By a Pro Racer og:description: Rally driver Leona Chin fools them into thinking she's a hopless learner og:url: https://time.com/3761155/prank-rally-driver-leona-chin-malaysia-driving-instructors/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Driving Instructors Get Pranked By a Pro Racer twitter:description: Rally driver Leona Chin fools them into thinking she's a hopless learner twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Driving Instructors Get Pranked By a Pro Racer > Sponsored content. 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Chin, dressed up in a nerdy-looking outfit, spends the first half of the video pretending she’s a hopeless learner. Then, just as instructors are getting frustrated, Chin reveals her true talents—and the reactions are priceless. “The 3 employees you saw at the end loved it and laughed it off, but the guy in the blue shirt was not too happy. That’s why we didn’t have footage of him smiling,” Izmir Mujab, CEO of the media company behind the video, told TIME. _Read next:_ [_Watch Mariah Carey Kill at Car Karaoke on_ ](http://time.com/3759655/mariah-carey-car-karaoke-james-corden/?iid=time%5Freadnext)[The Late Late Show](http://time.com/3759655/mariah-carey-car-karaoke-james-corden/?iid=time%5Freadnext) ### The Wildest Concept Cars of 2014  Anybody can take Chevy's Chaparral 2x Vision concept car for a spin — anybody with Gran Turismo 6 for the Sony PlayStation, anyway, where the car is a playable download. 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Too bad most of us can't conceptualize being able to afford a Maserati any time soon. Pierre Albouy—AFP/Getty Images  Mercedes-Benz's G-Code concept SUV comes covered in what the company calls "multi-voltaic silver" paint that's supposed to act like one big solar cell. It's all very green — err, "multi-voltaic silver." Kim Kyung-Hoon—Reuters/Corbis  It somehow doesn't feel like this car, designed by Russian artist Gosha Ostretsov, will fly off the shelves. But that's okay, because it's more art exhibit than commercial vehicle. Smityuk Yuri—ITAR-TASS Photo/Corbis [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ## Transcript [ NOISE ] What makes a video go viral? Here's our guess. Mishka, I love you. [ NOISE ] Number one, cute animals. [ LAUGH ] Charlie, Charlie bit me. [ MUSIC ] [ FOREIGN ] [ MUSIC ] [ UNKNOWN ], we're going to Disneyland. Oh, my god. Number two, cute kids. [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] Number 3, remixes. [ MUSIC ] Whoa, oh my God, oh my God. [ LAUGH ] Oh my God. Whoo. Number four, spontaneity. Look at all those Number five. Cute kids and cute animals. Put this all together and it will certainly end up on your Facebook feed. 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