Continuity mistake: During the second race the position of the bullet holes on the Tombstone constantly change. (01:13:10)
Continuity mistake: When 14k is killed by the Dreadnought, there is one shot of the tank barrel on the Dreadnought pointing straight and then lowering to face 14k's car. There is a shot then from the side of the Dreadnought speeding along with 14k's car on the trap, and the tank barrel is back facing straight ahead. The camera then cuts to a shot from in 14k's car and the barrel is now pointing down at 14k's car again. There is no time for the barrel to move that fast. (01:13:55)
Continuity mistake: When Joe and Frank escape, Hennessey looks at the counter on her screen and says that there are 70 million views, but the counter actually indicates over 96 million views.
Continuity mistake: Right before stage 2 of the race, Pachenko attempts to beat Ames with a pipe wrench. The mouth of the wrench goes from open to closed to open between consecutive shots.
Continuity mistake: The damage to the tombstone on the Mustang in the first race is constantly changing. In one shot it shows the tombstone almost totally annihilated. A few shots later in the same race there are hardly any marks on it. (00:02:45)
Continuity mistake: After Jason Statham takes the card off Joan Allen's desk showing his daughter with her foster father, he rips the part with her foster father out. Then he's sitting on the bleachers, looking at the picture. The tear is curved. However, when Jason Statham and Tyrese Gibson are escaping on the train, he looks at the picture again and the rip is straight.
Continuity mistake: Just before the dreadnought is destroyed Joe and Jensen's cars swap sides.
Continuity mistake: In the opening sequence, the dodge ram gets wrecked by the tombstone and has what looks like 2 working RPGs on the roof remaining. When he lines up the shot coming up to the finish line, there is a view of the roof showing a fully working rack of RPGs and no damage to the car. (00:03:35)
Answer: Because of the transmission. You have to change gears as the engine revels up higher RPMs to keep from blowing the engine.
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