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Will Ferrell, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Sacha Baron Cohen were at the Talladega Superspeedway last weekend, filming scenes for an upcoming comedy about NASCAR.

David Linck, a publicist with the film, explained the premise: "Will Ferrell plays a hot NASCAR driver and this French Formula One driver, played by Sacha Baron Cohen, comes to the U.S. to challenge him...

The scene, which will be toward the end of the film when it is finished, involved Ferrell and Cohen, whose cars had been wrecked, forcing them to race on foot to the finish line, Linck said.