Why Driven is the best worst racing film of all time

When Driven came out in 2001, it was met with frosty reception from the racing fanbase. But, why?
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[@SamZinski]

As a 7 year old boy, i LOVED this film. That said, that's about the sophistication level of this film.

[@bauerchristoph3701]

me too

[@tomatenmark2679]

I loved Bimbo more.

[@SaveThePurpleRhino]

Me too. When it came out my childish mind thirsty for a racing movie. Any racing movie. Since the last time there was such a thing it was Day of thunder and thunderbolt. Well, beggar can't be chooser.

[@Aaron_Turnbull]

SAME

[@hachiqju1350]

I would like your comment but that number is just beautiful

[@gt5man21]

Interesting fact about that film, it was meant to be an F1 film not a CART film. In 1997, Sylvester Stallone signed a deal with Bernie Ecclestone to produce a Formula 1 movie. However it fell through because the teams didn't want to share information about their cars, so it ended up being a CART film that was a bag of shite filled with crap CGI, unrealistic crashes, wrong locations and too many cliches. Definitely a scar in Sylvester's career.

[@muhammadsyarifhidayatullah2931]

Yea it should be movie about Ayrton Senna rivalry with Prost

[@KayoMichiels]

@@muhammadsyarifhidayatullah2931 Actually... Senna wanted Silvestor Stallone to play him... Stallone only agreed to do this film.. because he thought it was about Senna... boy was he wrong!

[@sandalogaming6766]

san andreas DYOM Ladies and gents, the script for Rush 2.

[@_sgtbash]

Thunderbolt with jackie chan

[@filmandfirearms]

To be fair, this movie came out in 2001. Realistic CGI simply wasn't a thing back then

[@thomaslauffenberger5795]

To append to the previous post: "Speed Racer" was more realistic...

[@michaelwhitmire9015]

And thats why it didn't do well in the box office.Also too much mach6 and not enough mach5,the mach6 is a american idea and doesn't exist in true speed racer lore.

[@theomorsdorf5897]

0:33 it is funny that you compare him with hulkenberg, because the actor is german too

[@jordanhill700]

@Zidni Imani Hot Wheels came after Speed Racer.

[@TrainHunter94YT]

Crazy frog is more realistic.. NOT AT ALL

[@alaeriia01]

Speed Racer was also really fucking good.

[@4nonym0u5]

Ah yes, s🅱️innalla: the movie

[@slipperydjdan7950]

Where's Se🅱️estian

[@ruinerwingla401]

@@slipperydjdan7950 he was racing in 🅱️ahrain

[@slipperydjdan7950]

@@ruinerwingla401 wheres se🅱️astian in the movie

[@alby46intro]

sbinnala*

[@ballerbeast8283]

Ah yes

[@crazymannxl]

Don't worry your depiction of Chicago was completely fair

[@thejoshrevell]

I love Chicago. I'm just a compulsive shit-talker. 🤣

[@evanouk1174]

“If there’s one thing racing movies need, it’s a love triangle, right?” I mean, Grand Prix, Winning and Ricky Bobby, so…

[@ZeligJM]

This movie is just like rush, apart from every single detail

[@DLTX1007]

i read that in clarkson's voice for sure

[@MScotty90]

Hey, give them some credit! The cars have four tires and wings, they got that part right.

[@polinaosipova1087]

@@MScotty90 Not after three corners lol

[@davesoverthere]

5:43 In American open wheel racing, as long as it's not the Indianapolis 500 or a track with limited pit lane spots, drivers who didn't set a qualifying time can still start the race, but from the back.

[@TotoDG]

“The highest driver since Franck Montagny.” Randy Lanier: Observe.

[@thejoshrevell]

Ah yes, Lanier. Part of IMSA - International Marijuana Smugglers Association

[@TotoDG]

Oh, you actually know who Randy Lanier is? Colour me surprised.

[@NaNi-rx2cc]

Shane Hmiel was way better than those two

[@TotoDG]

Given that he only has one win in his top-level NASCAR career, whereas Montagny has several American Le Mans Series wins, and Randy has an IMSA GT championship and the Indy 500 Rookie of the Year, I will respectfully disagree with you.

[@NaNi-rx2cc]

@@TotoDG lmao i was saying on the drugs thing

[@jears]

In germany we have a word for this: "Til Schweiger Movie"

[@predikator8614]

Hahahaha *unverständliches genuschel*

[@hachiqju1350]

sooo heisst der hab mir scho gedacht den kennt man iwo her

[@maxmustermann6612]

Leider JA!

[@yaxonduck8859]

“Causing more damage to Chicago than the bears” as a bears fan I’m dead

[@b0zz1380y]

With the cars ending up on bricks

[@muhammadfarhan581]

Yaxon Duck Y'all drafted trubinsky when mahomes was still available 💀

[@Mario426]

The film was meant to be about F1 rather than CART. Stallone was a guest at several Grand Prix in 1998 (If I remember the date correctly), and Bernie and the teams were ready to co-operate. That was until they saw the script and saw how cliche ridden it was, then said "No Way are you doing that with F1", and ran as fast as possible in the opposite direction. Hence Brandenburg was meant to be Schumacher and Burt Reynolds was loosely based on Sir Frank Williams, wheelchair and all. I've still got it on DVD and watch it as a comedy these days. Must do it again to see who else was meant to be who F1 wise.

[@kartracer127]

You are right. You even can See that. When jimmi check the laptop you can See Nürburgring. A typical F1 track.

[@DeadlyLazer]

Only good decision Bernie's ever made

[@henrywalter4750]

Damon Hill offered him much advice and even gave him a spare helmet. I think Brandenburg was loosely based on Schunacher and Tanto on Hill

[@Clangokkuner]

@@DeadlyLazer lmao what, Bernie is the person that brought F1 to the world stage

[@senojelyk]

Very interesting. I definitely got more of an F1 vibe than a CART vibe watching this (racing in the wet, international venues), as if F1 were U.S.-centric instead of Euro-centric.

[@noahbirdrevolution]

Bro, fact: Sylvester picking up coins drifting. Then someone saying you missed one and he waits for them to walk away and he spins the tire to show he did indeed get the last coin. Chills bro.

[@MegaJK97]

0:30 I see Til Schweiger, I instantly get an idea on how "good" this movie is.

[@ScepticGinger89]

He was okay in inglourious basterds, mainly because he didn't have to many lines of dialogue in that movie. But when he talked, he was as cringy as ever.

[@finn7750]

@@ScepticGinger89 he did a good german film a few years ago but yeah, i agree

[@makb_the_striker]

Come on, if you ain't crying at the final scene of Knocking on the heavens door, you have no heart.

[@BLyonsDesign]

2:11 Nascar legend Cale Yarborough used to make engine noises when running races

[@Djarra]

A few drivers from the late 80s early 90s period, including Prost and Schumacher, would do it as a way of keeping calm. IIRC Niki Lauda was the first having learned it as a way to deal with the pain he was always in following his crash. It fell out of use when radios became more useful. Back then a driver would only use the radio if he had an issue.

[@mistertheking]

made CBS all sorts of messed up lmao

[@ThanasisPolitis]

Cale Yarborough making engine noises!!! --- kzbin.info/www/bejne/npnUY3ivr7yMl6s

[@glentight]

It was Cale Yarborough, who whilst driving his Nascar, in the '83 daytona 500, was making car noises, that could be heard during the in car camera footage. A small homage to Cale, I believe.

[@bluegoose03]

John Glenn hummed as he was reentering the atmosphere with a damaged heat shield in "The Right Stuff." I think they ripped it off from that movie. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWKclnZ9n5yLadU

[@EnterSkitarii]

0:36 tell me that isn't Steven Tyler and Sebastian Vettel's lovechild😂😂

[@thejoshrevell]

Now that you mention it...

[@wildwheels395]

Saw this only once as a kid. Didn't see it from the beginning, but boy did it stick with me for all the wrong reasons...

[@christiankallio8586]

3:57 The reason those fans have the Finland flag painted on themselves is because the director (Renny Harlin) is from Finland and in many if not all his movies he has something Finnish in them

[@dalewasson5919]

bwoah

[@KayoMichiels]

If you're talking about the worst racing movie.... why not the best? "Grand Prix"! Real cars, real locations, and real racing! (seriously, they even used modified Ford GT40's as camera cars!)

[@haryosoo]

Frankenheimer was granted access to Maranello by Enzo himself after showing some WIP movie scenes to Enzo, though Enzo once denied him at first (courtesy of F1 Racing Mag back in 2006).

[@tknagano3498]

Le Mans Steve McQueen in 4DX

[@trevorsmith6445]

How do you only have 900 subs?? wtf your channel deserves way more

[@Romax-pg2is]

Trevor Smith one week later: 5.5k subs. Well that was quick

[@eaglestrikeman194]

@@Romax-pg2is coming back 1 month later with 45k subs

[@LardarseProductions]

231k now… you madman

[@timhefty504]

404k now

[@TheNewChevyRoll48]

The only way I enjoy Driven is by thinking it's CART Fury the movie because of how stupidly unrealistic the crashes are. The sad thing is this came out in 2001 and the CGI looks like PS3 graphics.

[@tedioussugar384]

I’ve seen 64-bit arcade machines with better graphical cgi than that.

[@charlyrossier3415]

Sorry but I play on a PS3 and I love it. The graphics are excellent.

[@TyLovesWeedCat]

Literally 😭

[@isthatrubble]

PlayStation 3 came out in 2006 though....... so isn't that fine then?

[@betaich]

The PS2 came 5 years asfter that movie, so if it looked like that it would be state of the art

[@SJSpode114]

The race cars at the Chicago reception event would also be empty of fuel for safety reasons. And with the crash into the German lake, the cars ran on methanol which a) burns with invisible flame and b) is extinguished by water. So the big Hollywood gasoline explosion would be impossible

[@girabyt3]

Don't forget the grass would desintegrate the car completely instead of bouncing it to the lake 🤣... An explosion like that would even desintegrate the whole car (engine and capsule included) ... Yet it somehow retained its chassis straight 🤣🤣

[@neonicplays]

I love how that guy driving backwards wasnt immediately black flagged

[@AnthonyMcqueen1987]

Probably would have been suspended the rest of the season as well.

[@laletemanolete]

The car going over the wall during the last race carnage is not Fernandez (Patrick Racing - Tecate), is Michel Jourdain (Herdez Competition)

[@thejoshrevell]

Ah, you got it! Thanks for the correction. 😊

[@laletemanolete]

@@thejoshrevell :D

[@bob_._.]

As a die-hard CART fan (FTG forever!), I have to say that it's one of the funniest films ever made! It is so ridiculously unrealistic and just... stoopid... that I couldn't help laughing the whole way through.

[@keyboardwarrior327]

I remember watching a bit of this movie on TV when I was a kid. I actually lived in the Chicago suburbs at the time, and I was very surprised when the part where he picks up the coins with his tires was exceeded in stupidity when they started street racing on Lower Wacker Drive. Such a bizarre and strange thing to put in a movie. I was 9 years old at the time.

[@TheEvapiiShow]

"Track on the German Autobahn with sick ass banking" Sound like a weird clone OF the AVUS

[@berkan5578]

It Probably was AVUS

[@patrickracer43]

I believe this movie came out around the same time as the Firestone Firehawk 600 at Texas Motor Speedway, which was cancelled because CART arrogantly refused to dial back the speeds to race safely even though track officials and the drivers said "hey, slow the cars down to at least IRL levels or someone's gonna get hurt". Also, maybe American Open-Wheel racing doesn't lend itself well to the big screen (here's looking at you Turbo)

[@TotoDG]

The exact same _weekend._

[@IrishRugbyAccountant]

Yup was in the theater and recording this race.... Double disappointment/the death of CART in one weekend

[@betaich]

Driven was initially plant to be a F1 movie, thats why the German course is in.

[@AutoRockinRacing94]

Literally never noticed the Ganassi helmet on Bly until now and I've seen this shit show for years.

[@growlo6245]

Movie makes the last herbie the love bug movie a cinematic masterpiece

[@Bryan2799]

I was at the shooting in both Detroit and Toronto. The final scene of the movie was in Detroit, and was strangely not dramatic. The actually race was Helio's first win AND first fence climb! Then after the race he's on TV, on his cell phone with his mom, screaming and crying that he won his first race. So... Real life for the win?

[@alexgutknecht4632]

Bryan Carey Most of the shots from the last “Belle Isle” Race were actually at the “Circuit Gilles Villeneuve” or Montreal F1 Track in Montreal, Canada. You can clearly tell because if the long back straight and the water next to the track. I just don’t like how in the movie they did stuff like that and tried to pass it off as someplace else. Like I think if you’re going to film a racing movie, do it right.

[@Bryan2799]

@@alexgutknecht4632 yup... And in CGI and some in clearly not Indycars (CART)... It was a weird, weird movie that helped sink CART. Just so much wrong

[@alexgutknecht4632]

Bryan Carey Yeah, it’s really too bad. Who knows, if they had actually made a really good and accurate movie, it might have saved the series from going under.

[@JerseyDevilBM]

As far as I can remember, "Grand Prix" was the first racing film that made an impression on me; since I've been a fan of F1 since the mid-Sixties, in 1966 I read regularly in the racing mags and weeklies about Phil Hill starting GPs in a camera car to get footage for the movie (which resulted in the amazing images of all the wrecked cars from the rain-soaked first lap of the 1966 Belgian Grand Prix). But another movie I saw much later that is probably too old for people to remember is Kirk Douglas' "The Racers", a 1955 film set in Europe at the time. it suffers from the same Hollywood cliches that "Driven" does (the obligatory romance is front-and-center, the accidents are frequent and ridiculous), but offers some great on-location film of then-current F1 and sports racing cars and tracks. One of the movie's conceits is that Douglas' character is so obsessed with winning that he is Pastor Maldonado-level accident prone - which is those days would probably have gotten him killed. One funny bit about his reputation shows a cartoon from a racing paper in which his character is racing away from an accident he apparently caused (judging by the other driver's angry face), and Douglas is portrayed with a quizzical look on his face with the caption "I don't know why he's angry - I said 'Excuse me!'".

[@gcm747]

Awesome review mate! I watched this back in the day and just remember having a rather dull expression on my face and constantly muttering ‘WTF’ to myself. Unsurprisingly, it didn’t make its way into my (then) collection of DVD’s.

[@ShadowTVNetwork]

5:53 The first time I saw this scene, I had PTSD, due to the fact this was very similar to the start of Final Destination 4.

[@superninja252]

1:27 i discover it recenly but in oval they (CART and IRL) really used the wheels that way, for some reason

[@Bassic92]

True, except that he should be turning right instead of left. The oval setups of the cars are (for obvious reasons) optimized for turning left, which means that they turn left even when the steering wheel is straight. You actually have to turn right to make the car go straight.

[@ggm2002]

Yep. It's called "steering offset"

[@RhodokTribesman]

True, but it is the other way around. To go straight, the wheel would be turned to the right and when going around the corner, the wheel is straightened out to turn left.

[@WideAwakeViking]

"Driven"...this video is not intended for persons 12 years or older.

[@snonsig2688]

Your description of beau brandenburg definetly holds up. The actor is Til Schweiger, pretty much the biggest actor in germany and a huge meme overall. Basically he only starrs in movies for 70 year olds and everone else just laughs at him for being, well, shit

[@markuss4133]

But only for the reason that he is shit

[@SubmissionGrappler83]

Cale Yarborough used to hum engine noises while racing, lol.

[@FormulaFox]

I would like to note a couple of things about the Japan crash, AKA the most realistic crash in the film. The cars at the time were not only plenty able to keep the drivers' legs intact in such incidents, it is actually a DIRECT COPY of Bobby Rahal's 1998 crash at the same track. So that one gets a pass. (also, it bothers me to this day how so few people will do their research and rant about how racing in the rain is bullshit - thank you for being knowledgeable enough to not be one of them)

[@OsellaSquadraCorse]

The bizarre Roberto Moreno crash was criticized for looking totally unrealistic too; yet within a very short space of time AFTER the film came out we had Gonzalo Rodriguez's tragic fence-flip, we had Mario Dominguez' flat-out carnage at Surfer's Paradise, and Patrick Carpentier's track/gravel/random spin/flip over the fence at Laguna Seca. One of those weird cases where at least half of the 'OTT, unrealistic' crashes in the film actually ended up happening in Champ Car after it came out!

[@HATECELL]

I can't really remember a racing movie from my childhood, but I was a huge fan of the animated Michel Vaillant series. He and the Michael (TM) were my heroes

[@terrymcginnes5246]

huh) this film is also considered shit, among the "critics". and i like him

[@nicholassuryathyo1297]

My racing car movie from my childhood??? Pixar’s Cars

[@14stockfan]

The racing in that movie was more accurate than this one, and that is saying something.

[@mattbrent873]

I think one of my favourite memories of this film was how 2 years before it was made Stallone publicly announced at one of the formula 1 press conference's that this film was going to be set in the world of Formula 1 and that the main bad guy role was going to be based off of Michael Schumacher. Then when it was shown to the world media it had somehow magickly transformed into Cart from F1.

[@donniestellmaker9010]

"Crusher, it's time to call Joe Tanto."

[@DuddleBug5]

Remember that the 2001 CART race at Texas Motor Speedway was cancelled the same week/weekend the movie came out. So yeah.

[@theorupturetan4670]

As a Detroiter, I can confirm that the Belle aisle Grand Prix course does indeed switch between being an oval and road course at completely random intervals. The film was 100% accurate.

[@Parker-time]

2:06 Cale Yarbrough was caught on camera during one of the races making race car noises. It was one of the first races that Nascar allowed camera in the cars, and the broadcast production crew was trying to find the source of "interference" turns out Yarbrough just made sounds when driving.

[@DuisburgRecordsOffiziell]

0:30 Oh look! It's Til Schweiger! The best German Actor ever!

[@pattlerick]

Endlich ist es noch jemandem aufgefallen

[@julianzammar5320]

The problem was the little realism of the races and the little participation or place that was given to the real drivers as well as to the teams in the category.

[@jojojes1352]

This review is epic! 😁 We were on the CART scene during the making of Driven, likely in a crowd scene somewhere, lol! When it was released we went to watch it and were asked by the cinema usher to stop laughing and making comments 😆 but c'mon the 'real' drivers we knew would crash out spectacularly in a ball of fire in one shot, but their car totally rebuilt and back racing in the next! Driven is hysterical, but also a guilty pleasure, if you like,... though moreso for the glimpses & memories of the real CART World than anything else. The good old days.

[@mlitt27]

Walked out of that movie when it was in the theaters during the crash sequence with the lake and all. It was an insult to CART and open wheel racing in general.

[@roddy6924]

Now you've got me wanting to watch it again. It's been a few years, guess I'll have to find the DVD now. I'd forgotten about this one lol cheers!

[@kevinkim9620]

i have fond memories of this movie. when i watched this as a teenager, i actually quite enjoyed it...a lot. even had the dvd haha

[@alexgutknecht4632]

All of the banking/oval scenes were filmed at a test track near where I live in Blainville, Quebec near Montreal, Canada, and it is just a large banked private test track oval. For me I don’t like how the film kept switching the tracks and stuff. For example if that last race was supposed to be Belle Isle, it is CLEARLY the Montreal F1 Track.

[@ADadasadasdadw]

Talking about the last race of the movie, I'm highly disappointed that there was no mention about Stallone's front axle breaking completely, sending his car in like 20+ 360 spins, while still going perfectly straight in the middle of the road, WHILE the camera switches back and forth to Bly's POV, showing him go through a whole bunch of left and right corners that Stallone never could've go through while spinning like a dreidle. The icing on the cake is Stallone's car finally stopping to spin and move immediately after he crossed the finish line in 3rd.

[@bobbyjackson4452]

I had such high hopes for this film when I heard about it. That was dashed on jagged rocks upon first viewing. This was the one time I totally wish I could get the time back that it took to watch.

[@nickbryan6861]

Cale Yarborough would make engine noises while he was driving

[@LordandGodofYouTube]

Stalone was in negotiations with Bernie Ecclestone to make the film about F1, I remember him visiting several races in preparation, he was consulting with Jaques Villeneuve, then he showed Bernie the script and Bernie said noooooooooo.

[@DanAlexC]

Kudos to Sly to try and make a movie no one else has the balls to get into. NASCAR is easy, anyone can make a movie about. But F1....The dude showed originality and ambition, tapping in areas others avoided. He did his best with what he had, and for 1997, it's a pretty decent motorsport movie, kinda the only one from this type. CGI is better than other multi billion crap flicks, that are made even to this day. The man made a movie purely out of passion. There was no marketing, no back handing, just Sly Stallone with a script looking to make a movie about racing, simply because he loves it. This movie was not made in a board room or as a command by some idiotic producer on a bad acid trip. It was made dreaming. Sure, is no oscar material, but the man did his best with what he had, and for that, he deserves the outmost respect. There are dozens of movies about space ships, robots, and what not, and until RUSH came along, this was the only thing we had. Sly was just 20 years ahead of everybody. And if you disregard the image and just try and visualize the script, that movie had blockbuster potential.

[@rieskame]

I loved how A) you can see a methanol fire, and B) water had no effect on said fire

[@budyeddi5814]

Forgot about this clusterfuck 😂

[@7overland514]

I’d forgotten this film which is what I try to do to any Hollywood racing film. Thank you for reminding me! Sarcasm gave you a thumbs up anyway but not sure why

[@Locadel2003]

Man the early 2000s were really terrible years for Stallone Get Carter, this shit, d-tox..... I am happy later he did Rocky balboa

[@pwt7238]

Cale Yarborough would hum while driving. CBS hired an Australian team who were light years ahead on in car camera technology and production. They could not understand why there was a humming noise from his car and none from the Australian coverage. One of the Aussies got in the car to listen as Cale drove and herad him humming to match the engine tone.

[@TheBoostedDoge]

7:44 had me laughing like a mad man

[@Metalplayer17]

The funny thing about the final race in Detroit it's held in Montreal, Fontana, Autobahn...OMG

[@Dalesi]

around 6:20 isn't that the montreal track, Gilles villeneuve ?

[@TheMixCurator]

The New York scene/start of the Gumball Rally (1976) quite literally craps all over this. Great little film if you've not watched it.

[@sage_012]

It’s funny that for 20 years people went on about how unrealistic this film was, and then the 2021 F1 season happened. Young rookie eventually beating their experienced multi title winning rival, after some heroic work from their teammate.

[@thelonesculler]

Senna and Rush. All you need

[@tonielinski5897]

u right, is a shit, but still been one of my favourite movies xD

[@jackmonaghan8477]

Apparently Stallone's original draft of the screenplay was 200 pages long. As someone with a screenwriting degree, one page equals one minute in the running time. Plus it didn't help that Stallone turned to Franchise Pictures (the dudes who previously produced Stallone's ill-advised remake of 'Get Carter' and John Travolta's Scientology vanity project 'Battlefield Earth') to get the film made.

[@krispyminty1514]

The humming thing was kinda done. If you go back and watch old I’m at racing footage of Cale Yarborough. You can hear him marking engine noises.

[@marksherrill3686]

I can think of three better racing films: talladega nights, cars, and cars 3

[@pedroloboantunes4017]

Also, Le Mans 66 and Rush

[@beastmode3172]

And Ford V Ferrari

[@eaglestrikeman194]

what about senna?

[@samuele64246]

I've found your videos on my recommendation...I need to thanks yt for this..you gained a sub ✌🏼

[@jakethetacoguy5536]

Cale Yarbrough use to hum when he raced his car. Theres a video of him with the in car camera in the 60s at Darlington

[@chrisgracey8016]

Just found your channel and your videos are great.

[@thejoshrevell]

Thanks heaps! :)

[@jeffreyrainey1015]

This video made me chuckle. I am actually totally blind, knew nothing about racing aside from Nascar, and did enjoy this movie growing up. One thing I will give them is the sound; both the soundtrack itself but also the sound of the races, and Paul Page's exilarating commentary throughout. Keep up the good work. TO answer your question, other racing movies i enjoyed growing up (and still do to this day) include the first two Fast and Furious movies, and the 2000 remake of Gone In 60 seconds. Why? Again; great sounds of the cars and music, acting, story lines and pacing, all inaccuracies aside. For me, the later Fast and Furious films put emphasis on different aspects, even if they have good cars due to the financial credibility of the franchise. I've still yet to watch Ford Vs. Ferrari.

[@breilly2750]

As a huge open wheel racing fan for several decades I can honestly say that I have not yet completed watching this movie. I still have no idea how it ends...it didn't come soon enough.

[@markuss4133]

I dont remember, but I guess both of us won't watch to find out ;)

[@AlonsoMB]

Also they made a GameCube videogame of the movie. I have it and is really unrealistic, you can reach 430km/h in a semi oval track

[@rogerhinman5427]

The producers/writers/director of this movie apparently were watching too many NASCAR movies.

[@jeremeymcdude]

wow I remember fondly the 2000 CART race they held on AVUS. they also apparently got Michael Bay to direct the movie.

[@basteagui]

the humming thing totally works when you're trying to get in the zone and juggling many things at once close to your limit. it really works, i have done it in videogames where i killed pretty much everyone else on the server going ultra instinct many years ago. that's the only thing this film can contribute to humanity. the rest of the movie i´d rather forget. very uncharacteristic for sly to have such a bad script

[@olesteinigeweg3699]

Now the german track is actually a racetrack, its called the avus and it sits abandoned since like the 90s

[@bundesautobahn7]

Here's another negative about the movie: The guy who plays Beau Brandenburg (Til Schweiger) is not exactly a popular person in his native Germany. Many of us hate Til Schweiger. The only role that he excelled in was as Bertie in the German movie "Manta, Manta", one of two movies that were a tribute to the most infamous of all Opel coupé cars, the Opel Manta.

[@chadragsdale3404]

I know it’s not humming but Cale Yarborough made engine noises during I thing the 1983 Daytona 500 if I remember correctly

[@garryrptr]

0:56* Legit i thought he was Jacques Villenuve

[@929roger]

I loved this movie as a child. Found it on TV Cable on October and reached cringe levels I didn't ever knew existed. And the Detroit race it's the perfect example of how messed up the movie is. How they use AT LEAST 4 tracks (Belle Isle, Toronto, Montreal and a Super Speedway, maybe Fontana) and cars flying everywhere like in a rFactor open lobby. Still fun, but as motorsport nerd I am, I can't watch this movie seriously ever again

[@bingbong4468]

The entire movie is just the opening scene from Cars 1 where KACHOW navigates through a HUGE, and impossible, crash.

[@dylandacunha5725]

lol i have seen this movie, but i jusr realised the part where they steel the proto type cars. The scene was shot in my home town of the city hall in Mississauga, Ontario Canada. Nothing has changed infront of city hall

[@patrickracer43]

Tanto just freaking *SENDS IT* at 7:38

[@theplanetmercury7487]

"more damage to chicago that the Bears" -gets cody parkey replay -oh god

[@johngancarcik5682]

The bears have always been damaging lol

[@DominicEleven]

Not a 100% sure but Chicagoland Speedway was opened around this time. The grooves and the banking look similar to it too.

[@theironcross2933]

2:14 yes, Cale Yarborough hummed to himself with the sound of the engine, like gear shifts and everything

[@1draigon]

There are soo many popular actors though?! I mean... Sylvester Stallone? The weird driver you described at the start is a popular German actor as well...

[@Mr.Engine993]

6:50 the answer is, they're bad at making impressive racing scenes with genuine battles so they fill the movie with crashes to roughly "make up" for it

[@alexgiangreco3754]

Cale Yarborough hummed engine noises in the car. Real shit. Its funny as it sounds.

[@bonvct]

Awesome vid. This was a classic if you were a race fan in the 2000s

[@johnphillips3475]

As another comment says, it was originally written as an F1 movie, and adapted to CART - and the clues are there: The arrogant German villain in the red car? The team boss being confined to a wheelchair? It's screamingly obvious who these characters are meant to be. It baffles me why CART allowed the film to proceed. Why would they want to see their cars depicted smashing through safety barriers, busting into flames, or wheels landing in the grandstands? What possible benefit did they think that would have???

[@eggselent9814]

CART wasn't in the best place financially by that time (going bankrupt in 2003), so prolly attention? i guess?

[@V8HiluxZX6R]

It was made doubly worse for F1 fans as we had to have a season of Sly being on the grids with all this hype over an apparent F1 movie he was working on... then all we got was this tripe. Thank god for Rush.

[@polinaosipova1087]

It's like a movie made by someone who has only watched about 15 mins of any motorsport race - and that race being the 1998 Belgian GP.