Nick en een paar vrienden gaan voor het weekend naar een circuit om een autorace te bekijken. Er gebeurt echter een verschrikkelijk ongeluk. Een auto rijdt met hoge snelheid het publiek in. Er vallen veel doden en het lijkt er zelfs op dat het stadion in elkaar gaat vallen, totdat Nick erachter komt dat het maar een visioen was.
Door de week zwijgen de motoren op het circuit. Maar in het weekend breekt de dag des oordeels aan. Dan denderen de stockcars over de baan met een snelheid van 300 km per uur. Cole Trickle heeft zijn zinnen gezet op de overwinning in een van de zwaarste autoraces van de wereld: de Daytona 500. Maar voor het zover is heeft Cole nog het een en ander uit te vechten met zijn teambaas Harry Hogge.
A young hell raiser quits his moonshine business and tries to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen. Loosely based on the true story of NASCAR driver Junior Johnson.
Seventeen years after being killed in a fiery accident, a racing car driver returns from the dead to seek vengeance on his enemies.
Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk, comes to the attention of crafty businessman Grant Willard. Willard bails him out of jail and offers him sponsorship as a stock car driver. Bowman accepts and enters the demolition derby-adjacent world of "figure eight" racing. As Bowman moves up in the ranks, his regard for his friends slips-- giving way to outright obsession with becoming the best.
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.
A couple of tough girls from the Brazilian countryside race their pickup truck to win a bet and prove that they're better than the boys.
A biopic of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt, Sr., documenting the driver's career from his earliest days onward and also looking at the family he built along the way. Earnhardt's death in 2001 rocked the sport, but his seven championships and 76 wins made an impact on NASCAR forever.
A Southern stock-car driver puts his rising career in the hands of a race promoter.
In his final film role, Nick Adams is a young mechanic who finds danger and romance in the exciting, sometimes unscrupulous world of stock-car racing.
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A cinematic portrait of a small town stock car track and the tribe of drivers that call it home as they struggle to hold onto an American racing tradition. The avant-garde narrative explores the community and its conflicts through an intimate story that reveals the beauty, mystery and emotion of grassroots auto racing.
Portrays the passionate racing communities across the country.
Ted Christopher was, and still is, known as one of the greatest Modified drivers of all-time. His incredible skills behind the wheel, his polarizing driving style, and his personality both on and off the track made Ted one of the most unique characters at the track. A person we lost way too soon. Get to learn more about the man New England Modified fans call "The King" in this full-length documentary!
Ambitious driver, wanting to get to the top of the stock-car circuit, gets mixed up with gangsters.
A biography of NASCAR racing legend Richard Petty, with featuring interviews with Petty and his fellow race-car drivers and footage from his past races.
80-year-old racing legend Rod Hall faces his toughest battle yet to compete in his 50th consecutive Baja 1000, a grueling, thousand-mile, off-road desert race in the sands of Mexico.
Rivals on the raceway--for publicity purposes only (but secretly buddies). Then they fall in love with the same woman--and the rivalry on the raceway becomes very real...
A look at NASCAR Grand National stock car racing circa 1976-7. The stars include Richard Petty, David Pearson, Cale Yarborough, Bobby Allison, and Buddy Baker, and includes upstart female racer Janet Guthrie. The sport in the mid-1970s was undergoing a surge of national popularity after Petty and Pearson crashed fighting for the win within sight of the checkered flag of the 1976 Daytona 500, telecast live on ABC Sports, and the surging interest triggered renewed media interest in the sport.
After being diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer, racecar driver Dave Smith gets back behind the wheel. At 70 years old, he sets out to win his home town’s race, the infamous Canada 200.