Auto Racing Movies
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010This movie starring Steve McQueen depicts an auto race during the 70s on the world’s hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France. The race goes over 24 hours on 14.5 kilometers of cordoned country road. Every few hours the two drivers per car alternate - but it’s still a challenge for concentration and material. In […]
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Sunday, February 7th, 2010An American teenager named Shawn Boswell is a loner in school, however he challenges his rival for an illegal street racing, and he totals his car in the end of the race. To avoid time in prison he is sent to Tokyo to live with his father who is in the military. As soon as […]
Herbie Fully Loaded
Thursday, February 4th, 2010Maggie Peyton, played by Lindsey Lohan, is the new owner of Number 53 and she puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor. As a third generation member of a NASCAR family, racing is in Maggie Peyton’s blood, but she is forbidden from pursuing her dream by her overprotective […]
The Fast and The Furious
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010An undercover cop played by paul Walker infiltrates an underworld subculture of Los Angeles street racers looking to bust a hijacking ring, and soon begins to question his loyalties when his new street racing friends become the prime suspects. Vin Diesel plays the leader of the bad dudes.
Cars
Friday, January 29th, 2010A hot-shot race-car named Lightning McQueen gets waylaid in Radiator Springs, where he finds the true meaning of friendship and family.
Driven
Monday, January 25th, 2010Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly, played by Kip Pardue, has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It’s no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly’s romance with his arch rival’s girlfriend Sophia. With much riding on […]
Speedway
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Elvis Presley sings his way around the race circuit as successful speedway driver Steve Grayson. All is going well until the tax return submitted by a wise-cracking Bill Bixby (as Steve’s manager) is scrutinized by the IRS. Now Elvis has to race until he wins the money needed to pay the government!
Speed Racer
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010Directed by the Wachowski Brothers, Speed Racer is the story of Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) an 18-year-old whose life and love has always been racing. As a young boy, Speed shirked his schoolwork, only dreaming of being able to race one day as well as his older brother, Rex Racer (Scott Porter).
Speed is loyal to […]
The World’s Fastest Indian
Monday, January 18th, 2010For 25 years in Invercargill at the south end of New Zealand, Burt Munro (1899-1978) played by Anthony Hopkins has been working on increasing the speed of his motorcycle, a 1920 Indian. He dreams of taking it to the Bonneville Salt Flats to see how fast it will go. By the early 1960s, heart disease […]
Stroker Ace
Friday, May 1st, 2009Stroker Ace, played by Burt Reynolds, is a champion NASCAR driver,at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he’s told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain) promotion gimmicks,like making him dress up in giant chicken suit), he spends the rest of the movie […]
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