CART fans are disappointed with the flick!

Rating: 3/10 (6 May 2001)

Just caught a Matinee on 4/30/01 at 1 PM, only three other people were in the theatre with me. Too bad I'm not 13 anymore because that's how old I would have had to be to really enjoy it. Most of my complaints are similar to other CART racing fans. My favorte gaffes:
The street scene, no I'm not going to bother complaining about it being in the film, but I just wonder who started the cars? Champ cars don't have starters. You have to have someone start the car from behind the car with a starter.
Champ Cars as Lawn Darts while crashing and flying into the air.
I think they meant to make a golfong film due to the abundance of water hazards. Champ cars run on methanol. Methanol doesn't burn in water!
You don't need to clutch these cars.
CART Driving 101 cars fitting in with the real cars as seemlessly as one side of the Grand Canyon fits with the other.
That Alex Barron spin at the end looked sooooooooo fake.
He's passing Michael Andretti in the #20 Visteon car! Well I guess they couldn't have said Memo Moreno was passing Roberto Moreno without explanations.
The coin scene. What did they do, coat the tires with a fast drying epoxy? That scene was bulls***.
Anyhow, no one was expecting next year's Oscar winning Best Picture, were they? At $5.75, I didn't feel ripped off.
As for Box office success, Look who they beat: 1. Driven 2. Bridget Jones's Diary 3. Spy Kids 4. Along Came a Spider 5. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles 6. Blow 7. Town and Country 8. The Forsaken 9. Joe Dirt 10. Freddy Got Fingered
Nobody. The real test for a movie so heavily promoted, opening against zero competition, is to see what happens the second weekend after people tell their friends about it.
Jean Alesi had a cameo apperace, shaking Stallone's hand before he got into the car. I spotted Jacques Villeneuve though.
Overall, I agree with all the movie critics that this movie is a dud!