Hollywood DNFs again...

Rating: 2/10 (29 April 2001)

Hollywood has perverted yet another form of motorsports with this yawner... I doubt if anyone in CART wanted to be associated with this distortion of the truth (Chip Ganassi's name is noticeably missing from the Target-sponsored team).
The camera work is sickeningly disorienting, the use of computer-generated special effects is wholly amateur, and the plot is thinner than the winning margin at the end of the final race ("Days of Thunder Goes Open-Wheel Racing" springs to mind as one source for this insipid storyline).
What was evident, though, was the tremendous number of "product recognition" shots -- so many that I estimate that it probably only cost the film-makers the price of admission to a real CART/IRL/Formula One race to make the film...
Incidentally, for the files of the Continuity Police: a couple of the action shots taken during the Detroit GP sequence had palm trees in them -- palm trees that looked more at home in Long Beach (hint, hint) than on Belle Isle.