Hot Rod Productions

Hot Rod Productions is a movie production company founded in 2004 by Greg Fastai and Andrew Stark. It was bought by the Piston Cup Racing Series in 2015. It was focused around a bunch of different Motorsports such as Formula 1 and IndyCar from 2004-2014 but when Piston Cup bought it, it now produces Piston Cup based movies and real life Piston Cup history.
== History ==
=== Beginnings (2004-2014) ===
In 2004, the first movie of Forward was released which focused on fictional IndyCar racer, Padre McNeil, an Mexican racer who was at the height of his career, but experienced a horrific crash which caused him to go on a journey to find himself again. The Dragster was released in 2005 and is a real life story based on the NHRA racer, Max Daniels, nicknamed The Dragster as his sad childhood turns into a racing dream. In 2008, after 2 years of no films released, a fictional movie named Free Bird was released focusing around a Canadian plane, Derrick Carlin who joins the Jolly Ranchers because his father was a member but dreams about racing in the Wings Around The Globe. Alabama Nights is a fictional comedy Piston Cup based film made in 2010 starting Jose Kerve and Jordan Carlow as Jose Renerev and Austin David. In 2014, the Wings Around The Globe based movie on Dusty Crophopper was the 5th and final movie released by the original owners as the Piston Cup bought out the production company in 2015. 
=== The Piston Cup Ownership (2015-Present) ===
After 2 years of working on the film, the Piston Cup released the film named The King which was based The King Strip Weathers' entire life story to the end of his racing career in 2005. and how he captured 7 championshipsIn 2018, they released 2 new films, one was titled, Relay Racer based off the life story of Murray Clutchburn from becoming Relay Racer champion to a Piston Cup champion. The other one was titled, The Shockster telling the story of how a poor watermelon farmer, Todd Marcus made it to the highest level of stock car auto racing. In 2019, a fictional movie was released called Rev Up telling the story of fictional character, Dirk Kotecki, the Australian racer that always wanted to make it big in stock car racing finally got his chance. There was no 2020 film released due to the caronavirus. But the delayed film of Duel To The End, which focused on the giant rivalry of Ponchy Wipeout and Darren once a childhood friendship. In 2022, no film was released but the first ever TV Show was , Drive For The Cup which per every season, it focused on the most recent season, like how Season 1 focused on 2022. In 2023 season 2 will come but also in 2023, the movie called Strategy is a movie revolving around former crew chief, Jay W or mostly known as Chief RPM's story of how he became one of the greatest crew chiefs in Piston Cup history.
== Movies ==
* Forward - 2004 
* The Dragster - 2005
* Free Bird - 2008
* Alabama Nights - 2010
* Crophopper - 2014
* The King - 2017
* Relay Racer - 2018
* The Shockster - 2018
* Rev Up - 2019
* Duel To The End - 2020, delayed to 2021
* Strategy - 2023
== TV Shows ==
* Drive For The Cup Season 1 - 2022
* Drive For The Cup Season 2 - 2023, COMING SOON