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I really wanted to start a serious thread here for a change about something like the history of USAC qualifying times through the decades but I just saw the worst racing movie I ever seen. I won't even say which movie it was because if you saw it you know which one I'm talking about. Anyone have something to say about their favorite crummy racing movie?

Everything you know is wrong.

Worst: Days of Thunder

Pretty much a dead heat with Talledega nights.

Best: Lemans

dead heat with On Any Sunday

Days of Thunder is bad, but entertaining bad. If I flip to it while I'm watching, I'm hooked. Plus, any scene with Robert Duvall is great.

Anyone who thinks that Day of Thunder was the worst racing movie clearly hasn't seen Driven. Ugh. It makes Six-Pack look like The Godfather.

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Yeah, you may be right. Driven was REALLY bad. So bad I had totally forgotten that it even existed.

To many bad ones to list. The best one is easy; "The Big Wheel" with Micky Rooney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_OFRxh5D2Q

I'd like to know how they got an 1 1/2 hour movie down-loaded to you-tube. I thought it was 10 minute maximum.

Jeff Kristensen

To Please A Lady, with Clark Gable and Barbara Stanwyk.

Grand Prix was interesting. If you got to see in the Cinerama format they filmed it in, it was awesome. The whole audience at the theater would be leaning left and right into the turns.

To please a lady, and the big wheel for me.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. 

Not only is Driven the worst racing movie of all time, it is probably one of the worst movies of any kind. I managed to stick it out for about 45 minutes before I got up and left. I was too embarrassed to even ask for my money back. It is the only movie I've ever walked out on. Before seeing part of Driven, my choice for worst ever was a film called Hollywood Boulevard (featuring a brief appearance by Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen) but at least I was able to sit through the entire thing.

You got me. It was the movie "Driven". Someone on the WEB called it "clueless". When they fire up the cars at the car show in Tokyo with on-board starters? Where do you find a spot of road in Tokyo where you can drive 195mph? Think if you did this the Tokyo fuzz would be hauling your ass down to jail? This movie is so bad I couldn't quit watching. It may be a cult film. There's too much to mention.

Everything you know is wrong.

Thanks for the tip. I'm going to check out Hollywood Blvd. just for Commander Cody. I couldn't have put it any better about Driven, and agree it was one of the worst movies of any kind. Nevertheless, what interests me is continuing to find more bad acting and absurd technical mistakes, not to mention why they were fighting over the blond groupie from old Law and Order episodes. How about Burt Reynolds, the prick with a golden heart. God, it was bad!

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Driven- I'll have to agree with everyone on this one really sucks, I mean really.... who in the hell hones in their mad driving skills by fliping quarters on the race track and then pick them up on all four with hot sticky tires, well, excpet for Tony Jones.

Speedway- This one has to get Honorable mention in some way. Now I don't mean to kick "The King" and all but that movie is just plain silly with all the corny fight scenes and singing. YUCK. We all know that the only one that can truely pull of singing while driving is Tony Jones.

But the Grand Champion of Racing Movie "suckage" has to go to.....

Redline 7000!!!!!

A 1965 NASCAR film that starred James Caan when he was a young dude just getting started, Curtis Turner and Tiny Lund (along with several others) had cameos in the movie and it was said that halfway through the movies premire in Charlotte, Curtis turner yelled to Tiny Lund, "This is terrible, C'mon Tiny lets get the hell out of here!"

As bad as these movies mentioned above are, we are all better people for watching them; without that balance how could we love and appreciate the BEST Racing movie of all time....

HERBIE THE LOVE BUG

Rob Butterfield
Arizona 

How about "the last American hero" with Jeff Bridges as Junior Jackson... or Richard Pryer's (greased lightening) as Wendell Scott, (kinda), it was surprisingly entertaining.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. 

In the movie "Driven" Target/Chip Ganassi was one of the main teams involved in the production.I didn't see it until after it was on dvd and I was able to sit through the whole movie but it was more out of curiosity.I wanted to see just how bad it could get.When I asked my friend Ricky Davis (chief mechanic for Scott Dixon) about the movie he blushed and said NO comment.The movie did get one thing right when Sly corrected the female reporter saying it's fuel not gas.How about that part at the end of the movie when one of the cars was upside-down in a pond leaking fuel and the whole pond caught on fire?I thought that was the funniest part of the movie because Methanol is diluted by water.That's why there is a drum of water in every Indycar pit.It also has a higher ignition temp. than gasoline.Anyway,my favorite racing movie is"Winning" with Paul Newman.One more thing,when you bad racing movies and Burt Reynolds don't forget "Stroker Ace".

Number 1 Worst racing movie Talladega nights. Will Ferrell is just a moron. Number 2 is you guessed it, Days of Blunder, However, my favorite part in movie is Tom Cruise racing at full racing speed and lets everyone know he is really going to now, so he downshifts to third and nails the throttle. Soooo realistic! At least Stroker Ace was a comedy with some real racers in it like Neil Bonnet, Dale Earnhardt, Harry Gant, Ricky Rudd, I would mention Kyle Petty but,I never thought much of him.

Without a doubt Stroker Ace