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Jerry Was a Race Car Driver

By Brian Prisco | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (10)

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Formula One Racing is possibly one of the most dangerous, expensive, heart-ripping competitions in the world. And like soccer, Americans rarely can be forced to give a shit, so there’s never been a successful movie made about it. Unless of course you choose to ignore the patently Oscar-snubbed Driven with Sylvester Stallone. Which you should.

Mark Monroe has decided to follow up his face-meltingly devastating documentary The Cove with a documentary about the history of the sport. By all rights, and since they chose to ignore Anvil! The Story of Anvil!, Monroe’s got the best shot of winning Oscar gold next month. And yet…I’m not entirely sold on him killing this Formula One doc.

What made The Cove so shocking was that it was like a Rainbow Six operation, where they developed technology and a plot to sneak into the compound to witness the Japanese slaughter of dolphins. Now, sure, the rest of the documentary was completely functional and great — but most of the power came from this sense of danger. You’re sure that someone’s going to get killed on camera.

I don’t see Monroe sneaking into garages to discover some dark secret about Formula One Racing. Like the German team is secretly lubricating their wheels with orphan blood or the Saudis are powering their racer with the corpses of used up sex slave ring teens. Personally, I’m hoping they get a shot of Danica Patrick’s headlights, since she seems intent on selling out her image and all the prestige of being one of the most successful females ever to compete in the sport with all those awful, awful Go Daddy ads.

Still, Monroe knows how to cobble an interesting documentary. I imagine if there’s something of interest in driving at bullet speeds around a race track, he’ll find it.







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Comments

You have just become a bigger hero by quoting Primus.

HAIL BRIAN!

Posted by: Magiel at February 10, 2010 10:19 AM

I couldn't care less about any racing documentary, but you caught me with the great song.

Posted by: Cindy at February 10, 2010 10:48 AM

Danica Patrick isn't in F1. Driven was about the CART series. The Saudis don't field an F1 team.

Posted by: The Kilted Yaksman at February 10, 2010 11:07 AM

The thing that scares Americans about F1 is that the drivers turn to the left AND to the right on the course.

Posted by: Jim Doggie at February 10, 2010 11:11 AM

I'm sorry, but where on earth did you get the picture that goes with this story?

Posted by: jay at February 10, 2010 11:38 AM

I'm concerned with the person-bits that seem to be flying about in the header picture.

Posted by: ZombieNurse at February 10, 2010 12:23 PM

I now have flying brain mush seared into my retinas. Thanks. Like I needed that this morning.

Posted by: Stella at February 10, 2010 1:18 PM

Gloriosky, Prisco, the header pic! The header pic, man!! Is that a hand?

Posted by: Jelinas at February 10, 2010 2:14 PM

The header pic would appear to be Alex Zanardi's horrific crash in the Cart series race in Germany back in 2001.

Posted by: Analog at February 10, 2010 3:42 PM

Yes, and the obvious flying meat would be his legs, not his brain. No worries, folks, he's still alive. A pretty brave fellow and a great story of the triumph of the human spirit, really... even if my main memory of him racing is him cutting the corkscrew at Laguna Seca in what I would call flagrant cheating (but he called a mistake and CART stayed largely silent on) to pass for the win on the last lap.

Posted by: Eep at February 10, 2010 7:01 PM


















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