a recent interview with the racing driver MARIO ANDRETTI when asked how he learned to race at INDIANAPOLIS. He said to come to another room where he kept the movie poster. And he said I was 11 and I was an exile in LUCCA and I saw the film. This is how I learned to run in indianapolis ...
That footage of Mauri Rose and that pit fire is astounding! How could anyone remain that calm in a situation like that? Shows how incredible his pit crew were and how much confidence he had in them.
Great job of using footage that's better than the movie it came from was. Also a perfect score for it. I think this is this little short is the "best" racing movie I've ever seen. It gives more of the heart of racing than "Grand Prix" or even "Le Mans" did back in the day. Though I still have to give McQueen credit for the best "big movie" of racing ever. Still, for those of us who even did a little lower classes racing, the feeling of the music with the amazing black and white (better than color for this) photography seems more like what was in my heart when the flag dropped at Road Atlanta. Hope more people will see this and agree.
Scottie: Bud drove the #17 Kurtis Kraft 2000 in the "practice" and "qualifying" scenes. Stunt driver Joie Chitwood ran the red #17 in the actual race in '50 (finishing fifth). But it seems to me that Bud later drove a sprint car (?) called the "Clark Gable Special." And it was =Mauri= Rose who's seen here having to jump out of Howard Keck's #31 Emil Deidt-built streamliner when it caught fire in the pits. Three-time winner Mauri brought the car home third, despite the stress.
