For that car they used in the art of racing in the rain, that was a real team and the actual driver used to race with my dad. Also the last scene in The Art of Racing in the Rain when the kid says his name is Enzo the reason that is significant is because the guy’s dog’s name was Enzo.
@@RacingAtHome And the Porsche ran in the World Challenge. Wright Motorsports I think. Also, Patrick Dempsey (raced Le Mans for example), was present at the set for the racing scenes.
His dog in the movie is called Enzo and that boy reminded him of his dog, also that boy was born just after this dog died. Both the dog and that boy is a really big fan of the racingdriver. If you watch the movie you will understand much better :)
The movie ‘’The Art of Racing In The Rain’’ is actually a great movie. If you watch it you’ll understand why he get’s so emotional when the Kid tells him his name is Enzo. (Is not only because of Enzo Ferrari)
@@LiamTalksMotorsport Shhhh! Hahaha...but yeah it is a very touching film that was shot partially at CTMP Mosport and the rain actually did fall when they needed it to.
@@Yoshiman2024 Racing in the Rain is by far one of my most favorite books of all time, even before I got into racing. My emotions went up and down, and side to side like a roller coaster.
In the last film; SPOILER ALERT!!! The dogs name was Enzo, he eventually died, and because the kids name was also Enzo, he remembered his dog. BTW it is very nice and emotional film😉👍
The thing about the days of thunder clip is that, until I think 2003, NASCAR rules used to be that everybody would race back to the line when the yellow flag was displayed. So occasionally (rarely), drivers would actually go flying through wrecks trying to keep their position like that. Especially if a caution came out at the end of the race and they were effectively racing back for the win.
don't know if someone posted it already, but in nascar back in the 90's there was a rule that the caution flag frozes the field after they completed the lap the caution flag was shown, so everyone kept racing until they crossed the line, so you had guys with senses wich slowed down a bit and those who tried to gain some positions by not slowing at all.
All the racing scenes in Days of Thunder is real footage from the race. They actually had to qualify cars that had the cameras equipped to be able to get the footage. Tom Cruise obviously wasn't out there racing, but they had real drivers out there getting the race footage. Typically they would go out to get the footage they wanted and then retire the car.
James Garner did do some of the scenes for real and raced competitively after the film as did Tom Cruise after Days of Thunder, as did several other actors. That could be a video for you lads. What actors raced competitively and did they start before or after they were in a racing film or were they even in a racing film?
Fun fact about days of thunder The Daytona scene (big cloud of smoke full throttle scene) was actually filmed during the Daytona 500 and every now and then cars were trying to get in on the shot as a joke and tried being apart of it
The ending for "racing in the rain" is much less unrealistic then you seem to think here. Obviously it wouldn't make any sense that Danny becomes a full time F1 driver for Ferrari. But the movie never says that anyways. People just assume so, when they don't understand the ending. (And the movie is intentionally vague about it) The way his career is progressing throughout the movie paints him as a world class GT driver, at one point racing for Porsche in IMSA, and it makes total sense that he ends up racing GT cars for Ferrari, either in IMSA or WEC. The event at the end of the movie is not an F1 grand prix, but rather the Ferrari racing days, an "end-of-season" party where Ferrari celebrates with their fans. Thats why it also makes sense that the event is at Mugello, despite Mugello never having had any chance to get on to the F1 calender (until the calender was disrupted by a global pandemic). But it has quite often hosted the Ferrari party. For that party, among other things, Ferrari brings in all of their drivers including F1, GT, and their junior programs (in the movie you can clearly see Giancarlo Fisichella, one of Ferrari's GT drivers in WEC), and they get to drive many legendary classic Ferrari race cars. So it would make total sense that a Ferrari GT driver could be driving Kimi Räikkönens championship winning car from 12 years earlier. The only thing that doesn't make sense is that they drive in the wrong direction.
13:50 - He was emotional about the word Enzo because that was what his dog was called but it died. Me and my family went to watch this movie when it first came out thinking it was about cars but no, turns out its actually about how a guys life literally flops
In case you didnt see the movie The art of racing in the rain, the thing at the end is that the dog was called enzo, and the kid at the end is called enzo too so, they put that re-incarnation thing at the end.
Actually in nascar with that higher banking the car slide to the bottom of the track it’s very common if a driver is behind the crash and it’s basically clean up time the drivers will stay high and they have spotters telling them if it’s clear the speeding up is is no longer alone unless a car is coming in your direction
The reason they don't give penalties for door slaming and rear-ending is because the cars can handle it and they don't have the dumb FIA overseeing it plus the cars aren't fragile like F1 cars.
???? Days of Thunder WAS realistic in a certain sense. The flip that Cruise did, totally happened multiple times in the 90s. That's actually how Dale Earnhardt Sr got killed because of a roll like these and even one like this before his death that shook him alot. That's why there's a flap device on top of the roofs of NASCAR since early 2000s to prevent the cars from lifting off and doing stupid flips like that during hard impacts.
The second half was filmed during the 2002 Le Mans 24hrs. They even raced 2 cars (a Lola for Vaillante and a Panoz for Leader). They actually completed a decent part of the race.
I remember an animated F1 show where a driver was driving a winning car and crashed.. then returned and worked his way back to big leagues - can someone remind me? The car looked like the bat mobile..
Cars 3 has a similar story. Mcqueen being the superstar-- a new driver arrives who's a young talent-- Mcqueen loses his confidence-- crashes -- retires -- helps training a young driver who never raced -- makes a comeback...
