A Nurburgring Driving Academy instructor drives a Nurburgring Formula racing car around the track in -16 degrees temperatures on ice and snow.
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This is a short, but very intimate portrait of Alex Zanardi, the former Formula 1 driver and winner of the American Champ Car Series. Alex was already a star, when he had his almost fatal accident at the Lausitzring in Germany. He lost his legs, but not his attitude. Alex Zanardi came back and did the impossible: He won races in the World Touring Car Championship, two gold medals at the Paralympics in London 2012 and just recently added two more hand bike world titles!
It was a unique experience to spend a day with a true hero at his house in Padua, talking about his life and joining him for a training session with his hand bike. His last words in our film describe him best. But see for yourself…
A Formula 1 driver, a two-time CART series winner, an innovator, an athlete, a gold-medal winner at the Paralympics, but above all, a man with a true champion’s attitude. He is a great character, who can talk for ages, and he is a person who has never understood what quitting is. Many sportsmen and women fall short of even getting close to the things which Alessandro Zanardi has achieved in his long sporting career.
Such is the long list of his accomplishments. He started his career as a racing driver, but an on-track accident, because of which he lost both legs, changed his life forever. But, this didn’t stop him from being competitive, and most importantly, didn’t stop him to live … More
Where They Raced: Speed Demons in the City of Angels tells the story of a pre-gridlocked Los Angeles. A time when it was ripe with orange groves, movie stars, year-round sun and more auto racing and innovation than anywhere else in America. This documentary film uncovers the forgotten history with lost archival films, hundreds of vintage photos, and revealing interviews.
Hosted by Harold Osmer who literally wrote the book and directed by Harry Pallenberg (Shotgun Freeway, Women in Boxes and California’s Gold), Where They Raced reunites the ghost tracks of Los Angeles with the cars that raced them and gets the families and experts to tell the tales that give these fading memories a victory lap.
FEATURING:
Lakes, Parks & Rods with Wally’s son on the Pomona Drag • A look at all 3 boardtracks in Los Angeles, we had the Nations first, the best & the fastest • Vic Edelbrock Jr. brings Roger Ward’s V8-60 back to Gilmore • The ultimate barn find: a Peugeot that influenced Miller, Offy and decades of racing technology • Ed Winfield’s #1 Ford is reunited with the remains of Legion Ascot to take a lap 85 years later • Join Mickey Thompson’s son & 1st wife for a 1/4 mile walk down memory lane • Eddie Pullen’s son, a ‘13 Fiat & a ‘11 National relive the Santa Monica Road Races•Greg Sharp at NHRA•Leslie Kendall at the Petersen • 414 mph Land Speed Record holder Charles Nearburg • We’ll talk to JC Agajanian Jr. at Turkey Night • Huell Howser sees something “Amazing” at the Corona Circle….