Driven


Driven is a 2001 action drama film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Sylvester Stallone, who also wrote and produced. It centers on a young racing drivers effort to win the Champ Car World Series auto racing championship. Prior to production of the movie, Stallone was seen at many Formularaces, but he was unable to procure enough information about the category due to the secrecy with which teams protect their cars, so he decided to base the film on Champ Car.

Halfway through the Fictionalized 2001 Champ Car season, rookie driver Jimmy Bly has already wonraces. His brotherbusiness manager Demille is seems more concerned with working out endorsement deals and press engagements than racing, putting tremendous pressure upon Jimmy. His success has also drawn the ire of the reigning champion and series points leader Beau Brandenburg, who believes hes not doing as well as he should because of his fiance Sophia becoming a distraction. He breaks up the engagement and he regains his winning ways.As Brandenburg returns to form, Blys wheelchairusing team owner Carl Henry is concerned that Bly is becoming more prone to driving errors. He sees parallels to his former driver and Champ Car Champion, Joe Tanto, whom he convinces to come out of retirement to mentor Jimmy. Joe agrees and is brought in to replace Jimmys teammate, Memo Moreno. To complicate matters, Joes exwife Cathy Heguy is now married to Memo, the driver that Joe replaced. Despite all this, Joe and Memo are still friends. ........

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