What helps this documentary is thousands of hours of footage it had available. Because of the sport’s popularity and massive TV coverage, EVERYTHING was captured. When Unser describes an accident he was in…well it was caught on film or video and ready for us to see on-demand. Most of the medical footage though is taken from a distance from that television footage. It might have been nice to be on the track at time, but I suppose that was unavailable.
After a while though, the documentary does border on becoming the professional racing version of Red Asphalt. Ultimately, this documentary consists of interviews in the background and car crashes in the fore. It’s the engaging content that overcomes the repetitiveness of the visuals. But this is an important documentary to watch for any fan of sports and parents of teens getting into sports. They can learn the lesson of auto racing when it balances the lives of its players over the dollars it earns.
"…a race is canceled for the first time for medical reason"
