Lights, Camera, Action!

In Truth there has only really been one good film about Grand Prix Racing, the aptly named 1966 effort “Grand Prix” by John Frankenheimer.

Of course a few years ago Sylvester Stallone came with an Idea to make a more modern Film, but was denied the access he needed and eventually went off to Champ Car. (Probably for the best as I’m sure anyone who has ever sat through “Drivel”… I mean “Driven” would agree).

I however think I have had a great idea for a cracking, if ever-so-slightly cliched script. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you “The Will To Win”

Picture the opening Sequence, a young boy forces his way through the crowds to pear though a gap in the fence. His be-bearded Hero has just won his home Grand Prix and is seemingly waltzing to the title.

Now comes the bit of Action to liven things up a bit, who wants to see a film about somebody who always has it their own way. We introduce another character, an Old Master.

In a darkened room men converse, they decide that the field needs to be levelled here. The Old Master is nearing the end of his illustrious career and they can’t let him leave the scene a broken and beaten man.

So rules are changed and suddenly our hero finds his car Illegal. In an act of desperation he shaves off his beard, but it’s not enough. The advantage he had has gone, and what’s more he’s finding his lead eroding away, but it’s not going quick enough. Suddenly he finds that he is penalised again, this time for something so trivial even his rival drivers are stunned. Fighting from the back he gets to within spitting distance of a championship saving podium in his rivals back-garden when his car breaks, dumping him by the roadside.

After all these months it has just come down to a straight shoot out between the old master and his until recently comically be-bearded Spanish rival. Our hero verses the conspiracy to send the old master off with yet another title, and an unbeatable place in history.

But in true Hollywood form our Hero at the last corner of the last lap takes the lead to the championship and a moral victory!

Of course it would all just be fiction, it says so during the end credits. Any connection to characters living or dead is purely co-incidental