Driven

Driven is a 2001 movie directed by Renny Harlin and starring Sylvester Stallone.

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2001 - Renny Harlin - Sylvester Stallone

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The movie was filmed at a variety of races on the CART schedule, but some, including Chicago, Motegi, Detroit, and Germany, are no longer on the schedule: Chicago Motor Speedway's financial operations were suspended after CART's last race there, Motegi, like many of CART's teams, left for the Indy Racing League after 2002. Detroit was removed from the CART schedule after the 2001 season due to lack of road surface, and Germany was suspended after CART competitor Alex Zanardi lost his legs in a crash with Alex Tagliani with 13 laps to go. Zanardi would come back to finish those 13 laps in a specially modified Champ Car when CART (as of right now, under the name Champ Car) made it's first (and last, to date) appearance at the Euro Speedway. It should be noted that in Driven, the German race took place on a road course, but in fact, the CART race is on an oval.

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CART - Chicago - Motegi - Detroit - Germany - Chicago Motor Speedway - Indy Racing League - 2002 - 2001 - Alex Zanardi - Euro Speedway - Road course

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The movie premire took place at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, with several CART competiters driving and demonstrating pit stops in modified Champ Cars down Hollywood Blvd. The movie only met modest success, but fared better than director Harlin's last three films, Deep Blue Sea, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and the critical and financial failure, Cutthroat Island. The movie made mixed reviews, with people for the most part saying it was a good movie that needed quite a bit of improvement. The movie later spawned a video game of the same name, wich, like it's silver screen counterpart, met modest success.

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Grauman's Chinese Theatre - Hollywood Blvd. - Deep Blue Sea - The Long Kiss Goodnight - Cutthroat Island

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