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* SpecialEffectsFailure: It is clear during the crash scenes that the movie has been replaced with archive footage of real-life stock racing crashes, some of which take place on tracks that don't even match their current location. Justified in that attempting to stage anything more than [[ItMakesSenseInContext Stroker's "naked chicken" spin-out]] could not be done at the time; no stunt driver would be safe in the kinds of crashes you find in [=NASCAR=], and there is just no way of staging a convincing accident without someone behind the wheel to cause it.

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* SpecialEffectsFailure: It is clear during the crash scenes that the movie has been replaced with archive footage of real-life stock racing crashes, some of which take place on tracks that don't even match their current location. Justified in that attempting to stage anything more than [[ItMakesSenseInContext Stroker's "naked chicken" spin-out]] could not be done at the time; no stunt driver would be safe in the kinds of crashes you find in [=NASCAR=], and there is just no way of staging a convincing accident without someone behind the wheel to cause it.it.
** During one shot of Stroker driving a car missing a wheel, the block which the car is mounted on is visible.

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* HarsherInHindsight: The opening song refers to ‘if you break your neck in some damned fool wreck’. Years later, one of the actual racers who makes appearances in the move, Dale Earnhardt, would do exactly that, with fatal results.

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* HarsherInHindsight: The opening song refers to ‘if you break your neck in some damned fool wreck’. Years later, one of the actual racers who makes appearances in the move, Dale Earnhardt, would do exactly that, with fatal results.results.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: It is clear during the crash scenes that the movie has been replaced with archive footage of real-life stock racing crashes, some of which take place on tracks that don't even match their current location. Justified in that attempting to stage anything more than [[ItMakesSenseInContext Stroker's "naked chicken" spin-out]] could not be done at the time; no stunt driver would be safe in the kinds of crashes you find in [=NASCAR=], and there is just no way of staging a convincing accident without someone behind the wheel to cause it.
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HarsherInHindsight: The opening song refers to ‘if you break your neck in some damned fool wreck’. Years later, one of the actual racers who makes appearances in the move, Dale Earnhardt, would do exactly that, with fatal results.

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* HarsherInHindsight: The opening song refers to ‘if you break your neck in some damned fool wreck’. Years later, one of the actual racers who makes appearances in the move, Dale Earnhardt, would do exactly that, with fatal results.
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HarsherInHindsight: The opening song refers to ‘if you break your neck in some damned fool wreck’. Years later, one of the actual racers who makes appearances in the move, Dale Earnhardt, would do exactly that, with fatal results.

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