I've been to Hull's Drive-In, down not too far from Lexington, Virginia. A couple of friends of mine and I went to watch Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. The only problem was, that we had these two little boys with us, that constantly interrupted the movie, and one of the guys kept trying to be all kind and gentle with them, to get them to quiet down. Now, I'd paid good money to be able to watch that movie, but then blasted kids wouldn't shut up for nothing. Suddenly, having had enough of their noisiness, I spun around, looked 'em STRAIGHT IN THEIR FACES, and shouted "THAT'S ENOUGH"!!!!! Believe me, I'm not a mean person. I dearly love children...but sometimes, ya just gotta put yer foot down. They didn't make a peep, after that. Believe you me, they were as quiet as a couple of Church Mouses!!!
It's definitely Charlotte Motor Speedway, and when I ran it from '92-'96 in my annual summer vacation at the Fast Track High Performance Driving School that tunnel turn in 4 was always tricky. People would smack the wall in 4, nobody hit a wall anywhere else. LOVED the frontstretch double dogleg. A really fun track to drive!
@@787Detox Nope, Atlanta was not a tri-oval when this was made. Definitely filmed at Charlotte. Play it at quarter speed starting at 5:00 and when it gets to 5:05 you'll see (albeit blurry) CHARLOTTE on the wall as the 51 car goes by. Watch the clip for when they are talking in the pits and in the background you can see the Turn 1 Condos. Days of Thunder was filmed in 1990, Atlanta was reconfigured similar to Charlotte in 1997.
That was before Trackgate, when they laser leveled it and all the drivers wore out their tires because they could go faster… and blamed it on the track (and later on the tires ). Tony Stewart said he was going home and pulling off all the Goodyear tires off his personal cars 😂.
Same here, and its the mixture of whats said, the sound of the car, and then that shot at 4:52 right after dropping the hammer, it cuts to the car blowing by the camera. All of that together makes that moment absolutely Amazing and Beautiful!. "Im dropping the hammer" "no youre not" he drops it, you hear the roar of the engine, and see the cars blow past the camera. it also give you a very good idea at just how fast the car is going.
Everything about this movie is AMAZING! You dont quite appreciate it at first especially if your first time watching it was as a kid like me. Everything about this scene is great, and the sound of the car is magnificent(since its real) and one of my favorite moments in this scene is 4:50 when he says "Im dropping the hammer" Then it cuts to the moment the car blows by the camera. That shot with the sounds is absolutely Beautiful
@@ballplayer1799A little Tit-for-tat, ya might say. These two got into an intense feud with each other, for just about the first half of the movie, then, after Rowdy's horrific crash, these two become friends...and then, another problem presents himself, in the form of some young upstart, first name of Rusty. In the end, though, Cole puts Rusty in his place...and wins it all! But then, you see... there's one more race, that Cole has to take care of...when he and Harry Hogg wind up havin' a foot-race, against each other! Of course, that was all in good fun!!!!! See ya at the races! 🇺🇲🏁🇺🇲🏁🇺🇲🏁!!!
Days of Thunder was inspired by this scene in real life when Tom Cruise went out to visit Rick Hendrick at the track and Cruise tried out one of the cars and actually got a better time than Hendricks driver that was out there practicing. Cruise knew then he needed to make a movie about the sport, giving you Days of Thunder!
@Matt Beeman Yep, that's bullshit. Richmond died in August 89 and didn't race NASCAR after '86 or so. The movie was shot in early 1990, like 6 months later. Richmond is the basis of Cole's character (the whole "transitioning from open-wheel to NASCAR" schtick is also ripped straight), but it stops there.
I'm watching this after seeing William Byron's 2019 Southern 500 paint scheme reveal on the Hendrick Motorsports RUclips page. They really homaged this scene well.
The funniest thing about the whole conversation within the first 33 seconds of this part in the film is Tim giving a rundown of Coles achievements as a racer. If you listen carefully and actually know your racing, it will stand out like a sore thumb. But for those who don't know racing very well, here is the error. Tim says that Cole runs mostly Indy type deals. 2 WoO (World of Outlaw Sprint Car) wins, 7 strait feature wins (assuming for the same series) and he's been driving ASA. Well, Tim. ASA is the American Speed Association which is a Stock Car based series. So how can Cole never have run a Stock Car before if he is currently driving ASA?? 😁🏁
The retort afterwards sums it up "got yourself a real statistician there, does he know anything about the driver". He basically implied that Tim picked up whatever driver for hire he could find with a win list without understanding the context. As in Tim knows jack shit about racing, like the idea that a winner in Tennis, badminton or ping-pong could win right away in either of the two other sports. It happens in modern motorsport. We saw it with the FIA W-series, where a few female drivers were thrown into it because of their success in their previous series, ignoring the fact that a GT4 or TCR car has very little cross over to a F3 car and there would be a learning curve the other drivers did have. It's also happened with a multitude of male drivers in DPi and LMP2.
Remember when this movie was released and saw it in a theater. Good movie, great experience. Nothing like the sound of a carbureted V8 with no exhaust.
@@buddry538, nascar and it’s origins were rooted in the South. The rib is more about not being from the South. The west don’t have any relevance in the lines between north and south
What people dont understand is if the car is dialed in and perfect.... thats hours of work for the crew driver everyone hence the threat rowdy is honestly standing up for his crew and he wants to win
Yep. If she's too loose, she'll slide all over the place on ya, but if she's too tight, you're gonna have a huge problem steering her with any ease, at all! Don't rev 'er up, to where the Tach Needle's in the red zone, or you'll blow an engine. And watch your right-front tire. With the pressure it receives, going around all of the left-hand turns, she can blow on ya pretty easily, being that it's the tire that has the most down-force on it, going around those left-hand turns, during the race. And no banging against the outside wall...or anything, or anyone, else! Bad things tend to happen, when ya disobey any of those things! Those cars can get tore up, from the floor up, if any of those things happen! Movies like this sure are fun to watch...and you can learn a lot, too! See ya at the races!🏁🏁🏁🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 5:55
My favourite movie of all time, they dont make movies like this anymore and thats why i like all the old classics. This movie has heart, i always dreamed since i was a kid of being a race car driver, its exactly how you imagine a racing life to be. Everything about this film shows heart, ambition, drive, focus, confidence. Fucking love it
Harry makes jokes about Cole being "a yankee," forgetting that at the time this movie was made (1990), there were several "yankees" in NASCAR: The Bodine brothers Geoff and Brett (from New York), Greg Sacks (also from New York), Alan Kulwicki (Wisconsin) plus a well-known Californian in Ernie Irvan.
This movie is one of my top 10 movies. And I don't know alot about racing myself, but the disrespect of Cole placing his bag on the hood of the car.....and then talking about he's watched NASCAR on ESPN. 😆🤣
I love the line about Californians in the beginning. I lived in California all my life 47 years. That is exactly right can’t really put a label on us because we are so wildly different in this state.
When you go for a qualifying lap on Nascar 15. It’s also satisfying to create a fast setup from scratch, Almost feels like being a crew chief and driver combination
This is hands down my favourite movie of all time!!! This scene when he drops the hammer you can feel him pump the clutch slam it into gear and floor the fuck out the car!!! “I’m dropping the hammer”
Even Ol' Rowdy Yates had to be impressed...and maybe even a little intimidated! I mean, after all, here comes a guy to try out, that only what, one guy, knows about? And then, it happens:This guy talks his way into having a chance granted to him...and he even beats Rowdy's time! He was right:He didn't make a fool out of Harry Hogg, after all!
+David Dearing As an American and possibly regular watcher of this sport, Sir, which of the two tracks would you say is nicer (as in, offering more speed / entertainment)?
2 by 2 racing IS Pack Racing. The stuff from the 90's, especially early on, was more single file, follow the leader. Today's plate racing is far more competitive.
5:13 I wish the camera would've quickly turned to the left at 5:15 and shown Cole from behind for a second instead of showing Buck. That would've looked epic.
I love this movie from back in the day and often wondered why they never made a part two Unless they thought it was so good that perhaps a sequel might ruin it
Great scene but the track is Charlotte Motor Speedway. Even without a restrictor plate 31 seconds is impossible for a nascar at Daytona. In 1987 Bill Elliott set the track record (qualifying) with a top speed of 210 mph in just under 43 seconds. Races today aren’t quite as fast, with the Daytona 500 pole sitter having a time typically around 46 seconds and 194 mph.
Kenneth Best ford thunderbird. still holds windtunnel record for slipperiest prodution american car .i believe to this day.dont quote me. google it .thats what im about to do.me, nothing beats the matador, amc💀💥💀💥💀💥
Dale Earnhardt said the Lumina was a aerodynamic brick quote unquote. Nascar kept bending the rules to make it competitive. Not sure what you talking about. No comparison to the Thunderbird.
@@jclm4188 Incorrect. Dodge Daytona holds the lowest drag co efficient to this day with the Super Bird right behind it. The Birds nose was not as good as the Daytona nose.
This moment makes me laugh the most in this scene. And colleague is jealous of course. Cruise probably wanted to boost his self-esteem with this scene. As far as I know, Cruise had a big influence on the script of this film.
@@wiktoriagargula9050 ...and laughing he knows as well 2:10. Did he know Tom put this scene in the script for cool image purposes only ...and they left the laughing at him in the film on purpose lol? 2:16 ...and even that scene with the people looking on as if thinking "who is this amazing cool guy?"
@@bradford_shaun_murray In fact, Cruise's entry on a motorbike is just the beginning... The moment when a jealous colleague sits on his motorbike is equally funny. I think the whole movie is funny.
Technically, Harry was right, Cole was all over the place in the tunnel turn, he should have been sticking with the low line, especially since he was open throttle(dropping the hammer).
Man, if he'd of wrecked Rowdy's car, Rowdy would've dragged whatever was left of Cole out of that mangled mess of his car, and probably would've beat the ever-lovin' dawg meat outta what would've been left of him! See ya at the races! 🇺🇲🏁🇺🇲🏁🇺🇲🏁!!!
4:39-4:49 is the best sound in the world. Nothing like a single car echoing off of the walls. Gives me goosebumps
I thought I was alone
@@theaube9834 Me too! Bring back single car qualifying!
Music notes 🎶🎶
Me too, it’s just a beautiful thing baby…
Yes
I know Days of Thunder is supposed to be loosely based around Tim Richmond, but it's eerie how similar it is to the rise of Jeff Gordon.
I grew up watching Tim Richmond. They got some of it right but not Tim's personality. He was a crazy guy who loved to have fun.
Duvall makes this movie….outstanding performance
Duvaill should have gotten an Academy Nomination; if not an Oscar!!
Duvall is responsible for making a lot of movies. Great Actor.
"Let Me Drive, I won't make a Fool out of You" One of the Best lines of the Movie
That's why they used it twice, once at the beginning of the movie in this scene and then near the end right before Daytona.
Almost tear up every time.
Epic
@@PS3GamerSyKe me too, some powerful shit if you ask me.
That line definitely changes a person.
Not a single spec of CGI involved here. All authentic, practical and realism at its finest.
no sir M
CGI ?
Can't beat that 80s music.
So sweet. Perfect timing of all of it too 👍🏼👍🏼👌🏼
The sounds of the racecar is music to my ears🎵
One of my favorite movies of all times and that's 40 years of movies
This movie doesn't get enough credit for Tom. It's a spectacular movie. Very good performance from Duvalle. Love it.
Agreed, VERY underrated performances for both of those guys. The whole cast was great now that I think back on it!
It's his best movie lol
And Hans Zimmer!
The sounds at 4:39 are incredible. Can't beat the sound of a single car testing or qualifying on the track.
Because they are real.
I'm sure a movie foley or two had some input, but yeah!
Love how they pan that audio to the left once they cut to the cam in the pit lane. Such awesome detail.
Music...
@@TucsonDudenegative ghost rider it was all 100 pure sound
Man Coles music entrance gives me chills. The whole soundtrack is 💯
"I'm droppin' the hammer."
"No, you're not!"
I always drop the hammer in my Honda accord!
LOL
"I'm droppin' the Hammer".- Cole Trickle to Harry Hogge
Cole: Hold My Beer
Drops hammer 👍
Movies like this are why we need more Drive-In Movie Theatres, to hear that sound echoing from each car. Wow.
I've been to Hull's Drive-In, down not too far from Lexington, Virginia. A couple of friends of mine and I went to watch Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. The only problem was, that we had these two little boys with us, that constantly interrupted the movie, and one of the guys kept trying to be all kind and gentle with them, to get them to quiet down. Now, I'd paid good money to be able to watch that movie, but then blasted kids wouldn't shut up for nothing.
Suddenly, having had enough of their noisiness, I spun around, looked 'em STRAIGHT IN THEIR FACES, and shouted "THAT'S ENOUGH"!!!!!
Believe me, I'm not a mean person. I dearly love children...but sometimes, ya just gotta put yer foot down.
They didn't make a peep, after that.
Believe you me, they were as quiet as a couple of Church Mouses!!!
I still remember seeing this movie in the theaters back in the summer of 1990 when I was a young teenager.
Que película. Ya no salen más así. Se quedaron sin ideas.
It's definitely Charlotte Motor Speedway, and when I ran it from '92-'96 in my annual summer vacation at the Fast Track High Performance Driving School that tunnel turn in 4 was always tricky. People would smack the wall in 4, nobody hit a wall anywhere else. LOVED the frontstretch double dogleg. A really fun track to drive!
Isn’t it Atlanta?? Right before this scene starts I thought they mention Atlanta.
@@787Detox Nope, Atlanta was not a tri-oval when this was made. Definitely filmed at Charlotte. Play it at quarter speed starting at 5:00 and when it gets to 5:05 you'll see (albeit blurry) CHARLOTTE on the wall as the 51 car goes by. Watch the clip for when they are talking in the pits and in the background you can see the Turn 1 Condos.
Days of Thunder was filmed in 1990, Atlanta was reconfigured similar to Charlotte in 1997.
That was before Trackgate, when they laser leveled it and all the drivers wore out their tires because they could go faster… and blamed it on the track (and later on the tires ). Tony Stewart said he was going home and pulling off all the Goodyear tires off his personal cars 😂.
This scene when he drops the hammer just gets me so pumped. I don't know why but I just fucking love it!
Same here, and its the mixture of whats said, the sound of the car, and then that shot at 4:52 right after dropping the hammer, it cuts to the car blowing by the camera. All of that together makes that moment absolutely Amazing and Beautiful!. "Im dropping the hammer" "no youre not" he drops it, you hear the roar of the engine, and see the cars blow past the camera. it also give you a very good idea at just how fast the car is going.
"If you're from California you're not a yankee, you're not really anything." One of the best lines from the whole movie!
Meanwhile at least 11 Championships came from California since this movie.
it he calls him a Yankee. Wilkes Barre is up here in PA. that would make him a Yankee anyway. unless there is another Wilkes Barre
He could have said "Wilkesboro" which in North Carolina, with the local pronunciation "Wilkes-Burah."
love how an older man in this country has no idea what a Yankee is
MK USA1 not from kali, from el cajon,48= seven 123456,seven😉😉
John C Reilly
It's the REAL reason Talledaga Nights was so good.
Perfect man in both roles in each film!
Everything about this movie is AMAZING! You dont quite appreciate it at first especially if your first time watching it was as a kid like me. Everything about this scene is great, and the sound of the car is magnificent(since its real) and one of my favorite moments in this scene is 4:50 when he says "Im dropping the hammer" Then it cuts to the moment the car blows by the camera. That shot with the sounds is absolutely Beautiful
You can literally feel the cool air breeze, god I love this movie.
the sound of that engine roar when he dropped that hammuhhhhhh **CHILLS**
i orgasmed when i heard it
esta peli me marco en la infancia, de vez en cuando todavía la sigo viendo, peliculón!
We don’t speck peasant in America 🇺🇸
Is it bad that I literally watch this movie to see Michael Rooker? I freaking love Rowdy Burns so much! ❤
_"Rowdy? IF HE COULD RUN TOMORROW, HE'D CRASH YOU TO WIN THE RACE!! HE'S _*_MEAN_*_ !!! He's no particular friend, so why?!"_
how politely careful of cole, delicately setting his helmet bag onto rowdy's hood 2:23
@@ballplayer1799A little Tit-for-tat, ya might say. These two got into an intense feud with each other, for just about the first half of the movie, then, after Rowdy's horrific crash, these two become friends...and then, another problem presents himself, in the form of some young upstart, first name of Rusty.
In the end, though, Cole puts Rusty in his place...and wins it all!
But then, you see... there's one more race, that Cole has to take care of...when he and Harry Hogg wind up havin' a foot-race, against each other!
Of course, that was all in good fun!!!!!
See ya at the races! 🇺🇲🏁🇺🇲🏁🇺🇲🏁!!!
Tony Scott, we damn miss you.
The first time I watched this movie was on a bus en-route to the Monaco Grand Prix 1994.
We fell into laughter when Tom's bike came around the corner.
The bike and then he puts his shit on Rowdy car. So disrespectful
the fucking music is epic and sets the tone wonderfully
Love that stock car!😂😂😂😂😂
Days of Thunder was inspired by this scene in real life when Tom Cruise went out to visit Rick Hendrick at the track and Cruise tried out one of the cars and actually got a better time than Hendricks driver that was out there practicing. Cruise knew then he needed to make a movie about the sport, giving you Days of Thunder!
Where is this car now?
bullshit
who was hendrick driver??
@Matt Beeman Yep, that's bullshit.
Richmond died in August 89 and didn't race NASCAR after '86 or so. The movie was shot in early 1990, like 6 months later.
Richmond is the basis of Cole's character (the whole "transitioning from open-wheel to NASCAR" schtick is also ripped straight), but it stops there.
@@jclm4188
Geoff Bodine.
This movie is loosely based on NASCAR driver Tim Richmond’s life. Excellent movie!
I'm watching this after seeing William Byron's 2019 Southern 500 paint scheme reveal on the Hendrick Motorsports RUclips page. They really homaged this scene well.
The funniest thing about the whole conversation within the first 33 seconds of this part in the film is Tim giving a rundown of Coles achievements as a racer. If you listen carefully and actually know your racing, it will stand out like a sore thumb. But for those who don't know racing very well, here is the error. Tim says that Cole runs mostly Indy type deals. 2 WoO (World of Outlaw Sprint Car) wins, 7 strait feature wins (assuming for the same series) and he's been driving ASA. Well, Tim. ASA is the American Speed Association which is a Stock Car based series. So how can Cole never have run a Stock Car before if he is currently driving ASA?? 😁🏁
The retort afterwards sums it up "got yourself a real statistician there, does he know anything about the driver". He basically implied that Tim picked up whatever driver for hire he could find with a win list without understanding the context. As in Tim knows jack shit about racing, like the idea that a winner in Tennis, badminton or ping-pong could win right away in either of the two other sports.
It happens in modern motorsport. We saw it with the FIA W-series, where a few female drivers were thrown into it because of their success in their previous series, ignoring the fact that a GT4 or TCR car has very little cross over to a F3 car and there would be a learning curve the other drivers did have.
It's also happened with a multitude of male drivers in DPi and LMP2.
Because ASA is not NASCAR.. And if you think the difference is trivial. It's like racing Mopeds vs MOTOGP..
@@WizzRacing mic drop.. 👍
OHHHHH FACED!....Scratch MOW-DED!...
This is not daytona its Charlotte which makes perfect sense because it's the closest place for these teams to test back in the day
Remember when this movie was released and saw it in a theater. Good movie, great experience. Nothing like the sound of a carbureted V8 with no exhaust.
It has exhaust. Full length tuned headers and 3 inch pipes with a tuned H pipe at the time of these cars.
That's how a job interview should be done on hiring race car drivers...
roldancbu yup.give em crap & see whhhaaaassssup😉😉
I still don't get the California yankee thing???
Someone help me out!?!
@@buddry538, nascar and it’s origins were rooted in the South. The rib is more about not being from the South. The west don’t have any relevance in the lines between north and south
What people dont understand is if the car is dialed in and perfect.... thats hours of work for the crew driver everyone hence the threat rowdy is honestly standing up for his crew and he wants to win
Yep. If she's too loose, she'll slide all over the place on ya, but if she's too tight, you're gonna have a huge problem steering her with any ease, at all! Don't rev 'er up, to where the Tach Needle's in the red zone, or you'll blow an engine. And watch your right-front tire. With the pressure it receives, going around all of the left-hand turns, she can blow on ya pretty easily, being that it's the tire that has the most down-force on it, going around those left-hand turns, during the race.
And no banging against the outside wall...or anything, or anyone, else! Bad things tend to happen, when ya disobey any of those things! Those cars can get tore up, from the floor up, if any of those things happen!
Movies like this sure are fun to watch...and you can learn a lot, too!
See ya at the races!🏁🏁🏁🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 5:55
Best NASCAR movie ever : DAYS OF THUNDER (1990)
Tremendous to see a young Cal Naughton Jr. inspiried by Cole Trickle and Rowdy Burns before his later success as part of Shake and Bake
How can you not love this movie
My favourite movie of all time, they dont make movies like this anymore and thats why i like all the old classics. This movie has heart, i always dreamed since i was a kid of being a race car driver, its exactly how you imagine a racing life to be. Everything about this film shows heart, ambition, drive, focus, confidence. Fucking love it
So many great actors in 1 scene!
5:32 the Downshift Sound is amazing 😍😍😍
luv this scene
Greatest intro of a hero in the history of man kind!
At the end I was expecting a "shake and bake" from John C. Reilly.
Daytona 500 start has nothing on one car out there like this. that sound is hauntingly beautiful as ive heard it growing up my whole life.
Robert Duvall is cool!
Harry makes jokes about Cole being "a yankee," forgetting that at the time this movie was made (1990), there were several "yankees" in NASCAR: The Bodine brothers Geoff and Brett (from New York), Greg Sacks (also from New York), Alan Kulwicki (Wisconsin) plus a well-known Californian in Ernie Irvan.
Cole Trickle's character was loosely based on the late Tim Richmond, a native of Ohio....
2:16 shades of Rain Man in the music, another Zimmer gem :)
1:58 Cruise shines!
One of my fav scenes in ANY movie. I’m not even a big TC fan.
I love it... Special thanks to Mr. Tom Cruise and his crew too. My deep Respect
Just an FYI... this is not Daytona, it's Charlotte motor speedway, now known as Lowes motor speedway
This movie is one of my top 10 movies. And I don't know alot about racing myself, but the disrespect of Cole placing his bag on the hood of the car.....and then talking about he's watched NASCAR on ESPN. 😆🤣
That's how we all drive to work and back now a days
31.00 won't even make the Charlotte race these days.
Considering you made that comment 27 years after the movie was made....a lot has changed in Nascar
I love the line about Californians in the beginning. I lived in California all my life 47 years. That is exactly right can’t really put a label on us because we are so wildly different in this state.
Reminds me to that SEGA arcade game with the nascars. Always picked the manual shift.
Zero Cool Kid Daytona USA.
When you go for a qualifying lap on Nascar 15. It’s also satisfying to create a fast setup from scratch, Almost feels like being a crew chief and driver combination
This is hands down my favourite movie of all time!!! This scene when he drops the hammer you can feel him pump the clutch slam it into gear and floor the fuck out the car!!! “I’m dropping the hammer”
I miss movies like this !
Let me drive I won't make a fool out of you that gave me chills he's like I got this brotha trust me!
Even Ol' Rowdy Yates had to be impressed...and maybe even a little intimidated! I mean, after all, here comes a guy to try out, that only what, one guy, knows about?
And then, it happens:This guy talks his way into having a chance granted to him...and he even beats Rowdy's time!
He was right:He didn't make a fool out of Harry Hogg, after all!
Now this is what is called WIDESCREEN.
who could turn down that handsome face, oh when tom rode in on that motorcycle, yessss! ❤😘
This is actually Charlotte that they're testing at, not Daytona.
+David Dearing As an American and possibly regular watcher of this sport, Sir, which of the two tracks would you say is nicer (as in, offering more speed / entertainment)?
+vtr0104 Daytona, along with Talladega. The restrictor plate races are often more excited since it involves pack racing.
infinitlycool
Much obliged, Sir. Have a great week-end ahead!
You can thank Restrictor Plates for that.
2 by 2 racing IS Pack Racing. The stuff from the 90's, especially early on, was more single file, follow the leader.
Today's plate racing is far more competitive.
I see this movie, was my favorite from all Nascar Racing movies .
Coolest thing about this movie is that the racing scenes were filmed during actual races
Harry Hog got lots of pull. Street cred off the charts
IDK ANY driver or crew chief that would let this Go down
It’s nice to see Randy before he lost is mind.
And a legend is born...
This is Charlotte, not Daytona, and if anyone is wondering 31 flat is an average speed of 174.19
5:13 I wish the camera would've quickly turned to the left at 5:15 and shown Cole from behind for a second instead of showing Buck. That would've looked epic.
I love this movie from back in the day and often wondered why they never made a part two
Unless they thought it was so good that perhaps a sequel might ruin it
Now the sequel is coming
I love this movie 😎
As good a movie as there has ever been, bar none
Chris Maher lol
you guys need to watch more movies. this one is entertaining, but not great
really?
Credit to whoever got that camera shot at 4:53. I figure it was a stationary cam set up for the car to drive by at speed but it also pans. Cool shot
i love how the engines sound in this movie
Just listen to that engine music to my ears!
Great scene but the track is Charlotte Motor Speedway. Even without a restrictor plate 31 seconds is impossible for a nascar at Daytona. In 1987 Bill Elliott set the track record (qualifying) with a top speed of 210 mph in just under 43 seconds. Races today aren’t quite as fast, with the Daytona 500 pole sitter having a time typically around 46 seconds and 194 mph.
this movie great.2 reasons, no cgi& no smart phones💀
Early 90s nascar is the best nascar, yep.
Cole Trickle, one of my fave movie characters 💯 ‘I’m dropping the hammer!’ 💪🏼 🚘🔥
He dropped the damn hammer 🔨
5:13 that shot of camera is like from a commercial ... great
Beautiful
Chevy Lumina best looking Nascar race car ever built.
Mark Hall Ford Thunderbird 80s, dodge superbird 70s
Kenneth Best ford thunderbird. still holds windtunnel record for slipperiest prodution american car .i believe to this day.dont quote me. google it .thats what im about to do.me, nothing beats the matador, amc💀💥💀💥💀💥
King's Plymouth Superbird 43 Blue
Dale Earnhardt said the Lumina was a aerodynamic brick quote unquote. Nascar kept bending the rules to make it competitive. Not sure what you talking about. No comparison to the Thunderbird.
@@jclm4188 Incorrect. Dodge Daytona holds the lowest drag co efficient to this day with the Super Bird right behind it. The Birds nose was not as good as the Daytona nose.
Old school . This is best .
open face, no fresh air system, no hans, flat alum.seat, danica woulda really been complaining back then💀💥💀💥💀💥💀💥
4:48 i love that part
My favourite scene in the movie ; engine sounded ausome > remember cineima vibrating!
If this were a test at Daytona, 31 seconds flat would be a little over nine seconds faster than the current record for NASCAR at Daytona.
4:15 turn on the captions for the favorite "let me drive..." line. Hilarious, and will confuse the deaf lol
"Might've been better if he cracked up the car" HAHAHAHAHA
1:58 Cruise shines! 🕶
This moment makes me laugh the most in this scene. And colleague is jealous of course. Cruise probably wanted to boost his self-esteem with this scene. As far as I know, Cruise had a big influence on the script of this film.
@@wiktoriagargula9050 ...and laughing he knows as well 2:10. Did he know Tom put this scene in the script for cool image purposes only ...and they left the laughing at him in the film on purpose lol? 2:16 ...and even that scene with the people looking on as if thinking "who is this amazing cool guy?"
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In fact, Cruise's entry on a motorbike is just the beginning... The moment when a jealous colleague sits on his motorbike is equally funny. I think the whole movie is funny.
Imagine how many more people would have liked this film if it wasn't Tom Cruise driving in circles but on an actual racetrack.
Technically, Harry was right, Cole was all over the place in the tunnel turn, he should have been sticking with the low line, especially since he was open throttle(dropping the hammer).
Man, if he'd of wrecked Rowdy's car, Rowdy would've dragged whatever was left of Cole out of that mangled mess of his car, and probably would've beat the ever-lovin' dawg meat outta what would've been left of him!
See ya at the races! 🇺🇲🏁🇺🇲🏁🇺🇲🏁!!!
oh yeah! rolls in on a harley softail heritage! With classic white wall tires too!
Finally the Rockstar released a days of thunder car on GTA.
Love charlotte great track.
He said, I'm dropping the hammer!!!!
2:05 I never knew Tom Cruise was a Terminator.
“I’m dropping the hammer!”
Cool movie . This track is Charlotte Motor Speedway
$2500 rental for a track day? I wish
add a zero to that ?