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The Truth? Can you handle the Truth?
16 years ago
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In 2008, NFL Films and Intersport released a fantastic documentary called "Truth in 24".
It's 2008 and Audi has won the 24 Heurs du Mans for four years in a row. They're coming back with the aging R10 TDI prototype, hoping to make it five. But there's trouble in the works: Peugeot has their own diesel prototype racer and it has been faster than the R10 at every race they've run leading up to LeMans. The calculations are coming up that it is going to be three seconds faster per lap for that race. Never mind that eight of their nine drivers are former Formula One drivers.
Can Audi possibly pull off a fifth consecutive win in the face of such overwhelming odds?
You know what the most wonderful thing about this documentary is? That I can wholeheartedly recommend it to absolutely anyone, from the die-hard petrolheads to people who wouldn't watch a race if you strapped them down to the couch. Because this is not a racing documentary. This is a documentary about racing, about a racing team, about the machines and what intense hard work and training has to be done to prepare for a 24-hour race. This is a documentary about people with a single-minded focus, training to better themselves, to shorten pit stops by mere tenths of a second by drilling over and over and over, weeks before the race will actually happen.
Yes, the last third of the film concentrates on the 24 hour race, but there are interviews, there are stories. There is watching how the team engineer tries to stay awake through the whole ordeal. The absolute exhaustion on the faces of the garage crews. The view when going over 200MPH in the dead of night. And in the end, the stunning realization of how a single decision can make the difference between victory and defeat. And that even if it looks wrong when you're in the cockpit, you have to trust your engineer to make the right decisions.
Please, do yourself a favor and check out Truth in 24. It's a free download on iTunes, or you can get the DVD for only $8 from Audi (at least, once it's back in stock). Trust me, you'll never regret it. And that's the truth.
It's 2008 and Audi has won the 24 Heurs du Mans for four years in a row. They're coming back with the aging R10 TDI prototype, hoping to make it five. But there's trouble in the works: Peugeot has their own diesel prototype racer and it has been faster than the R10 at every race they've run leading up to LeMans. The calculations are coming up that it is going to be three seconds faster per lap for that race. Never mind that eight of their nine drivers are former Formula One drivers.
Can Audi possibly pull off a fifth consecutive win in the face of such overwhelming odds?
You know what the most wonderful thing about this documentary is? That I can wholeheartedly recommend it to absolutely anyone, from the die-hard petrolheads to people who wouldn't watch a race if you strapped them down to the couch. Because this is not a racing documentary. This is a documentary about racing, about a racing team, about the machines and what intense hard work and training has to be done to prepare for a 24-hour race. This is a documentary about people with a single-minded focus, training to better themselves, to shorten pit stops by mere tenths of a second by drilling over and over and over, weeks before the race will actually happen.
Yes, the last third of the film concentrates on the 24 hour race, but there are interviews, there are stories. There is watching how the team engineer tries to stay awake through the whole ordeal. The absolute exhaustion on the faces of the garage crews. The view when going over 200MPH in the dead of night. And in the end, the stunning realization of how a single decision can make the difference between victory and defeat. And that even if it looks wrong when you're in the cockpit, you have to trust your engineer to make the right decisions.
Please, do yourself a favor and check out Truth in 24. It's a free download on iTunes, or you can get the DVD for only $8 from Audi (at least, once it's back in stock). Trust me, you'll never regret it. And that's the truth.
Only one thing wrong with it, though. There weren't enough green cars :)