EPISODES

THE SURFERS RULE – Three madcap drag-racing surf bums build an explosive race car that obliterates the competition. Once on top, the “Surfers” then quit the sport, triumphant. The two mechanics never look back, but their driver is wired on adrenaline and can’t shake his nitro addiction, no matter how dire the consequences.

SPEED KILLS: INDY ’73 — Indy’s Month of May is a festive celebration of ingenuity, valor, and bravado. But fire and rain render 1973’s running of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Sweepstakes as a dark memory best suppressed. However, the scale of this disaster is both catastrophic and, unfortunately, unforgettable.

PRESSURE WAVE: MACH 1 AT BLACK ROCK — It was an international race between two epic figures to break the speed of sound on a desolate desert playa in the outback of Nevada. With the winner comes fame and a place in history. The loser? Possible tragedy, if not worse: Ignominious failure.

DON’T CALL ME “CHA-CHA” — Marketed as a high-velocity sex kitten while breaking drag racing’s glass ceiling, 3-time Top Fuel Champion Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney risked life and limb to prove women could win with dignity. But what cost equality?

FISTS FULL OF DOLLARS — During 1979’S President’s Day Snowstorm the U.S.A. is suffering from a winter of malaise. Bored and captive in their living rooms, Americans endure the first live-televised 500-mile motor race as it goes from mundane to violent. When the crashing stops, the fists begin to fly — and overnight Gool Ol’ Boy stock-car racing explodes into the mainstream as lucrative big-business.

VICTORY LANE OR BUST — Dashing American Playboys show up at LeMans and the Indy 500 with the finest machinery and multi-million dollar operations, but with no corporate sponsors and no backstory. Where did all this money come from? And where are the bodies buried?

THE FUNNY CAR JUNGLE BOOK — Staring down his unspeakable grief four days after his teenage son dies, in 1978 drag-racing superstar Tom “the Mongoo$e” McEwen faces off against his “Hot Wheels” business partner Don “the Snake” Prudhomme in a nationally televised battle that will either honor the memory of McEwen’s deceased son or enhance the reputation of the “Snake” as a ruthless conqueror of his victims.

DRAGSTRIP WOMEN OF THE YEAR: In 2018, four women were simultaneously Top Fuel Dragster national champions in the major leagues of international competition. From Finland to California to far-flung Australia, had these 330-mph missiles somehow become so easy to drive that a girl could do it?

THE TWIN POWERS OF ALEX ZANARDI: Days after 9/11, Alex Zanardi’s legs were cut off in a race that many hoped would be canceled out of respect for the dead. How does a man survive from mutilation? Much less triumph?