Stories by @bumpdrafter

Rodney Sandstorm

A Ford engineer and massive racing fan winds up testing one of his team's prototypes, only to become the lead driver for an IMSA and WEC racing team. Similar to series like "Ted Lasso" and "Chad Powers".

The Fabulous Hudson Hornet

The Fabulous Hudson Hornet is a hotshot rookie race car on the Piston Cup circuit in 1951. Before he mentored seven-time Piston Cup champion and World Grand Prix winner Lightning McQueen, he was a hardcore racer himself.

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2001)

If Talladega Nights was released 5 years earlier

Las Vegas Outlaw

Kurt Busch is a retired NASCAR Cup Series driver who had one of the sport's most significant "redemption arcs." Kurt, the 2004 series champion, had numerous feuds with other drivers in the first decade of his career before landing at the backmarker team Phoenix Racing in 2012 due to an altercation with team owner Roger Penske. This film would tell the story of his incident in 2011 up until his Daytona 500 win in 2017.

Pokémon (1988)

What if Pokémon came out for the NES in the late '80s and became the phenomenon that it is now a bunch of years earlier than it did in our timeline? I think it'd be a Brat Pack-esque movie with some influences from the other Japanese franchises of the '80s.

The Mailman

Based on the incredible true story, Stetson Bennett, a community-college quarterback walks onto the University of Georgia football team.