'Gears & Tears' BBC 1 2nd August
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Documentary series starting on BBC1 next Monday at 10.30pm about BriSCA F1 stock car racing.
I love the sport myself but this sounds like it could be interesting / entertaining viewing for anyone.
Following blurb taken from F1stockars.com
Gears and Tears (6 x 30 minute episodes)
The programme will be going out each week on BBC One for 6 weeks starting 2nd August.
In the heart of England there’s a secret passion. It’s an obsession that’s divided two rival families for 40 years. Their battlefield is motorsport’s best kept secret – Formula One Stock Car racing – a world where hauliers, hairdressers and double glazing salesmen can be World Champions. Every weekend these racing dynasties fight fiery gladiatorial showdowns in thundering home-built chariots, intent not just on winning, but also destroying the opposition’s cars.
Gears and Tears, a six-part documentary series, is the story behind a single Stock Car season and follows a remarkably bitter battle between the two dominant clans in the sport. The Wainmans are from Yorkshire and the Smiths from Lancashire. This is a latter day War of the Roses where passion, pride and family are everything. Ultimately, all that matters will be victory at the end of a vicious campaign all the way to the World Final.
Frankie Wainman Jnr and Andy Smith are arch-enemies who have much in common. Their fathers, Frankie ‘Smiler’ Wainman Snr and Stuart ‘The Maestro’ Smith Snr, were the leading drivers in the 70s and 80s. This was the sport’s heyday when Stock Car racing was as much a part of popular culture as Wrestling, Curly Wurlys and the Rubik’s Cube – and the crowds flocked in their tens of thousands.
The glory days may be gone but racing is still a way of life that demands total family commitment. Drivers are championed by wives, girlfriends, mothers and grandmas who are even more passionate than their men folk. Women take a leading role in the series where brutal on-track battles mirror the heated rows off-track. Crashes and tears at the trackside are the order of the day, as the episodes progress through a season that takes the competition between the two dynasties to fever pitch. It’s neck and neck all the way. Deliberate smashes, accusations of cheating and even a real life ‘Romeo and Juliet’ love story all build to the most Shakespearean of series conclusions.
Gears and Tears celebrates values that are often forgotten in contemporary Britain. The country’s heavy industry and manufacturing may have all but disappeared, but here are people who can build cars with their bare hands and who drive them with astonishing skill and courage. It’s a world where amateurism, enthusiasm, improvisation – and a handy knack for home-grown engineering – are still king.
Over the nine-month season the film makers enjoyed unprecedented access to this world of everyday heroes, who come from all walks of life. We meet a most unlikely competitor in this macho sport, a ladies’ hairdresser from Nuneaton; and the 16 year old landowner’s daughter who swaps her show-jumper for 740 horse power, with calamitous results. We follow the lad who stands up to on-track bullying, and gets a ban for his pains; and we marvel at the eternal optimism of a window and conservatory salesman who, despite every setback, still dreams of Stock Car glory.
Gears and Tears – it’s the stuff of legends.
I love the sport myself but this sounds like it could be interesting / entertaining viewing for anyone.
Following blurb taken from F1stockars.com
Gears and Tears (6 x 30 minute episodes)
The programme will be going out each week on BBC One for 6 weeks starting 2nd August.
In the heart of England there’s a secret passion. It’s an obsession that’s divided two rival families for 40 years. Their battlefield is motorsport’s best kept secret – Formula One Stock Car racing – a world where hauliers, hairdressers and double glazing salesmen can be World Champions. Every weekend these racing dynasties fight fiery gladiatorial showdowns in thundering home-built chariots, intent not just on winning, but also destroying the opposition’s cars.
Gears and Tears, a six-part documentary series, is the story behind a single Stock Car season and follows a remarkably bitter battle between the two dominant clans in the sport. The Wainmans are from Yorkshire and the Smiths from Lancashire. This is a latter day War of the Roses where passion, pride and family are everything. Ultimately, all that matters will be victory at the end of a vicious campaign all the way to the World Final.
Frankie Wainman Jnr and Andy Smith are arch-enemies who have much in common. Their fathers, Frankie ‘Smiler’ Wainman Snr and Stuart ‘The Maestro’ Smith Snr, were the leading drivers in the 70s and 80s. This was the sport’s heyday when Stock Car racing was as much a part of popular culture as Wrestling, Curly Wurlys and the Rubik’s Cube – and the crowds flocked in their tens of thousands.
The glory days may be gone but racing is still a way of life that demands total family commitment. Drivers are championed by wives, girlfriends, mothers and grandmas who are even more passionate than their men folk. Women take a leading role in the series where brutal on-track battles mirror the heated rows off-track. Crashes and tears at the trackside are the order of the day, as the episodes progress through a season that takes the competition between the two dynasties to fever pitch. It’s neck and neck all the way. Deliberate smashes, accusations of cheating and even a real life ‘Romeo and Juliet’ love story all build to the most Shakespearean of series conclusions.
Gears and Tears celebrates values that are often forgotten in contemporary Britain. The country’s heavy industry and manufacturing may have all but disappeared, but here are people who can build cars with their bare hands and who drive them with astonishing skill and courage. It’s a world where amateurism, enthusiasm, improvisation – and a handy knack for home-grown engineering – are still king.
Over the nine-month season the film makers enjoyed unprecedented access to this world of everyday heroes, who come from all walks of life. We meet a most unlikely competitor in this macho sport, a ladies’ hairdresser from Nuneaton; and the 16 year old landowner’s daughter who swaps her show-jumper for 740 horse power, with calamitous results. We follow the lad who stands up to on-track bullying, and gets a ban for his pains; and we marvel at the eternal optimism of a window and conservatory salesman who, despite every setback, still dreams of Stock Car glory.
Gears and Tears – it’s the stuff of legends.
t ! I have said Top Gear, 5th Gear, Formula 1 are high rated programs for me. What did it recommend? Drugs War, Venture Bros, and The Incredible Hulk FFS !Heres a link to the preview clip 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00920vx
Also there is a facebook page with over 2600 members including some 'stars' of the show who post, the series producer and narrator. PLEASE JOIN!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=251919393431
Starts this Monday (Aug 2nd) at 10.30pm, on BBC1.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00920vx
Also there is a facebook page with over 2600 members including some 'stars' of the show who post, the series producer and narrator. PLEASE JOIN!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=251919393431
Starts this Monday (Aug 2nd) at 10.30pm, on BBC1.
Edited by speedy555 on Tuesday 27th July 19:37
Here's the youtube preview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrqGEGl13Qo for anyone else having problems with the BBC link
Looks awesome!!
Looks awesome!!
speedy555 said:
Heres a link to the preview clip
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00920vx
Also there is a facebook page with over 2600 members including some 'stars' of the show who post, the series producer and narrator. PLEASE JOIN!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=251919393431
Starts this Monday (Aug 2nd) at 10.30pm, on BBC1.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00920vx
Also there is a facebook page with over 2600 members including some 'stars' of the show who post, the series producer and narrator. PLEASE JOIN!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=251919393431
Starts this Monday (Aug 2nd) at 10.30pm, on BBC1.
Edited by speedy555 on Tuesday 27th July 19:37
mrchrisdavies said:
Here's the youtube preview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrqGEGl13Qo for anyone else having problems with the BBC link
Looks awesome!!
Sure does, thanks for signing up! Looks awesome!!
ETA: Thanks for the tip off OP
Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 28th July 08:32
God that takes me back .. cheers for heads up ..
I remember vividly Wainman Snr Crashing at Hartlepool directly in front of where we were sitting and various bits of car slapping into the concrete wall 3 inches from my nose ... I was 8 at the time and to say my Father reacted sharpish to pull me down to below the level of the concrete would be an understatement !!
I remember vividly Wainman Snr Crashing at Hartlepool directly in front of where we were sitting and various bits of car slapping into the concrete wall 3 inches from my nose ... I was 8 at the time and to say my Father reacted sharpish to pull me down to below the level of the concrete would be an understatement !!
I wonder if this is why Tom Cruise & Cameron Diaz have been over recently - it could be the basis for a 'Days of Thunder 2' movie?
I can see the trailer now:
'E wor'a tyre fitter from Batley, She wor'a lass from't wrong side o't Pennines makin pasties for Greggs but when they met oot on't track, it wor proper carnage!
I can see the trailer now:
'E wor'a tyre fitter from Batley, She wor'a lass from't wrong side o't Pennines makin pasties for Greggs but when they met oot on't track, it wor proper carnage!
Roman said:
I wonder if this is why Tom Cruise & Cameron Diaz have been over recently - it could be the basis for a 'Days of Thunder 2' movie?
I can see the trailer now:
'E wor'a tyre fitter from Batley, She wor'a lass from't wrong side o't Pennines makin pasties for Greggs but when they met oot on't track, it wor proper carnage!
I can see the trailer now:
'E wor'a tyre fitter from Batley, She wor'a lass from't wrong side o't Pennines makin pasties for Greggs but when they met oot on't track, it wor proper carnage!
Roman said:
I wonder if this is why Tom Cruise & Cameron Diaz have been over recently - it could be the basis for a 'Days of Thunder 2' movie?
I can see the trailer now:
'E wor'a tyre fitter from Batley, She wor'a lass from't wrong side o't Pennines makin pasties for Greggs but when they met oot on't track, it wor proper carnage!
hahaha. see more quotes taken from 'the movie' here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DMvM8iZEVoI can see the trailer now:
'E wor'a tyre fitter from Batley, She wor'a lass from't wrong side o't Pennines makin pasties for Greggs but when they met oot on't track, it wor proper carnage!
Roman said:
I wonder if this is why Tom Cruise & Cameron Diaz have been over recently - it could be the basis for a 'Days of Thunder 2' movie?
I can see the trailer now:
'E wor'a tyre fitter from Batley, She wor'a lass from't wrong side o't Pennines makin pasties for Greggs but when they met oot on't track, it wor proper carnage!
I think is quite possibly the funniest thing Ive read on here in a long time.I can see the trailer now:
'E wor'a tyre fitter from Batley, She wor'a lass from't wrong side o't Pennines makin pasties for Greggs but when they met oot on't track, it wor proper carnage!
Thankyou
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