The motorsport genre is a relatively new genre enabled by improvements in camera and film technology. While often considered a sub-genre of action films, motorsport films capture the adrenaline and excitement of racing. The genre started gaining popularity in the 1960s with films like Grand Prix and Winning, inspired by advances in automotive technology and accessibility that allowed audiences to relate to the stories. Common features of motorsport films include protagonists overcoming obstacles through perseverance and rivalries set during street or professional racing.

1. THE HISTORY OF THE
MOTORSPORT GENRE

2. THE GENRE
The motorsport genre is a relatively new style of genre, that has been
able to have been created due to the improvement in cameras,
camera quality and editing. This has allowed motorsport to be shown
in the high paced, action films, that it truly deserves.
Although, motorsport is more of a sub-genre rather than its own
complete genre, often falling into the action genre. With the high
paced, adrenalin fuelled shots and scenes, it gets the viewers heart
rate up and questioning what will happen next. Making for perfect
viewing.

3. WHEN IT STARTED
Motorsport films really started to take to the screens and entice the
audience in the mid 1960s. With films such as ‘Grand Prix’ (1966)
and ‘Winning’ (1969) Capturing the publics eye and showing them
what racing and motorsport can do.
This rise was heavily influenced by the improvements of cars at the
time and the accessibility for people able to get cars and for everyone
to have one. Allowing the audience to link themselves to the films.
With the improvements with the cars as well, the speed got higher
and the real life racing getting more entertaining also.

4. MY TOP 5 BEST MOTORSPORT
FILMS
5. 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
4. Talladega Nights- The Ballard of Ricky Bobby (2006)
3. Cannonball Run 2 (1984)
2. Rush (2013)
1. The Worlds Fastest Indian (2005)

5. COMMON FEATURES
Motorsport films often have very common films which are run
through majority of the motorsport films. They can often be quite
predictable or based partly on true stories but this just brings up the
excitement of a motorsport film.
They are often set around racing or going fast. Often street racing or
racing on a real life race track. The protagonist is often doing
incredibly well, until a crash or a rival comes along and upsets the
rhythm. Causing the protagonist to have to try unbelievably hard to
get back to the best and to overcome the obstacle to win the race and
defeat his rival.

6. HISTORY OF MOTORSPORT
Formula 1- The first race took place in 1946, however, this was not a championship race.
In 1950 the first championship race took place at Silverstone. The teams often raced in
pre-war cars, using 1.5 litre Supercharged engines or 4.5 litre normally aspirated engines.
At the beginning it was a incredibly dangerous sport, 13 people were killed in the first
decade. Over the years health and safety has changed massively, slowing the cars down
and making the tracks more suitable to be able to host events at such high speeds.
Moto GP- Its first championship race was in 1949, being 65 years old and the oldest world
championship of motorsport. In the 1950s it was mostly dominated by the Europeans, but
in the 1960s the Japanese bike market started to bloom, bringing in the Japanese
manufactures such as Honda, Suzuki and Kawasaki, they started to rival the European
Manufactures like MV Agusta and Moto Guzzi. Over the years the racing has become safer,
however the original principle of going as fast as you can on a motorbike is still the same,
even 65 years later.