I wanted to look back at Netflix’s NASCAR: Full Speed, as it’s been a couple months since it came out.
We’ve now had some time to sit with it and then look forward to what’ll hopefully be a second season filmed this fall.
By the way, I’m hoping for yet another one-shot, split-second cameo, like I had in the Bristol Motor Speedway section.
So let’s talk about this docuseries. I was a huge fan of it — not to say there weren’t things that couldn’t be improved. But I thought Netflix did an excellent job with their production and how they constructed the framework of the series.
I want to first give a shoutout to the uncensored nature of the coverage. Yes, it might seem juvenile to be like “tHeY sHoUlD lEt ThEm CuSs,” and I understand that, but it’s the true nature of these races. These guys get pissed. These guys get angry. They’re gonna fly off the handle at some point or another, and case in point, the video below from NASCAR’s SHOWTIME series way back in 2010 (2011?) is infamous and has been lodged in my brain for a decade.
“Stop flipping me off and just f**king drive your s**t, you little b***h! Flip me off again, motherf**ker. I’ll dump your s**t.”
Words to live by, Kyle Busch. *salutes*
I somewhat jest, but that’s the stuff I want to hear. I want the raw audio and these guys’ thoughts laid out in front of us (and besides, I’d much rather that than bleep after bleep).
We get Bubba Wallace telling Tyler Reddick, “Good job, you little f**ker,” after the No. 45 won at Kansas Speedway. Gianna Tulio, Ryan Blaney‘s fiance, giving him the Cliff-Booth-to-Rick-Dalton speech from Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (“Be Ryan f**kin’ Blaney”). Blaney calling someone a d**khead. Denny Hamlin calling Joey Logano a “piece-of-s**t human.”
Maybe I’m alone in this, but I think that stuff is hilarious, and it was just fun to hear how mad these guys are at each other for a good chunk of the race (we knew this, but it’s more fun to have the audio proof).
In terms of production, Netflix kicked ass on this series. Cameras were everywhere all weekend each playoff race, and I certainly noticed it at Bristol when I covered the night race weekend there. It wasn’t like they were in the way — they were efficient and did what they needed to do. But the presence was there, and it was kinda cool…
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