Episodes

13 episodes in this season

The Fastest Men on Earth

The Road Racers

The Right Stuff

The Pioneers

The Aristocrats

Years of Thunder

Racing for the Reich

Forests Deep, Mountains High

Those Red Cars

The Revolutionaries

Making a Marque

The Richest Prize

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The Power and the Glory

TV Series

1991

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The Richest Prize

Season 1 · Episode 12 · Dec 20, 1991

To win the Indianapolis 500 is an American dream. The drivers share over $7 million for just one race. This year's winner, Rick Mears , has won the richest prize in motor sport four times. He describes what it is like to drive round the famous track at speeds approaching 240 mph. "You work all year to try and win this one," he says. The programme features some of the great races and spectacular crashes. With classic archive material, it evokes the most dangerous and exciting age of US motor racing, the Board Speedways of the 1920s. In these high-banked ovals, built of wooden planks, drivers of some of the earliest single-seaters, the Millers, risked all in pursuit of riches and the American National Championship.

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The Power and the Glory

TV Series

1991

Documentary

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The Richest Prize

Season 1 · Episode 12 · Dec 20, 1991

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