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At the "Prototype Exhibition" party, Jimmy and Joe hop in two cars for a run through the Chicago streets. But, CART cars do not have built-in starters, they need external ones. See more...

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At the beginning of the film they show you clips from what was supposed to be the Australian race. However all the footage is from Toronto and on the podium shot the back board says Molson Indy which is only the case for races in Canada. [It is in fact the Australian coastline shown in this movie, it is Surfers Paradise, you can see Crown Towers to the left of the screen, which is situated in Surfers Paradise Australia. (It is the last building on the screen inline with the scrolling word and I am pretty sure that is the A.N.A International, right below it.)]
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At the "prototype" party Jimmy and Joe hop into two cars and run through the streets of "Chicago". Cars used for display at such events don't normally have engines in them and are bodywork only. [But you see that when the cars are first shown, into the "fountain", they move with their own engines so they can't be "bodywork only".]
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During the race in the rain, raindrops, somehow, move ever so slowly off the helmet's visor at 120mph+. [Having spent many years in a formula car I can assure that the mistake is the amount of rain on the visor. Through aerodynamics the visor gets almost no wind / rain. Notice that some keep the visor cracked at speed, 200 wind would rip it open. The drops do move slowly off a visor, but very few drops get on the visor even on a road course.]
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At the very last race in Detroit the announcer says it is a sunny day, yet in the next scene a red car is shown with rain tyres on. [It's actually quite common for teams to only put slicks on just before the cars go out - the last thing a driver wants is a slow puncture acquired in the paddock.]
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Joe And Jimmy have the same paint job on their helmet as the real drivers that drove the Pac-West cars in the CART series during the 2000 season. The reason they did that was so the real racing shots and the studio shots would look almost the same. Most of the time you can tell the difference because for the most part the real cars have a camera on top of the roll bar. They are especially easy to see in the Detroit race. [You can also tell Jimmy from real shots, because Jimmy's helmet has JB on the top.]
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The day before the Japanese race there is a shot of the grandstand. If you look at the pillars you can see normal numbers written, but the setting is supposed to be in Japan, so it should be Japanese numbers. [The Japanese have used western "arabic" numbers for over 100 years.]
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The German Race debuted in the CART season in 2001. The movie also shows Juan Pablo Montoya preparing for the final race, but Montoya went to F1 in 2000, to the Williams team. Therefore, Montoya shouldn't appear in the movie. [Montoya started F1 in 2001, so his being there is correct.]
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On the cars of Memo, Joe, and Jimmy it says Haas which would be Newman/Haas racing. I thought they were Pac West racing. [This is wrong. The "Haas" seen here does not refer to Newman/Haas Racing. Rather, it is a company called Haas CNC, which specializes in machine tool manufacturing. Haas CNC was a long-time sponsor of PacWest Racing, right up until the team went bankrupt two seasons after this movie was made.]
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The race in Germany is supposedly on a road course. The rules of Champ Cars say that any new races held outside of America must be on an Oval. [This rule was changed a handful of years ago, as evidenced by CART's new race at the Brands Hatch circuit in 2003.]
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When Sophia and Beaux have their argument at the beginning of the movie, and Beaux ends up dumping Sophia, Beaux leaves with his helmet under his arm.  However, once he leaves, Sophia takes off the ring he gave her, and puts it by his helmet on the table. [Racecar drivers always have a backup helmet in case one breaks, or has a faulty communication system.]
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