In recent years there have been two essential documentaries made about MotoGP by Mark Neale. We’d urge you to pick them both up. You can see the trailers for each documentary below and a little more info about each film.

1: FASTER by Mark Neale:

FASTER is a documentary but it doesn’t feel like one. It has the energy and intensity of a Hollywood action movie, with the difference that in FASTER the action and danger are for real.

FASTER is the first feature-length documentary to go inside the MotoGP world since television took a sport watched by a few thousand spectators at race tracks and turned it into prime-time entertainment for over 350 million people worldwide.

FASTER was produced by Los Angeles-based Spark Productions in association with Dorna Sports SL, the rights-holder for MotoGP and the driving force behind the sport’s explosive growth over the last decade.

Filmed around the world during the 2001 and 2002 seasons, FASTER asks this question: How do you go faster than the rest, how do you win at this glamorous, dangerous game? The movie could be subtitled: How do you beat Valentino Rossi? The 24 year old Italian, world champion in 2001 and 2002, currently dominates MotoGP. He is the biggest star the sport has ever seen and the charismatic center of the film.

In addition to Rossi, FASTER focuses on three other MotoGP riders: Rossi’s bitter rival Max Biaggi; the brilliant but injury-prone Garry McCoy; and the rising teenage star John Hopkins. Their stories reveal both the ecstasy and the terror of life in the insanely fast lane, as do the tales told by a supporting cast of former world champions including Mick Doohan, Kevin Schwantz, Wayne Rainey, Kenny Roberts and Barry Sheene.

All of this makes FASTER much more than a film about the current MotoGP scene. It is the definitive story of motorcycle racing at the highest level, and of the handful of men who have what it takes to win. Two wheels. 200MPH. Every man for himself.

Narrated by Ewan McGregor
Starring Valentino Rossi, Max Biaggi, Garry McCoy, John Hopkins
Music by tomandandy and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Written and directed by Mark Neale
Running time: 103 minutes

You can buy Faster from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk at a really cheap price:

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2: The Doctor, The Tornado & The Kentucky Kid by Mark Neale:

THE DOCTOR, THE TORNADO AND THE KENTUCKY KID (DTK) was written, directed and produced by Mark Neale, whose 2004 smash hit FASTER has met with critical and commercial success around the world. FASTER sold over 100,000 DVDs in the first six months of its release (December ’04 – June ’05).

DTK is narrated by Ewan McGregor and tells the story of the biggest motorcycle race in American history, the 2005 Red Bull US Grand Prix at Laguna Seca, California.

It was a fairy-tale weekend. A sell-out crowd watched ‘Kentucky Kid’ Nicky Hayden defy his critics, and after two seasons of struggles and setbacks, take his maiden grand prix victory under the greatest imaginable pressure, at the first such event to be held on his home ground since 1994.

DTK captures all the action, emotion and personal drama that unfolded in the days leading up to the race and on race day itself. Shot on High Definition and Super 16 mm film, with additional footage from multiple on-bike cameras and breathtaking helicopter images, DTK takes the viewer inside the experience of 200 mph motorcycle racing with unparalleled, visceral intensity.

However, like its predecessor FASTER, DTK is much more than an eye-popping document of a sporting contest. It’s riveting popular entertainment: a character-driven story with a strong, simple hook. It tells the tale of a group of specialists – the MotoGP teams – with one thing on their minds: devising and executing the perfect plan, under massive pressure and with no margin for error, and walking away with the spoils of victory.

You can buy The Doctor, The Tornado & The Kentucky Kid from Amazon.com
or from Amazon.co.uk

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