(dramatic music)
(race car roars)
- [Narrator] There's nothing in sports,
quite like the world of NASCAR.
The blend of intensity, intricacy, and danger.
- [Race Voice Over] Four, three, two, one, start, start.
- [Race Announcer] Start your engines!
- [Driver] It's like stepping in to a lion's den.
- [Narrator] Bumper to bumper.
(engine revs)
Fender to fender.
Lap after lap.
And it's been that way for more than 70 years.
- [Race Team Announcer 1] Oh my God!
Hang on to it bud, hang on to it.
- [Race Announcer] And in to the wall!
(crowd gasps)
- [Race Team Announcer 2] Oh my God, that is not good.
That is not good.
- [Race Team Announcer 3] Had a hell of a wreck here.
- [Race Team Announcer 4] Holy crap!
- [Race Team Announcer 5] We got a terrible wreck behind.
- [Narrator] With stakes so high.
Emotions will inevitably rise.
- [Race Announcer] And there's a fight.
- [Narrator] To be great, a driver needs focus.
And the guts to do it all at 200mph.
- [Driver 2] Daytona is our Superbowl.
- [Race Announcer] The Daytona 500 is the biggest stage
in all of Stock car racing.
- [Driver 3] Daytona is wild.
- [Narrator] Now a new season is dawning.
And with it, the 62nd running of the Daytona 500.
Is the one race that every single driver wants to win.
- [Driver 4] It's a hard race to win.
There's not a lot of people who have done it.
- [Race Announcer] 20 years of trying,
20 years of frustration.
Dale Earnhardt will win the Daytona 500.
- [Narrator] No great driver's career is complete,
unless they win the great American race.
- [Race Team Announcer] Daytona 500 guys!
- [Driver 5] Are you kidding me?
- Woo!
- [Race Team Member] We just fucking won!
- [Race Team Announcer] Thank you, you are the man.
- [Narrator] This is an inside look at a month
in the lives of three drivers,
as they prepare for the biggest race of the year.
And a chance to steer their way in to legend.
(dramatic music)
(engine starts)
(energetic music)
- I messed up.
My to-go cup.
Should have poured in that first.
Make a mess, as usual.
- [Narrator] Don't take a sloppy start for Austin Dillon's
morning as reflective of the focus
he's putting in to the next month.
- Gucci, you ready to go?
Huh?
All right, let's do it.
- [Narrator] The Daytona 500 is only 30 days away.
There's a lot to do.
- You ready?
Come on.
- [Narrator] And this is the life he's been preparing for,
as long as he can remember.
- I grew up in North Carolina, in a town, Lexington.
My grandfathers race shop's right here,
Richard Childress Racing.
So I've probably crossed the railroad tracks a lot.
I've been coming here since I was a baby.
We messed around with go-karts a little bit.
- [Austin's Father] Austin Dillon, wave!
- [Austin] But my family pushed me to play other sports
than just go race.
I played in the Little League World Series
when I was 12 years old.
Started racing about 15 years old.
- Five or six, yeah.
- We going to win here.
- Okay, (laughs) I believe you.
- And now I'm driving for my grandfather.
- Austin tends to get over looked a little bit.
He tends to be pointed as,
oh he's Richard Childress's grand kid.
He's actually done a really good job in his career.
He's won the Truck Series Championship,
he's won the Xfinities Series Championship,
he's won major races.
- I love you brother, I love you.
- He won the Daytona 500,
which is a crown jewel race in NASCAR.
- [Race Announcer] Austin Dillon,
wins the great American race.
- [Austin] Woohoo!
Did we just fucking win?