Løst baseret på den sande livshistorie om Wendell Scott, den første afroamerikanske NASCAR-racevinder.
Tom, an over-worked husband and father, abandons his dead-end job to follow his dream of owning his own business. The only problem: he invested everything in a mechanic shop that has a lien in favor of his arch enemy and must now enter a dirt track race to win the prize money and save his family from ruin.
In the supercharged world of dirt track racing, a single mistake causes the lives of two men to change forever. One must fight for his family, the other must fight to forgive.
A rebellious punk of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking.
This RKO Sportscope entry introduces the viewer to the sport of speedway, a type of motorcycle racing, in post-World War II Vienna.