Synopsis
Hitting the Apex (2015) is the documentary you can watch online on iFILM — a look inside MotoGP told through six of the fastest motorcycle racers who ever lived and the price each of them paid for going faster.
Mark Neale directs; Brad Pitt narrates. The film zeroes in on the 2011 to 2013 seasons and the fates of its six riders: Valentino Rossi, Casey Stoner, Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa, a rising Marc Márquez, and Marco Simoncelli, whose story ends on the track. The camera goes where the broadcast feed never does — into the garages, the team briefings, the quiet calculations about who will risk more in the final corner.
Neale spent years around the paddock, and it shows: this understands the engineering and the men who simply cannot bring themselves to brake as early as everyone else. It runs a touch long, but it never fakes the danger. Diehard race fans will eat it up, and newcomers finally get why those split seconds matter. Stream Hitting the Apex (2015) online on iFILM.
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