 Since the last movie I picked (The World’s Fastest Indian) was a big success, I decided to try another underdog motorsports movie: Heart Like a Wheel. It’s about Shirley Muldowney, the drag racer who became the only female top fuel champion in National Hot Rod Association history. She comes across as quite tenacious and driven — in an article about Muldowney I found, “one observer suggested that the 1983 Hollywood movie that was made about her life, Heart Like a Wheel, should have been titled Heart Like a Bulldog.” The film is quite a period piece — feels like the 1970s — and made me want to find out more about Muldowney… and this interview from Hot Rod magazine did the trick.
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