Driven is a 2001 American action sports film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Sylvester Stallone, who also wrote and produced.

Prior to production, Stallone was seen at many Formula One races, but he was unable to procure enough information about the category due to the secrecy with which teams protect their cars, so he decided to base the film on CART.

Halfway through the Alternate World of 2000 Champ Car Season, rookie sensation Jimmy Bly has already won five races.

His success has drawn the ire of the defending champion and current points leader Beau Brandenburg, who believes he is not doing as well as he should because of his fiancée Sophia becoming "a distraction".

As Beau returns to form, Jimmy's paraplegic team owner Carl Henry is concerned that he is making more driving errors.

He sees parallels to his former driver and Champ Car champion, Joe Tanto, whom he convinces to come out of retirement to mentor Jimmy.

Joe urges Beau to reconcile with Sophia, while Jimmy's growing bond with her causes him to further lose his form on the track during the next race in Japan and crash.

At a party in Chicago, where the prototypes of the next season's cars are being introduced, Beau and Sophia reconcile, much to Jimmy's disappointment.

In the coming race in Germany, Carl decides to reinstate Memo while making Joe mentor Jimmy from the pit lane.

However, Cathy convinces Memo to go for the win, and as a result, he collides with Jimmy in a crash that sends him flying into a lake on the far end of the course.

Jimmy and Beau dive into the lake and rescue Memo just as a burning tree collapses and ignites the car's leaking fuel, causing an explosion.

In the final laps, Joe takes the lead but damages his front suspension by avoiding a crash, preventing him from contending for the win.

In front of a crowd of spectators, including Sophia and Demille, who shows he is proud of his brother, Jimmy is named the new champion and he celebrates his victory with Joe and Beau.

[5] He had originally intended to make a film based on Formula One, attending the 1997 Italian Grand Prix[6] and stating his goal in a press conference.

So we began to reduce his role and make it more of an ensemble, so he's just there as a guy who did his job, wasn't very spectacular, would race like hell, sometimes he'd win, sometimes lose, but he had a certain work ethic code, that old school that could be applied to Jimmy.

[8][9] The film was shot primarily in Toronto, Canada, from 6 July 2000 until 12 October 2000, as well as at a variety of worldwide races which were sanctioned by CART.

[11] The film premiere took place at Grauman's Chinese Theatre,[12] with several CART competitors driving and demonstrating pit stops in modified Champ Cars down Hollywood Blvd.

The site's consensus states: "Underdeveloped characters, silly plot dynamics, and obvious CG effects.

[18] Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman called it "Mostly preposterous, and it has no dramatic center, but the racing scenes hold you in their death-trip grip" and gave it a grade C+.