Fast Company is a 1979 Canadian action film directed by David Cronenberg and starring William Smith, John Saxon, Claudia Jennings and Nicholas Campbell.

In the "Funny Car class", Lonnie's protégé Billy "The Kid" Brooker gives top dog Gary "The Blacksmith" Black a close run.

En route to a next race in Spokane, Lonnie calls the dragster mechanic with a few ideas, but is told that Adamson cancelled the repair work.

Candy the FastCo ad girl refuses to have sex with the TV interviewer as damage control, so Adamson fires her.

While on another test run, the Funny Car's engine blows, but Lonnie controls the situation using the cockpit safety gear.

Black takes the lead, then cuts into Billy's lane and hits the oil, causing his car to explode in a giant fireball.

Adamson fights for control but the plane dives into a parked FastCo oil truck, exploding on impact.

David Cronenberg stated that Fast Company "was my least personal movie, even though it had to do with cars and dragsters which I loved" due to him having not written the original script.

[1][2][3] Phil Savath and Courtney Smith wrote a screenplay based on a story by Alan Treen and John Hunter aided, but remained uncredited.

[3] Although Fast Company - an all-action, non-horror, non-psychological B-movie - remains an anomaly in Cronenberg's filmography, it has never lost its place in the affections of its director, who is an enthusiast of cars and their machinery ("which I get very metaphysical and boring about"[9]) and sometime racer.

However, the distributor stated that "we don't care if it ever opens in New York or Chicago" and it received a limited release.

[11] Critic Hal Erickson wrote in AllMovie that the film "does not shirk in its depiction of the principal character's womanizing, which in itself is surprisingly endearing," that it "offers an indictment against corporate sponsors who tend to squeeze drivers like Johnson dry of all their salability," and that "we're offered plenty of breathtaking racing scenes, some of them real, others skillfully reenacted.

"[12] A review of the film on DVD Talk noted that "there's not much about Fast Company that stands out as distinctively Cronenberg," that the director "wasn't trying to hammer out any sort of profound artistic statement," and "Is it even anything particularly memorable?

"[13] A review of the film in TV Guide described it as "thin on plot" and a "formula B movie about race car drivers [that is] competent, but unmemorable as anything other than a footnote in Cronenberg's development.