This Movie Treats the Audience Like Idiots

The characters' dialog is constantly explaining in painful detail, the most basic concepts of racing, as if the audience is too stupid to figure it out.

Like when Harry is talking to the steel frame of the car he is going to build for Cole:

[talking to the chassis]
Harry: I'm gonna give you an engine low to the ground... extra thick oil pan to cut the wind from underneath you. It'll give you thirty or forty more horsepower. I'm gonna give you a fuel line that'll hold an extra gallon of gas. I'm gonna shave half an inch off you and shape you like a bullet. I'll get you primed, painted and weighed, and you'll be ready to go out on that racetrack. Hear me? You're gonna be perfect.

Beyond these statements being silly, most are untrue, and regulated by NASCAR for uniformity between cars. Not to mention, cutting wind resistance may increase the speed of your car, but it sure won't increase the horsepower of the engine.

Or when Cole and the doctor are first in bed together:

Doctor: You aren't going to do anything weird on my leg, are you Cole?
Cole: No. Just something Harry and I are working together.

He then proceeds to use two Sweet-N-Lows on her leg, to demonstrate to her, and presumably us brain-dead viewers, what drafting is.

Cole: It's called drafting. When one car tucks in behind another, two cars can go faster than one. They divide the air resistance between them. Now here's where it gets interesting. The lead car has to "floor it" to reach 200 MPH. But the car that's tucked in behind, doesn't. He can go just as fast, and have power in reserve. So when these two cars come off that last turn, the car that's in back, can move out of that draft, and slingshot past that lead car, beating it to the finish line.

So Harry and he are working on some unique strategy called "drafting"? REALLY? You don't say, I wonder if any of the other drivers will catch on to this super-secret idea?