The Lionheart

I want to say this was brilliant, but it seems wrong that a documentary celebrating the life of IndyCar champion Dan Wheldon, taken too early from us in a crash at Las Vegas more than ten years (!!) ago now should be called brilliant.

It is, however, compelling: plenty to make you smile and laugh and truckloads that will make you very emotional. I swear someone was cutting onions whilst I was watching. Or maybe that was just my feels hitting me all at once?

It had to have been insanely tough for Dario Franchitti, Tony Kanaan, Bryan Herta, Michael Andretti, Chip Ganassi and especially Dan's wife Susie to reminisce about the man/father/friend/drier they knew. But they do so perfectly. Seeing Dan in his young boys, Oliver and Sebastian, was heart-warming, but also a reminder of what we have lost now that Dan is no longer with us.

A shame Randy Bernard, the IndyCar boss who came up with the Las Vegas race idea that took Wheldon's life was, declined to be interviewed by HBO's cameras.