A treatment is not a full blown script, it is an idea for a movie. It lays out the charactors, the setting, and some plot lines.

I have no idea what you would want to say, but I bet that if you reviewed all your threads, many ideas would pop out at you.

WHAT IS A TREATMENT?

I searched google for an explaination of treatment-

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ei=bemVStDQJJXVlAe078mrDA&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=what+is+a+treatment&spell=1

One result is this website, which actually explains treatments quite well( btw- I guarantee that I am NOT related to this website in any way, I just found it

http://www.writingtreatments.com/html/home.html

or just searcch TREATMENTS, or something like that.

I am just having fun, I have no agenda, it just occurred to me as I read you post that this could be a good idea : ), If you do a good job at it and present it to “them” the fact you are you, YOU ARE THE REAL DEAL PIT CREW MAN, “they” would probably respect the source of the script/treatment. GO FOR IT.

ANYWAY…it is all for fun for you.

Figure out if you see the movie as serious, like
“Days of Thunder” or a funny like “Animal House”.

I know some might say funny like “Ricky Bobby” but I do not like that actor and I did not like the way that movie depicted racing, but that is just my opinion.

Maybe find some happy middle ground.

I see an “Animal House” or “Caddy shack” style, but set on PIT ROAD. There is humor, but the main charactors are smart, and they have a plan.

This sets a background for the story to unfold.

Then write up the good guys ( You, Journo and the gang )(our heros) VERSUS the bad guys ( the dastardly enemy pit crews) (the villians). Maybe you could write up the politics of pit road, and how the good guys do it right, and the other guys…..well you have to tell us.
then juts tell stories, tie it all together.

Mainly, Have fun, cuz fun is a good thing to have: )

I really think TC should try his hand at being a Hollywood screenwriter , he does write well., and this could be a great movie.

Like your idea and think we ought to consider “Any Given Saturday Night”. (In honor of Bristol and because ‘Sunday’ was already taken.)

Fast forward to the end and Al Pacino says, “We fight for that inch. We claw for that inch. We scratch for that very last inch.”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146838/

I realize that you are in a predicament based on your anonymity as well as not wanting to make enemies, but this post would have been much more interesting if you have some more real life examples. I am just saying.

Combine your “movie treatment” line of thought with the movies “The Warriors” and “Gangs of New York” and you would have a very entertaining movie.

May I suggest names? “Gangs of Pitroad” or maybe “Pitroad Warriors”.

Might I add that imuho the pit crew is the most important facet of a race team. I understand that the driver and engine/car designers and sponsors are keys, but the underrecognised pit crew can break a race. Unfortunaley the crew memers are usually not mentioned until someone makes a mistake, and that is too bad. Just like the catcher in Baseball, no one notices the great work, until there is an error. btw-I beieve the MLB catcher is the hardest positon in all of sports, but I wont dewll on that.

Maybe your movie could change the public perception of the pit crew. Your movie could cause the pit crews to be as recognized as the drivers. I am not kidding. Just as Joe Mauer, catcher for The Minnesota Twins, is raising the awarenss of the importance of the catcher’s position in baseball.

here are the movies I referred to;

“The Warriors”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/

“Gangs of New York”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217505/