By Stephen Macaulay

According to box office receipts, Ferrari didn’t exactly blow the doors off of theaters in its opening weekend, taking in $6.8 million domestically at the box office according to Deadline.

For a bit of context: Car and Driver notes a 2024 Ferrari Daytona SP3 starts at $2.2-million.

Which means that a three-car garage could have within it somethings that cumulatively have a price tag almost equivalent to what the movie took in across the country in wide release.

So in the event that you’re interested in seeing a racing-related movie that doesn’t star Adam Driver wearing his belt well above his waist, here are some alternatives that are, for various reasons, worth a watch:

Winning (1969). Paul Newman raced cars in real life. What’s more, he was respected in the racing community, not some sort of ne’er-do-well who went slumming in the pits when he wasn’t in front of a camera. This movie is about a driver who wants to win “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” a.k.a., the Indianapolis 500. Winning, which includes Joanne Woodward (who plays Newman’s character’s wife, which means this is not exactly a stretch roll) and Robert Wagner (whose street cred could come from his being born in Detroit), is not the Greatest Spectacle in Cinema. But it has Paul Newman.

Days of Thunder (1990). Although Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (unlike Newman and Woodward when they made the above), weren’t married when they made Days of Thunder, they were wed after meeting on the set.* Apparently the smell of exhaust and burnt rubber has some aphrodisiac qualities. This is a movie that deals with a racing series that is rife with opportunity, a racing series that is quintessentially American in a way that no other racing series is: NASCAR. This film was directed by Tony Scott, who worked with Cruise in 1985 for the Simpson-Bruckheimer production Top Gun. While cars do fly—accidentally, of course—this is no Top Gun. But Robert Duvall as the chaw-chewin’ crew chief is worth watching.

Driven (2001). Sylvester Stallone, of course, wrote Rocky. He also wrote Driven. Singular-word titles notwithstanding, Driven is no Rocky. Driven reunites director Renny Harlin with Stallone: the two worked on Cliffhanger, which Stallone co-wrote, and which is his ken, also starred in. (And again, a one-word title.) Driven, about a young driver played by Kip Pardue (who? Exactly), who is taken under the wing of veteran driver, played by Stallone (who can’t help himself), is, well, predictable but with some good racing footage.

Grand Prix (1966). This is the car racing movie of all car racing movies. Directed by John Frankenheimer, this film shows the challenges of winning a sufficient number of races to achieve the overall Formula One trophy. What’s interesting is that even back in the mid-‘60s the whole commercial aspect of motor racing is revealed (James Garner loses his sponsor and must join a Japanese team—remember, this is 1966!). And while we take an international cast for granted now, this movie brings in a French driver (Yves Montand), a British driver (Brian Bedford), and a Japanese driver (Toshiro Mifune). When it opened, the film was shown at Cinerama-capable theaters, which made it even more astonishing. It also gave rise to the cameos of real drivers. Days of Thunder may have Richard Petty and Rusty Wallace, but Grand Prix has Jimmy Clark and Juan Manuel Fangio.

*On the subject of pairings: in 1986 Newman and Cruise were together in The Color of Money, which focused on shooting pool, a somewhat less frenetic but no less cutthroat sport than motor racing.