Will Ferrell’s Desperate Hollywood Pivot Created NASCAR’s Most Famous Movie

Copyright: xXavierxCollin/ImagexPressxAgencyx ©IMAGO/Image Press AgencyHollywood kept rejecting Anchorman, and Will Ferrell and Adam McKay were running out of patience. After facing a string of studio rejections, the comedy duo considered a different route: make a movie around something audiences already loved. NASCAR was booming in popularity, so Ferrell pitched an idea that sounded almost too ridiculous to work: make him a race car driver. Yet he barely knew anything about the sport. That