About the film
Anthony Stewart
Tony “Smoke” Stewart is in the NASCAR Hall of Fame and one of the top ten most popular professional drivers of all time. He’s earned at least $130 million racing and won more than 40 races on the professional circuit.
And he killed someone.
He ran over a competitor with his winged-race car in front of a bleacher full of stunned fans. Of course, there was an investigation. The real question is what kind?
A team of reporters spent years fighting to obtain unseen videos, documents, pictures, police files, and court testimony from Stewart about this case.
Kevin Ward Jr.
Kevin Ward Jr. and NASCAR legend Tony Stewart had plenty in common. Ward was one of the winningest young racecar drivers in New York – a kid looking to climb the very mountain Stewart had already summited. Before he turned 18, Ward already had 250 wins and 6 championships in go-carts and had been named the 360-sprint car rookie of the year.
On August 9, 2014, Ward and Stewart met in the most tragic possible way.
Videogrammetry
It all happened so fast.
Perhaps the human eye, combined with a brain trying to reconcile the horror of death playing out in front of it, was being tricked. Those tricks do not happen in the science of videogrammetry.
Math equations are run by the billions inside the software. And forensic engineers understand how this kind of innovation creates an entirely new ballgame when it comes to accident reconstruction. It brings precision to the mechanics of a fatal crash.
The computer does not, however, try to understand the “why” of death.