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There's a version of a mountain biking documentary that hits every beat you'd expect: slow-mo crashes, athlete voice-over, inspiring music swell. It looks great. Nobody watches it twice.
Race Tapes was designed to be the opposite. The brief wasn't just "tell good stories." It was: make the competition matter to someone who's never watched a downhill race in their life. Give them a rider to root for. Give them something to argue about. Build the kind of jeopardy where the result doesn't feel inevitable.
That's the difference between a sports doc that's entertaining and one that's actually Entertainment. Race Tapes was the latter; an episodic, character-first format that treated mountain biking like it deserved a proper season arc. Because it does.
