- A thrilling family film about a boy who must overcome tremendous odds and his own recklessness to achieve his dream of winning the National Go Kart Championship.
- When Jack (William Lodder) and his single mother (Frances O'Connor) move to a small town in Western Australia, he soon gets involved in the competitive world of go-kart racing. Jack's got natural talent but must learn to control his recklessness. To do that, he'll need the help of aspiring engineer, Mandy (Anastasia Bampos), wise-cracking best mate Colin (Darius Amarfio-Jefferson) and mysterious mentor, Patrick (Richard Roxburgh). Together, the team will endeavour to overcome all odds and defeat ruthless racer Dean (Cooper Van Grootel) to win the National Go Kart Championship.—Julie Anne Gilchrist
- Jack (William Lodder) and his single mother Christie (Frances O'Connor) move into a small town in Western Australia. Jack relieves his painful memory as he lost his father Hooper (Adam T Perkin) from cancer. Jack had fond memories of his time with his father, who was a racer himself.
Jack later helps his mom with loading things into her new business shop. When he helps his mom, she later tells him to go to a for a party happening at a go kart racetrack and develops an interest, love and passion on the sport of go karts when he attends a birthday party of his new friend, Mandy (Anastasia Bampos), at a local go-kart track.
Jack also discovered that he is really good in that sport. In his first ever try, he almost beats the current state champion Dean. Patrick owns the go kart track, but needs money, which comes from Dean's father Mike. Mike wants Patrick to coach Dean prepare for the nationals. Patrick refuses as Dean is not talented enough. Mandy is Dean's sister. Jack doesn't have money to train or race but is smitten by the racing bug. He makes a deal with Patrick to help around the track, in exchange for being allowed to race around Patrick's track in his go carts. Patrick makes Jack water the entire track with a manual water sprayer, paint the garage with a brush attached to a helmet, wash the go carts with his feet. Very Mr. Miyagi, Australian style.
Barry (Dan Wyllie), the local police officer arrests Jack when he is doing doughnuts in the local car park, without a license. But he lets him off with a warning after he meets Christie.
Meanwhile Mandy is a crack mechanic, but Mike ignores her suggestions on how Dean can go his carts go even faster. Jack and his mate Colin find parts of a go-kart in Patrick's shed and bring it home. Jack recruits Mandy as the Chief engineer of his team, and she puts together the go-kart from the spare parts Jack found. Jack enters the regional with the go-kart that Mandy put together. with some fearless driving, Jack finishes 3rd and qualifies for the state championships. Jack begs Patrick to be his coach. Patrick reveals that the spraying strengthens his arms, the painting helps him handle the g forces to the neck, and the feet cleaning helps him work the pedals faster.
Jack can see Christie is lonely and encourages Barry to ask her out on a date. He even coaches Barry, when he confides that he freezes up when talking to women. Jack starts training with Patrick but must learn to control his recklessness given his age and striving hard to win the Australian National Go Karts Championship by defeating the best drivers in Australia. Patrick teaches Jack how to balance between the steering wheel and the accelerator.
He gets the support of his mentor Patrick (Richard Roxburgh) and his best mates Colin (Darius Amarfio-Jefferson). Patrick wants Jack to get Mandy to make the kart even faster for state championship. Mandy agrees and Jack takes her out on a date, as a thank you. However he has to confront the obstacles to defeat the ruthless champion Dean who is his strongest competitor. Dean (Cooper van Grootel) gets the support of his father Mike (Damian De Montemas) who owns a race team. Dean dismantles Jack's kart by breaking into Patrick's shed, just before the state championships. Mandy helps to put the kart together in 24 hours and even steals a brake disc from her dad's workshop to help Jack. At the states, Jack muscles into 2nd position, but gets impatient on the last lap, while trying to overtake Dean and ends up in the ditch, but he crosses the line 4th.
Jack is devastated as only the top 3 qualify for the nationals. Mandy says that Jack puts himself over the team and breaks up with him. The driver who came 2nd was disqualified for an illegal carburetor. Jack has a chance to race at Nationals. Patrick says that when he raced, he made a mistake that killed his mate. He discourages Jack from participating at Nationals as he sees Jack as equally reckless and doesn't want him to make the same mistakes. Eventually Patrick comes over his own fears and agrees to Jack racing at the nationals. Mandy refuses to get involved.
At the nationals, Jack delivers a heartfelt apology to Mandy, and she comes back on the team. She stands up to her dad and says that this is her Kart and her team. The race begins. with 2 laps to go, Jack is again behind Dean. But this time Jack is patient and drags Dean on the outside and cuts the inside corner to overtake him and wins the race. Jack and Mandy kiss.
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