Brock Drury wrote it, directed it, and produced it. His feature debut. Released back in 2022, it runs 1 hour 7 minutes and lives on Amazon Prime Video for $4.99 a rental. A fresh UK Film Review piece in late April 2026 is what dragged it back into the conversation, and the renewed attention is fair.
Quick reference:
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Writer / Director / Producer | Brock Drury |
| Lead | Roman Jacob-Boylen as Luke Wallace |
| Genre | Sports drama / comedy |
| Runtime | 1h 7min |
| Year | 2022 |
| Sim platform | iRacing |
| Streaming | Amazon Prime Video |
| Rental / Buy | $4.99 / $9.99 |
| IMDb | 4.3 / 10 |
What the Film is Actually About
Luke Wallace is 29. Small-town American. His house is about to be taken from him: $9,600 in 30 days or it’s gone. He doesn’t have a backup plan. What he does have is a sim rig in his living room and a real talent on iRacing.
So when a tournament with a $20,000 prize shows up on his radar, the math becomes the whole movie. Win the race, save the house. That’s the entire shape of it.
The supporting cast carries serious weight around him:
- Jim – bartender, best friend, the kind of guy who’ll roast you and bail you out in the same breath.
- June – fellow sim racer, the romantic thread.
- Shooter Jones – the rival who carries himself like the antagonist in every racing film ever made.
- Bootie Burns – the older crew-chief figure who’s been around the block more than twice.
What Works And What Doesn’t
| Working in its favour | Holding it back |
|---|---|
| Roman Jacob-Boylen makes Luke feel like a real person, not a script | Race-scene audio drifts out of sync with the visuals more than once |
| Friendship and money pressure are written with actual sincerity | Dialogue volume runs low in spots |
| Story keeps moving despite a thin premise | Editing cuts feel rough in places |
| Real appeal for anyone who’s spent serious hours on a sim rig | Plot beats are borrowed from every racing film you’ve already seen |
| The bartender friend is funnier than he has any right to be | Live-action driver shots stitched into sim footage look odd at first |
Why The Approach Matters
Racing films usually trade on physical danger. Crashes. Fireballs. The cockpit camera that puts you inches from a wall at 200mph. A movie built around a video game can’t do that, and Drury clearly knows it.
So he moves the stakes off the track entirely. The threat in The Sim Racer isn’t dying in a wreck. It’s losing your house. It’s the bank, the eviction letter, the slow grind of being broke in your late twenties with nothing to show for it. That’s a more grown-up source of tension than most racing films bother with, and it’s what keeps the iRacing setting from feeling like a gimmick.
