NASCAR has everything a killer TV drama needs: family feuds that last generations, rivalries that feel like blood feuds, and enough money and glory on the line to make anyone snap. Hollywood has peeked at it before, think Days of Thunder or Cars , but nothing’s ever stuck like a full-blown series.

Until now. AMC, the $1.13 billion-worth folks who gave us Breaking Bad and Marco Polo , just gave the green light to a new scripted NASCAR show that’s got the potential to be the sport’s big break on the small screen.

AMC bets big on ‘Thunder Road’

The series is titled ‘Thunder Road’. And it isn’t some low-budget racing flick. Thunder Road is getting the full AMC treatment, with NASCAR’s own blessing.

The title nods to the 1958 movie about moonshine runners, those outlaws who basi

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