DIRT LEAGUE

Synopsis

Headlights ring the rim of a gravel pit outside Thermal, California, and at eleven at night that is the only light there is. No purse. No flag. The entry fee is the title to your bike. Cruz Delgado has been riding down there eleven months on a stripped frame with the lights torn off. He has won back nine titles. Four more nights and he rides his father's bike up the ramp and never comes back. Tonight his younger brother is at the gate with a pen in his hand, signing, and the man holding the clipboard is smiling at Cruz while he does it.

Who this is about

Cruz Delgado rides a stripped frame with no lights, no number and no brakes worth the name, in a gravel pit outside Thermal, California, where the entry fee is the title to your bike.

What goes wrong

He is four nights from riding his own bike out of there for good. Then his nineteen-year-old brother signs a title over at the gate and lines up in the second heat.

What's at stake

Getting himself out takes four more nights. Getting Beto out takes everything Cruz has won, and puts him back at the bottom of the pit with nothing to ride. Nobody un-signs a title.

Why it keeps going

Each episode is one more night in the pit, one more rider who does not come back, and one more thing Cruz has to hand over to keep his brother off the line.

Takeaway

Nobody gets out of a place like that alone, which is exactly why it is built to make you try.

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