 "This is real. It s blood, sweat, tears, mud, dirt, beer." -- Travis Pace, #17. DIRT, a documentary by Jeff Bowden, follows a season inside the soul of American auto racing-the World Class Street Stocks-at the legendary Devil s Bowl Speedway, in Mesquite, Texas, as the racers careen on and off the track toward the season championship. "That s the original class at Devil s Bowl. That s where it all began, in a stock car. You took an old car, beat the windows out of it, and said,  Okay, you sons-of-bitches, let s have us a race. " -- Thomas Weeks, #5x. The title captures the heart of the film--DIRT is about primal forces: horsepower and ego, passion, fuel and fire. The racecars are usually held together with duct tape. There s nothing fancy about these cars: "No power steering. These guys never heard of driving with power steering. I m telling you. These were stock car drivers! Hairy-chested racecar drivers! I mean men. I mean, they d get in them racecars and beat it up." -- Thomas Weeks, #5x. Shot in mixed formats, DIRT is a film about racing, but it s also a film about relationships: "In a marriage with a racecar driver there are three people involved. Always. And if that third person was another woman you could compete . . . But you can t compete with a racecar." -- Missi Smith, wife of racer Doug Smith. This season, one woman dares to ask the question: But can you compete against the men?