Tonight, France 2 creates an event by broadcasting Mort sur la piste, a detective TV movie with Eleanor Bernheim (The Art of Crime), Olivier Marshall (La Promesse) and Jason Priestley, the unforgettable Brandon Walsh in the 1990s cult series Beverly. hills.
In this thriller, Jason Priestley lends his qualities to Ryan Martin, a police officer of the Los Angeles Police Department, who has come to France for an observational internship with local colleagues. He will then support Captain Sabrina Néjard to investigate the murder of a racing driver whose body is found on the track during the first tests of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s largest endurance event.
However, this is not the first time that Ryan Martin has set foot at Le Mans. It must be said that the American policeman was a former racing driver and the 24 Hours of Le Mans had passed 25 years earlier.
It’s important that fiction meets reality here, because the script of this TV movie strangely echoes Jason Priestley’s personal life. Indeed, the Canadian actor has something in common with his character.
Jason Priestley is a former car driver
Although he was never a police officer like Ryan Martin, Jason Priestley was a professional pilot in the past.
“Motor racing was very important to me. It’s been a big part of my life, but now that I’m old and retired, I’m just a spectator“- the actor told us while visiting the filming of “Death on the Track”.
Passionate about motorsports, the 54-year-old actor first competed at the amateur level before turning to the professional level. It was on August 11, 2002, during a race at Sparta Circuit in Kentucky, USA, that he came close to death.
While driving at a speed of almost 300 km/h, Jason Priestley collided with the protective wall on the circuit. According to the information published at that time, the comedian was taken to the hospital in serious condition. The violence of the blow also caused multiple fractures to his legs and spine, as well as a serious head injury.
A serious accident that he miraculously survived and that required several surgeries and more than two years of rehabilitation. Enough of the definitive end to his racing career.
Death on the Track airs this Saturday, November 4 at 9:10pm on France 2.
Source: Allocine
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