DRIVEN centers on Jimmy (Kip Pardue), a talented young driver who is winning a lot of races and may take the world championship title away from the reigning champ, Beau (Til Schweiger). While Beau dumps his girlfriend of three years because she's "a distraction," Jimmy copes with another kind of distraction. His ambitious manager/brother (Robert Sean Leonard) is pushing him very hard on and off the racetrack. When Jimmy crashes his car, the team owner (Burt Reynolds) brings in former champ Joe Tanto (Sylvester Stallone) to provide back up and focus. There is some story line about which of the drivers the girl really cares about, and something about Tanto's ex-wife (Gina Gershon), now married to another driver whom she describes to Tanto as "a younger, better you." Tanto has to help Jimmy find the part of himself that just loves driving fast, some choices need to be made, and some old scores need to be settled.