Kyle Larson’s bid to race the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day twice ended the same way: in wrecked cars, missed laps and no finish. Prime Video will premiere "Kyle Larson vs. The Double" on Thursday, a documentary built around two failed attempts at the Memorial Day Weekend Double and the way one of NASCAR’s biggest stars kept coming back for more.
Larson is widely viewed as the most talented driver in NASCAR today, and he has also long been considered among the world’s best in dirt sprint cars and midgets. That reputation is part of what made the Double so compelling in 2024 and 2025, and part of why the film lingers on a goal that kept slipping away. Larson said during filming, "This is going to be one of those movies with no happy ending." When he was asked where the happy ending was, he replied, "Well, where’s the happy ending?"
The first chase came in 2024, when Larson tried to become the first driver in a decade to run both the Indy 500 and NASCAR’s Coke 600 on the same day. A severe thunderstorm scrambled the afternoon at Indianapolis, and Larson chose to run the Indy 500 and arrive late for NASCAR’s race. By the time he got to Charlotte, the same storm that delayed the Indy 500 had already hit the track there and shortened the NASCAR race. Larson never turned a single lap in his NASCAR ride that day, and the attempt fell apart before it could really begin.
That setback did not end the story. Cynthia Hill had planned to make a movie about Larson’s Double in 2024, and she and her crew kept filming after the storm ruined the first try. Larson tried again in 2025, but that effort ended even more brutally. He wrecked before the halfway point of the 500 and also wrecked in the Coke 600, failing to finish either race. The footage from both years became the spine of a documentary that follows not a triumph, but the cost of trying to force one.
There was also more pressure on the second attempt. After the 2024 debacle, NASCAR implemented a so-called Larson Rule that would have heavily penalized him for missing one of its races. The new risk hung over the 2025 effort even before Larson climbed into the car, adding another layer to a challenge that was already difficult enough without weather, traffic and timing. Hill’s cameras stayed on him through both setbacks, giving the film its central contradiction: a driver famous for control on the edge of chaos, repeatedly undone by the one-day experiment that was supposed to test everything he could do.
Larson did not get the ending he wanted, and that may be the point. The documentary lands on Thursday with a story that is less about a missed crown than about how hard it is to do something that sounds simple when spoken aloud and nearly impossible when the green flag drops.
