- Irv's speech about the heavy responsibilities of the driver is ostensibly to convince Sanka that he's not as interested in being the driver as he thinks he is. (It works, too.) But Irv is facing Derice and staring daggers at him while he delivers it. He already knows Sanka will pretty much give up, considering that's what Sanka did when he and Derice originally tried to convince Irv to coach the team. But the speech is even more for Derice's benefit than Sanka's; Derice is the one who wouldn't give up when Irv refused him at first, and Irv is still trying to make sure Derice is all in (as he proves throughout the movie, he is).
- When we first see Irv, he’s a broken, miserable man who runs away from anything related to bobsledding. It makes sense that he would pick a tropical country with no winter sports program to speak of, but why of all places Jamaica? Irv had two regrets in life, the most obvious being that he cheated at bobsledding. His other regret was that he never got Derice’s father on board with bobsledding in 1968. He ran away from one regret and ran toward another because he still hoped for redemption.
- Nobody addresses Whitby "Junior" Bevil by his first name. Even he calls himself "Junior". It's a sign that his entire life has been spent in his father's shadow.
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