1. The Romans liked watching chariot racing.

2. From 1904 to 1915, chariot races took the place of football.

3. Ben-Hur's years of enduring hardship as a Roman slave strengthened him and increased his endurance. He eventually defeated his "friend-turned-enemy" in a chariot race.

4. One young athenian nobleman defended his political reputation by saying he entered seven chariots in the Olympic chariot race.

5. So, he did the worst possible thing he could: postpone the next chariot race.

6. Another tradition states that after the Greek hero Pelops won a chariot race against King Oenomaus to marry Oenomaus's daughter Hippodamia , he established the Games.

7. Central to the movie is an exciting race using the super-fast "pod racers ", in a sequence reminiscent of the great chariot race in the classic movie Ben Hur.