I think, for movies, that overhead camera shot isn't as visceral.
I mean they have plenty of footage from Top Gear to know exactly how you should film Formula 1 racing, and tons of F1 racing shows that are popular nowadays.
What would be genuinely cool would be to not make a ghetto ass Fast & Furious street racing, but rather a gorgeously shot footage of people driving supercars in gorgeous area like the empty metropolitan highways of Tokyo late at night, turning corners at dangerous speeds.