For Torsten Gross, there’s nothing quite like being on a racetrack. There’s the speed, the danger and the focus that racing requires, but there’s something inherent to car racing that Gross says no other sport can provide: a level playing field. “The car doesn’t care that I use a wheelchair, and the other racers don’t know that I use a wheelchair unless they saw me in the paddock beforehand — therefore it makes us equal.”

That desire to compete on a level playing field is the driving force behind the new Amazon Prime series Just Hands: For the Love of Racing, which follows Gross as he competes in a series of races that take him from his local track in Connecticut to hallowed motorsports tracks like Daytona and Circuit of the Americas.

Gross says the show is unique in that most documentaries either follow someone at the pinnacle of their sport or someone who had an accident and is returning to their sport. But Gross only started racing a few years ago — decades after he was paralyzed — when his wife gave him a track day at his local racetrack in Connecticut. “The reality is, I just found out like two years ago what a radiator is,” Gross jokes. Just Hands documents Gross’s learning process as he dives into the high-stakes world of GT racing. The challenges of getting into racing, he says, “are intimidating, but they’re not insurmountable.”

Gross fell so in love with racing that just a few months after his first track day, he started a nonprofit that gives other wheelchair users access to those same experiences. Thanks to high-profile sponsors like Pennzoil and Volkswagen, the Just Hands Foundation now has multiple adapted track cars and welcomes about 75 wheelchair users a year from across the country and world to learn high-performance track driving.

Gross encourages everyone, even those with no interest in racing, to join them. “Instead of thinking about it as racing and performance driving, think about it as getting smart or becoming a better driver, because you get to learn how to handle the car. You get to learn what your tires can do. You can learn what your engine does right, and you never get to do that on the street,” he says.

You can watch Gross go through that same journey of becoming a better driver in the Just Hands series. There are four episodes, and they dig into every aspect of Gross’s world — from dealing with nerves and inevitable accidents to setting up his racing Porsche for high-performance driving as a quadriplegic — as he prepares for new races and new challenges.

“Every time I get out on the track, even during practice, I really have to think about what I’m doing. But what’s really weird is that I’m hyper-anxious before I get out on track; the moment I get out on track … things slow down,” he says. “They just become really smooth. There’s nothing hectic, nothing crazy, even though I’m going 150 miles an hour, six inches away from a Ferrari.”

The show follows Gross from an initial time trial to wheel-to-wheel racing to his ultimate test: endurance racing. “I go to four different tracks … and they all brought something unique and a different challenge to me as I was learning and growing,” Gross says.

You can watch Just Hands: For the Love of Racing on Prime. Visit justhands.org if you’re interested in your own track driving experience.