What do you get when a snail with a need for speed gets stuck in the grill of a racecar, fusing the snail’s DNA with Nitrous Oxide? No, not road kill. Meet Turbo, a genetically modified snail with super speed that puts his newly acquired power to the test by racing in the Indianapolis 500.

While this Sunday’s Indy 500 does not feature a Nitrous-infused es-car-go, the honorary starter for the storied race is one of the film’s leading actors, Michael Peña.

Peña, who plays an entrepreneur named Tito that befriends the genetically modified snail, will wave the green flag at noon ET.

DreamWorks, which produced "Kung Fu Panda" and "Madagascar," has a star-studded cast for "Turbo." It includes Ryan Reynolds as the super-fast snail, plus Paul Giamatti, Luis Guzmán, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader, Ken Jeong, Snoop Lion and Samuel L. Jackson.

To make the racing look as realistic as possible, writer and director David Soren had the animation team consult with fourtime IndyCar Series champion Dario Franchitti who offered advice as to how high-speed racing would look through the eyes of a snail.

The movie is set to hit theaters nationwide on July 17, but in the meantime, enjoy the snail-free Indianapolis 500 this Sunday and this trailer:

There's a lot of advantages to being Dwyane Wade: You can make someone's prom night, wear insane suits and easily pass it off as fashion and date everyone's favorite Bring It On star.

Here's another: A Gatorade machine at your house.

Wade posted this picture to Instagram earlier this week. "I give it 2weeks b4 we need a refill..#kidsdrinkupeverything," he added.

Most recently, the Heat star has been in the often-played Gatorade commercial featuring him and Kevin Durant.

In an effort to promote his new book, Eleven Rings, Phil Jackson took a turn on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and explained how he handled the old Kobe-Shaq dynamic.

"It was probably one of the hardest challenges I had in coaching over all those years, 20 years that I coached because there was always this little tension about 'it's my team, it's my team, I want to play ball my style; I want to get the ball inside, no I want to do stuff outside, you know that kind of thing," he said.

Jackson reportedly writes in the book that he generally let the feud burn itself out, and rarely got involved.

"The idea is just basically -- you're a parent you have two kids -- are you going to get involved with every squabble that happens in your house?" he said. "You just can't do that, you wear yourself out trying to monitor that stuff."

Jackson and Bryant had at one point a historically tough relationship, especially when Kobe faced sexual assault charges. But now, they're in constant contact -- though Jackson said he avoids getting directly involved in the team and now talk about Bryant's individual game.

"It's hands off, you know Kobe texts me a considerable amount of time we send messages back and forth and I'll say 'looks like your pressed' or 'things were tough you had to do too much work last night, trying to carry the team when they're down' or whatever but we never get into the offense and stuff and we never get into the defense either," he said.

He also said he stays in contact with Dennis Rodman.

"He occasionally gets in touch with me but not by phone," he noted, not elaborating.

As for his interest in coming back to coaching, he said the Nets had called and he told them he had no interest.

"My head may be interested in coaching. But my body can't take it anymore," he said. "It's grueling."

Maria Sharapova hasn't been too keen on letting the press into her relationship with fellow pro Grigor Dimitrov, but in a surprisingly open interview with USA Today, she uncharacteristically gushes about Dimitrov -- and says dating a younger man (Dimitrov is 22 years old) is "refreshing."

"Maybe it makes me really young, too, inside, which is good," Sharapova, 26, told the newspaper.

As for what she's looking for in a man, she says: "It's about finding the person where you can be yourself all the time, where you're comfortable with being younger girl, the older girl, the mature girl, and the person that understands you and look at you and say you're completely off your rocker!

"I have so many things going on in my life and I really love them. Of course I want someone to be by my side to enjoy them. You know, I can jump on a plane tomorrow and go somewhere because I want to do it. And it's really important that that person respects me for the decisions that I make and the things that I do in my life."

She did not, however, offer any of her tips about outrunning the paparazzi.

The two were first spotted cozying up on a Madrid street earlier this month. Sharapova ended her engagement to basketball player Sasha Vujacic last year.