Excuse for being Captain Obvious but Jason Stathom is in this movie. All his movies are craptacular.
I actually enjoyed War, Cellular, and Crank. Haven't enjoyed too much of his other stuff though, admittedly, I haven't really seen most of his stuff.
Also, War I thought was interesting and I'm a big fan, so they could probably have ALMOST anybody I still woulda liked the movie. As for Cellular, well he wasn't a main character, so might be an exception there as well.
Btw, glancing at his imdb profile and guess what I see coming out in 2008/2009: Crank 2 [wtf?] and Transporter 3. While I enjoyed Crank, didn't he fall from a helicopter and die at the end? As for T3? Gawd, I HATED the first two movies. Only reason why I watched the 2nd was cause it was on TV and my friend and I were fairly drunk at the time.
As for the Death Race movie, I never knew there was an original version. Seems like a weird movie to remake, but oh well.