TV commercial director Fei (Michael Chow Man-kin) is mourning the death of girlfriend Angel Chen (Yuk), and through flashbacks induced by his reading of her diary, we see how their relationship developed and, eventually, faltered when she met handsome gym instructor Roy (Ngai). Angel loves both men and her inability to break off with one or both of them leads to tragedy.

深夜的九龙湾是飞车手最爱流连的地方，皆因喜欢赛车的都喜在此聚集，以飞车为乐。故事的主人翁赵志冲（张智霖）是一个爱车如命的赛车手，在碰上死对头狮王（吴国敬）的当晚，决定作一比赛并以Carmen（李丽珍）为赌本，可惜却因技术故障造成伤亡。赛事之后狮王落荒而去，只得冲仍留在现场替各人急救，Carmen也因此而对他留下深刻印象。
Michael（魏俊杰）乃反飞车组督察，决意要打击非法赛车，并要求狮王做线人好打击冲等人。于是狮王提议冲来一次“世纪之战”，背后却原来是Michael设下陷阱。赛车再次造成人群伤亡，冲的好友博士（黄秋生）也因此而车毁人亡，迫使冲决定要用自己的方法去对付狮王。

陈耀庆（任达华 饰）车技娴熟，与三名好友洪（尹阳明 饰）、聪（张耀扬 饰）、大弟（刘青云 饰）在湾仔做泊车一行。大弟嗜赌，因拖欠赌债被湾仔阿扬（林国斌 饰）毒打，庆等人为还债窃阿扬车子，自此双方结下仇怨。庆对有一面之缘的女子阿妙（陈妙瑛 饰）念念不忘，再次相遇后二人终于走到一起，而洪与阿妙好友阿芬（陈加玲 饰）成为情侣。庆有感自己实力微弱，遂涉足看场与讨债，势力迅速得以扩展，风光一时无两，多位话事人不满庆做大，设计拉庆进入毒品生意，结果被庆拒绝。当庆赴澳门参加赛车并萌生退意之时，暗杀者的脚步却步步逼近……
本片根据湾仔之虎陈耀兴经历改编。

Comic artist Cheung befriends Tat, who he believes is a triad godfather. Tat provides useful information for Cheung's new comic strip, but the joke is on Cheung when the cops start solving cases with clues from his comic strip.