F. Gary Gray Directing Fast & Furious 8?

The speculation is mounting fast and furiously.

Vin Diesel posted a picture of himself with “Straight Outta Compton” director F. Gary Gray on Facebook early Tuesday, revving up assumptions that he will be in the driver’s seat for “Fast & Furous 8.”

Though there wasn’t a caption to the picture, the pair were seated infront of a board covered in photos from previous installments of the car chase franchise.

Sources later told Variety that Gray was the first choice to direct the next film in the saga, expected to be the first part of a final trilogy.

“Now You See Me” director Louis Leterrier and "The Guest" helmer had also been linked as potential fits for the job.

If Gray signs on to the franchise it may make Marvel Studios see red: the filmmaker was reportedly in contention to direct “Black Panther.”

Cameras are scheduled to start rolling in the spring of 2016, but a director is needed in place to begin pre-production next month.

Gray brings plenty of action cred to the garage, having previously directed films like “ “A Man Apart” (2003), which starred Diesel, and “The Italian Job” (2003), which boasts a classic car chase.

Diesel has been active in keeping the franchise’s wheels spinning despite the death of co-star Paul Walker during filming on “Furious 7.” That movie, completed in part with the help of Walker’s brothers, earned $1.5 billion worldwide at the box office this summer.

So producers seems emboldened to take a few more laps.

"Universal has been so good to me and so trusting of the vision... they have been like family...," Diesel wrote on his Facebook last week. "I promised the studio I would deliver one last Trilogy to end the story.”

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