McLaren has revealed that forward of the worldwide launch of F1 The Film, the group welcomed Brad Pitt to the Circuit of the Americas for a non-public day of testing behind the wheel of the MCL60.
The Oscar-winning actor, who has been filming the F1-inspired film over the previous two years – together with scenes shot on location at McLaren – took up the chance supplied by Zak Brown to expertise the joys of driving McLaren’s 2023 challenger.
Final month, he visited McLaren Expertise Centre in Woking for engineering conferences, a seat becoming and an intensive simulator session forward of constructing his observe debut in Austin.
Within the film, of which there was a shocking lack of publicity, particularly within the devoted F1 media, dubbed “the best that by no means was”, Sonny Hayes (Pitt) was Components 1’s most promising phenom of the Nineties till an accident practically ended his profession.
Thirty years later, he is a nomadic racer-for-hire when he is approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), proprietor of a struggling Components 1 group that’s on the snapping point.
Ruben convinces Sonny to come back again to Components 1 for one final shot at saving the group and being the very best on the earth. He’ll drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the group’s hotshot rookie intent on setting his personal tempo.
However because the engines roar, Sonny’s previous catches up with him and he finds that in Components 1, your teammate is your fiercest competitors, and the highway to redemption is just not one thing you possibly can journey alone.
The film additionally stars Damson Idris, Kerry Condon (nice in The Banshees of Inisherin, although the miniature donkey stole each scene), Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia (nice within the first two sequence of The Bridge), and Javier Bardem, and was shot throughout Grand Prix weekends because the APX GP group competed in opposition to the real titans of the game.
