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Brad Pitt at the Silverstone Grand Prix: “I’m having the time of my life here”
Brad Pitt and co-star Damson Idris filming a Hollywood Formula 1 film at Silverstone.
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Formula 1 at Silverstone had a prominent visitor: Brad Pitt. On the fringes of the Grand Prix, the shooting of a new Hollywood film takes place.
Accordingly, Pitt will play a pilot in the 90s who has a terrible accident and then competes in other racing series until he is brought back to Formula 1 by a friend. He is the boss of a chronically unsuccessful team and will – according to Pitt – played by none other than Oscar-winning Spaniard Javier Bardem.
Brad Pitt as racing driver in Hollywood Formula 1 film
In the racing team, Pitt is supposed to lead a highly talented driver, played by Damson Idris, to success in his role as a kind of mentor. The film is directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Both were also responsible for “Top Gun: Maverick” in this line-up. Record world champion Lewis Hamilton is also involved in the Formula 1 film as co-producer and consultant.
Pitt said he hadn’t had any experience in racing cars before, but he was in a good mood, but on motorcycles. “That helped a lot,” he said. At Silverstone, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff had previously revealed that they had sent Pitt to a formula driving school in France.
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Engineers from the Silver Arrows worked on the body of the car in the film, based on a model from Formula 2. And the black and gold-painted cars were even on the starting grid on Sunday before the warm-up lap. Employees of the fictitious eleventh team, which was in action under the working name “APXGP”, pushed the two cars into the last two starting boxes. One car even completed an installation lap far behind the field, the other was pushed back into the pits.
Pitt, who was also celebrated as a “special guest” at the official driver briefing by Formula 1 drivers on Friday, and Idris lined up at the front of the British national anthem alongside the real drivers of the motorsport premier class. Pitt told Sky Sports that he had no idea what it meant to be a racing driver: “These are great athletes, I have so much respect for them from all classes.”