‘It’s unbelievable’ – Brad Pitt reveals the F1 monitor that was the ‘highest of highs’

Brad Pitt has revealed the monitor that he felt was the “highest of highs” after experiencing numerous circuits on the calendar – each as a driver and spectator – throughout filming of F1 The Film.

With a lot of the movement image captured throughout precise Grand Prix weekends, Pitt was capable of get a style of a number of venues, together with Silverstone – the place a number of the first scenes had been filmed – and Abu Dhabi, each tracks that he loved.

Nonetheless, reflecting on his favorite circuits throughout an look on F1’s Past The Grid podcast, Pitt cited Belgium’s Spa-Francorchamps as a very particular one.

“I’ve an actual love for Silverstone as a result of we acquired our footing there and we acquired to stay there for a few months – how spoiled are we?” stated Pitt. “After which I’ve an actual smooth spot for Abu Dhabi as a result of we spent one other couple of months there and we completed up the movie there.

“However the excessive of highs? Spa. Oh my god! 4.3 miles, 100-metre elevation change via the woods and the again. The Pouhon nook, it is double [apex]. It is off-camber and also you’re coming downhill into it. It is such a clean, swish feeling.

“After which after all Eau Rouge. We went to the underside of Eau Rouge. Tim Bampton from F1 took us all the way down to the bottom of Eau Rouge, and he stated, “Flip your backs, simply search for the hill and wait”. And the vehicles come proper by the wall.

“Fernando [Alonso] glided by, and it actually sucks the air out of your lungs. It’s unbelievable. It’s unbelievable.”

With Pitt and co-star Damson Idris each getting behind the wheel for the movie’s driving sequences – of their respective roles as returning driver Sonny Hayes and rookie Joshua Pearce – the actors had been capable of expertise a number of the circuits for themselves.

Nonetheless, Pitt felt that what he was doing didn’t examine to what he witnessed from watching the F1 drivers on monitor.

“That was that very same weekend we had been driving,” he defined of the Spa expertise. “I would been out however I am not doing what Fernando was doing! After I first noticed him flat-out round Copse at Silverstone – it’s staggering, it’s breathtaking.”

Reflecting again on the expertise of filming at Silverstone for the primary time on the 2023 British Grand Prix – throughout which Pitt and Idris stood alongside the drivers for the nationwide anthem earlier than the race – Pitt stated: “It’s nutty, nevertheless it brings an vitality to the movie itself.

“It is like a race to ensure we get these scenes. We will shoot it on the grid. We have embedded ourself within the race weekend. We have now to show ourselves. We won’t cock up the programme and decelerate the race, and we can’t be in anybody’s method!

“Damson and I do the nationwide anthem. We flip round, we discover ourselves strolling with Carlos [Sainz], which was cool – these little accidents that occur. After which we get to the again of the grid and we get two takes for this scene with Tobias [Menzies] and Javier [Bardem].

“The day earlier than, the very very first thing we placed on movie was going out, taking the vehicles out on our personal in entrance of 100,000 followers on Quali day, and that acquired my consideration.”