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F1: The Movie . . . Have racing license will travel.

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Billy Wonka

One doesn't feel the grit, smell, or sweat of the pit in this one. Yet, all the elements of modernity that were missing from previous eras' films are here, clicking away like a mad science project. A modern F1 team is akin to a NASA/Tesla space launch with telemetry attached to everything. reading the pulse of everything and being followed by techs who make serious calls based on mechanical performance. This film will bring latecomers up to speed on how 2.4-second tire changes can (and must) happen.

Sonny Hayes (no kin to Issac) is a race "drifter". He never wants to settle down and floats from event to event, looking for a quick ride to keep him going. His old racing teammate, Ruben Cervantes, catches up with him and is in desperate need for a driver for the second seat of his failing F1 team. With much hesitation Pitt accepts and gains a young teammate, Joshua, who soon becomes a burr under Sonny's saddle. One of the surprise elements is Kerry Condon who plays the team's chief designer and wields the most charming Irish accent on the planet.

Once in the cockpit, your juices flow as you experience the horrifically high speeds these landlocked ABMs can attain. Speed needs brains and cleverness and that's where Sonny's borderline unscrupulous tactics come to play. He made the most of what he had whether it was clean or not.

At over two hours running length, you will graduate with a license to "watch" F1 racing in the future and earn the right to turn your nose up at Indy and NASCAR

Follow Ups:

BBC initially gave it one star and said it was out of charity - Wojciech 19:51:23 07/25/25 (1)
I think they've changed the tune rather rapidly since then but can't be sure .I think Gaza is messing them up and poor whores don't know anymore to whom they supposed to spread their legs or offer an annus. What a days..
- It certainly had WOKE all over it . . . - Billy Wonka 01:30:55 07/27/25 (0)
  BBC should have loved it.
Since wifey and I attend lots of F1 races - E-Stat 09:39:04 07/18/25 (3)
it will be interesting to see how true to life it is.

Last month at Montreal was fabulous! We were seven rows up from track. :)
- 2.4 second pit stops continually amaze me . . . - Billy Wonka 12:54:44 07/18/25 (2)
  I could watch a 90-minute film on that alone.
  - RE: 2.4 second pit stops continually amaze me . . . - E-Stat 13:16:29 07/18/25 (1)
    F1 wheels use a single center locking nut for faster replacement. Contrast that to NASCAR's approach of using five traditional lug nuts until recently. Each guy in the pit crew has a narrowly defined but highly trained role.
    
    High end sports cars like this GT4RS also use them.
    - My MG Midget had those, too . . . - Billy Wonka 23:24:56 07/19/25 (0)
      My pit crew was considerably slower.
RE: F1: The Movie . . . Have racing license will travel. - audio_d 19:21:12 07/15/25 (0)
Director Joseph Kosinsky peaked with Oblivion.

This is dreck like almost every motor racing themed movie or biopic before it.

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