How Brad Pitt Learned to Bump His Stunt Driver Off the Road

And other facts about “F1” revealed in a special THR panel with stunt driver Luciano Bacheta, stunt coordinator Gary Powell, John Mayer and more.

No viewer of F1 should be surprised by the amount of real-life action weaved into Joseph Kosinski’s riveting film. As the decorated artisans behind the box-office smash told a packed house in Los Angeles, following a special THR screening last month, everything from its look to its pace to its sound was drawn directly from races around the world — both in research for the story of a retired former prodigy (Brad Pitt) returning to the sport to save a flailing team from the brink, and in the literal material collections. “We were capturing all of the broadcast cameras that Formula One shoots with at all the tracks,”

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