News that Brad Pitt will take to the track at Silverstone as he continues filming for the forthcoming F1 movie being co-produced by Lewis Hamilton prompted a hilarious response from snubbed rookie Colton Herta.
The Hollywood heartthrob, who will play a retired driver making his comeback, will begin filming on-site at the British Grand Prix in July between the main F1 sessions.
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Pitt will drive an adapted F2 car that has been worked on by Hamilton and his Mercedes engineers.
As news of Pitt’s inclusion in the British Grand prix became public, Herta, who was last year denied a super-licence because he didn’t have enough points took to social media to deliver a hilarious response.
“Brad Pitt got a super license before me. Tough,” he wrote.”
Herta was being pursued by Red Bull, Alpha Tauri and McLaren.
While Pitt’s movie remains untitled what we do know is the project is being lead by Joseph Kosinski, director of Top Gun: Maverick and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
Hamilton insists he has been involved every step of the way.
“I don’t know absolutely every single plan with all the things we’ll be doing in the paddock, I’m more focused on making sure the script is where it needs to be,” he said in Miami.
“That’s where all the time is currently, going through the script.
“We’ve got a really great and diverse cast. Joe’s focus is to make us as embedded in this sport as possible. For me it’s to make sure it’s authentic, and that all of you and racing fans see its authenticity and say ‘this is believable’, and have a view of racing from a different perspective than you might see on TV.
“I’m spending a lot of time right now helping Joe and the team get the script right, it’s an amazing process and I’m really enjoying it.”
Formula 1 fans on social media had a field day with the news of the movie star being allowed to race on the track during Grand Prix weekends.
F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has voiced his concerns about how invasive the filming will be on the sport.
“We’re going to start the shooting in Silverstone very soon, and you will see it will be the first movie when basically, they will be within the racing event,” he said.
“It will be quite invasive in terms of production, it’s something that we need to control in a way, but it will be another way of showing that F1 never stops.”
The movie comes on the heels of the worldwide success of Netflix’s smash hit series Drive to Survive.
The series goes behind the Formula 1 curtain to show off teams and drivers throughout the entirety of a season and what they go through during race weekends.
