{"id":221521,"date":"2025-06-28T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T14:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221521\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T14:24:15","slug":"revealed-why-max-verstappen-snubbed-lewis-hamiltons-f1-film-after-he-refused-to-take-part-in-nightclub-scene-with-brad-pitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221521\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Why Max Verstappen SNUBBED Lewis Hamilton’s F1 film after he ‘refused’ to take part in nightclub scene with Brad Pitt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Max Verstappen<\/a> has admitted that he would prefer to stay at home and look after his two-month old baby rather than attend black tie events after he snubbed two premieres for Lewis Hamilton<\/a>‘s new F1 film.<\/p>\n

‘F1’, which counts seven-time world champion Hamilton as an executive producer, was released on Wednesday amid fanfare from fans and drivers.<\/p>\n

Formula One stars were given a first glimpse of the movie, starring Brad Pitt<\/a> and Damson Idris<\/a>, in a private screening before the Monaco Grand Prix last month.<\/p>\n

The film’s premiere in New York was attended by drivers Lando Norris<\/a>, Ollie Bearmam, Nico Hulkenberg<\/a> and Carlos Sainz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Verstappen swerved both events and admitted he has not even watched the film yet, instead preferring to spend time looking after his newborn.<\/p>\n

The Red Bull driver welcomed his first child at the beginning of May with partner Kelly Piquet.<\/p>\n

\"Verstappen <\/p>\n

Verstappen admitted he would prefer to spend time with his newborn than attend premieres<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The Dutch driver welcomed his first child with Kelly Piquet at the beginning of last month<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The 27-year-old admitted he has not even watched the film after missing two premiers of ‘F1’<\/p>\n

The Dutchman, 27, told The Sun<\/a>:\u00a0‘Being authentic is not something I have to try and focus on. It’s just who I am.<\/p>\n

‘I don’t like to be on the red carpet and dress up in a suit. I don’t like to interact with people that I don’t really know, and have a fake smile and fake chat. It’s horrible, I just don’t enjoy it.<\/p>\n

‘I prefer to hang out with my friends and spend time with my little family. I also have a lot of other projects going on outside of F1.<\/p>\n

‘So any extra work like red carpets is not what I want to do. I’m at a stage of my career where I’ve achieved so much professionally.<\/p>\n

‘I’m just focusing outside of it now, like my big passions to make life more enjoyable and not just being performance driven.’<\/p>\n

‘With the nappies, some are more smelly than others!’\u00a0<\/p>\n

The four-time world champion even declined to take part in an extra nightclub scene for the film with Brad Pitt.<\/p>\n

Other drivers took a greater interest in the movie.<\/p>\n

‘I’ll just say, for the pure F1 fan, be open-minded to Hollywood films,’ Williams driver Carlos Sainz said.<\/p>\n

Formula One teams were keen to help producers and granted the actors unprecedented access to their facilities.<\/p>\n

McLaren handed them access to their Woking headquarters while Williams allowed them to use their wind tunnel for four days.<\/p>\n

Silverstone was essentially rented out to film-makers for three months in summer 2023, leaving junior drivers unable to use the track.<\/p>\n

\"Verstappen <\/p>\n

Verstappen snubbed the New York and driver exclusive Monaco premiere of Hamilton’s film\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Lewis <\/p>\n

Lewis Hamilton is an executive producer of the film which features Brad Pitt and Damson Idris<\/p>\n

Hamilton’s production company Dawn Apollo features in the opening credits and has been credited with playing a decisive role as he helped train Pitt and Idris in Formula 2 cars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Joseph Kosinski, who was behind Top Gun: Maverick, and directed the latest potential blockbuster, revealed ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix: \u2018Lewis was the first person I reached out to.<\/p>\n

\u2018I sent him an email and said, \u201cI want to make it as authentic as possible. Will you help me?\u201d And luckily, Lewis said, \u201cYes\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2018He was involved in all the technical details with fascinating advice. In Hungary, for instance, he said, \u201cIf Brad\u2019s going to let someone pass during a blue flag and he wants it to be as tight as possible, he\u2019s only going to do that at turn six\u201d. That kind of detail, I couldn\u2019t have gotten from anywhere else.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has admitted that he would prefer to stay at home and look after his two-month old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[15923,92,4199,707,4200,19584,998,1073,93,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-221521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-brad-pitt","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-formulaone","14":"tag-lewis-hamilton","15":"tag-max-verstappen","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}