{"id":238769,"date":"2025-07-05T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T00:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238769\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T00:36:11","slug":"brad-pitt-tipped-for-motorsports-career-following-f1-movie-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238769\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt tipped for motorsports career following &#8220;F1&#8221; movie success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/mclaren\/10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McLaren<\/a> Racing CEO Zak Brown believes that Brad Pitt could look for a career in motorsports following the F1 film, much like fellow actor Patrick Dempsey, who has raced in the 24\u00a0Hours of Le Mans\u00a0and Rolex 24 at Daytona.<\/p>\n<p>Pitt and his co-star, Damson Idris, both drove Formula 2 cars specifically modified to look like Formula 1 cars for the recent Joseph Kosinski film. The Hollywood star also recently took to the Circuit of The Americas with McLaren, where he drove Lando Norris&#8217; 2023 F1 car alongside former driver and Sky Sports F1 analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/martin-brundle\/585\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin Brundle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brown discussed the experience during practice at Silverstone ahead of the British Grand Prix, revealing that he was impressed by how seriously Pitt took it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrundle had him covered, but I\u2019ll tell you what, Brad was impressive,&#8221; Brown explained to Sky Sports F1. &#8220;He took it very seriously. He wanted to see his data, thoroughly enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn\u2019t be surprised, as we\u2019ve seen with Patrick Dempsey, people get a taste of driving. And they, like Paul Newman said, he was a racing driver and a part-time actor, so I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to see Brad back out at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pitt also spoke about driving the MCL60 during an appearance on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/beyond-the-grid-brad-pitt-on-becoming-sonny-hayes-for-f1-the-movie.4r1uyULfF5iS7ggGb5XxkM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond The Grid podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got to hit 197mph this week. I really wanted to hit 200. You know, it hurts me a little bit \u2013 three miles per hour short on the straight. This was at\u00a0Austin,&#8221; he said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/brad-pitt-at-the-world-premier.jpg\" alt=\"Brad Pitt at the World Premiere of F1 The Movie\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Brad Pitt at the World Premiere of F1 The Movie<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve just never experienced anything that&#8217;s just, more feeling of presence in my life. You&#8217;re so focused, but you&#8217;re not white knuckling. You&#8217;re just in this sublime groove. It is really extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI try to explain this feeling of downforce, and I fail every time because you try to say like a rollercoaster, but that&#8217;s not even right, because you feel the fulcrum point underneath you \u2013 you&#8217;re in it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in an aerobatic plane once, and it&#8217;s the closest thing, but still this thing. This is such a unique feeling and an absolute high. I&#8217;m still on a high, I really am. I&#8217;m just still on a high.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I can&#8217;t thank\u00a0Zak Brown\u00a0and the team [enough]. I spent the day out with Lando [Norris] \u2013 just what a high, what a high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown believes that Brad Pitt could look for a career in motorsports following the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[41621,4080,77,92869,707,969,970,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-238769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-british-gp","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-f1-british-grand-prix-2025","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-nosyndicate","14":"tag-trendingteam","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114797831654828049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238769","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=238769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}