After starring as former F1 driver Sonny Hayes in F1 The Film, Brad Pitt has now gotten behind the wheel of a Components 1 automotive for actual, with the actor just lately attending to drive a 2023 McLaren on the Circuit of The Americas.
Pitt gained loads of driving expertise in the course of the making of the film, as each he and co-star Damson Idris – who performs Hayes’ rookie crew mate Joshua Pearce – underwent coaching to pilot the modified F2 cars that characteristic because the APXGP machines.
However now the film star has been given a style of an actual F1 automotive, having stepped into the cockpit of the MCL60 in Austin throughout a personal day of testing behind the wheel at COTA, supplied by McLaren CEO Zak Brown.
McLaren beforehand teased the link-up on social media just a few days in the past, posting a photograph showing to point out a set of overalls with the initials ‘BP’ on them together with the caption: “It’s a Sonny day in Austin.”
Now, on the day that F1 The Film is released internationally – with its launch in North America following on June 27 – photos have been shared from Pitt’s day of driving an F1 automotive in Austin.
Talking concerning the expertise on the Beyond The Grid podcast, Pitt mentioned: “I acquired to hit 197mph this week. I actually wished to hit 200. You understand, it hurts me somewhat bit – three miles per hour brief on the straight. This was at Austin.
“I’ve simply by no means skilled something that is simply, extra feeling of presence in my life. You are so targeted, however you are not white knuckling. You are simply on this chic groove. It’s actually extraordinary.
“I attempt to clarify this sense of downforce, and I fail each time since you attempt to say like a rollercoaster, however that is not even proper, since you really feel the fulcrum level beneath you – you are in it.
“I used to be in an aerobatic aircraft as soon as, and it is the closest factor, however nonetheless this factor. That is such a novel feeling and an absolute excessive. I am nonetheless on a excessive, I actually am. I am simply nonetheless on a excessive.
“And I am unable to thank Zak Brown and the crew [enough]. I spent the time out with Lando [Norris] – simply what a excessive, what a excessive.”
Take a look at all of the pictures from Pitt’s day on the wheel of a McLaren within the gallery above.
