Who tf drive a formula car on the road without a helmet. Smh
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Are they trying to be funny?
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This is one of the cringiest and corniest racing movie trailers Iâve ever seen.
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Proud to be french when I see this. This is an echo to the GP Explorer that are being held in France. Basically an F4 race for French influencers.
Also, this is a promo movie supported by Alpine and Winfield https://winfieldracingschool.com/corporate-events/racing/
About 20 years ago someone I know told me about the night someone at a raceshop he hung out at ran up to the gas station to get cigarettes, in a Formula Ford. When he came back into the shop he was shouting to close the shop door. Apparently he had met a police officer on the way back.
I donât think there are many films that capture racing correctly. Initial D gets better from a conceptual standpoint the older I get, but on the whole most are pretty lack luster. Hard pass on this one for me.
Tired of âfemales in motorsportâ being crammed down everyoneâs throat. Forced social engineering is so tiresome in 2025. Lol.
Someone once told me that racing movies that are really accurate tend to appeal to the same percentage of the population that actually likes to race. That is not a big enough market to make a movie for.
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Racing movie:
Go faster to pass = close up of foot pushing pedal down aggressively
But we already flat! 
Talledega Nights is legit the closest movie to real racing 
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If you aint first youâre last! I piss Excellence! I could keep going. Lol
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That makes sense 100%. Being on Ford Ferrari set was very insightful in that the director and others really didnât know anything about cars. And even the guys they had as advisors were not in the know. When push came to shove on a scene they would default to the âHollywood Wayâ if you want to call it that and it reflected in the end product despite being an overall enjoyable film.
Very glad I got out of the industry though. A lot of nefarious things happen as you move up the âranks.â I started refusing to do certain things and that didnât sit well with the top of the food chain in stunts.
Someone above alluded to the famous âpush the pedal all the way down nowâ shot. Why do they always have to do this! haha
Luciano Bacheta who worked on the F1 film knows his stuff. Superb driver. F2 champ in its previous form. Tom Cruiseâs stunt coordinator - Wade Eastwood - could pedal to. He came to GTS RS one time with Luciano. Shame they werenât hired for Ford v Ferrari by the sounds of it.
I am still not going to watch F1 though. I think we need a word for the feeling is distress watching a film you have expertise in. A bit like gel-mann amnesia.
Disgraceful to cast a 50-something washded up hollywood A-lister as an F1 driver. An insult.
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Agreed. That is my logic as well. Have the Canada GP on right now and it is pretty entertaining. Canât beat the real thing, thatâs for sure. Hollywood has declined in every facet imaginable and does not produce anything worth my $$$ in 2025.
I didnât even think about that aspect of it and this comment has me cracking up. So true!
Isnât Alonso 50 yet? Ah, âonlyâ 43âŚ
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A fellow racer once gave me this analogy. It was in reference to a different racing movie, but helps put in perspective for me.
âDays of Thunder is to racing what Star Wars is to space travel.â
If you keep this in mind, it will help you just enjoy the entertainment.
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Going to watch it with my kid. On IMAX. Opening night! Screw you guys 
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Think of it a foreshadowing of when we have 15 to 50 year olds in F1. It seems to be headed that way 
This looks worse that Driven, and that is not an easy task to achieve.
DRIVEN, did, however have one of the coldest exchanges in movie history:
- [Beau is choosing his career over Sophia]
- Beau Brandenburg: This is my life.
- Sophia Simone: This is not your life! This is what you do for a living.
- Beau Brandenburg: My mind has to be out there, not in here. So right now this is my life.
- Sophia Simone: So, what am I? What am I?
- Beau Brandenburg: A distraction.
You canât make the mistake of watching this for the realism. You have to watch it for the drama, which is what sells in Hollywood.
The section where Carl is talking to Sly about how he threw it away is a good section too. I have to say, as bad as the movie is from a true racers perspective, the soundtrack is KILLER.