Monday 12th May

Open-top G-wagen the real star of new 'F1' trailer

Joseph Kosinski's F1 epic is in cinemas next month - here's the final preview 

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We all know why motor racing movies tend to suck: they fail to convey the raw excitement, thrill, speed and jeopardy of motorsport onto the silver screen. So it makes them both disappointing as a moviegoing experience and as a representation of the sport. Which is to say nothing of the limp plots that can also accompany them. 

Hopes are higher for F1, of course, years in the making and with unprecedented access to races thanks to official collaboration with the sport. Even if having Sergio Perez in a Red Bull and Carlos Sainz in a Ferrari will date some of the footage a tad.  This is the final trailer for the film, which will be in cinemas from June 25th and tells the story of Brad Pitt’s Sonny Hayes, back in F1 after decades away and tasked with saving his former teammate’s struggling outfit. With a young buck in the second seat and some personal demons to battle along the way. 

This final two-minute teaser does set the tone nicely - not least by kicking off with Pitt in a right-hand-drive G-wagen, a sure sign that he's a no-nonsense kind of chap - with some good-looking action sequences and a sheen of legitimacy to the Apex GP operation that most racing films can’t claim to rival. Plus some fire, sex, tyre smoke and tongue-in-cheek confirmation that Sonny Hayes looks pretty good for 61. At any rate, F1 looks like it’ll be worth a watch, and we’ve all become too familiar with films at home on the TV - so this action-packed surely deserves the big screen. Best get booking the time off (and your tickets) very soon.  

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[salmanorguk]

From all the marketing so far, this comes across similar to Michael Bay's thinking with Transformers, where they subject matter takes a back seat so humans are shown as the heroes.

Understandable they went this way to print money, but will probably leave fans cold.

Also this trailer makes it looks like a Cars 3 rehash!

[CharverDeeksWorth]

It looks painfully ste.

[MayNine]

I'm sure it'll be rubbish, but I am quite looking forward to it. Better than some more Marvel tosh either way.

[Mark-C]

MayNine said:

I'm sure it'll be rubbish, but I am quite looking forward to it. Better than some more Marvel tosh either way.

This - it will probably be a passable way of spending a couple of hours.

It's not aimed at hardcore F1 fans ... that would be commercial suicide!

[languagetimothy]

yep, well ill give at a go of course. at least the cars dont transform into robots. what happened to the "faster through the turns" line, I hope they kept that in. a bit of a snack and a couple of wines beforehand and yeah, something to do.

[LotusOmega375D]

Hopefully it will have a realistic climax showing the film star being robbed of the championship in the last race due to a dodgy decision by the Race Director, followed by months of court room legal action.

[CKY]

CharverDeeksWorth said:

It looks painfully ste.

Well said - might stick it on if I see it on Channel 4 on a Sunday afternoon to nod off to.

[The Pistonsdead]

LotusOmega375D said:

Hopefully it will have a realistic climax showing the film star being robbed of the championship in the last race due to a dodgy decision by the Race Director, followed by months of court room legal action.

[Dapster]

LotusOmega375D said:

Hopefully it will have a realistic climax showing the film star being robbed of the championship in the last race due to a dodgy decision by the Race Director, followed by months of court room legal action.

Or that our aged superstar spends the entire season battling frustratedly mid table just out of the points as he comes to realise that it's the established superstars half his age in the best cars that win races

[MC Bodge]

Will it be as good as Days of Thunder?

[soxboy]

MC Bodge said:

Will it be as good as Days of Thunder?

‘Tom is a race car driver - a pretty good race car driver too... until he has a crisis of confidence... and then he meets a good looking woman who talks him into being a better race car driver...’

(C) Rich Hall

[fantheman80]

'Driven' starring Sylvester Stallone set the bar so high for single seater fiction, I cant see this beating that.

[griffsomething]

I think it looks fun!

Any excuse to see and hear cars on the big screen, I’m in.

[MC Bodge]

soxboy said:

MC Bodge said:

Will it be as good as Days of Thunder?

‘Tom is a race car driver - a pretty good race car driver too... until he has a crisis of confidence... and then he meets a good looking woman who talks him into being a better race car driver...’

(C) Rich Hall

One of my mates was told off in the cinema for cheering at the sex scene (the start of which involved Cole Trickle explaining drafting/slingshot technique iirc), We were only 13 at the time.

[TEKNOPUG]

Why does Brad Pitt keep being cast to play characters he's clearly 20 to 30 (40?!) years too old to be?

[Bispoto]

No way it can compete with “ Heat”. That was a real movie.

[f6box]

TEKNOPUG said:

Why does Brad Pitt keep being cast to play characters he's clearly 20 to 30 (40?!) years too old to be?

Standard Hollywood MO to have male stars playing well below their plausible age. It's hardly limited to Pitt.

Anyway, it'll be totally, depressingly fking awful. Pitt being cast is all you need to know to be confident of that.

[Bispoto]

My bad- I meant “ Rush”.

[f6box]

Bispoto said:

My bad- I meant “ Rush”.

Rush was painfully crap, though I concede it's very likely to still be dramatically better than this ghastly IP and branding vehicle.

[Andy86GT]

fantheman80 said:

'Driven' starring Sylvester Stallone set the bar so high for single seater fiction, I cant see this beating that.

Oh yes, the famous 'Drivel', I vaguely recall some sort of car chase in the racing cars, beyond ridiculous