It’s rare that one of the year’s biggest films falls squarely into Top Gear’s wheel-house. But make no mistake, F1: The Movie is big – an ultra widescreen, IMAX-grade entertainment as precision-tooled and gleaming a star vehicle as the Ferrari SF-25 driven by Lewis Hamilton.
He, of course, is one of the film’s executive producers, an advisor and guarantor of authenticity, having first been approached by the director, Joe Kosinski, when Lewis’s proposed appearance in his previous film, Top Gun: Maverick, was scuppered by the day job. Kosinski, a Porsche 911 obsessive and motorsport fan, became immersed in F1 via Netflix hit Drive To Survive, when the world was becalmed during Covid. He figured an F1 film would be a fun follow-up to the billion dollar-grossing Top Gun sequel.
