I think the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix is one of the worst tragedies that ever occur in F1 history and it was named the Imola cursed weekend Rubens Barichello crashed but luckily survive with a broken nose, but Roland Ratzenberger and the 3-time champion Ayrton Senna were both unfortunate with their gained injuries, Ayrton Senna was one of the notable racers in the F1 1988, 1990, and 1991 champion, until Nigel Mansell and Alain Prost got their shot on the title for 1992 and 1993 until the 1994 tragedy happens and Michael Schumacher was born as a champion in the 1994 F1 San Marino Grand Prix, and that tragedy was never going to be forgotten because of the casualties when Michael Schumacher becomes champion,
After seeing that video from the previous Imola Circuit in 1994 I was really shocked and goosebumps were all over me from just watching it, and thinking about those drivers that suffers a crash on that particular day, Michael Schumacher was pretty much lucky, and from that day he becomes champion I think this is the 1st Michael Schumacher got his championship and the rest are history, and I surely agree that this is one of the worst F1 race in history that got 2 deaths and 3 collisions in just 1 series,
Well, I need to add up that the Imola 1994 was history how I wish that the curse was lifted up and that tragic accidents would not happen again, and As I have noticed the barrier were now replaced with soft rubbery so cars would just bounce back to it and not crash into the barrier and likely catch fire, well i am still praying that nothing like that would likely happen,
Brad Pitt situation is a bit difficult situation because you can't really "fake" driving an F1 car, it is just not possible. You can CGI whatever you want into it, there is nothing wrong with that, they make aliens fight predators, I am sure they can make Brad Pitt drive a car, that's not the point. However, anyone who watches F1 for real, which I am sure will watch this movie as well, could tell apart the difference between really driving and movie driving.
Like even in most situations of racing in movies, we can tell it apart already, I would give FF series as example but they became superhero movies after a while so it is not really shocking. All in all I would just guess that it is going to end up with nothing too serious, sort of like Christ Hemsworth movie, more about out of race and not during the race, just a small period of racing involved in all of the movie I suppose.
Well seeing the news Brad Pitt is really driving a car but not an F1 but an F2 model closer to an F1 it is likely a much slower version of the F1 version but still actors got to ride on a real thing at least they can and knowing the director of Ton Gun he will surely get his actors to do the real deal so for sure fans of the F1 if they watch the movie they can still feel and see that the actors are surely driving a real thing,