#Grand prix story cars failing driver
The last British GP victory by a Red Bull driver was Mark Webber in 2012. No such issues for Verstappen, who took his first British GP victory, although he did win at Silverstone in 2020 when a second race was held, called a 70th anniversary race, due to Covid restricting the number of race venues available that year. Both Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc pitted early and compromised their race strategy because although they started on hard tyres, and were destined to stay out longer, they found they were cutting out their tyres and were forced to pit early. Most teams had adopted a one-stop strategy for the race unless you were in a Ferrari. But this was no Hollywood script, so eventually Verstappen settled into attack mode and passed Norris on the fifth lap, and steadily, but surely, pulled away. Verstappen was even coming under pressure from Oscar Piastri in the other McLaren, on those opening laps. The 150,000-strong crowd, mostly British, let out a deafening roar of approval. Verstappen, from pole position, was overtaken by Lando Norris in the McLaren, before the first corner.
So it was lights out for Pitt and co, but it was camera rolling and all real action on the track as the grand prix began. The Apex team had two F2 cars made up to look like F1 cars, sitting at the back of the grid, but they only went a few hundred yards on the formation lap before peeling off. World champion Max Verstappen, and his 19 fellow drivers, may have had to share some of the limelight with Pitt, who joined the driver line-up on the grid for the British National Anthem, but there was no chance Pitt was going to be a threat in the race.
#Grand prix story cars failing movie
Jerry Bruckheimer, the producer of Top Gun, Maverick and the Mission Impossible movies, was given special permission by F1 to set up a mock F1 garage in between the Mercedes and Red Bull teams in pitlane, so they could shoot scenes for his Apex movie starring Brad Pitt as a returnee F1 driver, brought back to support an up and coming driver, played by actor Damson Iris. Hollywood, rather than the expected ‘Just Stop the Oil’ group of protesters, ‘invaded’ Silverstone for the British Grand Prix on Sunday. Max Verstappen with his eighth victory of the season held out Lando Norris.
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