Brad Pitt drives 2023 McLaren F1 car at Circuit of The Americas

After starring as former F1 driver Sonny Hayes in F1 The Film, Brad Pitt has now gotten behind the wheel of a Method 1 automobile for actual, with the actor just lately attending to drive a 2023 McLaren on the Circuit of The Americas.

Pitt gained loads of driving expertise through the making of the film, as each he and co-star Damson Idris – who performs Hayes’ rookie crew mate Joshua Pearce – underwent coaching to pilot the modified F2 cars that characteristic because the APXGP machines.

However now the film star has been given a style of an actual F1 automobile, having stepped into the cockpit of the MCL60 in Austin throughout a non-public day of testing behind the wheel at COTA, provided by McLaren CEO Zak Brown.

McLaren beforehand teased the link-up on social media a couple of days in the past, posting a photograph showing to indicate a set of overalls with the initials ‘BP’ on them together with the caption: “It’s a Sonny day in Austin.”

Now, on the day that F1 The Film is released internationally – with its launch in North America following on June 27 – footage have been shared from Pitt’s day of driving an F1 automobile in Austin.

Talking in regards to the expertise on the Beyond The Grid podcast, Pitt mentioned: “I received to hit 197mph this week. I actually needed to hit 200. You understand, it hurts me a bit bit – three miles per hour quick on the straight. This was at Austin.

“I’ve simply by no means skilled something that is simply, extra feeling of presence in my life. You are so centered, however you are not white knuckling. You are simply on this chic groove. It’s actually extraordinary.

“I attempt to clarify this sense of downforce, and I fail each time since you attempt to say like a rollercoaster, however that is not even proper, since you really feel the fulcrum level beneath you – you are in it.

“I used to be in an aerobatic aircraft as soon as, and it is the closest factor, however nonetheless this factor. That is such a novel feeling and an absolute excessive. I am nonetheless on a excessive, I actually am. I am simply nonetheless on a excessive.

“And I am unable to thank Zak Brown and the crew [enough]. I spent the day trip with Lando [Norris] – simply what a excessive, what a excessive.”

Try all of the images from Pitt’s day on the wheel of a McLaren within the gallery above.