As rumours of an 11th team led by Brad Pitt swirl on social media, Lewis Hamilton insists that his forthcoming F1 movie will be authentic.

Excitable at the very best of times, a situation not helped by those sections of the media that depend on clickbait, F1 social media went into overdrive on Thursday following a tweet from ESPN.

The American broadcaster tweeted: "Brad Pitt will be driving an actual F1 car alongside the rest of the grid at Silverstone as part of the new movie that's in production.

"Directors Jerry Bruckheimer and Joseph Kosinski will enter an '11th team' to film on track for the rest of the season."

While Michael Andretti no doubt wondered where the movie makers had come up with the requisite $600m dilution fee, Colton Herta joked: "Brad Pitt got a super licence before me. Tough!"

Sure enough the rumour factory got to work, putting two and two together and coming up with 36.

Of course, there is no 11th team, and for all manner of reasons, not least safety, actors, even Brad Pitt, would never be allowed to take part in a practice session far less a Grand Prix, even if Stefano Domenicali has warned that the making of the movie would be "intrusive".

Though unable to go into too much detail, Lewis Hamilton, who is an advisor to the movie and a co-producer, insists that it will be authentic.

"I don't know absolutely every single plan of all the different things we could be doing with the paddock and all those sorts of things," he told reporters. "I'm more focused right now on making sure that the script is where it needs to be. So that's where all the time currently is going through the scripts, making sure we've got a really great, diverse cast.

"Joe's focus," he continued, referring to director Joseph Kosinski, "is to make sure that we're as embedded into this sport as possible, to make sure that it's authentic and that all of you and racing fans, see its authenticity and say this is believable.

"Secondly, have a view of racing from a different perspective than you might see on TV. So I'm spending a lot of time right now helping Joe and the team get the script right. That's an amazing process, and I really enjoy it."

It's thought that Pitt and other actors in the movie will take part in such things as the driver parade at races in order to get the required backgrund shots, while the American would then take to the track in a modified F2 or F3 car at other times for action shots no doubt with other drivers in similar machinery.

This is pretty much the standard and was how the 1966 movie Grand Prix was filmed. Footage from race day of the British Grand Prix was used in the movie and on the following Monday fans were invited to head back to Brands Hatch as extras for additional scenes including Pete Aron's (James Garner) fiery crash in the Yamura.

Pitpass has first hand knowledge of this since a certain editor (and his mother) were in the crowd.

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1. Posted by trackrecords, 11/05/2023 0:30

"I've heard that a rival film is being proposed directed by Quentin Tarantino, called "Reservoir F1 Dogs".
The plot resolves around F1 team engineers meeting at a Las Vegas diner after having produced a lack-lustre F1 car in two successive seasons.
Gunter Steiner will be in charge of spicing-up Tarantino's usually 'tame' dialogue."

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2. Posted by Dirt, 06/05/2023 1:07

"@Superbird70

Hahahaha... Thank you for that, you made my evening."

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3. Posted by Celtic Tiger, 05/05/2023 21:26

"I share my concerns with the editor below. The executive producer on this, Penni Thow, was also the producer on "Project Runway" and "Straight Outta Oz". The writer for this doesn't inspire confidence as well. "

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4. Posted by Editor, 05/05/2023 18:39

"@ Burton

Frankenheimer was also a keen F1 fan... indeed a massive car fan."

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5. Posted by Burton, 05/05/2023 18:37

"The opening sequence of Grand Prix will be better than this entire movie. But then Frankenheimer was a proper director, and not an overpromoted visual "artist". Don't even get me started on Bruckheimer and his blockbuster colour palette. Well, at least he didn't give the project to Michael Bay..."

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6. Posted by Editor, 05/05/2023 17:40

"Not a betting man but willing to lay some cash on one of the drivers being a woman, most probably LGBT whatever it is.

Seeing as what's hapeing at the US Navy, perhaps a trans pit crew.

Like Disney, the woke mob will not allow this opportunity to go to waste."

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7. Posted by Superbird70, 05/05/2023 17:36

"Working titles, The Curious Case of Jenson Button or Being Jean Todt."

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8. Posted by elsiebc, 05/05/2023 16:30

""making sure we've got a really great, diverse cast" - I think BrightonCorgi was referencing this nugget of successful film-making 101."

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9. Posted by Superbird70, 05/05/2023 16:20

"The movie is all about the accounting and financial side of F1. Impacts of the cost cap. Setting a sustainable dinner menu in the paddock. The real guts of F1. "

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10. Posted by Editor, 05/05/2023 15:49

"@ BrightonCorgi

If you'd like to contact me via my private email address, I have some prime real estate in central London that I am looking to sell, my good friend Lionel Hutz, a respected lawyer, also has access to some magic beans.

Hurry."

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11. Posted by Fambank, 05/05/2023 15:12

"Brad Pitt.

No, stay out ! stay out !"

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12. Posted by kenji, 05/05/2023 14:36

"You have far more faith than me Brighton Corgi."

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13. Posted by BrightonCorgi, 05/05/2023 13:24

"I'm sure the final product will be entertaining and well received. All involved know what they're doing."

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