Fans demanding accuracy in entertainment are a faction that have only grown in the modern age of movies. That’s something that applies even more to a 2025 blockbuster like F1, which sees Brad Pitt and Damson Idris jumping into very well-known racing machines for our entertainment. Or at least, it looks and sounds like it, as there’s actually a bit of sound editing trickery that was required due to the physical restrictions in the flashy motor cars used for the titular sport.
A recent interview with Gold Derby highlights the fact that the stars of the Warner Bros. adrenaline rush needed to be driving F2 cars for a very important reason: an F1 machine is apparently so precisely shaped to its driver that there wasn’t exactly room for the equipment that professionals like supervising sound editor Al Nelson need to do their jobs. Which lead to Nelson describing part of the solution, saying,
