Almost everything in the summer blockbuster F1 the Movie is fictional, but the protagonist’s visceral origin story really ...

Martin Donnelly crashed into the barrier at the Spanish Grand Prix going 140 mph. The Belfast driver was thrown out of his ...

Martin Donnelly tells BBC Sport about how his career-ending accident in 1990 became the inspiration for Brad Pitt's character in F1: The Movie.

Martin Donnelly tells BBC Sport about how his career-ending accident in 1990 became the inspiration for Brad Pitt's character in F1: The Movie.

Martin Donnelly, who suffered serious injuries in a crash at the 1990 Spanish Grand Prix, revealed he met Brad Pitt ahead of the premiere of the F1 movie having been an inspiration for major plot ...

Martin Donnelly is not sure if it was exactly a lightbulb moment, but on the day in 1976 when his father bought a Crossle 16F racing car, he just knew that he was destined to become a racing driver.

He formed his own team for a while, Martin Donnelly Racing, and still has close links with Lotus. He has been a driver steward at F1 races in Korea, Canada and Abu Dhabi.

But later that day Senna left the circuit alone and drove the 50 miles to the Seville hospital where Martin was being treated in the intensive care unit. He met Mark Gallagher, Donnelly’s fellow ...

Martin Donnelly cannot remember the crash that almost killed him. Not only once, but three times. In qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix in 1990, mechanical failure caused his Lotus to crash ...

Martin Donnelly tells BBC Sport about how his career-ending accident in 1990 became the inspiration for Brad Pitt's character in F1: The Movie.