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

In a recent interview on Beyond the Grid podcast, actor Brad Pitt revealed who the real-life F1 driver was who inspired the character he plays in the movie. “We based Sonny’s past on Martin Donnelly’s ...

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 crashed into the barrier at the Spanish Grand Prix going 140 mph. The Belfast driver was thrown out of his Lotus 102 and left motionless on the track. In 2010, Donnelly told ...

This brutal real-life F1 crash was a big inspiration for one that appeared in Joseph Kosinski's F1: The Movie, starring Brad ...

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 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 ...

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.