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

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 ...

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

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 ...

In a recent interview on Beyond the Grid podcast, actor Brad Pitt revealed who the real-life F1 driver was who inspired the ...

Brad Pitt has shared the real-life inspiration behind his character, Sonny Hayes, in the recently released blockbuster F1 The ...

Belfast-born ex-Formula One driver Martin Donnelly was just 30 seconds away from death after the horror smash that cost him his career. The race ace said he “would have been six feet under” if ...

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.