I am not too sure who needs to hear about this but with the recent release of the F1 Movie Teaser in the ball game ads night I want to say something that some of you might be too young to know.
THE F1 MOVIE IS JUST A REMAKE (but even worse) OF DRIVEN (2001).
There I say it. If you have watched Driven, you know what I am talking about and probably agree with me. For those of you who are too young or too same to have watched that mess, allow me to illustrate.
When Sylvester Stallone was filming Judge Dredd around 1994, he discovered Formula 1 and basically fell in love, he attended the 1997 Italian Grand Prix and proudly announced that he would make an F1 movie.
Here he is with my beloved Michael. And with the obnoxious gremlin Bernie.
And all was cool and fine until something wasn't. Instead of being about F1, it became about CART (a bastard sibling of Indy whose origins are a too convoluted for this post and the entire thing folded in 2003 anyway). I cannot find exactly why F1 and the teams backed from the movie, but considering the end result, most bets lay on the script.
Even with the CART setting, F1 elements are still observable on the end result though.
Why is Burt Reynolds' character, the team principal, in a wheelchair. Can of remind you someone?
But anyway, back to my initial point.
The whole plot of Driven can be described as: Veteran driver who is past his prime years comes back to the sport to help a young gifted rookie to become a champion. There will be teammate tension, physically impossible crashes, things that definitely Don't work like that (TM) and real-life drivers peppered in the background, such as Mario Andretti, Jacques Villeneuve, Juan Pablo Montoya, Adrian Fernandez, etc, etc.
DOES THAT REMIND YOU OF SOMETHING?!
In general, is a very bad movie, motivations are questionable, characters are illogical, and if I explained every absurd thing that happens I could write a full book.
HOWEVER, Driven might be better than F1 The movie. At least it had real actors playing the characters. They even had German actor Til Schweiger playing a Schumacher pastiche that functions as a rival in racing and love to our plucky rookie.
@nest-of-shiny-things already explained this in far more detail, but it's kind of hard to have a good movie when your actors cannot interact with the world, even if the world is dumb.