Watch The Latest Trailer For The F1 Movie

June 2025 will see the release of a long-awaited film about F1, filmed with plenty of involvement from F1, and called… F1. Yep, the imaginatively-titled film, starring Brad Pitt and Damson Idris and produced by Apple, is hitting cinemas this summer, and as such, what was a steady trickle of information is turning into a waterfall.

With the latest trailer arriving on 12 May, here’s everything you need to know about what its producers have quite sensibly started calling F1: The Movie.

F1 main trailer

The main trailer for F1 debuted on 12 May 2025. It gives us a bit more of a glance at the background of the two main characters – grizzled F1 veteran Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) and up-and-coming star Joshua Pierce (Damson Idris). There’s also no shortage of on-track action shown off, including a couple of gnarly-looking crashes that’ll doubtless serve as major plot points.

Previous F1 trailers

There have already been plenty of looks at the film in the lead-up to its release. A separate, but equally in-depth trailer arrived on 13 March to coincide with the opening weekend of the 2025 F1 season. Appropriately soundtracked by Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain, you can watch it below.

During the F1 75 season launch event on 18 February 2025, meanwhile, a behind-the-scenes trailer was shown off. It features director Joseph Kosinski explaining how the camera technology used in Top Gun: Maverick is being used to enhance the sense of speed in F1 and gives a more in-depth look at how much of the movie has been shot around real race weekends.

A shorter 30-second teaser trailer was shown during half-time of the 2025 Super Bowl on 9 February, a Kendrick Lamar concert around which some American football was played.

Our very first look at the film, meanwhile, came on 7 July 2024, just ahead of the British Grand Prix.

Wait, so it’s just called ‘F1’?

Yep. After months of speculation, we found in July 2024 that the film would simply be called… F1. You’d think giving it the same title as the massively popular motorsport it’s about would cause some Google confusion, but we’d imagine Apple has people dealing with this.

What’s the plot of F1?

The plot of F1 revolves around APX GP (pronounced Apex), a fictional eleventh team on the F1 grid. It’ll see seasoned F1 star of the ’90s Sonny Hayes, who retired from the sport after a major crash, return to mentor and partner up with promising newcomer Joshua Pearce as the team attempts to make its way up the grid.

Major plot details are, understandably, still under wraps, but from the trailers we’ve seen, it looks as if it’ll be a classic Hollywood underdog tale, with a romance sub-plot between Hayes and APXGP technical director Kate (Kerry Condon). Fairly standard movie stuff, then, but in fairness, it is a movie.

Who’s F1 going to star?

Sonny Hayes will be played by three-time Oscar winner Brad Pitt, while British actor Damson Idris (Snowfall, Outside the Wire) stars as Joshua Pearce. Elsewhere, Kerry Condon (Better Call Saul, The Banshees of Inisherin) will star as Kate, APX’s technical director and seemingly Hayes’ love interest. Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Skyfall) will star as Ruben Cervantes, APXGP’s team owner and an old friend of Hayes’. Other confirmed cast members include Tobias Menzies, Shea Whigham and Samson Kayo.

As it’s been filmed during genuine F1 weekends over the last few years, and is set in the real sport, plenty of F1 personalities are set to appear as themselves. In the trailers, we can see plenty of the 2023 and ’24 grid in a pre-race scene, as well as Guenther Steiner in his role as Haas team principal. Which is a bit awkward now, to say the least.

Overall production is being handled by Apple subsidiary Apple Studios.

Who’s directing and producing F1?

F1 is being directed by Joseph Kosinski, whose previous works include Tron: Legacy and Top Gun: Maverick. The cinematic style of the latter – which saw plenty of fixed, wide-angle action shots from cameras mounted on fighter jets – is apparent in the trailer, with similar camera positioning being used on the F1 cars.

Meanwhile, its producers include Pitt, original Top Gun producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and a little-known racing driver named Lewis Hamilton. We’re not sure what he knows about the sport, though…

How close to the real sport will F1 be?

From what we’ve seen so far, very. Because it’s being produced with the official involvement of the sport, and filmed during actual race weekends, its portrayal of the fine details of F1 are likely to be incredibly accurate. The APX GP team carries plenty of real-world sponsors and in-universe has Mercedes power. 

APX’s car is, in reality, a Formula 2 car with modifications carried out by the Mercedes team to make it look like a current F1 machine. Pitt and Idris genuinely drove these modified cars for some of the film’s production.

With all that said, this is still a movie, so bet on some Hollywood-ification of everything, and don’t expect lots of in-depth chat about tyre graining and MGU-Ks. That’s sort of the point of films.

When’s F1 coming out?

F1 will be released everywhere on 25 June 2025, except for the US, which has to wait until 27 June. As it’s being produced by Apple, we’d imagine it’ll appear on the Apple TV+ streaming service pretty soon after – if not alongside – its cinematic release.

Anything else to know about?

The production of a film set in the real world of a hugely popular sport has inevitably led to some unusual cross-promotional stunts. As part of a wider product placement deal, Mercedes has unveiled a real-life special edition of the AMG GT sports car, wearing a colour scheme inspired by the fictional APXGP livery.

The APX cars and drivers are also featured as a pre-order bonus for the F1 25 video game, as well as a selection of in-game scenarios inspired by the film.