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Ask an F1 Expert: Can You Crash Your Car on Purpose to Win a Race?
It’s happened before!
In F1: The Movie, the fictional racing team APXGP is on its last legs: Its young driver, Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), is impulsive and green; its owner, Ruben (Javier Bardem), is at his wit’s end; the tech director, Kate (Kerry Condon), can’t figure out how to make a car that’s not a “shitbox.” There’s only one person who can save them, and that’s rugged American cowboy Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt). I called up Chris Medland, a motorsports journalist and broadcaster based in London who has covered the sport since 2011 and attends just about every major F1 race across the world. And you’re like, Well, hang on, she’s meant to be this brilliant technical director who’s climbed her way to the top, but it takes Brad Pitt to tell her how to make a good car?
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