An Essex racing driver has featured in the new F1 movie alongside Hollywood actor Brad Pitt. F1: The Movie hit cinema screens across the world on 25 June and centres on a fictional Formula 1 team, APXGP.

Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise previously announced they both wanted to work Ford v Ferrari, a landmark racing movie, and now Pitt says he wants Cruise in a follow-up to F1: The Movie. Pitt told The National he's still not sure exactly how it would work out,

Brad Pitt is currently riding high with the box office success of F1 , but he recently opened up about a racing movie that almost happened over a decade ago, and how Tom Cruise may have walked away from it because he wouldn’t be behind the wheel enough.