'I watched Brad Pitt's F1 movie and found car film with Game of Thrones star way better'

Brad Pitt's eagerly-anticipiated F1 movie is out and, by all accounts is a raving success - its £105million opening weekend haul says it all. As a motorsport fan who's watched Formula 1 my whole life, I was keen to see what all the fuss was about. But I found by the end of it, it was lacking one thing compared to my all-time favourite motorsport movie.

The film follows the return to Formula 1 of Sonny Hayes, a driver who was all set for a glowing career in the 1990s, but a serious accident set them back, and they never fully recovered.

This struck a very personal nerve for me. On July 26th, 2017, I was run over by a truck. My right foot was crushed and the effects of that accident were both physical and psychological. Today I'm as a fit as I was, even if I occasionally walk with a limp in winter.

Nearly eight years on, and thanks to a lot of amazing people, I can joke about the accident with friends, but psychologically it took a while to come back from and a few years to understand the consequences of what happened to me.

As a result, when watching the film, I was intrigued by how they would portray Sonny's management of his own trauma and his life with it. What this would have given the film was something I felt it lacked - heart.

The film is no doubt a technical masterpiece and they have created is visually and cinematically incredible. The integration of the APX GP cars into actual races as well as the usage of the Daytona 24 Hours was a welcome sight for someone who watches a vast array of motorsport series.

On those objective and cold bases it is a technical triumph and I fully believe it will succeed in drawing many more fans to F1 races who wouldn't have bothered going had it not been.

In others, though, it has failed. I've read a lot of reviews of the film and many quite rightly point out that the female characters could have been treated better. I agree with these journalists and hope that any sequel to this movie fixes the errors pointed out by fellow reviewers.

I also wish it had touched on Sonny's journey a little more, I would love to see a prequel to the film that followed him and his life building up to the Daytona race that would end up getting him the drive in F1.

That's why, for me, a little-known film called Group B blows it out the park. The short film is set during one of the World Rally Championship's most famous eras.

Released in 2015, it stars Richard Madden as a 1980s rally driver who was involved in a serious accident the year before in which his co-driver died. In rallying, there are two drivers in the car, the driver and the co-driver who says which corners are coming up.

During the film, it is clear that Richard's character, though physically fine, is psychologically still recovering. He wants to drive, but behind the wheel his mind is a series of lose wires and unresolved trauma.

At one point during a stage the intercom him and his new co-driver (Michael Smiley), use to communicate, fails. In his desperation his character says: "I can't hear anything." If you've ever experienced a bad period of poor mental health, you'll know that that phrase hits hard and it hits deep; it's that feeling of being lost and disoriented.

In the chaos of the moment, Richard's character undergoes a catharsis, he talks to his lost co-driver and finds the happiness he believed he had lost. He finds healing and, as weird as it sounds, he finds the person he was before the traumatic event.

It was this element that I felt the F1 movie missed with Brad Pitt's character touching on it in a speech in the film's third act; one which ends with him still a psychologically broken man; I would like to his character achieve the healing Richard Madden's did.

The F1 film is by box office measurements and technical achievements a success, but I will always have a soft spot for a short film about rallying which gave a younger me a little bit of hope at a time when I felt I had none. Group B is free to watch on YouTube via channel Short of the Week which helps filmmakers reach a wider audience. You can watch it .

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