Javier Bardem, who plays Ruben Cervantes, points out Idris and Pitt likely felt more pressure filming during the live races in front of hundreds of thousands of people. But he says the crew’s “work” wasn’t lost on him.

It's a high speed look at an already dramatic sport, and Apple collaborated closely with the real-life F1 league to make it all work. That means a lot of the biggest names in the sport were in the movie as themselves. Not only was Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton in F1: The Movie, but the talented driver was also a producer.

F1,” a Formula One racing film starring Brad Pitt, Damson Idris and several real-life drivers, arrives in theaters on Friday, June 27. In the Apple film, Pitt plays a retired Formula One driver, Sonny Hayes,