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How Martin Donnelly's Career-Ending Crash Inspired a Brad Pitt Film on F1 Racing

11mo ago· 6 min readenNews

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Martin Donnelly's career-ending crash in 1990 inspired a Brad Pitt film about F1 racing. Donnelly's harrowing accident at the Spanish Grand Prix led to his body lying on the track at 160mph.

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Martin Donnelly cannot remember the crash that almost killed him. Not only once, but three times.
In qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix in 1990, mechanical failure caused his Lotus to crash into the barriers at 160mph.
The scenes that came next were harrowing, as Donnelly's stricken body, still strapped to his seat, lay in the middle of the track, surrounded by pieces and shards of his
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Martin Donnelly tells BBC Sport about how his career-ending accident in 1990 became the inspiration for Brad Pitt's character in F1: The Movie.

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