GRAND PRIX - 1966

Prior to seeing "F1", the upcoming sensation of this season, starring Brad Pitt, let me advise you to revisit (in case you've already seen it) or discover (if you still haven't seen it) "Grand Prix" (1966), directed by John Frankenheimer. It's a movie about F-1 racing, that includes in cameo roles real pilots of that time like Jim Clark, Graham Hill and Jochen Rindt. It's not an old movie, or rather, it has aged well because F-1 races nowadays are very much like the ones seen in that movie, even though car engines and designs have improuved dramatically since then. In this movie we follow the story of four racers who are competing for the Formula One Championship, even though the movie focuses more on the story of three of them. There's Yves Montand, a French actor who was also a heart-throb of the time, as French pilot Jean-Pierre Sarti, a veteran who can´t stop racing, running for Ferrari; Brian Bedford, a Shakespearean theater actor who...