Ferrari claimed its 3rd consecutive Le Mans 24 Hours win over the weekend (June 14-15), with its 1st-placed #83 car and 3rd #51 racers sharing the podium with the 2nd-placed #6 Porsche. The top 4 cars in the Hypercar class (including another Ferrari) all finished within 30 seconds of each other. Check out all official results here.
All very exciting, but surely nothing compared to the excitement of seeing the LMGT3 car of Chip Hart Racing at Circuit de la Sarthe. That's the completely fictional team featured in the forthcoming Brad Pitt film, F1: The Movie.
Porsche customer team Manthey ran the #90 car in Chip Hart Racing livery as a promotion for the film, alongside its "Manthey 1st Phorm" #92 and "Iron Dames" #85 GT3 R racers.
The #92 car went on to win the LMGT3 class (34th overall). The Chip Hart team might have been pretend, but it finished 6th in class (39th overall), 10 places ahead of the Manthey Iron Dames car.
In the film, Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) drives Chip Hart Racing to victory at the 24 hours of Daytona after being coaxed back to motorsport for one last shot at glory. Pitt’s character is seen returning to racing 30 years after being in a near-career-ending crash that destroyed his hopes of Formula 1 stardom.
The film, which also stars Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia and Javier Bardem, was shot during real Grand Prix weekends and at last year’s 24 Hours of Daytona, where Chip Hart Racing participated via the Porsche customer team Wright Motorsports to capture authentic real-race footage.
F1: The Movie opens worldwide on June 25 (June 26 for New Zealand). You can still win a double pass to see the movie (until June 22): enter here.
