Aussie F1 superstar is known for his laid-back nature and not even Hollywood A-lister Brad Pitt could sway that during the filming of the F1 movie.
The F1 movie starred Pitt as a veteran Formula One driver who came out of retirement to mentor a young rising talent while racing for a fictional team on the modern grid.
Released in 2025, the film was shot during real Formula One race weekends and blended real drivers, teams and circuits with a fictional storyline to create an authentic look inside the sport.
Part of the film was shot during the 2023 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, where the production used the real race weekend to capture scenes featuring Brad Pitt’s fictional APXGP team on the grid and track.
Pitt and co-star Damson Idris even stood alongside the real Formula One drivers during the national anthem before the race, placing the actors beside stars such as Piastri.
Piastri is known for his calm, composed demeanour and dry sense of humour. He rarely shows strong emotion publicly and often responds to major moments with understated, matter-of-fact reactions.
Oscar Piastri got to meet Hollywood star Brad Pitt during the filming of the F1 movie in 2023
Despite vision clearly showing Piastri talking to Pitt, the Aussie F1 driver claims he didn’t speak with the actor during filming
Now this mother Nicole has revealed that laconic nature extended to rubbing shoulders with Pitt during the filming of F1.
‘We watched the F1 movie, he made no mention of that, and in one scene he’s standing next to Brad Pitt in the driver line up when they’re singing the national anthem,’ she told News Corp.
‘And so when I spoke to him the next time I said, ‘I know you’ve met Brad Pitt’, he said ‘I’m pretty sure I haven’t’.
‘I go, ‘mate, I saw you. ‘I saw him standing next to you’. ‘He goes, ‘ah, yeah. I didn’t talk to him though’. I said, ‘why not?’ He goes ‘what are you going to say to that old guy?
‘So, no, fame has not changed him one bit.’
Despite his laid-back nature, Piastri was always gravitating towards the high-octane thrills of fast cars.
As a concerned mother, Nicole tried to put a stop to it, but ‘there was no stopping it,’ she said.
‘I tried really hard but both grandparents are mechanics and his dad is into cars, he has a car tuning business, so it was happening pretty young.’
Piastri’s mother Nicole said not even standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Brad Pitt could sway her son on his way to F1 fame
Nicole again attempted to stop him racing while he was still a schoolboy in Brighton, after he was selected to represent Australia.
‘He was on an academic scholarship and the school was breathing down my neck saying where’s this kid we’re paying to educate and he was off go-karting,’ she said.
‘So I cut a deal with [father] Chris and said, okay, he can go, but if he doesn’t do any good, we stop the travel and he just races at the track, you know, for fun.
‘And I thought I was on a winner.
‘There was no way this kid who’d never raced these go-carts, who would’ve been jet lagged, couldn’t even communicate with his mechanic because he was an old guy that didn’t speak a word of English.
‘Everything went against him and even when he got over there they have a tire allowance and they’d saved one set of tires for the race and they got stolen the night before.
‘And he came third so here we are that’s just fast-tracked everything.’
