Auditioning actors wꩲere put through an “intense dri🅰ving test”, the report states, to prove their worth.

Director J𝔉oseph Kosinski put actors in real fighter jets for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and “hopes” to do the same with this F1 movie.

Hamilton has a role as a producer ꧟for the untitled movie which stars superstar Pitt as an ageing driver who attempts one last shot at gl🍎ory.

Apple purchased rights to sꩲhow the movie for $130 million-$140 million, the report s✤ays.

Idris, the actor chosen for a major part alongsid♔e Pitt, is best-known for a role in ‘Snowfall’.

Hamilton has previously said: “I want to make📖 the movie, in terms of like having diversity and representation, I want it to b𓃲e as Formula 1 should be in the future - or should be now, but will be in the future.

“I want to see 🦂female mechanics. We would love to see a female driver. We haven't gotten to that point just yet. But why not?

“Right now, we’ve still got the script. We’ve gone through quite a f🔴ew different iterations of it.

“We're still waiting for a new rewrite, and that's the whole process. ♌But I was doing that throughout Christm🌠as.

“It's exciting. I'm excited to get the next end of the script. I✅ was talking to Brad last night about the characters that we have coming.”