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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.

Martin Donnelly, who suffered serious injuries in a crash at the 1990 Spanish Grand Prix, revealed he met Brad Pitt ahead of the premiere of the F1 movie having been an inspiration for major plot ...

Formula 1 driver Martin Donnelly, who is from Belfast but now lives in Norfolk, suffered serious injuries in a crash in Jerez, Spain, in 1990.

Martin Donnelly is not sure if it was exactly a lightbulb moment, but on the day in 1976 when his father bought a Crossle 16F racing car, he just knew that he was destined to become a racing driver.

He formed his own team for a while, Martin Donnelly Racing, and still has close links with Lotus. He has been a driver steward at F1 races in Korea, Canada and Abu Dhabi.