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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 ...

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.

The breakage sent Donnelly’s car into the barricade at almost 200 mph. The crash and Donnelly’s recovery from it were detailed in the F1TV documentary, Martin Donnelly: Life on the Edge.

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.

IT WAS ONE of the most horrific crashes in modern Formula 1 racing, and it ended the very promising career of Belfast man Martin Donnelly. Amazingly, though, it didn’t kill him.

In this exacting role Martin Donnelly went from triumph to triumph. He was, as it were, both the gum and the glitter; and he carried his burden like a banner. He is a master of technique.