One film on this list has no narrator and no talking heads — only a dead man’s own words, laid over footage he never knew would be used.
Wet tarmac at Monaco, a pit lane thick with hot rubber, an engine note that rattles your ribs — these are our picks for the twenty-five best Formula 1 and Grand Prix movies ever made, documentaries and dramas alike, each one carrying its own Movie Blanket Score.
Tell us which race film we left off the grid.
00:00 Intro
00:34 #25 — Michel Vaillant (2003) · Blanket Score 4.2
01:59 #24 — The Young Racers (1963) · Blanket Score 4.8
03:21 #23 — Bobby Deerfield (1977) · Blanket Score 5.4
04:47 #22 — The Racers (1955) · Blanket Score 5.6
06:09 #21 — Lauda: The Untold Story (2014) · Blanket Score 6.1
07:47 #20 — Gran Turismo (2023) · Blanket Score 6.3
09:10 #19 — A Life of Speed: The Juan Manuel Fangio Story (2020) · Blanket Score 6.4
10:26 #18 — Jochen Rindt: Uncrowned Champion (2020) · Blanket Score 6.5
11:45 #17 — Crash and Burn (2016) · Blanket Score 6.6
13:02 #16 — Ferrari: Race to Immortality (2017) · Blanket Score 6.8
14:40 #15 — Hunt vs Lauda: F1’s Greatest Racing Rivals (2013) · Blanket Score 6.9
16:03 #14 — Ferrari (2023) · Blanket Score 6.9
17:34 #13 — Le Mans (1971) · Blanket Score 7.1
19:11 #12 — Williams (2017) · Blanket Score 7.2
20:42 #11 — McLaren (2016) · Blanket Score 7.3
22:18 #10 — Grand Prix: The Killer Years (2011) · Blanket Score 7.4
23:46 #9 — Weekend of a Champion (1972) · Blanket Score 7.4
25:12 #8 — F1 (2025) · Blanket Score 7.3
26:40 #7 — Schumacher (2021) · Blanket Score 7.5
28:06 #6 — 1: Life on the Limit (2013) · Blanket Score 7.6
29:54 #5 — Villeneuve Pironi (2022) · Blanket Score 7.8
31:29 #4 — Ford v Ferrari (2019) · Blanket Score 8.4
32:56 #3 — Grand Prix (1966) · Blanket Score 7.9
34:26 #2 — Rush (2013) · Blanket Score 8.5
35:52 #1 — Senna (2010) · Blanket Score 9.2
37:26 Outro
How we score and rank every film: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/9ac5ee5e-f20f-4dc4-85b2-2eb919c18650
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