On a different racetrack of events, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise were initially attached to Ford v Ferrari, with the F1 star revealing what ultimately led the latter to back out of the project. Speaking to the United Arab Emirates-based publication The National News, Pitt reflected on the racing pic that never came to pass, …

Brad Pitt is currently riding high with the box office success of F1 , but he recently opened up about a racing movie that almost happened over a decade ago, and how Tom Cruise may have walked away from it because he wouldn’t be behind the wheel enough.

Pitt also noted that he’d love to work on a follow-up to Cruise’s 1990 racing film ‘Days of Thunder.’ Before F1: The Movie raced into theaters last week, Brad Pitt was originally set to star in another racing film alongside none other than Tom Cruise .