![]() ![]() “They started racing, and they did participate in overtakes and things like that, but our basic rule of thumb was no touching, nothing really aggressive, nothing that could risk damaging a really expensive car. Digitally, we'd fixed the curbs so they were the right color.”Īs the shoot progressed, Howard and his crew realized the HF1 drivers were willing to do a lot more. “Sometimes we would turn 'round and shoot in the wrong direction. “We tried to understand where memorable events occurred on different tracks and tried to find at least their cousin in one of the tracks we were working on,” Howard reveals. Whenever it rained, he captured footage representing the climactic and soaked Japanese Grand Prix. One fake truck was painted as Martini Brabham on one side and Team Surtees on the other.īrands Hatch and the Nürburgring are the only original 1976 venues actually used in “Rush,” but Howard also visited Doning-ton Park, Snetterton and Cadwell Park. ![]() The paddock contained genuine period trucks from Elf Tyrrell and Team Lotus, as well as re-creations representing other teams. The pit buildings were designed so they could be converted overnight to represent Fuji, Monza or the Nürburgring. It featured a pit lane and grid able to be operated in either direction, complete with grandstands packed with a combination of patient extras and hundreds of dummies. The “Rush” shoot centered around a pit-and-paddock set created on a runway at Blackbushe airfield outside London. The production also shot in locations with noise restrictions, necessitating using the quieter replicas. They were needed for the dangerous racing action and so the main actors could be seen driving in and out of the pit lane, a task that would have been trickier with real F1 cars. Two 1973 BRM P160s were created for early scenes depicting Niki Lauda's spell with the team.įake “stunt doubles” also had to be built for the main '76 protagonists: the Ferraris and McLarens. The producers could not source some key cars, so Howard's team commissioned Ligier-Matra and Brabham-Alfa replicas with Rover V8 engines. Most other marques of the era were also represented by at least one example. The film features a fabulous array of real cars, with two McLaren M23s, two Ferraris (312T and 312T2), two Lotus 77s and two six-wheel Tyrrells-converted from 1977-spec to 1976 with replica bodywork-among the star performers. In fact, the Nürburgring visit led to a fundamental shift in the way Howard planned the film over the next few months, with more emphasis on real racing action and less on re-creating it afterwards via technology, reflecting a reallocation of the production's tight budget. Between seeing how hard they raced in the HF1 race and then what they were able to do for us, I began to think we may be able to push this thing a lot further and do a lot less CGI than I expected. “This was not our stunt guys or precision drivers this was just the owners, and we got some great stuff. Howard and crew were surprised how hard the historic racers drove their priceless cars, something they hadn't anticipated. I looked at the script and thought, 'What can we do with these cars that could be useful?' We didn't have a Ferrari, but we had a McLaren and a few others.” “We found that a lot of the historic drivers were willing to hang around and drive, and we could record them cruising around they were willing to do some lightly choreographed overtakes and things like that. We were going to shoot some plates of the track and thought we would be able to use them in a lot of CGI shots. ![]() “We had a small skeleton unit, and we covered the historic race. “The learning curve got a lot steeper, but a lot more exciting, when I went to Nürburgring for the first time,” Howard recalls. The following day some competitors stayed behind to run on the Nordschleife for the cameras. The plan was to capture the FIA Historic F1 Championship cars in action for some test shots, mainly to give the digital effects crew a starting point. Ron Howard and his team had their first taste of what might be possible in August 2011, some six months before principal photography began, when they attended the Nürburgring Oldtimer meeting. Rush draws much of its authenticity from the many original 1976 F1 cars, including the McLaren M23-8, the actual chassis James Hunt drove for much of the season. ![]()
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