Why Senna film's success will boost F1
With the Senna movie wowing mainstream critics and winning an award at the Sundance Film Festival, Jonathan Noble considers how the film could open new eyes to the magic of F1
If you love Formula 1 - and I am pretty sure if you are reading this you do - then you should be walking around with a smile on your face today thanks to what has been going on at the Sundance Film Festival over the past few weeks.
The famous independent film festival may not have had much reason to cross paths with the F1 world in the past, but things have been very different this year thanks to the ongoing triumph surrounding the new film on the life of Ayrton Senna.
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Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.
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