Both Brad Pitt and Damson Idris underwent four months of "really intense" training before getting behind the wheel of a race car to film 'F1', and PEOPLE dives into the behind-the-scenes training that went into making the new Joseph Kosinski blockbuster film in this week's issue.

The director Joseph Kosinski narrates a sequence in which Pitt’s character hatches a plan different from his team during a race.

In F1, which is now playing in theatres, Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, a washed-up racer who is given a second chance when he’s hired by his old friend (Javier Bardem) to mentor a hot-shot rookie driver (Snowfall’s Damson Idris) on a last-place team.