Near the beginning of F1, veteran racer Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) is forced to endure a brief meet-and-greet with Peter Banning, a cardboard-stereotype corporate villain played with relish by English stage veteran Tobias Menzies. “I’ve caught up on all the Drive To Survive episodes,” Banning says, and the audience is meant to understand that he is therefore not an authentic fan of the sport. However, there’s no small amount of irony to this because without Drive to Survive, there would be absolutely zero case to make a $300 million movie about auto racing. Want a little more irony? Here it is: F1, for all its earnest effort, is quite a bit less entertaining than the nonfiction Netflix show that built its audience.