"It felt like flying," Idris says of zooming up to 180 miles per hour on the race track with "F1" costar — and fan — Brad Pitt, who helped him master the race cars' tricky clutch.

Damson Idris was trying to tune out the noise, but that's a little difficult at a Formula One race. The British-Nigerian actor was in the zone, in character, filming the high-octane summer movie “F1” with Brad Pitt at some of the world’s most famous racetracks.

To be given the opportunity to drive F1 cars on these tracks during real grands prix, I don’t think any other actor is as lucky as I am right now,” Idris tells Robb Report in a one-on-one chat just days before the movie’s premiere at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.