Dubbed "the greatest that never was," Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was FORMULA 1`s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he`s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he`s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse.