As racing movies have been selected, I have to recommend Rush, Ron Howard. This is as much excitement as you can stand without actually being in an F1 car.
"Rush" keeps getting recommended to me and I forget to follow up on that. Thanks!
"Senna" spans from the 80's to the 90's, when you pretty much had to be insane to drive an F1. Instead, he transcended the sport. There is some footage you can hunt down from NatGeo explaining why just millimeters! of tolerance; the temperature of the tires and the resulting slight air pressure drop inside them, caused an irrecoverable loss of control. TopGear has an interesting episode summing up some the changes in technology and driving technique from then until now.
