Film Opening Timelines

0:00 - Fade from black

0:01 - Nikki Lauda looking around from the seat of his F1 car

0:02 - "Twenty-five drivers start every season in Formula 1, and each year..two of us die. What kind of person does a job like this? Not normal men for sure. Rebels. Lunatics. Dreamers. People who are desperate to make a mark, and are prepared to die trying."0:04 - Shot of the sky with clouds going past

0:06 - Shot of the grandstand, Panning down to show James Hunt standing with three women on the starting grid

0:13 - Shot of the two front cars on the grid, Lauda's Ferrari on the left and Hunt's McLaren on the right

0:16 - Shot of someone putting their helmet on

0:17 - Shot of the Tyrell 6-wheeler F1 car

0:18 - High angle of a person performing checks on a car on the grid

0:20 - Shot of the Tyrell 6-wheeler F1 car from a crowd perspective. Out of focus flags are being waved in front of the camera

0:22 - Shot of the other Ferrari

0:24 - James Hunt standing on the grid with three women

0:26 - Close up of Nikki Lauda sitting in his car with his balaclava half on

0:27 - "My name is Niki Lauda..and racing people know me for two things. The first..is my rivarly with him"

0:29 - James Hunt standing on the grid with three women

0:34 - Alternative angle of James Hunt standing on the grid with three women. Mechanics working on Lauda's car in the background

0:36 - Mechanic kneels next to Lauda's car

0:38 - "You want to change?"

0:38 - Low angle shot of one of the McLarens

0:40 - Close up of the McLaren's wheel hub, a tyre going on

0:41 - Alternate angle of the tyre going on. The exposed engine on show

0:42 - Lauda looking in his rearview mirror then looking in the distance

0:43 - James Hunt kisses girl

0:44 - shot back of Nikki Lauda

0:44 - "What about Hunt? Has he changed?"

0:45 - Shot of the mechanic kneeling next to Lauda's car

0:45 - "No, he's going on wets."

0:47 - James Hunt starting to put his helmet on

0:48 - "I don't know why it became such a big thing. We were just drivers busting each other's balls. To me this is perfectly normal..but other people saw it differently, that whatever it was between us went deeper."

0:51 - Nikki Lauda looking in his rear view mirror again

0:55 - James hunt putting his helmet on

0:57 - Shot of Nikki again

1:00 - Tilt show of James Hunt putting his helmet on, then turning to look at Nikki

1:04 - Shot of Nikki again

1:04 - "Then we go on wets too!"

1:07 - Shot of Nikki and the mechanic kneeling next to his car, putting his balaclava on

1:08 - "The other thing I'm remembered for is what happened on 1st August, 1976. When i was chasing him - like an asshole."

1:10 - Shot of the rear of James Hunt's McLaren, the exhaust backfiring

1:12 - Shot of the air scoop of one of the cars, F1 cars behind can be seen also, slightly out of focus

1:13 - Tilt shot of the engine of one of the cars

1:16 - Ariel shot of the entire starting grid

1:21 - close up of Nikki Lauda with his helmet on, him then looking over at James Hunt

1:23 - close up of James Hunt with his helmet on, him then looking over at Nikki Lauda

1:26 - close of of Nikki Lauda, him then turning away and putting his visor down

1:29 - match-on-action as the camera angle changes as he puts his helmet on

1:31 - shot of the race official dropping the flag (a German one)

1:32 - close up of a drivers foot on the throttle peddle

1:33 - close up of the rev gauge (being Ferrari its presumably Lauda's) and the revs building

1:34 - Wheels spinning, creating tyre smoke on Hunt's McLaren. The shot slowly panning from left to right of the cars rear suspension

1:34 - Close up of Lauda, the shot from the font of the car looking directly back

1:35 - Fast pan of the cars leaving the grid

1:36 - shot of the cars leaving the grid. this shot from the sidelines at the front of the grid

1:37 - shot from the back of the grid, looking down of the cars leaving the grid. One of the cars from the back of the grid suffering from major wheelspin

1:40 - the cars going past the camera closely at high speed

1:41 - Hunt looking over at Lauda, them being side-by side

1:42 - Panning shot of Lauda trying to push Hunt off the track

1:43 - Hunt and Lauda race past, the camara being in the grass

1:45 - Cut to black