The seven-time champion is a producer and advisor to the new F1 film project that has been backed by Apple.
Filming is due to start soon at grand prix events, and speculation ran rampant earlier this week that Pitt was going to run in a real car in practice at the British Grand Prix alongside the current field.
The suggestions of the film crew being run as an 11th team prompted a joke response from IndyCar driver Colton Herta, whose move to F1 was derailed because he had not earned enough mandatory superlicence points.
However, the suggestion of Pitt driving in a real session is wide of the mark, beyond the fact it would be logistically impossible on licence, safety and sporting equity grounds for him to run in a competitive practice.
Instead, it is understood that the plan is for there to be some filming of Pitt at events running alone on track in a modified single seater – potentially either an F2 or F3 car.
This filming would help deliver a backdrop of a live racing crowd and all the infrastructure being in place at a genuine grand prix.
Hamilton says progress is being made on the film, as he made it clear that he did not want the movie to end up being such a fantasy that it was mocked by real F1 fans.
Asked about the latest plans for filming at events, Hamilton said: “I do …