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F1 Movie Fireworks Celebration GIF is a reaction GIF from the 2025 film F1: The Movie, which features actor Javier Bardem playing the character Ruben Cervantes celebrating and hugging his team as fireworks explode behind him. F1: The Movie follows Sonny Hayes (played by Brad Pitt) as he is recruited by Cervantes to revitalize his struggling APXGP Formula 1 team. The GIF came to be used on Twitter / X in July 2025, soon after the film was released in late June of that year, primarily in GIF caption memes.

Origin

On July 2nd, 2025, Tenor^[1] user @dsdcrewsmoke posted the earliest known GIF showing Javier Bardem as Ruben Cervantes celebrating a victory and hugging his crew as fireworks explode in the background.

Also on July 2nd, X^[2] user @NicholasPas5 tweeted, "There is a scene involving Javier Bardem and fireworks that I am literally going to absolutely ab-se as a GIF," later quoting his own post with the GIF and gathering over 96,000 likes in two weeks.

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On July 2nd, 2025, X^[3] user @then0wnow posted a GIF showing Janier Bardem celebrating with fireworks exploding behind him to joke about The Boys ending, writing, "no more bloody middle finger selfies," and gathering over 4,000 likes in two weeks.

On July 3rd, 2025, X^[4] user @cloclobeans posted the F1 Fireworks GIF alongside a caption about Love Island USA, writing, "Olandria didn’t even TOUCH the bottom!! Them think pieces and smear campaigns didn’t do a damn thing to my client!! #LoveIslandUSA." The post gathered over 30,000 likes in two weeks.

On July 9th, 2025, X^[5] user @leclercsletters tweeted about Christian Horner, a British motorsport executive and former racing driver, being fired from the Red Bull F1 team in July 2025, alongside Javier Bardem Fireworks Celebration GIF. The post gathered over 48,000 likes in a week.

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