This is all very cool and informative, but knowing what it's really like to drive an F1 car is not something you can experience through any form of media, no matter how in-depth it might be. You can talk about it, make videos, even simulate it in VR, but unless you actually DO it, you'll never really know.

He's concentrating on the F1 car blasting up behind them.

I predict autonomous F1 cars pitting with robots at some point

I'm pretty sure they have only ever done this stunt once, and they didn't have the right permit to drive on the ski slope and were threatened with a €30,000 fine!

http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/authorities-want-to-fine-red-bull-for-driving-an-f1-car-1754122932

Have you heard the new F1 cars https://youtu.be/xwxnVZ4el0Q

Pretty good race. I gave up on the 2014 season about halfway through, and though it's still almost certainly going to be a Mercedes year, I'm pretty hopeful that there will at least be some good races.

If Red Bull ends up a Ferrari customer for 2016 such as rumors were suggesting at one point, and Honda makes their engine competitive within the stupid development rules (or the rules are relaxed), maybe things will be okay by then.

I think the next step is to allow them to to put venturis under the cars using similar regulations to the Champcars in their heyday (no skirts and ride height minimums so it's more like bonus downforce). Even the DW12's today don't suffer dirty air anything like the F1 cars do. Of course, I'm not an aerodynamics expert and I'm sure the F1 designers put a lot of thought into designing their cars specifically so that they screw with the aero of any following car, so who knows how that would work. Also, the Champcars were a lot closer to a spec series than F1 is.

Man, those 60s F1 cars were just beautiful.

One of my friends fathers went to the Monaco Grand Prix a few years ago. All his friends and family chipped in and got him the trip as a 60th birthday present. Cost of the whole weekend? 20,000 euro.

I found an actual transcript, translated to English (and video with the original sound, instead of having it turned down):

00:01 Max: Do I have to put the seatbelt on? CameraMan: I would put it on
00:07 Max: Nice isn't it! 17years old, can't drive on the road but here in Moncaco you can!
00:15 Jos: Well Max, we're going to do a lap of Monaco. You're going to tell us how you're going to do it.
00:25 Jos:It's quite weird to get driving lessons from your son!
00:28 Jos:Are you going to keep the car in one piece?
00:30 Max: Yeah no problem
00:33 Jos: Jezus Max! ehhh Fuck!
00:40 Max: There is a bump here so you need to go around it.
00:42 Jos:It's not fun at all to drive along with him to be honest.
00:45 Max: Come of the brakes here, back on the throttle, as close as you can get to the wall.brake as late as you can.
00:53 Jos: Everything ok with Olav in the back? (dutch comentator)
00:58 Max: Try to get some curb here and get a good exit out of here.
01:06 Jos: This is were we enter the tunnel, how fast do you drive here with a F1 car? Max: At the end of the straight around 290kph.
01:16 Jos:Where do you brake? Max: at the 120m mark, but we're not going to do that in this car because I have to safe the brakes a little bit.
01:29 Jos: I don't like this at all!
01:34 Max: This is where you can safe a lot of time towards the chicane and that one is almost full throtle.
01:46 Jos: I'm so glad the lap is almost done! Oh jezus.
02:01 Max: Get a good exit onto the straight.
02:08 Jos: Ok just slow it down now, I'm done with this after one lap.
02:14 Max: What? It went alright didn't it? Jos: Yeah, it looked alright. Olav: HolyMoly!

Well, yes, but it's not unusual for racing drivers to be uncomfortable when other people are driving.

What Max was actually saying in the tunnel was how fast he would go in his F1 car, and where he would brake.

Ever since the Hulk opted to do both F1 and Le Mans this season I've been meaning to take a closer look at Le Mans and see what it's all about. I keep hearing Alan McNish compare current generation F1 cars with Le Mans cars and it's made me curious...

It could be, although it's exceedingly difficult to find any meaningful numbers for distances that aren't terribly vague, and what you do find is almost always for something other than karts (semis, F1 racecars and bikes).

I still think that the open, small, only semi-streamlined form of the karts would tend to make the effective distance less than what we saw in most of this video. The lower speeds than F1 cars would tend to improve the slingshot tactic, since the effect of wind resistance increases with the cube of velocity. Which again, doesn't seem to explain the drastic slowdowns when they're not at top speed anyway.

Wow. There's nothing like the sound of an F1 car at full song.

http://www.cityguiderotterdam.com/events/festivals/city-racing-rotterdam/

It's a free demonstration event rather than an actual race, but the whole point is watching the cars (including F1 cars) and plenty of tyre smoke. It costs €77,50 (for adults, or €47,50 for children) to sit in one of the grandstands, but there is a free section as well.

Susie was the first woman to have track time in an f1 car during a race weekend for 22 years, and only the 6th ever, but only completed four laps due to what is being described as 'oil pressure problems'.

Note that the F1 car here still had a proper V8 engine instead of whatever tree-hugging eco hippy V6 lawnmower engines they have these days