So easy to underestimate how goddamn fast F1 cars actually are, and just how difficult they are to drive. Good vid

You have to have unbelievable reaction times to race F1 cars. I'd imagine regular slow life must be pretty boring to these super humans.

This is not exactly a fair comparison. Right side looks to be a real F1 racing event where as left side appears to be just an open track for anybody with a fast-ish car.

>> ^Yogi:

You have to have unbelievable reaction times to race F1 cars. I'd imagine regular slow life must be pretty boring to these super humans.

One common thing I've noticed when reading interviews is that they tend to drive really boring cars. When you're used to driving at those speeds every road legal car will feel boring no matter what, so you might as well be practical.


But yeah, those things are simply astoundingly fast. Even in simulators you first think you're going fast driving a stock car, then you try a GT car and the stock ones feel like they're standing still, and then you jump in an F1 and GT cars feel just as slow. And in reality the differences are even bigger. The fastest lap in the 2010 GT1 race at Spa was 2:17.605 (qualifying time). Same year Mark Webber managed 1:45.778 in his Red Bull. Same layout. Over half a minute over 4.352 miles, the F1 car would lap the GT car every four and a half laps or so.

Sometimes, but not always.
>> ^jubuttib:

One common thing I've noticed when reading interviews is that they tend to drive really boring cars. When you're used to driving at those speeds every road legal car will feel boring no matter what, so you might as well be practical.[...]

When I was a kid, my parents would take me to the jalopy races at the Portland Speedway. The only rule was that you couldn't pass someone without at least tapping them. I've never been able to watch any other kind of racing.

>> ^Yogi:

You have to have unbelievable reaction times to race F1 cars


and you have to be very fit with the amount of intense g-force shifts your body has to withstand. Such respect for F1 drivers.

http://videosift.com/video/fry-and-laurie-F1-driver-well-we-had-a-lot-of-problems-wi

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