They missed F1 World Grand Prix for the N64 in 1998. I remember doing a 3 hour race on Magny-Cours, and wiping out on the Lycee Pin.

https://youtu.be/otPzD2MvXc0?t=1m44s

The Mercedes classic F1 demonstrations are even worse - not only do they drive them really slowly, they also manage to crunch the gears and leave metal shavings in the bottom of the gear box almost every time.

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Nah, it was always the same. The lack of overtaking is commonly blamed on high downforce, carbon brakes, and super short braking distances, but it actually wasn't any better before they put wings on cars. Same thing: the rich, fast teams qualify and start at the front and stay at the front and get richer and faster...with the occasional fall from grace (Mclaren) or rise from obscurity (Brawn->Mercedes). As cool as they are technologically, development series like F1 tends to result in boring races.

ed: Oh, and using ground effect has been banned since 81(?). Interestingly, Indycars use the ground effect (though without the skirts so it's not as effective as the F1 ground effect cars), and by virtue of being a (mostly) spec series, has much better races.

I understand it down force is one of the contributing factors to rather bland and uninteresting racing because you lose a lot of the extra grip it affords you when you are chasing close to somebody else. So basically Lotus ruined F1 yeye.

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

This looked right up your alley. Formula 1 car racing a skier down a ski slope...yes...both of them on the ski slope! WTF?!? Is Red Bull alcoholic now? That's the only reasonable explanation for this. ;-)

http://videosift.com/video/Verstappens-Kitzb-hel-F1-Race-On-Snow-Covered-Ski-Slope

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

That thing is going to be tearing around F1 tracks before we know it.

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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.

They are demonstration tyres. The F1 rules allow a team to run two promotional events of up to 100km each and two demonstration events of up to 15km per season, using demonstration tyres, and it doesn't count as part of the test limit.

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!