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Sim-racer drove F1 car - Vyacheslav Potapenko - 08-20-2018
Some time ago I posted about my experience in driving Formula Renault 2.0 car (http://www.simracingsystem.com/showthread.php?tid=3483)
Now time is for Formula1
This is on-board from my experience of driving F1 Williams FW29:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXSxPfTQvZo
ask me any questions if you want to know anything
RE: Sim-racer drove F1 car - Simon Meisinger - 08-20-2018
OMG, so jealous!
How hard is it to keep on track? :-)
People are always intimitaded by that Top Gear video where Richard Hammond miserably fails to go actual race speed with an F1 car and think that driving an F1 car is hard in general.
But I think it's actually kind of like driving any other car (to put it in simple terms) as long as you're not trying to go full race speed, keep your respect and use your brain a little, am I right?
RE: Sim-racer drove F1 car - Albert Castro - 08-20-2018
(08-20-2018, 10:03 PM)Simon Meisinger Wrote: OMG, so jealous!
But I think it's actually kind of like driving any other car (to put it in simple terms) as long as you're not trying to go full race speed, keep your respect and use your brain a little, am I right?
Actually, I think the problem that Hammond had was that he wasn't going fast enough - couldn't get heat into the tires and/or make appropriate use of the extensive F1 aerodynamic package, thus making the car hard to drive (because he was going too slow).
RE: Sim-racer drove F1 car - Vyacheslav Potapenko - 08-20-2018
(08-20-2018, 10:03 PM)Simon Meisinger Wrote: OMG, so jealous!
How hard is it to keep on track? :-)
People are always intimitaded by that Top Gear video where Richard Hammond miserably fails to go actual race speed with an F1 car and think that driving an F1 car is hard in general.
But I think it's actually kind of like driving any other car (to put it in simple terms) as long as you're not trying to go full race speed, keep your respect and use your brain a little, am I right?
you right, car is easy to drive and it is more stable than FR 2.0 car. Lot's of people without any formula experience can drive at low speed.
90% of mistakes people do when accelerating hard in corners. In formula car you can't apply more than ~30% of throttle until your wheel pointed straight.
another mistake - soft braking. In F1 car you don't feel brake pedal (as pedal) at all. you feel a "wall" and you press your lag into "wall". In FR 2.0 car I can feel brake as pedal. It has some traverse.
Fast corners are really scare. In my video you can find a corner when I turn at 200km/h. I lift gas pedal a bit, but I'm sure it is 100% can be drive flat out.
RE: Sim-racer drove F1 car - Simon Meisinger - 08-21-2018
(08-20-2018, 10:40 PM)Albert Castro Wrote: Actually, I think the problem that Hammond had was that he wasn't going fast enough - couldn't get heat into the tires and/or make appropriate use of the extensive F1 aerodynamic package, thus making the car hard to drive (because he was going too slow).
He was going too slow for how fast he wanted to go, even if that sounds strange
You can go slow to semi-fast in an F1 car or superfast. You can't just go something inbetween as you need warm tires and a enough downforce for that. I think Hammond also tried to go very fast in very tight corners, which might even be a challenge for some professional racers.