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[Mikep99]

Mark Blundell drives an F1 after 12 years & explains the differences.

Clicky

If and ex driver get excited about it can you imagine one of us getting in one, it would be mind blowing I think.

[Red Racer]

Its great to see him in a F1 car again, his helmet looks weird without any big sponsership on it,or tint.
I wonder what lap times he was doing.
Thanks for the vid.

[Hanwombat]

I remember seeing that last year, good vid

[bernification]

Don't know about mind blowing- bowel troubling would be more like it.
On Top Gear one of the presenters, Richard Hammond, drove 2005 renault (think it was 2005) and he was unable to attack the corners enough to get temperature into the tyres.
The engineers sais if he failed to do this quickly, they'd have to abort attempt at a fast lap, because the loading on his body meant he would be incapable of controlling the car after a few laps.

All those boys do earn their money- I was knackered after a 15 min cart race!

[Hanwombat]

Seen the Richard Hammond one several times, the car can sing

[bernification]

That renault sings, but check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMPDCNyQxE

It's a brm v16- they also made a h16 which I think was 4, 4 cylinder engines strapped together!

I always think that peoples ideas about the future were much more imaginative than what really happened.

[headless]

Don't know about mind blowing- bowel troubling would be more like it.
On Top Gear one of the presenters, Richard Hammond, drove 2005 renault (think it was 2005) and he was unable to attack the corners enough to get temperature into the tyres.
The engineers sais if he failed to do this quickly, they'd have to abort attempt at a fast lap, because the loading on his body meant he would be incapable of controlling the car after a few laps.

All those boys do earn their money- I was knackered after a 15 min cart race!

Yeah it is pretty tiring.
Maybe abit longer than 15 mins I could do though.

[12doorAnglia]

That renault sings, but check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMPDCNyQxE

It's a brm v16- they also made a h16 which I think was 4, 4 cylinder engines strapped together!

I always think that peoples ideas about the future were much more imaginative than what really happened.

brm did make an h16 engine which was 2 flat 8 engines, one on top of the other, each with a crankshaft coupled to a common drive. hellishly unreliable and overly complex but it did last long enough for jim clark to win a gp with one in the back of his lotus.

[christoff]

Remember Martin Brundle doing it as well for the Silverstone anniversary, who knows what hey'll be looking back on 20 yrs from now.