« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Driving an F1 car  (Read 1543 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Lozza

  • Legend
  • *****
  • Posts: 4206
    • View Profile
Driving an F1 car
« on: August 23, 2010, 11:42:48 pm »
If you listened to some people all you have to do is sit in them ::)

HAMMOND'S F1 DRIVE
Logged
Jesus only loves two strokes

Offline lukeb1961

  • Legend
  • *****
  • Posts: 1019
  • PE175N, RM80B, JR50C
    • View Profile
    • PE175N
Re: Driving an F1 car
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2010, 08:34:44 am »
That was excellent. Nearly as easy as riding a 500GP bike and beating Barry Sheene !
Logged

Offline Lozza

  • Legend
  • *****
  • Posts: 4206
    • View Profile
Re: Driving an F1 car
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2010, 10:11:25 am »
I did like the part where he said " I would have to go faster to get this to work, then even faster to get that to work, then faster agin to get something else to work, and finaly faster again to get them all to work together"  ;D
Logged
Jesus only loves two strokes

Offline vmx42

  • Legend
  • *****
  • Posts: 1579
    • View Profile
Re: Driving an F1 car
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2010, 11:20:31 am »
I liked the look in his eyes as he held the throttle wide open for the first time.  :o

The Top Gear guys really do have the best job in the world!!

I wonder if they have considered adding a 'Slow, old Stig' to the show. That could be me!!
Logged
When a woman says "What?", it's not because she didn't hear you, she's giving you the chance to chance to change what you said.

Beam me up Scotty, no intelligent life down here…

"everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts"

TT

  • Guest
Re: Driving an F1 car
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2010, 02:53:16 pm »
Remind's me of watching Mick Doohan and Tommy Makinen getting a drive in a Ferrari F1 a few years ago. Neither one made a lap before losing it. Tommy snotted a fence too.  :P
If guys with that sort of motorsport experience had trouble, there wouldn't be a lot of point in someone like me going for a spin.  ::)
Logged

Offline Lozza

  • Legend
  • *****
  • Posts: 4206
    • View Profile
Re: Driving an F1 car
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2010, 04:23:58 pm »
Quote from: vmx42 on August 24, 2010, 11:20:31 am
I wonder if they have considered adding a 'Slow, old Stig' to the show. That could be me!!

I think that would be a long line of prospective Stigs for that job ;D

Of course Tony the average punter would actualy be lucky to fit in an F1 car let alone drive one, but would be awesome to drive a car that is so sharp in every respect. Just to get an idea of good you would have to be to grab it by the scruff of the neck.

The team certainly didn't cut him any slack either ;D
Logged
Jesus only loves two strokes

TT

  • Guest
Re: Driving an F1 car
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2010, 11:16:09 am »
Quote from: Lozza on August 24, 2010, 04:23:58 pm
but would be awesome to drive a car that is so sharp in every respect.

Yeah, but it wouldn't be so sharp with me at the wheel. (Dunno about you.......)  :D Apart from straight line speed, it would feel like a heap of shit, I reckon.
Just as Hammond found, not many on the planet have the skill to get one of those things to 'work'.
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »