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7th February 2013, 11:45 #11
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Originally Posted by henners88
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7th February 2013, 12:11 #12
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Punching myself in the thigh and biting hard on my knuckles is also something I really shouldn't do when I lose. Still its cheaper than a controller, to which I have stamped on 3! I lost one at the bottom of the garden once when I threw it from my patio window. I did find it but some days later and it was rather wet. I'd probably head-butt the cockpit sides if I was really driving an F1 car. Anger management is often needed
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7th February 2013, 12:51 #13
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Originally Posted by henners88
I remember always thinking I could be a racing driver and then I went go-karting with my friend who used kart competitively against the likes of Oliver Turvey and Frank Wrathall. I was over a second slower than him on a 30second lap! But then I followed his lines and after about 30 minutes I was within a 0.1 of him.
Obviously jumping straight into an F1 car would be impossible. But if you had plenty of practice in a superkart, then Formula Ford, then F3, then GP2, you would be able to set a reasonable time in an F1 car. It's just the final 0.1s of a second that makes the difference between a racing driver and an F1 driver.Tazio 14/3/2015: I'll give every member on this forum 1,000.00 USD if McLaren fails to podium this season!
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13th February 2013, 14:45 #14
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In my first career I won the Monaco GP. I was in a Williams. Then I crashed in the next race at the end of the Hangar straight and went the wrong way round the circuit and that was it, gave over.
In my second career I won a championship. I have the trophy.
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13th February 2013, 14:57 #15
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It would be really hard for some of us... we wouldn't even fit in a F1 car to begin with...
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13th February 2013, 16:03 #16
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For me the experiment would stop before it begins. Against my slender frame, Mansell '95 was an anorexic. Not even a shoehorn would help...
как могу я знать что я думаю, пока не слушал что я говорю
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13th February 2013, 22:58 #17
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I'm ready to give it a red hot go. I've been training and earnestly "carbo loading" - read "drinking beer and eating chips" - and all I need is a slight rule change to favour me, a multi-million dollar sponsorship deal, a supermodel girlfriend (if my wife will let me) and I can see no stopping me.
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14th February 2013, 09:27 #18
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Simulators help you learn circuits but don't teach you how to drive. I was 2 tenths faster than Lewis at Monza last year but don't expect the call from Ron any time soon
Physical size is another issue. I can fit in a F1 car but am contorted and can't move plus my arms won't fit in the cockpit
Finally, it's the sheer physicality of operating one. It's like trying to do a dot-the-dot while sitting inside the fast spin cycle in the washing drum.
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14th February 2013, 14:05 #19
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Originally Posted by Knock-onSPAM - Going off topic to give you the deals you don't want.
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14th February 2013, 20:52 #20
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Well look a Deletraz and he was an OK Formula 3000 driver and later had some success in Sports Cars, so by normal standards a very good driver and yet he was 10 laps off the leader in his first GP just 60 laps into and 81 lap race, before having to retire from what I remember due to tiredness.
So it cant be very easy if a lower level racing driver is completely out of his depth.
Of course though I would be brilliant if I got into an F1 car.I still exist and still find the forum occasionally. Busy busy
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