• Automotive News
    Mercedes-AMG Driver Nico Rosberg’s Qualifying Lay Was Nearly A Second Faster Than the Next-Fastest Qualifier Sergio Perez

    Mercedes-AMG Driver Nico Rosberg’s qualifying lay was nearly a second faster than the next-fastest qualifier Sergio Perez. You’d think that turning such a quick, clean lap would require absolute concentration on the ABCs—acceleration, braking, and cornering. But this annotated cockpit video shows a different scene: Rosberg constantly fiddling with the myriad adjustment dials and buttons on […]

  • Auto Tech
    Let’s Watch Five Formula 1 Drivers Duke it Out in Go Karts

    Every Formula 1 driver had to start somewhere, and racing karts at a very young age is how most champions are cultivated. This is true for pretty much every modern F1 driver in the field today, and past winners are no different. That’s why five McLaren drivers, spanning three generations, have been brought together in […]

  • Auto Tech
    What a Formula 1 Driver A Sees During a Full-Speed Lap

    Thanks to the fine people at Tobii, a company that specializes in eye tracking technology, we’re able to see through the eyes of a Formula 1 driver. And it’s astounding. We already know what the view looks like from the driver’s seat of a Formula 1 car, but what do F1 drivers actually focus on […]

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    F1 Cars at Spa – Formula One Car vs. Street Cars

     To get a true appreciation of an F1 car’s huge downforce and huge power, you need to see it stacked up against something rather more pedestrian. Everyone knows F1 cars are fast, but seeing their speed relative to other F1 cars doesn’t quite show how much faster they are compared to everything else. This old […]