After 25 years as a racing driver, ITV-F1 pundit Martin Brundle investigates the physical effects of driving a Formula 1 car. In this feature, he performs a series of laps in a Williams Toyota FW29 racecar, demonstrating the mental and physical challenges, including the G-force effects simulated by state of the art graphics, a Formula 1 driver faces during a Grand Prix.
@launger The cockpits of these cars are hotter then ever at their peak level. Alonso lost 5.5 to 6 liters of water at Bahrain last year due to dehydration. Although the rules suck this year since there’s no more pushing.
@launger The cars don’t have TC nor automatics.
Back then drivers were less prepared and there were a lot more pay drivers and shitty teams with crappy cars.
The current generation is probably the best ever in terms of both skill and preparation.
@Bonobo1974 All the top american drivers go to NASCAR. And there’s plenty of europeans, south americans and asians that fail in F1.
I read a statistic witch said 70% of F1 drivers have a carer that is at the most 2 years.
F1 was always a high failing rate series.
@flightstarwalker Think you;d struggle to make yourself heard over the noise of a 150db engine driving at 190mph…..
martin brundle hahahahah idiot loser anoying voice like a crazy chiken.
@FormulaOneFan4Eva And G forces is all they get, just a hot rollercoaster ride, where as back then strains came from doing things themselves, not being thrown around. And no i’m not saying anything bad about anyone, just expressing my opinion. It annoys me when SuperFormulaFanHamiltonButton4Ever type of guys start arguing wherever they can. If you disagree with my commen, push the thumb down button and rest there.
oh that’s right, i’m the lunatic for believing what a former world champion said aren’t i?
seeing as you have never driven a formula one car of any kind, i don’t really think you’re qualified to disagree with hunt…
the drivers of old never had to cope with +5Gs through corners and almost 6Gs under braking, the extraordinary lap times, the 60 degree heat in the cockpit or the horrible visibility…
please, don’t go making narrow-minded comments…
@FormulaOneFan4Eva hehe, according to your name, and beliving what Hunt said, you are the lunatic here : ) , there is only one fact i am trying to prove, and that cannot be argued, that the cars in the old days were harder to drive, and men driving them were harder aswell.
no it wasn’t the FW29 had about 740hp, it was a 2.4L V8 like now…
OMG! your ignorance is astounding!
did you even watch the video? “sumo-wrestling match with king kong” oh, sounds easy doesn’t it?
clutch pedals and gearsticks in 80s f1 cars were apparently very light… james hunt once said, “you can change gear with your pinky finger”
and finally, when are you going to accept that traction control, ABS and all that rubbish have been banned? do you even watch f1 anymore?
probably not, if you did you wouldn’t sound like a lunatic…
Todays formulas hard to drive? Nowadays traction controls and automatics do all the work, looking back to the 70s and 80s, when drivers had to shunt the gearboxes and stomp clutch pedals, to not crash to deaths with their 1000+bhp flying machines. And even more, i do not know how something like nascar is concidered even watchable.
The 3.0Lt V10s peaked at about 980hp, the 2.4Lt V8s of 2010 make about 780hp.
The V8′s have around 750hp not 600hp. 2005 was the year they turned up the whick of the V10 in the last races to produce more the 1000hp just so they can see the limits of the engine. They say this on the official Formula 1 2005 dvd.
@art2000cc – the V10s produced almost 1000, but the V8s used today have around 600 hp. although that means about 1600 hp per ton, so still a lot.
great stuff by m.b. truly great animations.thnx for the vid!
He’s one of the best pundits around, knows his stuff.
Well imo…This man is so boring and lacks any personality or Charisma! why do itv insist on using suCh a bore! plus he was never that good driver just a whipping boy!- makes the tea!
@randar3: Japp, you’re right, my fault. Somehow had in my mind that the engine switch to 2.4 litres was at the end of 2007…
the engine in the FW29 was a V8 and not near 1000bhp. back when they had the BMW they were over 1000bhp.
the joke is obviously lost to you.
bell??
750 or sth yea,but it is only a 2.4 litre engine,no turbos are used…still quite amazing.
nah, its just a totally different form of driving. they’re stock cars – heavy, but still with just as much power as an f1 car. and theyre made to be driven on ovals, which suprisingly takes some skill to drive fast on.
They can all produce nearly 1000hp and can do 22,000 RPM but the FIA do not allow it.
But Brundle is 50 years old lol (probably 48 when this was made!). Lets see how “quick” that slowcoach Piquet is when he’s 48/50 years old
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