Richard drives a F1 car round Silverstone - Top Gear
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as an illustration of how hard F1 cars are to drive, for example that they can't go slowly because of no downforce or tyre heat.
What it is
Top Gear segment in which Richard Hammond drives a Renault R25 Formula 1 car around Silverstone for two laps. He struggles with the car's demands.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2011 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Cites ominous_prime · 2011-05 · on “Why F1 Steering Wheels Have Over 20 Buttons - And What They All Do”
Likely, none of us would be able to simply get into an F1 car and even drive it anywhere at all . There was a Top Gear episode where Richard Hammond tried to drive an F1 car. I figured with his experience he could make a decent go at it, but apparently the cars are so specifically tuned for going fast that it's all-out, or nothing. [this video]
Cites ivanmaeder · 2012-11 · on “Everything Technical in F1”
I don't remember and F1 story getting so popular on HN, the Austin GP has helped :) I think the sport is fascinating because it really is a battle of geek engineers and drivers. The most successful geek around today is this guy: [LINK] Normally the champagne can get stuck in your eyes. These guys and the huge teams behind them battle off track with each other and with the regulations, and the strategists and races battle on track. The off track battles make these cars safe in accidents at 300 km/h (186 mph), [LINK] [LINK] Robert Kubica was unconscious after the crash and he missed a race but Mark Webber hit the barrier at 280 km/h (174 mph) and walked away from it. As some other readers have
Cites semi-extrinsic · 2015-11 · on “Formula E to feature autonomous car racing”
Never mind that we wouldn't have the technique and balls to be able to drive around one high speed corner. Watch Richard Hammond, who's spent more time than 99.9% of us driving fast cars round racetracks, spend an entire day and not getting it quite right: [this video]
Cites jodrellblank · 2020-07 · on “How well do cars do in crash tests they're not optimized for?”
Could you? Here[1] is Richard Hammond driving an F1 car on Top Gear, and he says it can't go slowly, safely - no downforce, no heat in the tyres, no heat in the brakes. If you're coming off a lot of fast laps into the pit lane they will still be warm, if you try to drive it at 40km/h all the way they won't be. [1] [this video]