Does anybody on here follow Formula 1?

[Peter Simpson]

I was just wondering if anybody on here apart from myself the follow F1 motor racing, actually I follow basically most forms of motor sport on 2 or 4 wheel, I also like mountain biking, football, swimming, snooker, tennis, X Games etc.

So does anybody follow F1, and if so what do you think of the technology involved in the sport, it really is high tech but seriously expensive?

Please no driver bashing, thank you...

 

[BPak]

Following F1 since just before Alan Jones won his Formula 1 title. But it is all FoxTel now and not on free TV so that ends my time of following it closely.
Love to drive one o those babies. I think the technologies developed in F1 are the future for our street cars and some of their tech already exists in some cars.
Yes to F1!!

 

[RandomCoder]

Also in a similar context and the reason for my posting, I like to chill out playing racing games on the PC. Anything from F1 to the latest Dirt 4 Rally game. Recently I've not been as active here on the forum because I've been spending a lot of time on the XSimulator forum.
For those that are not aware of this, it's remarkably easy to get game telemetry data from many racing games for use with racing simulators. And some of the DIY simulators on this site are awe inspiringly good. I'm looking to build my own hopefully in the not too distant future.

For anyone liking F1 or any motor sport but unable to afford the really thing then I suggest you check out XSimulator!
Even pro racing drivers are using simulators these days to gain extra track time (obviously costing significantly more), and I think it was Mcclaren that recently opened up a career opportunity for PC gamers.

Sorry for hijacking the thread, back to F1 now.

 

[Peter Simpson]

That's okay @RandomCoder as I too play racing games on PC's and game consoles. I'm not sure if you have access to a PS4 but I've been playing 'Drive Club VR' this week as we only got the game last week, and boy what a great VR racing game experience, absolutly incredible, we also got Star Trek for VR too, that's awesome too.

Yes I like to relax now and again with a good racing game, I play F1 on the PC and that was built for gaming a couple of years back but does not really get used for it that much. I too like the First series of games, they just get more and more realistic every single glen year and also more difficult too .

Thank you for the information about the XSimulator forum, I'll look into that straight away ...

 

[Peter Simpson]

@BPak yes I like the way that F1 tech slowly but surely moves to road cars. The McLaren MP4/1 was the first F1 car to have a fully carbon fibre chassis way back when, that's not going to work it'sway to our everyday road cars anytime soon because of the costs involved, but you are correct in saying that there have been lots of F1 tech that can now be found in our every day cars. I find it funny that things like active suspension that was banned because of Williams mastery and domination back in the 90's is still banned today even though many cars have that today as standard, actually that ban was reinforced in 2007, active wings/spoilers are also banned, but my friends Audi A6 has an active spoiler on his car. 4 wheel active steering was banned but that now in road cars too.

Lots of cool stuff does work itself down from F1 for our roads cars though, you are correct. Multipoint injection was mastered in F1 (not created but mastered). Lately fuel economy has been a must in F1. Last season the max fuel weight was 100kg allowed per race, this season it's 105kg but that's because of the regulation changes this season. Fuel economy technology is rapidly being pushed to the limits in F1 and Mercedes is now putting what they learn in F1 to good used in the bee vehicles.

It's all good news for the motorway, pity that new tech comes at a huge cost to the end buyer...