Welcome The Video Game for Racecar Drivers
Welcome The Video Game for Racecar Drivers
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NEW YORK - Behind the doors of Red Bull Racing's team headquarters, a secret machine sits in a dark room before blinking into life like a giant computer game.
World champion Lewis Hamilton and his younger brother Nicolas grew up racing each other on a virtual track while the sport's youngest winner, Max Verstappen, reckons gaming has helped hone his overtaking.
Meter high screens wrap 180 degrees around a cockpit raised on a moving platform. When the driver squeezes into position he cannot see the edge of the screen around him as he is plunged into a virtual world
What is a F1 simulator?
This is the Red Bull simulator which only serious competitors can apply to drive.
"It is a simulator but the feeling is really close to the feelings we get in an F1 car," the team's development driver Pierre Gasly tells CNN's The Circuit.
"We can't compare this to a PlayStation game. It is so close to reality that you can't make the comparison. It's high technology."
World champion Lewis Hamilton and his younger brother Nicolas grew up racing each other on a virtual track while the sport's youngest winner, Max Verstappen, reckons gaming has helped hone his overtaking.
Meter high screens wrap 180 degrees around a cockpit raised on a moving platform. When the driver squeezes into position he cannot see the edge of the screen around him as he is plunged into a virtual world
What is a F1 simulator?
This is the Red Bull simulator which only serious competitors can apply to drive.
"It is a simulator but the feeling is really close to the feelings we get in an F1 car," the team's development driver Pierre Gasly tells CNN's The Circuit.
"We can't compare this to a PlayStation game. It is so close to reality that you can't make the comparison. It's high technology."
(rnz)
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