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**uranbigis** · 03-13-2011, 09:36 PM

are they sitting or are they laying?
http://posterous.com/getfile/files.p...scaled1000.jpg

that makes it look worse than I thought

Brundle has said driving an F1 car is like sitting in the bath with your feet on the taps. So it's nothing new.

well, I had not thought much about it, until i saw the photos with the hands blocking the view of the driver's face

I got to thinking about Paul Tracey in his Champ car days, when they had one of those helmet cams level with his visor. I remeber someone saying he was famous for getting as low as posssible in the car....I remember him as being famous for running into the back of many a race car on tight circuits......

In one of those races, they had the visor level view of one of those accidents. It looked to me the only way he could see well enough to judge the distance was using the rear wing of the car in front as everything else was blocked from view, with only a slight view of the concrete blocks (one of those street circuit deals, Houston I think--where they used concrete barriers to form the course).

I thought well, the surprize was not the accident but that he did not crash out more often into other cars

03-13-2011, 09:36 PM	#7
uranbigis Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 456 Senior Member	are they sitting or are they laying? http://posterous.com/getfile/files.p...scaled1000.jpg that makes it look worse than I thought Brundle has said driving an F1 car is like sitting in the bath with your feet on the taps. So it's nothing new. well, I had not thought much about it, until i saw the photos with the hands blocking the view of the driver's face I got to thinking about Paul Tracey in his Champ car days, when they had one of those helmet cams level with his visor. I remeber someone saying he was famous for getting as low as posssible in the car....I remember him as being famous for running into the back of many a race car on tight circuits...... In one of those races, they had the visor level view of one of those accidents. It looked to me the only way he could see well enough to judge the distance was using the rear wing of the car in front as everything else was blocked from view, with only a slight view of the concrete blocks (one of those street circuit deals, Houston I think--where they used concrete barriers to form the course). I thought well, the surprize was not the accident but that he did not crash out more often into other cars
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