Tornado pilot + F1 car = Big whoops!

[Jungles]

http://www.williamsf1.com/files/817_Seat_Swop_Fina...

Full article at http://www.williamsf1.com/ click on Pilot Episode.

1m 25s on the short Silverstone circuit, eh? Not bad, although I expected him to go faster.

[mybrainhurts]

Why can't I run that clip...?

[Jungles]

You need QuickTime: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/

[mybrainhurts]

Ta muchly...

Reinstalled it..ok now

[Blue Meanie]

Must be impressive for a fighter pilot to say "Never felt acceleration like it" and all that!

[Jungles]

Blue Meanie said:

Must be impressive for a fighter pilot to say "Never felt acceleration like it" and all that!

Not surprising actually. An F1 car will accelerate from 0 to 200 km/h with average acceleration of 1.4G. A typical fighter jet's forward acceleration occurs at a rate far less than 1G, with only some modern models capable of approaching 1G in forward acceleration.

Edited by Jungles on Saturday 22 December 09:27

[stephen300o]

He did really well didn't he? You could see the Williams guys were impressed right from his none stalling launch, although Alex looked a bit crestfallen

[The Count]

My mate is a Tornado F3 Pilot and ive just sent him the link. He's going to love it! Cheers Jungles

[MrKipling43]

That's a great video.

What a lucky bastard he is, definitely made the most of the opportunity though. Put Hammond to shame.

[nerf]

that was really cool. love the way he was laughing so much when he started to get his foot down. thanks for sharing that...

[Johnny]

Bloody brilliant!!

Thanks for that.

Johnny

[anonymous-user]

Nice video, none of your gung ho bollox you'd expect from other quarters too.

[SlimJ]

Excellent vid, would love to do that myself one day

As for Hammond driving the F1 car around the tiny Stowe circuit, I really don't see that as a circuit thats big enough to stretch the performance of an F1 car and probably too small to get any serious heat into the tires or brakes, so it was a bit of a pointless exercise. Did the Formula Ford experience around there a number of years back, and as fun as it was the track was only just about big enough for those little things IMO!

[anonymous-user]

Have to agree with that, the track was way too small for Hammond to get any sense out of the car. The National track has a pretty fast straight to it which lets you give a car of that kind of power it's head.

[waynepixel]

bloody hell, who design the williamsf1 web site, its terrible.

[Jungles]

waynepixel said:

bloody hell, who design the williamsf1 web site, its terrible.

Agreed. Too much flash, IMHO.

stephen300o said:

He did really well didn't he? You could see the Williams guys were impressed right from his none stalling launch, although Alex looked a bit crestfallen

The guy wasn't going all that fast. It was Silverstone short, and he did 1m 25s. To put that into perspective, most F1 drivers in this year's British GP were doing in the region of 1m 24s on the full GP circuit.

He did a lot better than Hammond though!

Edited by Jungles on Sunday 23 December 03:41

[caduceus]

Very good. Thanks for sharing that

[FourWheelDrift]

Jungles said:

The guy wasn't going all that fast. It was Silverstone short, and he did 1m 25s.

I think that was his first or one of his first flying lap, even if he was telling the truth. I don't think they would say what he was really doing.

There's a Williams F1 chap on here, you'll have to hear what he says

[MrKipling43]

johnfelstead said:

Have to agree with that, the track was way too small for Hammond to get any sense out of the car. The National track has a pretty fast straight to it which lets you give a car of that kind of power it's head.

They run F1s on the Stowe circuit all the time.

[lanan]

They use the South Circuit. The Stowe circuit is too twiddly.