F1 car takes on a fighter jet.

[JohnP]

Best viewed full screen.

 

http://www.redbull.co.uk/cs/Satellite/en_UK/Video/Watch-This-F1-Car-Take-on-a-Fighter-Jet-021243306146757?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=obclick&obref=

[NannyFerret]

Good one!

[fuzzyedges]

Red Bull will be smiling this year now that their main competitors maclaren have lost there fastest driver and there best engineer to mercedes

[JohnP]

MacLaren may have lost Hamilton but just remember during the three years that Hamilton and Button were team mates it was Button who scored the most points... both constructors points and driver points. As the old sayings go... the race isn't won at the first corner and in order to finish first you first have to finish. Personally I think Button will thrive as he will have a car more to his liking as his driving style and Hamilton's were a mile apart and Perez has a style not too unlike Button's, this must surely help the engineers with design and set up.

[colinb]

I think this sort of thing is done much better by BBc/Top Gear and of course the RAF

 

although some countries do try...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EsoWpTO2qg

 

but don't always get it right 

[FUJI]

I'm sure that the jet in this case was kept throttled back to just over stalling speed?

FUJI

[fuzzyedges]

during the three years that Hamilton and Button were team mates it was Button who scored the most points

Thats true but hamiltons still the faster of the two and although unproven better than Perez Its the absence of lowe this year that will make a differance Watch Lotus if they dont fade mid season GO Kimi

 

Top gear is for men still in short trousers that play top trumps A grown up motoring programme would be a change

[Phil]

the race isn't won at the first corner.....

Of course it is! This is the procession that is, F1 :)

[fuzzyedges]

Of course it is! This is the procession that is, F1

 

Must have been watching a diffrent F1 to you last year

Could agree in shcumacher days but DRS/ kers  has put a stop to that plus as much as I dislike it the plastic tyres they now race on

[Phil]

Must have been watching a diffrent F1 to you last year

 

I'll give ya that one, I've not watched it since just after Ayrton Senna died when it got extremely boring.

[JohnP]

Of course it is! This is the procession that is, F1

 

Phil... It's obvious you are not a fan of F1 and you didn't see Button go from last to win in Canada a couple of years ago.

 

Fuzzy... I agree with you.

[Phil]

John, I am very much a fan of F1 but a fan of F1 as it was 20 years ago. For anyone to go from last to win in any form of motor racing let alone F1 would be super human to say the least.

I will hold yourself and Fuzzy to your words and give F1 a chance this year. I just hope it doesn't fail to deliver.

[JohnP]

Some guys just can't make do with small toys like radio controlled cars, they just have to have really BIG toys...  

 

http://recombu.com/cars/articles/news/man-builds-f1-car-in-his-shed

[fuzzyedges]

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”

 

Groucho Marx

[Kobione]

We are just winding up to our round of this year's F1, in two weeks. Don't think we are going to get there this year, as the friend who looks after the girls for us is away, and it's too long a day to get them into kennels. We don't actually go for the F1 race, we prefer the practice day, and then watch the race day at home. It is just great to be there, and experience the noise and the atmosphere, but another reason we go on practice day is because that's when they hold our favourite race - the V8 Supercars!! It will be interesting this year, as it has been traditionally Ford versus Holden for many years, since the Walkinshaw team left in the 80's. This year Mercedes are in, with a special car, and I bet they just kill it!  We'll just have to watch on TV, and we have let our mowing go for another week so we are free at that weekend 

[fuzzyedges]

Wish they would show us the V8's over here, they used to show us the bath hurst (I think it was that)

 

Mercedes are being tipped as a car to watch out for in F1 after there last practice plus the solid times in the others, but practise is never the real thing so we will have to wait and see

[Black Pearl]

I still prefer the Top Gear Bugatti Veyron vs the Eurofighter:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NZ9X9A2efA

[Kobione]

Fuzzy, meant to reply to this earlier, but we had our upgrade issues which has slowed us down over the last few days. Bathurst day is our favourite race day. We just love it. We have driven the Bathurst track a few times, because it is just a section of a normal road, and it is FANTASTIC! The first time I drove it, in 2007 the fastest drivers were doing lap times of 2.08. I did it in 5.11 even though I hit 130kph on Conrad!! Of course they do it a hugely faster speeds, but we had to watch out, even though we were very early in the day, for school buses etc, so couldn't really go any faster. Hubby videod my round through the windscreen and we had a real laugh when we saw it and the time

[NannyFerret]

Where's the video, then? 

Edited March 8, 2013 by NannyFerret

[Kobione]

Looking, looking........might have been with our older vid camera, and not digital. We'll see.

[NannyFerret]

Looking, looking........might have been with our older vid camera, and not digital. We'll see.

Any excuse lol

[fuzzyedges]

Thats true but hamiltons still the faster of the two and although unproven better than Perez Its the absence of lowe this year that will make a differance Watch Lotus if they dont fade mid season GO Kimi

 

Well Phil was it still a proccesion

The plastic tyres are ruining pure racing, too many pit stops, leaves the average viewer with no idea who is in the lead till the last few laps, You could have been cheering on Sutil as he was out racing Alonso but as the results show Alonso 2nd Sutil 7th So Alonso wasnt racing he was conserving rubber

F1 is the pinnicle of 4 wheel racing so to develope something that isnt the best is wrong for the sport