Inside track
Watching an F1 race with live access to engineers and telemetry is the stuff of dreams for racing fans. ALEX WOLSTENHOLME makes a day of it
Did you know
that Formula 1
is regulated by
a rulebook that
is more than 500
pages long? And
that, during the course of a race,
drivers can lose as much as 5kg?
What about the g-forces said
drivers endure? They’re greater
than those felt by astronauts
on the Space Shuttle.
Such snippets, and many others,
were gleaned during a day out
at Mercedes-Benz World at the
historic Brooklands track, where
my colleague Charlie Martin and I had been invited to join a few
lucky competition winners for
a behind-the-scenes insight into
the Singapore Grand Prix.
Attending meant braving the
ever-depressing M25, this time
in torrential rain and just as the
sun was coming up, but still, the
promise of watching a grand prix
on a big screen with access to
experts from the F1 team’s base
in Brackley would surely make
the slog worthwhile.