formula 1

Watch Red Bull’s F1 Car Get Put Together In This Piece Of Motoring Pornography

This is just gratuitous. It really is. It’s car porn in its purest form. Team Red Bull has just had its 2013 season launch and to celebrate, it’s showing us how the engineering masterpiece that is its Formula 1 car has been put together. You may want to sit down for this.


This Interactive 360-Degree Video Is the Closest You’ll Ever Come to Driving an F1 Racer

Driving Formula 1 cars is hard. It’s hard and it’s scary. Lucky for you, the folks at Red Bull set up a nifty 360-degree panoramic video rig on top of their own F1 racer so now you can get some of the thrill with none of the skill or the danger. 


This Is What It Looks Like To Drive A Formula 1 Car

Lucas di Grassi is nuts. He drove with a camera covering one eye just so that he could capture what it really looks like from the driver’s perspective to throw a Formula 1 car around a track.


Digitally Visualising The Future London Grand Prix Circuit

Technology is truly wonderful. Just days after rumours emerged that would see a Formula 1 street-circuit brought to the beautiful city of London, a video emerges of Lewis Hamilton and Jensen Button flying through a concept render of what the circuit could look like. Forget concept cars, this is a concept track.


An Amazing F1 Racing Barbecue Grill

I can’t think of a single thing I’d rather F1 engineers doing with their downtime than building grills designed with F1 dynamics in mind.


The $US50,000 Steering Wheels Of Formula 1

It wouldn’t be Formula 1 without some kind of constant friction between racers, team owners and organisers, and this year’s kerfuffle involves steering wheels that force drivers to push more buttons than a 747 pilot having a seizure.


How To Shoot An F1 Car In 3D

3D photography requires precision, tons of equipment and heroic jury-rigging. Shooting a vintage Ferrari requires all of this plus serious balls. The Image Hunter shows us how it’s done.


America’s Most Elaborate Slot Car Track

The White Lake Formula 1 Ring is a slot car track, in a basement, built by someone with a lot of spare time. But check your bias at pit row, because this scale track is better than most real ones.


Ferrari’s Driving Simulator Creates More Horsepower Than A Sedan

While a majority of those people playing Gran Turismo will never race a Civic, let alone the supercars featured therein, you can bet 100 per cent of the people “playing” Ferrari’s new racing rig will end up on the track some day.


Code-X Yacht Will Have Two Kinds Of Power: Super Clean, Oh So Dirty

There’s a real company promoting a not-so-real poweryacht called the Code-X. The differentiator—or “thing that’s supposed to land a billionaire customer”—is that the boat will have two Formula 1 engines and two solar-powered electric ones.