Video: This is What a F1 Driver Really Sees While Racing

Video This is What a F1 Driver Really Sees While Racing

What would be the best possible way to exprience what a F1 driver sees or feels when driving a Formula 1 race car? Drive one yourself, but vast majority of those reading this will never find themselves behind the wheel of a Formula 1 race car.

So Lucas di Grassi, former driver for Virgin Racing and now the official test driver for Pirelli, fitted a camera to his helmet and set out for a lap at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain.

While using the first ever eye-level camera in a Formula 1 car, Lucas had to drive with only one eye open as the camera was blocking his other eye, quite tricky but still he managed.

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