Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "NASCAR Fan Reacts to Can a regular person drive a Real F1 Car?" video.

  1. Talking tight cars, I would put the Delorian as among most claustrophobic, but other than shoulder high centre tunnel, the seat space and leg room was actually like many European sports vehicles. Worst tight feel for me remains a Jaguar prototype, seemed J type based. It felt tighter fit than a Mini Minor, the external size seemed huge but inside the seating space was very tight leg room constrained with ankles bumping together. Those doors must have been very thick almost like half width of the seat causing the seating space from centre tunnel very narrow. Somehow huge external became tiny interior. Other tight fit was a Fiat X1/9 sports car, reasonable seating width but very poor for taller people. My head hair actually appeared to rub on the ceiling liner, and leg room constrained by the mid placed engine directly behind the seat. I am 6ft and it remains a puzzle as one German EFI application engineer colleague owned one of these and that guy was near 6ft 4 in. However he fitted I just do not know. Comfortable enough though not very roomy was driving a Lamborghini Countach. Now other than idling through the Bosch development area to one of the emissions test cells at other end, about 3/4 km distance, idling along at near 40kph, on a 20kph limit roadway riding the brake, rather than slipping clutch to keep speed lower. I also another time, had a half hour warm-up on a short test track of about 2km length doing a loop turn either end, only ever getting to third gear once second most of the time and only ever briefly going over 60kph, and got warned about not doing that again. It certainly had good kick up the backside if pedal got hit briefly. Other somewhat sporty was a SAAB Turbo sports car that I got to run about 200km on German Autobahn. It was comfortable and smooth performing. Sadly only about 50km was on an unlimited stretch, most was 130kph and even 80kph for some roadvworks parts. On unlimited I only went to just over 220 kph. Other than that some V8 Holden is about it for road cars. Two work colleagues in Australia had quite good Go carts with expensive club racing rated Yamaha engines that cost about the same as my dad's Nissan Patrol 4WD for only the engine. These went quite hard, once you warmed the tyres up. What an ideal way to learn cold slick tyres, no differential on drive Axel, is close to driving on ice. You spin out on corners going quite slow, but wow once you warm-up the slicks, the cornering became real G force. I had far less experience than either of them as I only visited them at their club track maybe five times, but given they had lots of experience to my novice, I still beat them in some 10 lap fun races with only four carts on track. One occasion however I was given chance by the owner of a special racing competion Go Cart, do not know exact engine or power, but the normal club go carts were like a motor scooter compared to a big engine Harley Davidson or BMW motor bike. After very careful getting tyres warmed again after owner came in for me to swap into driver position that had an immense amount if Go, and cornering was like it was glued to the track. Cornering at speeds comparable to Max speed of the other Go carts was a breeze. After some 5 laps my body was telling me of strain. I am convinced that I have no intention to try a F1. Just not fit or athletic enough to take that pounding. By the way today 21 Aug we had car racing at Sandown Park circuit down the road here. Audible most of the day. If not mistaken it was a Super Cars event day.
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