Fast cars, girls, yachts and a champagne lifestyle: but there’s more to Formula 1 than you may at first realise.
A new exhibition at London’s Science Museum demonstrates how engineering and innovation from Formula 1 spins-off into the broader world.
‘Fast Forward: 20 ways F1 is changing our world’, is a new free exhibition at the museum, which is located in South Kensington.
20 innovative by-products of the sport are on display in an elegantly designed gallery overlooked by the chassis of the McLaren MP4-21 suspended from the ceiling….. Details
And now, the best use of a BlackBerry Storm I have seen to date: Lewis Hamilton, the British Formula One driver, appears in a YouTube video controlling his F1 car remotely with Research in Motion’s touchscreen smartphone.
Here’s the backstory: A couple of Vodafone subscribers in the UK hacked a BlackBerry Storm to race a toy R/C F1 car around a homemade track. That’s what appears in the first minute or so of the video. The Storm’s built-in accelerometer lets them steer the car by tiling the phone back and forth, while acceleration and braking is controlled with buttons on the phone’s touch screen, according to Autoblog.
Once word got out and Team McLaren heard about it, they invited the fellows to the McLaren Mercedes garage, where they adapted the control system to a real F1 car…Â Details
Rookies and drivers outside the top 10 in the IndyCar Series standings are going to be getting a little extra track time in 2009.
Those drivers will get an extra 30 to 45 minutes of practice at most of the IndyCar venues before the tracks are opened to all participants. The extra sessions will begin with a 30-minute practice on April 17 at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, the second event on the schedule.
“We’re trying things that help encourage new drivers in the series, in particular … Details