One would think that driving a Formula One car is both fun and thrilling – among a multitude of attributes, of course. And it’s not like we’re going to argue that, as we feel the same way. It’s just that we want to add up “difficult†to that list. And we don’t mean that in a drivers’ safety kind of way, as everyone knows Formula racing is, in general, a dangerous sport.
For starters, let’s proceed to a quick overview. Consider the fact that, during a grand prix race, a driver has to: change gears for approximately 3,500 times, keep radio contact with the team, check fuel level, deploy KERS (recently added), activate drink pump, select tire adaptation, preset the wing depending on the race conditions, watch the display giving him useful information on revs, lap times, speed, gear (etc), change brake settings, activate pit lane limiter (when needed), control differential settings, and so on…Â Details
