just got home from the event, it was pretty good, and a bonus that it was free. apart from the main attraction of the F1 car (which only runs 5 times in the day, every couple of hours, and only for about 1 min 20 seconds), there were many other exhibits and interactive things to keep you occupied.
and Vicki Butler Henderson and her brother, Charlie, were the announcers, talking to the crowds, giving stats and facts in between the car runs. we saw some young guy Marcus Ericsson drive a Formula BMW car, and also compete in a remote control car race, and then the final thing was the F1 car running, driven by Augusto Farfus, but disappointingly it only ran for about 80 seconds.
here are a some cropped pics, i'll try to upload the videos over the weekend:
VBH:
Ericsson getting strapped in:
doing a donut with the steering wheel detached (the black horizontal lines are on a protective plastic screen in front of me):
chatting to VBH:
the track from one of the ends, the other end has a grandstand:
one of the pitstop challenge cars:
an acrylic car where you can practice refueling the car, the display shows how many litres an F1 rig puts into the car compared with a standard fuel pump:
Nick's helmet and HANS device:
some random guy and his kid having a photo with some "beautiful" girls:
Ericsson and Farfus chilling:
the car those promo girls were standing by. we're F1 geeks so we obviously don't want the photo to have the girls in it
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Farfus and VBH:
Pit stand with headphones that you could listen to, hearing the transmissions between engineers and drivers:
PitStop challenge:
simulators with Live for Speed:
if you can make it go along, it's a bit of fun. we spent about 2 and a half hours there looking at stuff. it took long enough to even find the car park it's situated in, as the Trafford Centre is massive.
RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichaelEdited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/05/2008 01:17AM by Muks_C.