mikef1 Wrote:
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> > > Idk, I saw the vid of JB driving the RA302(?)
> > and
> > > though it was a demonstration the thing still
> > look
> > > like when it accelerated you eyes would end
> up
> > in
> > > the back of your head.
> > >
> > > i remember seeing that comment about the
> > > journalists somewhere but though i guess not
> > many
> > > of us know what they were like to drive but
> > they
> > > looked hard on videos because of the sliding
> > but
> > > my head tells me that it was because they ran
> > bias
> > > ply tires didnt they? i still find it hard to
> > > believe about journalists driving them.
> >
> > Murray drove the McLaren (can't remember which
> > one... 1984 perhaps?) so even with the cars
> being
> > much more sophisticated in the 80's than the
> ones
> > we're talking about here, ordinary people can
> > drive them. You won't get journalists going
> > setting timed laps, but they mustn't have been
> > that difficult to drive.
> >
>
> Murray drove a non turbo Mclaren so i guess it
> would have been the 1983 Macca.
> The controls of the '80s cars are far more similar
> to what you get on a real road car than today's F1
> cars but to go fast in an '80s car, particuarly a
> ground effects or turbo car at speed would be hard
> work for a normal person considering the lack of
> power steering amongst other things.
Does anybody have any videos of this? Muzza actually driving a pukka F1 car is a rarity, so for McLaren to give him the opportunity is rather unique.
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