Bojan Vrbnjak
The question of how tense and exhausting it is to drive a modern race car Formula 1, employs many fans as well as professionals. Numerous aids and support from engineers and team strategists once made a challenging task a comparablely easy task for today’s racers. Although the remark of the deceased Nikija Lauda inappropriate, but today, with a certain amount of irony, we could really say that these race cars can be driven by any monkey.
Especially compared to the old days, when racers were mostly left to their own abilities and knowledge, today's stars have Grand Prix sport helped a lot more and of course support. However, it should be mentioned here in defense that racing cars have also become much more complex. A Olivier panis, a former racer Formula 1, he doesn't want to hear anything about it. Sensational race winner in Monaco leta 1996, drove a total of 1994 races between 2004 and 157, five of which he finished on the podium. The victory in Monaco remained his only in his career.
Today 52 years old French in conversation with colleagues from Car Hebdo emotionally reminded of his active time, which he described as magical: “Especially between 2002 and 2004, it was simply glorious. The performance of the race cars was simply insane. You went to the track with fresh tires and only 40 kilograms of fuel in the tank and then you came back to the pits to get fresh tires and 40 kilograms of fuel. From the first to the last lap it was a real challenge and it was magical."
But a lot has changed since then, he points out French and explain: "I watch racing because it’s just a part of my life, but the sport has changed a lot. I love qualifying because I believe we see how crazy these race cars are there. But racing? These are eight seconds away from the best qualifying time and it is the engineers who manage the course of the race."
"Watch out for tire temperatures, brakes, the engine - this must be very boring for the racer," assumption breadwho claims: “I'm sure 90 percent of racers like me, but if you spend your whole life trying to get into Formula One and then you get your chance, you just take what you can get,Panis added.
To some extent, we can only agree with him, because where are the times when he is Mika Hakkinen after the race in the extreme heat he barely crawled out of the cockpit when the first three on the podium looked exhausted like construction workers digging ditches all day. Today, this is not the case, racers do not show any signs of fatigue or exhaustion at all, and in tests they can easily drive distances of two or three races in one day.
