Bird’s eye view…

Posted by Tim Robson at 12:25 pm on Thursday October 20, 2011

We’re not sure we’d like to try and drive a modern F1 car with one hand over our eyes, but Pirelli development driver Lucas di Grassi was up for the challenge.

With a small camera mounted in front of his right eye, he takes us on an installation lap of the Barcelona circuit in the never-raced Toyota TF109 car.

 

  1. Black dog said...
    Thursday October 20, 2011 at 11:53 pm Link to comment Report comment

    Brilliant ,great vid..

  2. Speed Demon said...
    Friday October 21, 2011 at 12:21 am Link to comment Report comment

    The car looks atlot longer from that perspective, It also looks like he wasn’t hitting the cars limit looked like he could have pushed way harder.

  3. KartMan said...
    Friday October 21, 2011 at 8:42 am Link to comment Report comment

    What sort of camera was it?

  4. Speed Demon said...
    Friday October 21, 2011 at 8:30 pm Link to comment Report comment

    Helmet you can see the camera pan left when the driver looks left when going round a bend.

  5. sebastian said...
    Wednesday October 26, 2011 at 10:29 am Link to comment Report comment

    try hard driving, good video thats about it. Im not impressed by the slow speed the machine was driven at. That same straight ive hit 314km/h 2 years ago

  6. POPPOP said...
    Thursday October 27, 2011 at 4:19 pm Link to comment Report comment

    Sebastian, are you really a Sebastian??

  7. Speed Demon said...
    Sunday October 30, 2011 at 9:55 am Link to comment Report comment

    There are millions off sebastians in the world so i’m guessing yes. Lol seb i thought that was a fair comment as i said earlier he didn’t look to be pushing hard but it could have just been a test run. and you should know you don’t win races on straights unless your a drag racer and in that case you do but you must see my point.

    It claims new and untested F1 toyota T109 car i looked it up it was actually built 2 years ago the T109 so it can’t be new thats what i find amusing. I looked it up because i thought toyota must be rejoining the eilte racing leuague again i was wrong.

    There are only 4 major competors in the leauge,

    Renuat Mclaren Mercedes Ferrari there needs to be more range Jaguar needs to go back the real Lotus needs to go back Ford GM Porshe whatever hell even a Aston Martin just to shake it up a bit why is it only a 4 horse race when there is 24 cars compting and 12 teams go figure.

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