Las Vegas F1 Race Night
Contemporary Formula Car
A thousand horsepower in a car that weighs less than eight hundred kilograms, generating more downforce than its own mass at speed. The steering is almost weightless below a hundred and immovable above two hundred, and that range is the whole experience.
On a street circuit there is no run-off. Concrete on both sides, a cold surface, and brakes that do not work properly until you have used them hard. The first lap will catch you out.
- Generates more downforce than the car weighs — in theory it could drive on a ceiling.
- Carbon brakes need to be above 350°C to work. Lap one, they are not.
- The energy recovery system harvests under braking and redeploys on the straight, automatically.
The fastest category of car that exists, at night, on a street. The wheel is almost weightless at low speed and immovable at high speed, and that range is the whole experience. Concrete on both sides and no run-off anywhere. The track is cold. The first lap will catch you out.
Almost nothing here is a thud. A continuous stream of fine detail — engine, energy deployment, tyre state — of the kind a driver in this class reads without noticing. The one signal that matters is a front tyre locking against cold concrete.
Every setting is configured before you sit down — force feedback, haptics, seat position, field of view. Select the experience, and drive.