This is brilliant. Honda recreated Senna's qualifying lap at Suzuka 89 using speakers and lights. [video=youtube_share;tOKPG18WwHw]http://youtu.be/tOKPG18WwHw[/video]
It's a shame as we will probably never here those sounds again! I love F1 and go to Silverstone every year, it will feel very different with no ear plugs and the new regulations!
Gutted that I never experienced it. F1 at Silverstone was something I've always meant to do but for one reason or another never got around to. I live but a stones throw from Mallory Park (RIP) and have seen an old F1 car tootle round there as a bit of a gimmick but it's nowhere close to the real thing.
Go with the old man have done for 20 years, (this is the first year I'm paying), camp on the Saturday night and get to the track for 9am great watching GP2 races and Porsche racing before the main event, you should do it Hat, makes a great weekend away from the Wife and Kids.
Saw Mansell beat Piquet on the last lap at Silverstone back in 1987, it was awesome. The noise, the crowds, the women. If you get the chance to do a GP definetly go. I was on a corporate do with the wifes work with free bar, food executive passes to everywhere except the garages themselves. Murray Walker even had a word with us. The noise in the Pitlane was something else. Did the British Bike GP a few years later but can't remember where. ..
I've done Moto GP/WSB/BSB access all areas a few times, my mates uncle used to race in each of them so he knows all the people to get access in. A load of my mates are still working at bike events so can get free access to pretty much all UK bike races. Done Moto GP at Donny a few times, cracking day and the noise those little bike engines create is deafening, can't imagine how it pales in comparison to F1 - F1 must be insane. Going round the paddock getting to see the teams setting up their bikes is something else, and having a flirt with all the brolly girls is something else again
I've been sat in the grandstand on the outside of Luffield at Silverstone for the F1 so I could see the whole complex, you can (at least with the old V10s or V8s) feel the engine through the air as the car goes through it all. You don't really notice the gradual revs building so much as you notice when they change gear there's a sudden change. And that's feeling the change I'm talking about, not hearing it.
Superb advert from Honda. Senna was, and probably always will be, the most talented F1 driver of all time, the man was a racing God.
I went for many years when Mansell was in his pomp, fantastic day out. Though even in those days the cheapest ticket was £40, so todays game at £20 looks good value.
