German does it with the lights off
Williams driver Nico Rosberg has been spending a lot of time in darkened rooms in the run up to the Singapore Grand Prix. The 23-year-old has been playing the Singapore race simulator with the lights off to get conditions as close as possible to those he can expect to race in on Sunday evening. Here is one of the laps he completed - a bit untidy close to the barriers at one point if you ask us!
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Racing under way in Singapore… sort of!
2 responses so far
1 Cackie Steward // Sep 24, 2008 at 11:00 am
Straights look shorter than Valencia’s ones - I hope they find somewhere to overtake.
The bridge looks wicked though!
2 Simulator Hot-Lap Of F1 Singapore Grand Prix Street Circuit Night Race [Formula One] // Sep 24, 2008 at 10:53 pm
[…] newVideoPlayer(”/singaporeSIM.flv”, 506, 423,””);This video of Williams F1 driver Nico Rosberg practicing for the Singapore Grand Prix’s street circuit on the simulator is about as close as anybody will get to driving the track until the cars actually get on track this weekend. Since it is the first ever night race for Formula One, that means the action will start at 8 AM EST this Sunday. Just don’t count on the conditions to be as perfect as the computer sim might lead you to believe. Rain is forecasted, which, combined with the glare from artificial lighting, should produce some very entertaining competition. We might actually watch this one. [via Gridcrasher] […]