Nice video of the F1 doing a lap of Tsukuba

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFohssyZ2mo

 

He seemed to have trouble getting third all the time ...

 

It was like he was double de-clutching 3rd. And he was bricking it. Underrstandably when you're driving a million dollar car that isn't yours. I don't think a 1:04 is that clever around Tsukuba.

In fact after checking, a little DC5 Integra will do it in 1:09! Also seen a vid with an HKS Evo VIII doing it in 55secs.

 

It did look wet and did have loads of issues going from 2nd to 3rd.

I didn't think it looked like he was giving it 100%... apparently it was Takumo Sato driving, so he was probably concerned about ditching 'another' car

 

Yeah he did seem to have problems with the 2-3 change.

Apparently the F1 is quite soft as it was designed 100% for the road (look at how it dips under braking) which is why they had to mess about with it quite a lot to make it competitive in racing (with the GTR versions). That actually isn't a bad lap for a road car - I think the record is about 56s, held by a very tuned Skyline.

 

Correction, I was way off...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...63044240513407

 

Its video links that which make me think about buying an NSX. Shame that one is far removed from your road going NSX