THIS thing can lap Silverstone ONE SECOND FASTER than Max Verstappen’s F1 car with room for two. God’s honest. The egg-scrambling RB17 is F1 design genius Adrian Newey “off the leash”.
No FIA constraints. No cost-cap. All the good stuff F1 got rid of.
Let me talk you through the headlines: Newey said: “In our simulation loops it would comfortably be on pole at Silverstone .” What’s “comfortably” in your world? “About one second quicker. In that ball park.
” Bejeezus. The beauty of RB17 – apart from its obvious beauty, obviously – is that Newey insisted on a second seat for an instructor to coach the minted owner. He said: “What I had in my own head, rightly or wrongly, if you take up a new sport , golf for instance, you hit a few balls and they go flying everywhere.
“If you enjoy it, you want to better yourself, so you take a caddy to coach you and get better. “This is that same philosophy. By having two seats, you can either have a coach in the passenger seat, or you can have your friend or partner or whatever.
“You can grow with the car and develop with the car to whatever performance level you feel comfortable with. “It’s trying to bring that excitement to people who have the desire to experience it but haven’t necessarily yet got the experience. “There’s a lot of adjustability within the cockpit to adjust the balance through the corner phases to give you more stability, or be slightly more edgy, depending on where you are with yo.
