If you had the chance to drive and experience an A1GP Powered by Ferrari car, you’d jump at the chance, right?
Well, so would I.
There might even be a few vital organs in my body that I’d happily relinquish if, through some bizarre sequence of events, this actually led me to getting behind the wheel of one of the 600bhp nation-versus-nation racers for half a day’s running.
Fortunately (for one of my kidneys anyway) I don’t have the experience to safely turn a wheel in anger in one of A1GP’s Ferrari-powered babies. The merest suggestion of me fitting my 5 foot 11 inch, slightly lumpy frame into a racing seat would have many A1GP technicians reaching for tissues just to wipe away the tears of laughter.
The closest I get to experiencing an actual race car is constantly speaking to all the drivers about their feelings throughout every race weekend. You see, I have been editor of A1GP.com for two years now, and have written more than 1500 stories through interviews with drivers about their races. I cockily feel with my knowledge assimilation that I could be part of a championship-winning team if I was only given the chance, but it’s just five-time Grand Prix winner John Watson is allowed from A1GP’s media and TV staff to actually get in a real car.
But thankfully there was another answer – A1GP’s simulator in Italy. Given the ultimately static nature of a simulator compared with a racing car, I knew couldn’t do any damage to myself there.
But I was wrong.