Formula One 2050: McLaren Style

[Durge Driven]

Stands below the track... So they'll pay overpriced tickets to watch the race on their cell phone.

No you will have "Real" portable ultralight 8K VR Headsets ...... with ability to watch like you are driving, any camera any angle with instant rewinds

Big screens and TV style replays would be obsolete

P.S. I would think cell phones would be long forgotten

 

[welshy46]

As a lifelong Motorsports fan I can't believe so many are stuck in the past

If 30 years ago you were shown a 2019 McLaren you would say the same

Because the difference in the look of a 1990 F1 car to a 2019 version is as different as the 2019 car is to this wip3out rip off.

 

[Durge Driven]

I think you made my point

2050 belongs to the kids of the future who will know no better
When they watch old races of Lewis and Co. they will laugh at the funny looking, slow old cars
that sound so loud you can't hear anything else you are doing ....on your 8K headsets

 

[Feint]

Everyone in the crowd will be using the VR feature on their contact lenses to see what the drivers see. So the seating doesn't really matter. Hopefully there will still be internal combustion engines on future race cars or at least some noise other than an electric whir.

 

[mr Sw1tchblade]

Nice work Brotherhood of Nod. So tiberium war will begin in 2050?

 

[eli walter racing team]

looking at the sponsors ... really ... in 2050 there will be Dell, Logitech sponsoring F100000000 ... haha

 

[RMR1]

Well, what do you expect from a company that lets the best simracers in the world compete against each other on Tablets...

 

[VitaminZeth]

If that blue car behind the McLaren, is the Mercedes team car?... That would a future i'd wanna see

 

[OZ67]

looking at the sponsors ... really ... in 2050 there will be Dell, Logitech sponsoring F100000000 ... haha View attachment 287510

CNBC? Fake News right there

 

[HazelR]

Hmm, electric cars powered by the track?

They've discovered Scalextrix!
Hope they include the chicanes, crossovers & the 'High Hump Bridge'......

 

[Yusuf Macit]

I hope they will go airborne and do a few flips in the meantime??

Seriously, what is this sport becoming in their minds?

 

[apex11]

Things move on....

 

[Sim Strata]

Definitely the work of a boomer.

 

[Raikku]

They could have some kind of "Mach1" overtake button.

 

[UMC 22]

Boring looking car, boring sounding technology. I know F1 is supposed to be at the cutting edge or racing tech but this? I don't think so... not in 50 years and certainly not in 31. I think there's going to come a point when even the next generation of techno-kids will say, you know what? Can't we go back to racing being man/woman against man/woman instead of tech against tech?

Even if they don't, with affordability and budget caps being proposed now in 2019, who's going to have the money to build something even remotely that advanced by 2050 anyway? And who's going to build those wondrous sleek-looking cities featured in the image? Pure fantasy.

I'd say World War 3 is more likely to become reality by 2050 than that McLaren...

 

[Kjell81d]

F1 won't make it to 2050. It does look to make for an interesting game though.

 

[BrettSinclair1]

Funny how they slipped a female driver in their concept (check out the other pictures at motorsport.com), when we have only seen one world class female driver in over a century...

 

[RichardHessels]

Actually like the look of the car from a design standpoint, but it's basically driving on 8 pieces of rubber the size of a motorcycle-tire. Is there magnetic traction making it basically lanechanging slotcars?

This concept would make quite an original mod. Nice change for all this "try to be hyper realistic" sims.

 

[quicksilver384]

So basically its scrapping f1 and just gonna formula e the

 

[omanrak]

Not only do I despise fake "green" electric cars, but that is only ugly toaster.