Comments on: Hamilton remote control McLaren video

By: Cameron

Cameron — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:57:59 +0000

No wonder the car is so slow in testing, it’s all the RC gear in it bogging it down!

By: YeaMon

YeaMon — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:19:03 +0000

That’s a good one. Does anyone know that phone? Is it just an Iphone?

By: John R

John R — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:54:46 +0000

Cool vid…

By: dan

dan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:07:58 +0000

cool video i particularly liked how they did the onboard camera on the RC car

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:00:20 +0000

Pretty obviously faked, but cool non-the-less…

By: Chaz

Chaz — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:06:37 +0000

Good to see McLaren maintaining their sense of humour…

By: Capo

Capo — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:53:05 +0000

tim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzDGpgGQGok

By: tim

tim — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:50:42 +0000

There was a BMW advert a while ago with Ralf and Juan-Pablo where they were driving Williams’ cars round a track whilst sitting in the stands if I remember rightly.

And as for it being real – no chance. The car would have been driven by Gary Paffett or PDLR, wearing bright green overalls and helmet, then a team of Adobe After Effects wizards have edited him out frame-by frame for each scene where the cockpit was in shot.

I guess with a trip to Maplins and a soldering iron they could conceivably done the first half, although it would be easier to fake it, and have the real controller behind the camera for each take.

Clever stuff though and convincing…

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:41:22 +0000

Always interesting to see how other people report these things. The Daily Mail’s headline is straight-as-a-die:

“Revealed – McLaren’s new driver-less F1 could see Lewis win title by remote control”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-1160934/VIDEO-Revealed–McLarens-new-driver-F1-Lewis-win-title-remote-control.html

By: DGR-F1

DGR-F1 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:24:00 +0000

I have a mad idea for when the technology is right, and is affordable – full size RC cars,but fitted with cameras etc, the drivers in game console type seats, with an audience around them, like Top Gear, and controlling the cars from the hospitality suites or the race control tower.
The idea came to originally on seeing the BMW MINI, and how toy like it is, but I think it would work just as well with F1…..