I'm a realist, I don't have the skills to do option #2. But option #1 through F1 Clienti would be a blast.
I'd go for the Minardi race-seat. Imagine being lapped by Schumacher! Imagine how tempting it would be to get in Kimi and Alonso's way when they come to lap you! Many people have driven F1 cars these days. Not many have taken part in an F1 race. I would then write a book about the experience and give talks and sell the movie rights until I had earned enough to buy the F1 Ferrari!
I have the perfect way to go about this. Get the Ferrari, race drive it every day possible and get as much instruction as possible. Sell the Ferrari, then buy into testing with a lower-tier team and eventually make it as a starter in a GP! Best of both worlds
I'd do option 2. Buying a F1 Ferrari would be a waste of money but then again i guess if you have that much it's your choice in what you want to waste it on. Three races, even if it was for minardi would be one heck of a learning experience. Just tooling around in a Ferrari you would not learn as much.
isn't that why they brought in the 107% rule way back when? coz guys with a few $$$ who thought they were hot shiat were buying their way in to F1?
yeah like Yooung!!! but then we started to see grids of only 18-19 cars. Alos with the single car qualifying if 10 cars run dry and then the other 10 run wet like Australia then we would have had only a 10 car grid.
I would pick Option 1 But I doubt I would drive it very often for fear of destroying it, although trying out most of the F1 tracks in a private track day would be fun. All of the drivers in F1 are better than 99.999% of all race drivers, let alone normal people. The best I could hope for would be not to get lapped more than five times in a GP in the Minardi. I always get annoyed when people want to change the stated rules of a thread, but I will do it here: if there was Option 3, buy a top level IRL team and race competitively at Indy, I would probably pick that over the other two.
Actually I have bragged about that so many times here on FChat, that I'm surprised you haven't heard yet. At any rate, it was a blast. I did it with these guys: http://www.formel-1-fahren.de/ A few years ago in the South of France. In Le Luc to be precise, where the former AGS team was based out of. On their very own test track we drove first F3 cars to warm up and in the afternoon a Cossie powered AGS F1 from about 1990. No electronics, we could go as fast as we wanted, but one spin and the show is over. Here a few pics of yours truly. I brought my own suit and helmet btw. Nowadays they offer ex Arrows cars with F1 paddle shifts etc. They have one car in Mc Laren look alike livery and one in Ferrari style. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Formula one gift experience £1369 ($2378) http://www.daystoamaze.co.uk/pages/product232.tpl Im in, anyone else?
