1990s F1 Cars

As a Christmas present to myself I finally bought a copy of the F1 2013 Classic Edition and was very excited to have a go at driving some of the iconic cars from the 80s and 90s that come with this version of the game. After having a go at most of the classic F1 cars I have to say that Nigel Mansell's 1992 Williams F1 car was the most fun to drive.

After driving the car, it reminded me of a recent article and video I had seen in which Karun Chandhok (top guy!) drives the 1996 Williams F1 car. after having got as close as i could to driving such cars his comments that F1 could learn a lot from the simplicity of the design of the F1 cars back then seem to ring true:

"One of the thing the strikes you is how simple it is in many ways,".
"Look at the front wing in comparison to a modern one, which looks ridiculous.
"The 1996 Williams is a nice looking car and I don't know a single person who looks at it and says that it's ugly.
"You always want the sport to evolve, but you do get to a point where you have to ask if you are spending too much money on things that the fans don't really care about.
"There's a lot of things that F1 has done right to cut costs and bring F1 into the more logical world, but the 1996 Williams still looks spectacular even though it is far simpler than a current car.
"There is a lesson in that."
Full interview with Autosport here.

The video of Chandhok driving the car can be found on YouTube here.

In the expanded F1 2013 you can also have a go at driving the 1996 Williams F1 car and it is a lot of fun too with tons more grip than you believe to be actually possible. I could also match and potentially beat the times I set in the 1999 Ferrari so from that point of view these cars aren't slower even though they are from over 20 years ago.

With reagards to F1 2013 classic edition, it is great but would have loved to have had the chance to have a go at some of Mclaren's iconic F1 cars from the 80s and 90s...! ; )