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Originally Posted by svandamme
What's the pointing in having race cars race themselves.
Takes all the fun out of it if you can't race it yourself.
Might as well skip the entire thing and watch a VR race with AI and no physical race at all. Much cheaper.
Oh wait.. that's already possible in most race games : NOBODY CARES BOUT THAT NONSENSE
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Actually, during the lockdowns there were many E-races going on and they had pretty darn good viewership.
I have to admit, I was thinking this was going to be a thread about the current Mercedes F1 car, which basically drives itself.
They put a second rate Russian F3 (or was it F2?) pay driver, Nikita Mazepin, in the Silver Arrow he started throwing down Pole laps in the car. I think they dialed him back after he did that. I might be wrong, regardless, it made Mercedes drivers look bad, anyone can jump in the car and turn the same laps.
Just looked it up, Valteri ran a best 1:15.4 is qualifying. (Q1) Nikita ran a 1:15.7 in practice good enough for pole that year as Valteri ran a 1:16.9 in Q3 and a 1:15.9 in Q2.
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.barcelona-test-day-two-mazepin-fastest-on-first-mercedes-outing.AzcsqDHnzWma7VnU2QEwd.html
https://www.f1-fansite.com/f1-result/qualifying-results-2019-spanish-f1-grand-prix/