Red Bull Racing is building a McLaren-style state-of-the-art formula one driver simulator, according to reports.
Bild newspaper in Germany said the Milton-Keynes based team, so impressed with rookie Lewis Hamilton’s form after training with the top-secret McLaren machine over the winter, is now tweaking the 3D-software for its own design.
Team owner Dietrich Mateschitz’s top F1 contact Helmut Marko is quoted as saying that the equipment, understood to have got the nod of former McLaren technical director Adrian Newey, should be operational by the end of the year.
Referring to Hamilton’s McLaren ‘supersimulator’ training, Marko said: “He becomes so acquainted with the car on every circuit beforehand that he can slam in a quickest time on his second real lap.”
