The Danish F3 driver Christian Lundgaard was Thursday, the first taste of what he hopes will be everyday within a foreseeable number of years. At the Hungaroring outside Budapest he was allowed to spend a day at the wheel of a full-grown Formula 1 racer.
The 449 kilometres distributed on both skills and løbssimulation was organized by Renault talentakademi.
Since June has the ambitious frenchmen in five different european courses given to his members of the academy training in the two-year-old RS17-model.
Now it was finally Lundgaards trip.
Test in 2019-the car is only allowed in the limited place, so this is the closest, the talent can come to the real thing, before they are ready to fredagstræning or a real testdag.
But with the V6-hybrid engine lying in the back and a aerodynamics, which is reminiscent of the current generation, is the feeling much closer to reality than when Lundgaard earlier in the year ran a demonstration in an F1 racer from 2012.
Østjyden, which has just reached the age of 18, and now is equipped with a driver's license to gadebiler, is usually not how to impress, but it was after that day.
Wow. Just wow. I don't know how else to describe it. It is a boyhood dream that has come true. This is what I have dreamed about since I started driving go-kart. And now I have damn well tried it, he says in a press release.
I had of course expected something of me game, but it was much wilder than I had imagined. There is so much power, the brakes are wild, and downforce is extreme. It surpasses all expectations. Even when it is doing wheel spin, accelerating it faster than my Formula 3 races.
There was speed over the field, since Christian Lundberg got tested 449 kilometers in a Formula 1 racer. Photo credit: Jan Kaiser
Lundgaards teamkammerat from the ART Grand Prix Max Fewtrell and Renault's chinese running from the F2 Guanyu Zhou is among other members of the college, which earlier in the year has been a test.
With its setup show Renault that they mean it seriously, when the plan is to have a run of his own breeding ready to jump in the yellow F1 racer from 2021.
the Track was rented and closed to the public with a 27-man plus two racers ready.
in Addition to his training and simulatorpligter is the next task for the Christian Lundgaard sæsonfinalen in Formula 3 in Russia about a week. He is number five in the overall championship with a podium finish within reach, if everything falls into place.
Anyway Renault is so confident about the dane's qualities, that they probably promote him to the F2 on top of a fluctuating season where it's usually so sejrsvante ART Grand Prix have been a bit beside herself. The decision is taken finally, when F3 is over.
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