THE new iPhone X is available to pre-order from tomorrow and, if you are thinking of upgrading, here’s the things you won’t find on any other Apple smartphone. LEWIS Hamilton could win the F1 championship this weekend and if you’ve ever wanted to know what it’s like to drive his Formula One car the answer is... terrifying.
StarTech took a trip with Qualcomm to the Mercedes team base in Brackley, Berkshire, to see just how hard it is to drive one of these 200mph mega racing machines.
We weren’t allowed on the track but we got the next best thing – a ride in the Mercedes F1 simulator. And this is not some posh computer game.
Using the latest tech – and huge amount of computing power – the team are able to replicate a real race weekend with the car, track and even weather matched perfectly to an afternoon at the circuit.
Strapped into the bathtub-like driving seat you suddenly understand just how intense and difficult these cars are to drive.
Even the Mercedes 2017 F1 steering wheel needs the mind of a brain surgeon with dozens of knobs and switches affecting the performance of the car.
Our challenge was to take on the Circuit de Barcelona in Spain to see how fast we could do a lap.
One minute 50 seconds sounded pretty good – shame Lewis could give us a 25-second headstart and still smash our time.