He Goodwodd speed festival It is always a magical event. And proof of this is what happened just before the mythical Alain Prostfour times F1 champion, would pilot his iconic McLaren MP4/4 The 1988a car that rolled in the F1 with 15 victories of 16 possible among those achieved by Prost And his then partner, Ayrton Sennawhich took its first world title of F1 before 'The teacher'.
The famous nickname with which Prost is known as a ring to the finger at the moment we mention. The debutant of F1 in the Haas team, Oliver Bearmanhe found Alain inside the car while the French expected his turn to go on track and did not hesitate to bend down and approach Prost so that the French explain the details of his car. The conversation between the two, captured by Instagram 'driversseatwithabs' account, It was Magicto. Especially, it was because of the huge face of surprise that the young British talent put.
The 20 -year -old 'Rookie' pilot hallucinated with the explanations of Lorette's pilot, 70 springs. Two very different generations, two opposite times in F1, joined by the enormous curiosity of the young man Bearman Before a car that looks little like the current car of F1 that pilots. The explanations of Prost They have no waste. Nor did the face of perennial surprise of a Bearman who could not stop asking questions to an Alain who did, more than ever, as a teacher.
Bearman hallucinated with him small cabin size, the fact that the pilot is so exposed in the cockpit, very high, without the walls of the cabin covering the bodysomething Bearman defined how “Feel naked”without protection, insecure to any accident.
That also implies that the neck goes much more loose, something that both stood out. And in that sense, Prost remarked that it is a car that generated a lot of fatigue In the pilot's body, not only because of the body, but also for the sensations of piloting, for its little weight and its many horses.
Bearman was also surprised by the only two buttons that were in a steering wheel far removed from the current F1full of dozens of normal and rotary buttons, with multiple functions, as if it were a computer. And also with the bars that the pilot could touch next to his legswhich could also correct brake cast manually. The conversation between two times so far in F1 is wonderful.
The complete conversation between Prost and Bearman:
- Oliver Bearman: “You must feel naked in such a car. It's amazing! I hope you enjoy driving, just like then”
- Or :: “It seems so small … so tight.” “Do you have three pedals?” (He says looking at the cabin and leg area)
- Alain Prost: “She”
- Or: “Is the right the brake pedal?”
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Q: “Yes. And I have clutch, and you know, that's the problem” (he says squeezing the clutch).
- Or: “That is difficult. Is it a change in H, with 5 marches, or sequential?”
- Q: “It is not sequential. In H”.
- Or: “Could you make a gear change accelerating? Or do you have to lift the accelerator to go up?
- Q: “You go up on your own. It is necessary to use the clutch, because otherwise, you would only do it once …”
- Or: “Do you keep the accelerator thoroughly or get up?”
- Q. “Oh, no. You have to lift.”
- O: “Rise, ok”.
- Q: “Even if you don't go to the fullest, you have to lift a little”
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Or: “Is this the time you had a qualification engine?”
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Q: “Yes, we had classification engines”
- Or: “With extra power?”
- Q: “Yes. We had classification engines. I mean the last part, also in 1993, even the first days. We always had classification engines.”
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Or: “That's great.”
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Q: “This car tired you a lot. A lot. Because you have no support.”
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Or: “Yes. And if you suffer with the neck … you leave!”
- Q: “I used this part very often in the corner …”
- Q: “This car is like a kart, it is very light. It weighs 500 kg and has 1000 horses.
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Or: “It's amazing!
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Or: “And the two buttons (of the steering wheel)? Radio or Pit Lane? There was no Pit limit …”
- Q: “I don't remember what they are, because we had almost nothing. There is only one bar.”
- Or: “In front or behind?”
- Q: “And here the distribution of brakes”
- “Is this the front bar?”
- “Yes, it's just the front. And only the distribution of brakes. And this is the impulse for the turbo”
- “Could you a little more (have a little more power)?”
- A commissioner calls Bearman's attention and tells him to separate for Prost to start.
- “I see you above”
