In this month's edition of Top Gear Magazine, Dom Duhan was fortunate enough to try out a driver training F1 Simulator from a well known F1 team. The track, Barcelona, the car, an unnamed car from last season. The simulator was bespoke for the team and was highly accurate.

So how did he get on? Well, with Darren Turner present - one of a team of F1 testers and drivers, the standard would be high.

After getting acclimatised to the cockpit - a full motion system with accurate forces on the wheel, Dom's first 8 lap run saw him immediately on the pace with a 1.24xxx. Unfortunately for Dom, the field of view gave him a bout of motion sickness almost immediately!

Luckily this did not stop his competitive nature and after another couple of 8 lap runs Dom got down to a respectable 21.6, which was just over a second off the F1 driver times and Darren, not bad after 24 laps!

Dom said "It was a fantastic experience and great to meet up with a driver of Darren's calibre, big thanks to the F1 team and Top Gear. I hope this paves the way for Sim Racing teams to become a part of F1 testing, providing thousands of hours of lap data for a fraction of the cost of running on a track."

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