Play F1? Red Bull lends a hand and a simulator

There are many young and old who love to spend hours honing their driving skills in a simulator, from the cheapest, offered for €500 or less, to the most sophisticated, requiring an investment of €5,000. This if we leave aside the systems developed specifically for professional teams and pilots. But in the last days EITHER classification of the simulators began to be led by a proposal from Red Bull, on sale for 113 thousand euros.

To materialize its Sim Racing “toy”, Red Bull turned to Memento Exclusives, which designed a structure based on the RB 18, the F1 that allowed the team to win the World Championship in 2022 in a formula designed by magician Adrian Newey. Interestingly, in addition to Know how What does Red Bull have about it? its main driver, the Dutchman Max Verstappen, is also a furious practitioner of Sim Racing in his free timewhich may seem strange given that his job is to drive Red Bull F1 and test in the team’s simulator.

I had the privilege of being the first person to try the new @redbullracing RB18 simulator @F1 Authentic! ????

It was quite a surreal experience to be able to drive the simulator as it was like being in the real life cockpit of the World Championship winning RB18 ???? pic.twitter.com/R1Rx4dAcn7

—Jed Norgrove (@JedNorgrove10) March 14, 2023

Unlike other simulators, Red Bull’s is much more than an adjustable structure to support a drumsticksteering wheel and pedals. All this integrated into what appears to be a Red Bull F1 chassis up to the rear wheels, where the front wing and the necessary curved screen are not lacking.

In addition to the most expensive version of the Red Bull simulator, which is offered for 99,999 British pounds (about 113,215 euros) and is called Champions Edition, The F1 team also proposes an alternative called Race Edition, for 74,999 pounds (€84,925). Deliveries of these two simulators are scheduled to start later this month, just in time to accompany the 2023 season, which began in Bahrain but will only end on November 26 in Abu Dhabi, 22 races later.