Formula 1 driving experiences – drive an F1 racing car

Premium driving experience? Best driving experience in the whole world ever? Racing car experience? Petrolhead heaven?

All these and more come to mind when trying to describe this driving experience that is the pinnacle of every motorist’s ambition.

Forget rallying, forget off road and 4×4, forget dragsters and any other four wheeled means of transport. When you’ve driven a formula one car, you’ve done it all.

It’s not a cheap experience, but then how much is motoring Heaven worth to you? For that special gift, or as a treat for yourself just because you deserve it, this is the one experience that we recommend without reservation. It will be money well spent and you’ll have a smile on your face for weeks afterwards.

Cheapest formula one experience?

Well strangely enough, some are cheaper than others, for more or less the same experience.

All these Formula One days take place at the famous Three Sisters racetrack in Wigan, Lancashire. They all cover similar instruction, practice, and a range of cars getting faster and faster to prepare you for the big one, and they all include meals and overnight accommodation for you and a partner.

So we recommend starting with the cheapest, checking out the detail of the cars, and when you’re happy, buy there and then. If you save a few pounds, that can go towards next time!!

All our prices are updated in real time, so you’ll be the first to see any offers and can be sure the prices are the lowest available.

 

Formula One car driving review

As we said, all these experiences are pretty similar and operated by the same people at the same place. It’s just that they’re marketed by different experience providers.

So what happens on your formula 1 experience?

First, the catering arrangements.

You get all meals while you’re there, breakfast, lunch and tea. Then after your drive, you even get hotel accommodation with dinner and breakfast for you and a partner. So if your partner doesn’t want to watch your racing driver technique improving over the day, then this is a good opportunity for them to perform a spot of retail therapy locally before you meet up to enjoy your dinner and overnight stay.

Now, the driving.

If you got straight out of your own car into a formula one car, then the odds are that you would either seriously prang the motor, kill yourself or both. The feel, sensation and whole driving experience of handling one of these thoroughbreds is so alien from anything you’ve ever come across before that much of the day goes into preparing you gradually for this driving thrill par excellence.

You’ll get an in-depth familiarisation on safety and high-speed driving methods and techniques and be taken on a high speed trip in a sports car by an instructor.

This first trip alone will probably be faster and hairier than you’ve ever been driven before, but believe us, it’s only the beginning!

There will follow a number of sessions in ever-speedier motors such as Aston Martins, Ferraris, Porsches, some with the instructor driving, some with you at the wheel, as he guides you steadily into becoming more and more competent at speed. Thought you were a good fast driver? Well the first few laps here will make you think again – but you certainly will be at the end of the day.

The instructor’s role is to demonstrate technique, explain high speed driving, and evaluate your progress throughout the day so that your pinnacle of driving achievement, the Formula One car drive itself, is safe, very fast, and thoroughly satisfying.

After some exhilarating high speed driving in classic supercars, it’s time to progress to the single seater. Yes, that’s you and your right foot in total control showing how much you’ve learnt. There’ll be laps following a pace car to help you get acclimatised to the need for speed, then fantastic eyeballs out laps on your own.

Single seater progresses to a Formula Three car – you’re nearly there, but still so far away. We’re talking two hundred horses and revving up to 7,000 rpm, but it’s only the start of the ladder for Formula 1 drivers
No sooner are you getting used to the Formula Three experience when it’s time for you to be whisked into the real deal.

Until you’ve actually sat in that F1 seat, engaged gear and blasted away at an acceleration like nothing else on earth, you really can’t imagine the feeling.The climax of the whole day, ten brilliant laps with just you and the thoroughbred mechanical beast, and a few square inches of rubber holding you to the tarmac, will leave you grinning from ear to ear.

So scroll back up, check out your F1 experience, and Thunderbirds Are Go!!!

Oh, and while you’re waiting for your tickets, check out this Youtube video of another lucky F1 Experience driver showing how it’s done.