Sebastian Vettel's new F1 simulator puts my ramshackle setup to shame

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The sort of simulator used by Formula One teams and their drivers are world-class. They're massive rooms with control panels, feeds from every angle, terabytes of data being beamed to engineers that use that information to inform their development of the real-world car. I wish I could show you a picture of the one I visited a few years ago, but I can't—these teams have their simulators on complete media lockdown.

But what is an F1 driver to do when they're not close to their team's world-class F1 simulators? The team brings the simulator to them.

The Aston Martin F1 team has just released details of an F1 simulator they've dropped off at the house of four-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel, and it's seriously gorgeous. Its most striking feature is the replica AMR21 chassis making up the basis for the simulator cockpit—a dead lookalike for the chassis used by the team in the 2021 Formula One World Championship.

The cockpit is made up of Vettel's own race seat, headrest, and seatbelts from the 2021 championship. The wing mirrors, steering wheel, and headrest all match the real deal, too.

Direct in front of the cockpit sits three massive monitors, hooked up to a powerful gaming PC. Apparently a two-screen version «proved limiting», which makes me assume a modest budget wasn't a determining factor in the design. There's bound to be some serious graphical power inside that PC to ensure those three screens are able to keep up with a World Champion's driving ability, but we're sadly lacking specifics. No doubt there's a high-end graphics card in there, an RTX 3090 or RX 6900 XT.

There's a slew of Logitech speakers surrounding the cockpit for immersive audio—though I doubt anyone's racing at home with the volume set to match