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See also: Pilot
A racing driver is a sportsman (Homme or Femme) driving a vehicle Automobile at the time of a Course or a automobile competition. Each discipline of the automobile Sport requires on behalf of those which practice it specific qualities.
Admittedly, the partitions are not tight and of the pilots managed to shine in two different disciplines. Thus the British double world champion of Formule 1 Graham Hill it disputed (and gained) most mythical of the tests of endurance, the 24 hours of Mans, as well as famous the 500 miles of Indianapolis. Or, of the pilots who after several years of efforts, do not manage to obtain a good flying in the discipline in which they aimerairent to contribute, decide to be reconverted into another discipline. It was the case, recently, of the pilot French Stephan Sarrazin, which, after having been during several years controls tester in the stable of Formule 1 assembled by the old driver (four times world champion) Alain Prost ( Prost Grand Prix ) decided to be reconverted into the Rallye and disputed the Championnat of the world of the rallys within the team Subaru.
What one awaits from a racing driver
Generally the pilot must be a Sportif aguerri, because if its vehicle work for him and enters in account its results, it must also produce intense efforts and undergo Contrainte S Physique S unusual for an human being. Moreover it generally has reflexes and a direction of the control of the motor vehicles except par.
The pilot must, in addition, have a good knowledge of the Mécanique to be able to dialog with his engineers of races and to bring the necessary informations to them to the settling of his car. One says some pilot which they are good adjusters, because they know perfectly the reactions of their vehicle and can refine the adjustments to adapt it to the circuit and their style of piloting.
The pilot also controls some Techniques piloting clean with the sport car.
To be allowed to control a car in competition, it is of course necessary to be titular Permis to lead the cars and moreover have a license delivered by the federation managing the category in which the vehicle is committed.
The pilot according to the various types of automobile competitions
Karting
August 1st
Single-seaters: Formulas of promotion Formula 1, IRL, Field Because
August 1st
Endurance
August 1st
Rally
August 1st In certain disciplines, in particular in rally, the pilot is assisted of a Copilote. This last is charged amongst other things: to state with the pilot the difficulties as they are presented, of the Navigation, etc
Rally-raid
August 1st
NASCAR
August 1st
Risks of the trade of pilot
The trade of racing driver is not a trade like the others. At the time of an automobile race, the danger permanent, and is still increased by the high speeds reached by the vehicles. Spectacular accidents, like that of the young hope Polish Robert Kubica at the time of GP of Canada de Formule 1, the June 10th 2007, make shout with the miracle, because the pilot leaves himself there almost unscathed. In one century of automobile competitions the number of the pilots having lost the life during a race automolile or during tests is impressive. This threat weighs on each pilot when it penetrates in his cockpit and of very great champions, like Alberto Ascari, Jim Clark, Jochen Rindt (become world champion on a purely posthumous basis), Ayrton Senna in Formule 1 or Dale Earnhardt in NASCAR, or of the hopes, like Peter Collins, Wolfgang von Trips, François Cevert or Ronnie Peterson was victims of their passion for speed. Nowadays the Draconian safety regulations enacted by the International federation of the car as well for the design of the cars as that of the cicuits, or what it calls “passive safety” reduced the number of accidents fatal considerably. But the pilot is not safe from a serious wound, which can prematurely put a term at its career. Pilots like, for example, the British great champion Stirling Moss (four times vice-champion of the world), the Swiss Clay Regazzoni or the young French hope Philippe Streiff saw their broken career and their life upset by serious wounds undergone at the time of accidents in race.
Safety regulations
For the pilots
August 1st
For the cars
August 1st
For the circuits
August 1st
See too
Related articles
- alphabetical List of the pilots of Formula 1
- List of the pilots of Formula 1 having marked points in championship of the world, classified by Pilot countries
- of Formula 1 classification per year
- Pilot of Formula 1: classification by better Pilot turns
- of Formula 1: classification by Pilot podiums
- of Formula 1: classification by Pilot poles position
- of Formula 1: classification by Pilot victories
- of Formula 1: classification by hat tricks
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