Awesome F1

YouTuber Miran Dilberovic captures the past year in Formula One with this intense highlight reel. See the thrills, skills, heartbreaks, escapes, winners and losers of F1 2014 set to Ctrl-Z’s remix of Dies Irae.

This on-car footage features racer Frank Stippler driving a 1958 Maserati 250f at the Historic Grand Prix of Monaco. Frank competed with other pre-1961 cars and drove the prizewinning Maserati to second place.

If there’s one thing that you never really want to do, it’s drive your car underneath a big rig. But that’s exactly what EMC and the Lotus F1 Team did, as they jumped a semi tractor trailer right over a moving F1 racer. BTS footage here.

The Top Gear Festival in Australia didn’t just have a silly slow race, it also had the opposite. Red Bull drivers Mark Webber, Jamie Whincup and Casey Stoner pit their respective rides in an extremely unfair but also very fun “race.”

The Stig had fun at the Top Gear Festival’s Durban leg. He rode on a motorbike, somersaulted in a buggy and drifted in a Mustang. Then he went bungee jumping… in an F1 car. Which he stole. Alternate angle here.

Customers at a London gas station were treated to the world’s most intense car wash, thanks to McLaren Mercedes’ partner Mobil 1. It seemed like the cars weren’t rinsed properly, but we bet the man waiting in line made up for it.

Similar to what Red Bull did in 2012, Mercedes-Benz strapped cameras to its new F1 car to record an interactive video of Nico Rosberg driving around Silverstone Circuit. You can watch the video online or through a free iPad app.

BBC Sport explains how downforce and the aerodynamic design of Formula 1 cars not only help them tear through tracks but also make them capable of driving upside down. So… why aren’t F1 cars racing upside down yet again?

1 is a documentary about the golden age of Formula 1 racing – a time filled with excitement and glory, but also blood and flames. Narrated by Michael Fassbender and featuring interviews with F1 experts, officials and racers.

Take Google Street View, put it on an F1 car and make the cameras record not just pictures but video and what do you get? This awesome interactive joyride made for Red Bull Norway.

As Red Bull promised, here is footage of David Coulthard driving through the 1.5mi Lincoln Tunnel from the New Jersey side to New York and back in an F1 car. It sounded like gigantic mosquitoes.

F1 racer David Coulthard drove Red Bull’s RB7 Formula 1 race car through the streets of NYC, through the Lincoln Tunnel and into New Jersey in anticipation of 2013’s Grand Prix of America.

The Sauber F1 team cutoff an entire Formula One car lengthwise – guts and all – to give a detailed view of how its parts are arranged. It also reveals that F1 drivers cannot have ticklish butts.

Nico Rosberg of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One team explains the unusual sitting position of an F1 driver inside the race car’s cockpit and the challenges that arise because of it.

Nissan’s experimental Deltawing will run the 24 Hours of Le Mans using a small 1.6L turbo 4 with just 300hp. But with rocket-like aerodynamics and reduced mass, it’s still likely to be a speed demon.

Asif Kapadia’s award-winning documentary on legendary F1 driver Ayrton Senna. Includes a comprehensive amount of racing footage and interviews. Also available on DVD.

A 1:1 scale replica of the steering wheel used by Ferrari F1 drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa this 2011. Hand-built using carbon fiber and filled with moving buttons, paddles and switches.

Keep track of the F1 season as your favorite racers zip and move around the world with these unofficial Formula 1 Grand Prix posters by JP Tierney. Each A2 digital print is hand-signed and dated.

Race against the world’s best drivers in F1 2010, featuring all the teams, drivers and tracks of the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship. Also has career and multiplayer modes.

Got a million dollars lying around? If you’re one of the 25 lucky ones to pony up their dough to Lotus, you can have this F1-grade race car and participate in Lotus’ exclusive Exos private racing league.

Last year, Red Bull had a NASCAR racer take a pit stop at Times Square. This time Londoners were treated to an exciting morning when F1 driver Mark Webber made a pit stop in front of Big Ben.

Both analog and digital, Chopard’s Grand Prix de Monaco Historique Time Attack MF sports a racing wheel-inspired steel crown, a bezel tachometer and COSC certified movement.

Two of racing’s most famous icons go head to head: yesteryear’s King of Cool, Steve McQueen, races modern-day F1 champ Lewis Hamilton courtesy of Tag Heuer’s Monaco LS.