[BevanWright]

We had a demonstration run of a 2 year old Formula 1 car, and a similar aged Indy car at a track in New Zealand a few years back.

As a non-technical comparison - the Formula 1 car looked shorter, smaller and certainly seemed to wind up, slow down quicker than the indy car.

The Indy car sounded a lot revvier from the stands than the F1, maybe it was just the tone of the noise.

The track that we were at is a tight twisty circuit - not really suited to either cars I guess, they couldnt get up to full speed at all - but it was fun to watch these cars - which we dont get down in New Zealand nowdays.

The F1 car had glowing Carbon brakes, which caused some excitement when one disc blew to bits, but the driver still kept going, and appeared to have fantastic brakes still. I picked a piece of the disc up later - funny looking material.

Both the cars were high revving beasts - sound nothing like all the other race cars at the meeting.

The Cobras are pretty lite, and powerful, and are massively overpowered compared to the average road car. I imagine these cars must be like the same performance jump again to drive, and must be a real buzz.