I am here at the F1 Authentics factory.
For those of you who don’t know,
they make these beautiful show cars that are behind me now.
Here we have the AMR 23. This is last year’s Aston Martin Challenger.
Beautiful car. Then over here we have the MCL60.
So once again, this is delivery from last season.
These cars are made to the exact same spec as the real F1 cars.
They just missing an engine and gearbox.
Behind me over here, I have a couple of simulators.
So as well as making the show cars,
they actually also turn them into racing sims.
These two are both
actually to be provided to the Aston Martin teams themselves.
And we’ve just been told that Sergio Perez has recently bought two
for each of his kids. So, dad,
step up your game. As well as the show cars and the sims,
they also sell a lot of race used car parts from the Formula 1 cars.
There’s loads of really interesting stuff in here.
Got a couple of race used wheel rims.
And what’s interesting to me
is you can really see the difference in the size of the cars.
This one is from 2019,
used in Lewis Hamilton’s car during the Canadian Grand Prix.
And this one is also Mercedes wheel rim from 2023.
And you can see how much bigger they’ve gotten.
And they’ve also got a bunch of headrest.
This one, as you can see,
belong to you. Lawn stroll used in a 2019.
Something interesting that I did not know.
As you can see here, inside the headrest,
there’s this foam,
and they have different densities depending on the air temperature.
Um, so this one here,
the pink foam, is a lot softer than this one.
And basically the hotter it is,
the more dense they need the foam to be,
because if you tried to use this at Silverstone,
where we know the weather is pretty miserable,
it would be rock solid,
and that would not be very comfortable for the drivers.
Now, this piece behind me is particularly exciting.
This belonged to Niki Lauda’s car,
his 1982 McLaren.
You can see where it’s been a bit bruised and battered
from racing with it here. Oh,
it’s a bit heavy. We have another wheel rim.
Um, as you can see,
this one is not in quite as good condition as the other ones.
It’s a little bit battered.
And that’s because it belongs to Valterri Bottas’s car
when he crashed in Melbourne in 2019
in Q3. Um,
so it’s looking a little bit worse for wear.
You can actually buy a lot of these car parts yourself,
cause they do repurpose them into some pretty fun items.
As you can see over here,
we have a McLaren brake disc turned into a clock.
Mercedes brake disc. This one turned into a very fashionable lamp.
I think this is actually my favourite.
We have a skateboard made From a Mercedes race used skid block.