TBF one learns the shifting sequences for any track pretty easily in sim racing. I judge how well I’m doing on a particular lap by whether I’m shifting later than usual.
I have more trouble imagining them doing braking accurately, as presumably they’d need to record that too, and it’s typically done from visual references. Also they’d need 3.2 km of straight runway to avoid them having to do actual turns — might’ve had to use salt flats or somesuch.
TBF one learns the shifting sequences for any track pretty easily in sim racing. I judge how well I’m doing on a particular lap by whether I’m shifting later than usual.
I have more trouble imagining them doing braking accurately, as presumably they’d need to record that too, and it’s typically done from visual references. Also they’d need 3.2 km of straight runway to avoid them having to do actual turns — might’ve had to use salt flats or somesuch.
P.S. That movie is also a great example of how a decent 70mm film is still a splendid source for ‘hd’ video and will probably be re-digitized decades from now into new ‘100k’ formats.