F1 Drive Review - F1's Official Karting Experience 

Most of this video was shot on my phone, which could do with an upgrade, so apologies for the lower than usual quality, especially in low light conditions

screen: "yellow flag, no overtaking" Alex: 'casually overtakes and cuts off driver'

£85 for 30 minutes of indoor karting is insane.

the way you're holding the wheel is insane 🤣🤣

Feels like a cashgrab… very expensive and feels like some luxury brand stuff

Excellent video, not too long and well broken down. The experience will only get better as well, I’m sure

These indoor tracks seem to be popping up all over the place all with similar karts with a few variations. Very similar looking tracks in gravity places e,g, gravity max liverpool. They are decent, racing against the workers seems to be the best bet for a decent race. London tax is steep in this place!

I wish this was in the US, looks really fun. I'd love to do this for the experience. Also haven't gone karting in a long time too.

Looks like a cool experience, also nice overtake during yellows lol

mate i was in that race with u in the one with the aston martin hat 😆😆

if you want petrol (and faster) TeamSport at Docklands is probably a better option (interesting they have discounts at the moment). Although it’s nowhere near as glitzy. With the F1 experience I’m assuming they just group people together as they arrive? I’m in London in April (solo trip) wouldn’t mind testing this out. Maybe over time they’ll bring in another step up in performance for the karts. Phone cameras do slow footage down (frame rate, etc), but your lap times make it seem like they were fairly quick. If I’m being honest the ERS, DRS is too much of a gimmick, the fact you can see live data on the wheel is nice though. Maybe they could build in a live delta too.

2:17 that voice crack 😂

NOW THIS is fan service! Damn!

man this is so cool i can't wait to head over and give it a try!

Jody Mills! There's a flash from the ARL/AOR past!

I attended today 1st May, it’s excellent, drove on the super circuit. Organisation, kart quality, catering and everything was 100% spot on. Staff friendly, helpful and knowledgable. I loved the DRS and ERS function. All things considered I think it’s excellent value. Quickest lap was 45.093. Will definitely go back

wow, I’m impressed by the software and planning of the whole set up. It’s almost up there with a Disney attraction in terms of experience

they need to put a bunch of these across the world i would love a few in canada and USA karting is popular summmer activity here

I know an old super market near my house which is near Los Angeles. It's not being used and I seriously think it would work as a karting track

Thanks for this video. Curious about the sim rigs… You said it’s £15 for 30 minutes, do you get to pick which tracks you race on or is it randomly assigned? About how many different tracks do you get to race on in that time period? Are you racing against AI or other people on neighboring rigs? I’m trying to decide if I want to go to F1 Arcade as well as F1 Drive or if I can get the my sim experience at Drive before/after karting and kill two birds with one stone.

need this in canada

I can pay $40 for gas powered karts that go as fast as 50mph which I think is around 90-95kph and at a outdoor track

5:59 so just like F1 then lol

Now you can win something at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium! Unlike the players....ahem

I really wish there were more F1 World or F1 drive facilities here in the states, I’d rather like an F1 world because we have quite a lot of karting facilities but F1 Drive does seem unique and fun

Question: Can you keep the balaclava when you leave?

I had thought about this. Do you know if you are allowed to use your own suit and helmet?

Best of the week had a 1.5second gap on you. Must be the more advanced classes.

Is there something like this in new zealand? this looks so fun

Also the lights above when there is a yellow flag or a green flag

the fact the tyres aren't screaming really says something (that it's not competitive) sadly

85 is a lot wouldnt you say? Or is it such an experience its not too bad

Since you always interview the f1 developer every year, put a word in for triple screen compatibility, and fix VR Thanks mate

What's the weight limit for being allowed to drive? Just curious.

Anything can happen in F1 Drive and it usually does.

Is this only in England

Just wondering if you know but I imagine I can, would I be able to wear my own stuff like race suit, helmet, balaclava etc.

So it’s just an f1 branded teamsport with some small tweaks

As a spectator, though, how can we tell if DRS is activated without looking at the screens?. It's more obvious on F1 cars.

Horribly overpriced for such a short duration I would not ever pay that much for that.

Seems like fun! At least they put in a little more effort than the Willy Wonka experience 😂

I think the more casual fans would love this, but I think I’d rather get to a proper outdoor circuit

Do they give out trophies to the winners? I would be surprised if they did

bluetooth device ready to connect 👁️👄👁️

ERS is actually a good idea on an electric go kart, DRS is a waste of time. And, seeing live delta data is cool.

I’m still 4th on best ever laptime 🥶🥶🥶

Such a waste of money. You could kart outdoors at Daytona for a longer race at that sort of price. Indoors you can do at TeamSport for like £40 for 45 mins

Do they really not make you wear gloves? Even for slow karts I've never seen that at any kind of track

So is this the NFL facility below the football pitch?

85 quid for 30 mins on an indoor track? Wow. I guess you are paying for the branding and experience. Personally I will give it a miss. I'm a local F1 and Spurs fan, I would say save your money and go 30 mins down the road to Rye House. This is the track Lewis Hamilton started his career. You will get a 45 min grand prix race with qualifying. Even better if you go on some weekday evenings you can get it for around £50. Better price, better track and faster karts.

The karts have f1 car audio 😂

The wheel buttons are way too high up. Who tf thought that was a good idea lol

Finally, a game Alex Gilon can't cheat at :D

Karts looked on the slow side?

Do they really allow the use of go pro?

You seemed to neglect to mention the terrible shaking while driving ?

"Free Balaclava"... Uhm I think it's included in price. If they dont then all the helmets would need to be washed every day. This way they can go weeks between washes.

Can you use your own suit and helmet and that?

The Go-Karts look proper slow. WTF 🤣🤣

That's me p1

Bring it to the Netherlands 😊

I wish I wasn’t on the other side of the world than this

Electric! U serious?!

85 quid for 30 min of driving, 15 min of racing is utterly insane, no? It's electric as well, so in theory cheaper than running on petrol?

£80 for a £15 race is ridiculous

Video starts a 4:02

You passed someone under yellow. This is why it’s so frustrating when you try to take us more seriously.

coys that f1 sponsorship could be very good for us

The karts look pretty slow?

Ugh why does it have be inside Tottenhams stadium, means I can never experience it 😂😂

Can't see mi face, balaclava Dem can't see mi face, balaclava Dem can't see mi face, balaclava One four and a nine dress up in a Parker

DRS without a rear wing? What a scam! 🤣

I wish this could come to other European countries too.

these speeds are equivalent to kids karts in the US.

My take is that F1 is really trying too hard to bring in new fans towards the sport by baby proofing almost everything. First the game seems to focus more on loads of bright colours and way too many unnecessary assists rather than actual realistic car handling, the new race weekends in real life with the dumb sprints and sprint quali (purely just to have more action) which is not necessarily a good thing. Literally ask the drivers themselves and the long time fans of the sport. I can guarantee the overwhelming majority would rather stick with only the classic FP1, 2 and 3, quali and race. The stupid new street circuits like Vegas and now Madrid is sort of self explanatory (especially with the pothole incidents). And now this karting experience. I mean i wish this would be a proper outdoor, unforgiving experience which requires a lot more skill, with more than 1 braking point, actual throttle control, less grip on the track etc (as Alex mentioned in the video). Also as crofty said in the video, the f1 drivers started with karts. Like i dont want new fans thinking that this type of karting (in the video) is what the drivers grew up with, possibly diminishing their idea of the difficulty it took for the drivers to work their way up (as these karts are very easy to drive). Anyway i hope that all makes some sort of sense, im not hating either. And thanks Alex for the video ❤

Go karting is not the same if it’s not petrol ⛽️

Bruh is a better experience to rent an KZ2 Shifter Kart and experiemce TRUE speed in a Outdoors Kart Track

£85 is stupidly overpriced for 30 minutes of karting

Karts look so slow, even for indoor karting😂😂

We don’t get anything this cool in the states 😢

They did a great job on this! America needs one!

rather go daytona & use dmax karts, tiny bit cheaper too

I mean the Balaklava isn't free you paid for it lol

So it's just karting but expensive af because branding

Why Spurs haven't won a trophy:

2:32 3:10

Larkhall Circuit in Scotland is a better go karting track and better value for money, the prices to use the sim rigs are a joke, this looks like it was all designed for the casual people first rather than people who are in to this stuff hardcore as anyone who's in to karting and sim racing know them prices are just not value for money, also them karts on track looked very slow.

Wearing a suit but no gloves 😂💀

ah yes "Yellow Flag no over taking" proceeds to ignore and over take.

Is this fine for people who don’t drive and know nothing about formaula 1? 😂 i want to gift this to someone who’d love it but I have to go with the person for the company

Sounds like the authentic F1 experience. Flashy, glamourous, a bit visually excessive, steeply priced and overall crap racing

30mins for £85… yeah nevermind 😂

2:05 They still put barriers around a show car? Why?

Hello everyone

So you complain that £15 is a lot for the sim rig but go ahead and pay £85 for karting😂

"Authentic replica" of George Russels race suit for 5000 pounds lol. Thats just naugty and greedy and borders on false advertising with two kinda opposite meaning words.

eletric cards.... just not the same... and hardly no breaking and a lot of on the throtthle... that seems boring... and they seem a bit... slow?

Way too expensive what the hell

Great video but they really made a whole place for f1 fans and proceeded to put one braking point on the entire track …smh

so expensive