I drove the Mercedes F1 simulator (it was INCREDIBLE)

[@ForzaPolska06]

1:12 let's be honest Everyone thought that would be a different Bono Btw what a name to work for Mercedes I'll give you that Matt, nice one 😅

[@brrrogers]

It was a great little stunt :)

[@PiousMoltar]

I was waiting for him to say "Bono, my tyres are gone."

[@brrrogers]

@@PiousMoltar A missed opportunity! haha

[@2ez4RageNail]

@@PiousMoltar I think we can settle with the one at 3:52

[@ericbema8420]

Not everyone. I knew it was the eSports driver.

[@sjoerd7512]

Man, you missed a golden opportunity to say “Bono, my tires are gone!”

[@8thlvlMage]

Probably in the contract he's not allowed to say it lol!

[@FADHsquared]

It's not the correct Bono tho

[@memolano100]

😂

[@jackgenewtf]

I came looking for this comment.

[@sjoerd7512]

@@FADHsquared yeah obviously lol

[@scsutton1]

I was honoured to be with you guys on that day. Also, Matt, you well and truly beat my fastest time in the simulator. See you at Silverstone later this year!

[@robertshudson4482]

Hello what's the best way to get started with trade cos I've been making my personal research for a while now

[@scott4543]

I start with $2,500 at December 27 and I'm almost at $21k now! all thanks to Sonia

[@gracemary1084]

Wow that's awesome because I Started with $5,000 at the same time. Now at 52,000$.

[@patrickjami3685]

I started from the bottom... now I'm here!

[@patrickjami3685]

smashing it all 💥 €400 to €1030 🤟

[@HaraldBorst]

Matt: I'm taking this thing home Lewis: Bono, my simulator is gone

[@duckthisplanet662]

Nah remember lewis never ever uses the simulator.... 😂😂

[@Bert1986]

It's Vandoornes simulator atm ;)

[@justaguy9681]

@@duckthisplanet662 Really?

[@duckthisplanet662]

@@justaguy9681 lulu claims he dosent use the sim as part of his image campaign. But really he will be contractually obligated to drive the simulator.. which meams hes just lying for clout.. again.

[@justaguy9681]

@@duckthisplanet662 What kind of image is he trying to make tho

[@twistablefortuse2940]

That’s actually sick, imagine having one at home lmao

[@nlp8394]

But then you'll have no home 😂😂😂

[@twistablefortuse2940]

@@nlp8394all the money would be spent on that lol, no space too

[@cartertran270]

I have a $500 race sim setup and it’s very immersive especially since I got VR.

[@twistablefortuse2940]

@@cartertran270 idk how id do with VR, I feel like it would be less immersive for me, but I’ve never tried it.

[@nlp8394]

@@twistablefortuse2940 it's very immersive but the quality isn't amazing, the performance is bad and it's not comfortable at all (I tried it).

[@DaniMacYo]

You see I could tell just by watching on tv there is a ship tone more mechanical grip and downforce. I hate that the F1 game and other sims don’t fully replicate how much F1 stick to the road when they are at their optimum. They seem to be more slippy in the games or sims we own. I mean this is the real official Mercedes Sim and the car is glued. You can’t tell my that that’s not realistic if the official AMG F1 think that it is.

[@PozzaPizz]

I always had this impression in the F1 games. They feel like theyre a lot floatier

[@danczehajek9165]

Iracing is the best at this, the car just sticks

[@DaniMacYo]

@@danczehajek9165 That’s good.

[@DEjas131]

Just try the Mercedes in IRacing it feels completly different from the F1 Game and so much more grippier just like the real car seems to be

[@CJ2by4]

Yea its kind of disappointing huh

[@Rugras.]

1.3 seconds behind Nikita Mazepin's qualifying time. Good job Matt!

[@ChiZhangBrian]

Wow, and very nice of Mercedes to let you do this! “We are only allowed to film me and the tub”… ( cut to a 3rd camera angle showing the steering wheel ) lol

[@bourkey07]

Very very cool of Merc to let this happen. Matt looks like a little kid at Christmas... Except happier 😂 I'm not jealous at all........

[@jesse1086]

That's why the iracing tkae on an f1 car is the best we've gotten yet in the standard Sim world. In that thing it feels like you have infinite grip and downforce. It feels like it's impossible to spin... Until you spin. Great video too cool.

[@danesebruno]

What does this have to do with iRacing?

[@ishannage248]

@@danesebruno because its the closest normal people can get to driving an F1 car let alone the fact that it us the Mercedes W12. Im not sure why they didnt use iRacing instead of codemasters F1, especially since Matt drives on iRacing

[@TheSnaveeelPlaysGames]

The merc in iRacing is criminally underatted. Merc worked with iRacing to develop not just the car, but the tyre model. Merc bascially said "You may have our cars but lets sort your tyre model out first." It is the most realistic car on any consumer sim and feels "just like" the one Matt used. It was Paul diresta (I think) that said it felt the same as the Merc sim.

[@isaacbragg-gardiner2456]

Obviously no F1 cars, but is Iracing more realistic than Assetto Corsa?

[@ishannage248]

@@isaacbragg-gardiner2456 I would argue yes, due to the tire model that keeps being improved , and im sure after work with mercedes it will trickle down to all cars. The iRacing team in general is always inproving the game, and actual manufacturers go to them to develop cars for the sim. On top of that all laser scanned tracks, good weather and track evolution and great wheel to wheel racing with the best part being the ranking system. People will argue AC but i think it has different strengths but overall is not as good.

[@bradb367]

“It just goes in doesn’t it?” This won’t age well lmao

[@savagespud8038]

Waiting for this comment 😂

[@emmata98]

@@savagespud8038 but probably it was the W12 physics/settings and a setup the drove there. Anything about the W13 would be to revealing

[@nichonr95]

Would have been worse if it was trl limitless saying it...

[@Hammertime4404]

Matt looked really quick but Lewis’s fastest lap in qualifying in 2021 was a 1:26.0 so over 4 seconds faster! Crazy

[@benjaminingenito530]

Really though 4 seconds slower than an F1 driver as a normal person is pretty impressive, granted he didn't have motion on so that could help a little bit

[@joshsmith7521]

Probably why he gets paid 50 million a year or more

[@blackwhattack]

We don't know if he had party mode enabled, whether he was opening DRS, how much fuel he got and what tires he was on. This is a great lap.

[@kerembengu9945]

When Matt said Bono I instantly thought of Lewis’ tires

[@joee_9465]

Get in there Lewis

[@adammc7170]

Mercedes Tour Guide menancingly in the reflection at 4:12....

[@beaumotion6692]

Pretty awesome you can see the tire flex on the wheels. Would kill for a physically accurate F1 sim on PC. iRacing and AC are pretty solid but this must be another level.

[@tobiaspascher9884]

Well Iracing with the Mercedes F1 car and a proper sim rig gets you really close to that

[@beaumotion6692]

@@tobiaspascher9884 true that, it's pretty great

[@rainyprac]

iracing and AC both model tires like that. EDIT: apparently AC is still empirical i think. Super impressive model, many people prefer it to iracing. Not sure if they actually render it but they def model it. And iracing and AC are both top tier sims. People don't realize that the flex of the side wall is what pulls your car through turns. Everything your car does is based on the flex of the rubber. 95% of a racing sim is the tire model. even if every other part of the sim is perfect, it's only as good as the tire model because every relevant force on your car goes through the tires at some point. So i'd say if there's one thing Iracing and AC compete against merecedes with, it's probably the tire model. At the end of the day, it's physics, AC and iracing devs are more than capable. Where they can't compete is data. Mercedes has decades of real world data that no one on else has. Every lap driven in the real car is going straight into this sim almost in real time. It's as accurate as it gets.

[@tobiaspascher9884]

@@rainyprac exactly.Just recently watched a good video on race car engineering and setups here on KZbin

[@viiiscount]

@@rainyprac Only AC and ACC still use an empirical tyre model (they use calculations not a tyre simulation). All the other sims (PC2, AMS + AMS2, iRacing, rFactor, etc) all use a physical tyre model that properly renders things such as tyre flex and grip. Mercedes are almost 100% likely using rFactor Pro just like literally every other motorsport team ever. The problem is that rFpro based on the outdated ISI 2 engine, not ISI 2.5 like rFactor 2. Thus, it is automatically worse then rFactor 2 or iRacing without some major work. Saying that iRacing cant get close is disingenuous as they work with teams/series such as Mercedes or Indycar, and their tyre/physics model is arguably best in class.

[@Drrolfski]

I'm wondering if Bono and the other Mercedes esports guys talked to you about their experience in the simulator. How much are their lap times off vs Mercedes test drivers like Stoffel and Nyck and how do they all compare vs Lewis on the real track?

[@Tophymaster]

Plot twist: This is actually Christian Horner diguissed as Matt Gallagher. He really want to get his tour at Mercedes.

[@GabrielBoulos]

Matt deserves everything good in life. He is such a positive person and the pure joy he gets for even discussing F1 let alone driving an actual simulator is priceless.

[@JoshuaC923]

Agreed, love to see him so happy

[@markkoolio1320]

Just gotta be so proud and happy for them. Lots of work and passion for what you love, and i bet these guys are living their dream.

[@akki4750]

Congrats dude...thats so cool !

[@_AndrewYee]

For a moment I was thinking that Bono looks different to what I was expecting. But then of course realised its not Peter Bonnington - but Bono the eSport driver

[@estebansancho8098]

great content man. This was great. It's a shame they didn't activate motion but I'm sure it was a blast.

[@alexpez1]

I drove the Mercedes F1 Simulator a few years ago (cheers James Allen!). The biggest shock to me when I drove it was the force needed to press the brake pedal to slow the thing down - T1 at Barcelona out of the pits, straight into the gravel. Did you get to compare your telemetry against a real driver?

[@DaniMacYo]

Other F1 teams watching this: Write that down, write that down!

[@Hakuu_A19]

This looks like such an unreal experience 😭

[@amandawaite2011]

Hats off to you. Credit where credit is due. You made that look easy. Only 2.2secs off Hammy's time after a quick go. That was seriously good if you ask me. I bet ex HASS driver Mazipan (bad joke I know but he was so slow to react as a driver) couldn't even beat your time. My brother who is a really good online driver. He has been playing online racings sims and games for a couple of decades. He went to meet Jenson Button for an organised day out and got the chance to drive the simulator. He thought he would have no problems but couldn't do a lap without a spin. He said only Jenson could out of the whole group there that day. Pat on the back my friend. Very proper driving indeed old chap!

[@yt_Ajay_]

How have these guys not hit 1M yet?? This channel has been on fire the past few weeks!

[@tanws8]

When was this video recorded? Nice to see how far Matt has come from a KZbin content maker, WTF1, drove a Renault F1 car, F1 eSports, and now this !

[@thetrailerfactory5359]

Incredible! :D Mercedes’ are the best, so cool you got to do this!

[@captaino16]

Curious if you had the same engine/ERS mapping and tire compound as the real drivers would have during qualifying. Great work, well done!

[@Vortex_Gam1ng66]

How are you guys not at 1 million subs, cant wait for it to happen for you guys

[@Tj930]

Well done, Matt. Great little video! Looking forward to the new season.

[@chasepelletier623]

All those hours practicing in grand prix rock and racing paying off

[@EddyVerbruggen]

Imagine the time and grip if you would’ve been on the reds!

[@StacyODell]

I'm jealous, and also glad that you didn't have to service any stewards en route to your final lap time

[@TheIkirai]

I really was expecting them to show it was actually Toto's reflection at 4:05

[@bunnywaffle3320]

his face while driving the simulator just made my heart warm

[@nutellabrah6718]

I am over here raging with jelousy. You absolute madman

[@Jeffthengineer]

Ur content is actually curing my depression for a hot hour

[@ImNotHereEither]

Wow. Could you sense where that 3 to 3.5 seconds of lap time could be gained to get a truly, pro level lap? Was that time slower due to a lack of physical feedback from the rig? Not spinning was very impressive and I’m curious how close to normal set up that was? You talked about grip a lot, what was the power delivery like? How careful did you have to be with throttle inputs?

[@1pjodan]

How had was the brake pedal to press?

[@vitruviuszhang]

His line was fine but not that precise, which is the main reason that he loses 3.5 seconds. Also need to consider throttle & brake mistakes accumulate the time lost. The sim is actually available on iRacing btw.

[@John-ok8ts]

My guess is that he had a whack load of fuel and a race setup. Matt is a pretty fast driver in iracing. I would be shocked if he couldn't get within a second. Although maybe his weed normal guy legs couldn't push the brake hard enough.

[@MC-rd2dz]

@@John-ok8ts damn I also want to have weed legs

[@gaikokuhito5574]

@@vitruviuszhang He was also early on the brakes and didn`t trust the grip levels as he didn`t throw the car into the corner allowing the tires and grip levels work at their optimal levels. Thus he was scrubbing time off his lap. Given more time and some more coaching I am sure he would have improved him lap times more. It is really hard to understand how late you brake and turn/rotate the car into a corner then squeeze the throttle back on early to generate more grip and speed coming out of the corners.

[@BreadPitt7]

I remember watching Bono Huis in 2010. Crazy that he’s still around!

[@harrystevens9861]

I can confirm that Matt would have qualified P20 and was slower then Mazepin

[@mrbig1022]

Then what

[@Zender-]

Nah mazepin haas a grid penalty for change of gearbox xD

[@CommentFrom]

I'm so shocked. Not. Considering this was his first go at a proper f1 full simulation that's pretty good.

[@unthenner5519]

@@mrbig1022 That's what I'm wondering too.

[@unthenner5519]

than*

[@cameron5802]

It almost looks like there are deformations in the tires as they experience their sidewall flexing and squishing. I imagine that the simulation physics around just the tires alone are on a whole other level.

[@norabiddogz8673]

Matt, you actually have a very smooth driving style. Very very good. If you could do this for a few more days I think you could get quite close to Lewis's time.

[@d3Rm0Nk]

1:30.310 makes Matt faster than everyone but Perez, Hamilton and Gasly last season if we're going by race laps and just 1.259 seconds off Mazepin in Qualy That's actually noy bad

[@freddiegriggs2277]

Proud moment for the whole channel.

[@moneill95]

My favorite part is that actual F1 teams will be reviewing this video in great detail to see what they could find.

[@matteosodero4683]

My sim is playing assetto corsa or the f1 game with a ps4 controller 😶

[@theonlyegg]

Congrats, Matt! That's so awesome.

[@mawile3037]

NICE! target met and exceeded, super cool!

[@bpcXD]

Remember when Matt said “hopefully my name will be thare some day” in his review of the f1 2019 game when he was looking at the E-Sports tab, well my friend, your one step closer

[@nitram.9621]

The fact that you seemingly dont give a thought to the f1 car right next to you in the intro amazes me

[@8thlvlMage]

I'm sure he finished freaking out off camera!

[@hlopez5279]

Living the dream Matt. I am truly happy for you!

[@leumas75]

I have rarely been more jealous of someone in my entire life. You are the man. The Mighty Matty Man.

[@treyhatcher4422]

CONGRATULATIONS

[@tonygray8909]

I was wondering why no content was coming out. Matt was too busy playing with Mercedes’ video games 😂

[@Skafiskafnjak51]

That was actually good lap :D well done mate, what a experience ! Wonder what Jarno could do in a simulator ;D

[@MattO109]

Awesome video! Wish it was moving too for ur enjoyment but still amazing.

[@zaheerkader7426]

Well done matt.. you not the pollock we all thought you are .. awesome time at silverstone !

[@jcgaming2.033]

4:04 is that the real Bono on the simulator sign or toto or not even neither of them

[@adarshmakwana9562]

"Bono my tyres are gone "would have been sick

[@DavidRamos-ic5jt]

1:14 when he said "Bono!" I thought it was actually going to be Pete Bonnington

[@2w0lf12]

Thats so awesome they let you do that!

[@baktitamas]

i'm really happy and I'm reeeeeeeeeally jealous of you. I believe it was a "once-in-a-lifetime" experience.

[@jakkakasunset5485]

"IT'S RACE TIME"

[@FreshLemon5894]

Codemaster be like: Write that down, write that down!

[@ambientauras]

I’m just living vicariously through Matt rn

[@francoisbertrand7612]

Whoa! Is this THE "my tyres are gone" Bono?

[@davidferreira1957]

4:04 Oblivious Mercedes NPC standing in the reflection of that sign there

[@y0Fiqqy]

bono is such a laid back dude haha

[@delb8]

When he said Bono 😂😂 my head was like Bono my tires are gone

[@rens136]

Do you wanna know what’s also incredible? Your videos❤️

[@ScuderiaSDH]

Hats off to you Matt, you can actually pedal!

[@dakotarodgers9988]

Congrats on that Matt!

[@bengaliinplatforms1268]

Missed opportunity to go into the room shouting ‘Bono? Bono?’ like Alan Partridge at Blinkington Hall

[@alexrontogiannis565]

what just happened ... amazing mate ! so happy for y

[@seanwalsh5989]

Just to add some context to Matt's time Mazepins qualy time from Silverstone last year was pretty much a 1:29:00 so to be a little over a second slower than that was a good drive all things considered

[@jonathanhatton3412]

it is in a merc though, not sure what year but still a merc.

[@stefano7397]

@@Moody_Blues_ of course you have to be trained to drive an F1, but that's not so important.

[@GuidoHaverkort]

I can't believe you not once said: "Bono, my tyres are gone"

[@es14hellothere]

YOOOOOOO ggs dude!

[@Glegh]

'Bono my sim is dead'

[@akoniwashington7045]

Bono Huis the Rfactor driver from back int the day 😱

[@Sonnar92Gaming]

So the face of WTF1 has managed to get his butt into an F1 simulator... Colour me jealous, but well deserved

[@richboy900]

That's a gaming chair if ever there was one

[@alexlenas7954]

Marketing of Mercedes at point

[@darrellsmith5802]

Thanks bro that was great.

[@frankg2003]

Great job you’re actually very good!

[@Blistorsmth]

The fact his name is Bono is amazing

[@Buckoroo]

In the sim you was only 1.3 seconds of Mazepin's time in actual qualifying haha

[@Naindurth]

5:35 That's what she said

[@F-Man]

Welp, that really validates the iRacing W12 in my book. That thing is utterly welded to the road, and so is this.

[@DJTNW.]

So this is what Matt got in exchange for his British Bias last year /s

[@Mamo878]

Matt did great!

[@Royahmar]

7:15 feels like an F1 driver..... Proceeds to spin. Mazespin it is then.

[@Basil_Kehoe]

If I was there I would be making so many Red Bull jokes just to take the piss out of everyone.

[@formuladrifty3209]

I may be a redbull fan but… damn.

[@8thlvlMage]

You don't have to be a Mercedes fan to appreciate how cool this is.

[@joee_9465]

so im not the only one

[@jacobrev6567]

Yeah more wtf1 vlog 😃🙌

[@ELSHADDAIGOSPELNET]

This man lives the dream life of every f1 fan

[@bobvido9875]

Wasnt the seat wet? All the tears from Lewis! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kak7440]

What a privilege Matt- you lucky thing!!!

[@lukekinsella6348]

That setup is class you would think that they would have the halo on the cars tho