A birthday gift from last month, today we visited the Silverstone Interactive Museum. The museum is split into two floors: upstairs is mainly about the history of the track, its origins and its part in the Second World War. Downstairs focussed on the racing, with several cool F1 cars on site alongside various other racing cars and bikes, plus more technical exhibits and information about the evolution of safety etc....
At the end of the exhibition you are invited to view a computer simulation of the 'ultimate lap'. Rather than, as you might imagine' onboard footage from an F1 car of the complete lap this is actually a (pretty poor) computer simulation showing various things that have happened around the track at different times. So for instance we see Hill crashing into Schumacher at Priory and Mansell passing Piquet through Stowe... it was a cool idea, but the execution was vomit inducing and Rose and I both felt quite ill after watching it.
A pity, because up until then it had been a pretty good way to spend a couple of hours...
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