Formula One Open Day at SimDeck Simulators starts the 2009 Season
March 28th, 2009
The Formula One 2009 Season gets underway in hours and we’re celebrating with a Special Formual One Open House so visitors can also race on the Melbourne circuit. The cars are new, the rules have changed a season of drama is about to unfold, so here is your chance to get behind the wheel of an actual real open wheeler race car and take it out onto the virtual Melbourne track.
We are looking forward for all boy racers, mums with a burning ambition to lay some rubber, youngsters who one day dream of owning their own race car, and adults reliving some lost dreams to step up to the challenge and try a few laps on a virtual race circuit in a Formula race car. Your chance to celebrate being a Kiwi Champion on the first weekend of the 2009 Formula One season.
With speeds of over 300kph, split second timing, accurate driving lines and serious concentration we expect to see some nervous drivers taking the controls.
There is a small charge of $5 per driver which will give you at least 5 minutes or more in the car.
This experience is unique in NZ that has previously has not been readily available in NZ. The enormous 2.5m wide virtual reality screen puts you into a full life size virtual world where you feel every bump of the road and shudder of the engine as you race an actual race car.
NZ’s only current Formula One driver Brendan Hartely, will be NOT be driving in the Red Bull team after all the anticipation since his super licence never came thru in time, so we think it is only fitting that you will be driving the virtual version of the Red Bull car around Melbourne. Come and experience a high speed adrenalin rush in the life size and life like virtual SimDeck world.
North Shore City Mayor and now boy racer, Andrew Williams recently experienced the SimDeck Formula One world and had this to say. “I had the real pleasure of trying out the SimDeck Formula Race car simulator and I’ve got to say that the whole experience was something I could imagine you could very easily get hooked on!
The sheer exhilaration of feeling like you are actually driving a high performance vehicle at speeds of up to 300kph left me as a total convert to this concept which is truly exciting and immensely challenging to those among us who are Formula One followers.
A combination of life size virtual world images, real time dash gauges, vibration sensory feedback and enough sound to recreate the on-track atmosphere resulted in a blurring of reality and virtual reality for me and made the racing seem absolutely realistic”.
Many dream of sitting in an actual formula race and taking it for a race on a world famous circuit. Now the Open Day will allow them to take a real car into a virtual world during the Open Day on – Friday 6 and Saturday 7 February. and experience a high speed adrenalin rush in the life size and life like virtual SimDeck world.
OPEN DAY DETAILS
Location Unit 14, 6 Airborne Road, Albany, North Shore
Open Day Hours 9.30am – 4pm
Date Friday 6 and Saturday 7 February
Car parking – Please park out on the street and wander down to SimDeck. Lookout for the race driver on the balcony.
Cost – $5 for 5 -10 minutes on the Melbourne Circuit.
Further details contact:Kevin Andreassend
Managing Director
ICE AV Technology Ltd
SimDeck Formula Simulators div
P.O. Box 303013
North Harbour
Auckland 0631
New Zealand
