Racecar Interior Walkthroughs.

Have you ever seen an in car camera shot of a Formula 1 car, IndyCar, or sportscar and wondered, what the heck do all those buttons do?  Well Oliver Gavin from the Pratt and Miller C7R team tries to answer some of those questions.

But wait you say, that's just the cockpit for the C7.R.  What about all those other really fancy steering wheels, like on the DW12 for example.  Glad you asked, because here's Alex Tagliani explaining the function of an IndyCar steering wheel.

But if you want to talk about the series that has really embraced button overload, you need to talk about Formula 1.  Each team builds their own wheels, and as the video below shows, even builds slightly different wheels for different drivers (or at least Mercedes does). 

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Did you notice something interesting about all of these wheels?  Despite looking very different they all have very similar functionality.  Obviously the F1 wheels don't have controls for a weight jacker, and the C7R wheel doesn't have ERS functionality, but many of the features and functionality are similar.