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VIDEO: Inside an F1 cockpit for a lap of Jerez

Williams has made very good use of one of its filming days to take fans inside the cockpit of its F1 car for a lap of Jerez.

The team has released a video showing the work a driver does on the steering wheel when leaving the garage and accelerating out of the pit lane on the first lap of a run. Using the Jerez circuit in Southern Spain, fans can ride onboard and see how a lap looks inside the cockpit (as well as hear a lot of wind noise).

Check out the video below, which features some very smooth driving from, well, we don't actually know yet...

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.