Want to know what it feels like to drive a modern IndyCar? Well, too bad. Unless you’re one of the talented few, chances are you’ll never get to sample one. This video footage, then, may be as close as you will ever get to experiencing the rush first-hand.
Released on Facebook by the series organizers is footage captured by Graham Rahal‘s helmet visor-cam during qualifying for the Detroit Grand Prix at Belle Isle this past weekend.
Why Rahal, you ask? He’s not a champion or Indy 500 winner, and has only won a handful of IndyCar races altogether. But he dominated the practice sessions, took his first pole position in eight years, and won not one, but both the races in the double-header on Belle Isle last weekend – and did so at the highest average speed (over 100 mph) ever recorded in the race’s quarter-century of history.
It was a compelling performance, in short, and with the video below, you can just about climb into the cockpit of Rahal’s Dallara-Honda for a few of the fastest laps ever completed around the 2.3-mile street circuit. As Autocar points out, it’s the kind of camera angle Formula One would be smart to adopt in the future, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see its media-savvy new owners do just that.