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Seeing F1 cars race in thermal vision is so freaking cool

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Sometimes it’s easy to forget that racing F1 cars is pretty much insanity. The ridiculous speeds, the punishing G-forces and not to mention the beasts of a machine they call cars. But when you look at a F1 car under thermal vision, you’ll never forget how scary it is: they’re driving fire breathing monsters.

FLIR captured Red Bull Racing’s RB8 Formula 1 racing car with a a FLIR x6580sc infrared camera to show how literal the term “burning rubber” is and well, it’s pretty damn literal.


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