The fast cars of Formula One: do you fancy a fast car? How about a Ferrari like this?Kugler, R. Anthony
SLIDESHOW: The best slow cars to drive fast Driving a fast car in the right conditions is one of the best experiences you can have, but there are few places where you can enjoy the full potential of a modern sports car, so driving them is often frustrating. In fact, it's usually m....
The weight loss that adds speed to a Formula 1 car is built from a clear constraint: every surplus ounce adds fractions of a second in lap time. At work, we don’t see a direct tie between weight and speed, but it exists. Every extra minute in a meeting, every meeting...
“Every Formula 1 team is building new parts and improved versions of their cars every weekend. But if you are able to bring out a new part one race before your competitor, that’s one race that you are going to be in front of him,” he adds. At Alpine’s technical center ...
Its head is smalland functions in a similar way to how a wing reduces drag on a Formula 1 car. Their body is very slender, with minimal fat and a flattened rib cage. This shape is similar to the greyhound (the fastest dog there is). ...
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Formula 1®(F1) has long pioneered new technologies which have ‘trickled down’ into the car industry, but its latest ambitious goal is to lead in its sustainability efforts. Having previously moved the equivalent of two data centers around the world for each race in order to do everything...
“He’s done an exceptional job to get into a Formula 1 car in FP3 when all the drivers have had FP1, FP2,” said the Monegasque. “You don’t know the car, the track is one of the most challenging of the season and you get there, you do the...
Drivers will run aero rakes for a maximum of 10 laps – then the fast stuff begins Although it may not always look like it from the lap times, a driver is nearly always pushing in testing. Even when there's 50kgs of fuel in the car, the engine power's ...
Image via Formula1.com If it looks familiar to you, that’ll probably be because it doesn’t stray all that far from theconcept art and downscaled wind tunnel model F1 revealed a couple of years ago. The whole design is led by a will to reduce the turbulence generated by the cars, ...