If you think taming one of these wild beasts is hard try designing and building one
Creating and constructing a winning car is highly technical and a fiercely competitive process
The car is a constant state of evolution. It changes race to race
Sometimes even day to day and never races in the same configuration twice
What takes to the track today is usually the product of a design process started years earlier?
The first thing pointing us of course is
Understanding what the regulations actually say rather than what they intended to say because that's where loopholes can be found occasionally
Formula One is always on the cutting edge of material technology
It remains most closely associated with pioneering use of carbon composites with the correct manufacturing techniques
Carbon composites have the strength of steel or aluminium, but at a fraction of the weight with higher levels of rigidity
The strength of carbon composites allows drivers to walk away unscathed from high-speed
impacts down in part to the development of strong monocoque
Survival cell in which the driver sits and the car is built around
The manufacturing of the composite bodywork of the car and the structure is very important
And the dealing with user pattern we define the pattern using a big machine of the shape who would like to achieve
After that we move with this pattern the King to put some layer of carbon on top of it
After that use a vacuum to turn together to take a closer as possible of the shape removing the air
after that
We put the power in the Auto Club is as a pressure cooker to cure the regime
after that
We can use this part or the structure like the chassis or die or shape
And we need to create reference of the car in Formula One. Everything is made to measure
Quite a bit of work when you consider that one car is composed of around
12,000 individual parts
This is why takes 300 experts up to 50 months to draft and craft a machine before it's time for the shakedown
Shakedown
Testing a car for problems and bringing it to racing speed
Though there's a constant in season development cycle that puts new parts on the car
Almost every single day. The time for big ideas and concepts is in the offseason
We're in 68 years of Formula One history. Some of the concepts have walked a fine line between brilliant and bizarre
Take for example. Terrell's six wheeler from
1976 this car provided more straight-line speed without compromising performance in the corners
And then there was the Brabham's fan car with its rear mounted fan
Superficially present to provide engine cooling this also created a low pressure zone under the vehicle
Vastly increasing downforce believe it or not. Both these vehicles passed the required scrutineering
Process by which officials ensure the cars meet race regulation
Formula one cars have always been sophisticated high-tech rockets
but only in modern times has energy efficiency become a key design feature today's cars use half the fuel of their
1990 predecessors. How is that possible? Well aside from having eight years
They use the most modern lean internal combustion engine technologies
Not too dissimilar to regular road cars
These v6 engines have a fuel flow limit of a hundred kilos per hour the complex machines
Also use the latest turbo technology in conjunction with the ers for energy recovery system
the RS
System that reclaims and redeploys energy
The e RS has two motor generator units one is powered by the flow of the hot exhaust gases
The other uses braking energy from the rear wheels
storing that energy in a sophisticated battery pack for when the driver needs an extra kick of power feeding up to
160 horsepower back into the drivetrain