Formula 1 is the highest level of professional auto racing sports where open-wheeled, single-seat cars participate. In this post, I will focus on some cool facts of formula 1 racing:
1. In order to make a formula one racing car, almost 80,000 parts are incorporated with 100% accuracy to make the whole. Here the accuracy is greatly important because if the cars were made with 99.99% accuracy, they would be on the race with almost 80% wrongly placed components.
2. Most advanced engine is used in formula 1 car to give them the power to acceleration from 0-160 km/h and decrease back to o km/h in just 4 seconds.
3. The formula 1 car engines typically have a life of only 2 hours of racing whereas a normal road car serves for decades. It’s because the f1 engines are absuloutly pushed to the limit during the race.
4. When the f1 drivers put breaks during the race, they experience unbelievable deceleration. These experiences could be compared with the clash of a normal road car with brick wall at a speed of 300 km/h.
5. The brake discs used in the formula one car are made of carbon fibre which has a higher melting point and much harder than steel.
6. Damon Hill, who was a British racer, has the record of winning a F1 championship without leading in a single lap.
7. Formula one car is not allowed to use automatic gearbox.
8. The engine of f1 car is composed of around 5000 components which lasts only for 2 hours during the race day and generate up to 750 boiler horse powers (bph).
9. Formula one cars use super soft tyres which last for 90-120 kilometers whereas normal road car tyres usually last for 60,000 to 1, 00,000 kilometers.
10. Portion of tyres which contacts with the surface of the track can reach up to a temperature of 900 to 1200 degree Celsius.
11. The tyres of a formula 1 car rotate at a speed of 50 times per second when the car is at maximum speed.
12. These cars usually race at a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour. An airplane’s take off is slower as compared with the speed of a formula 1 car. This has been possible due to the developed aerodynamic design of formula one car.
13. A formula 1 car is connected with more 1 kilometer of wires which are linked with hundred of sensors to monitor and control the car during the race.
14. During the race, f1 driver can lose approximately 2-3 litres of body fluids. That why drinking water and mineral salt pipes are installed with the f1 car’s cockpit.
15. During a formula 1 race, pit crews can change the car tyres and refuel the car in just 3 seconds.
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