à F1 car is
made up of 80,000 components, if it were assembled 99.9% correctly, it would
still start the race with 80 things wrong!
à When an F1
driver hits the brakes on his car he experiences retardation or deceleration
comparable to a regular car driving through a BRICK wall at 300kmph!!!
à F1
car can go from 0 to 160 kph AND back to 0 in FOUR seconds!!!!!!!
à F1
car engines last only for about 2 hours of racing mostly before blowing up on
the other hand we expect our engines to last us for a decent 20yrs on an average
and they quite faithfully DO....that's the extent to which the engines r pushed
to perform...
à An
average F1 driver looses about 4kgs of weight after just one race due to the
prolonged exposure to high G forces and temperatures for little over an hour
(Yeah that's right!!!)
à At 550kg a F1 car is less than
half the weight of a Mini.
à To
give you an idea of just how important aerodynamic design and added down force
can be, small planes can take off at slower speeds than F1 cars travel on the
track.
à Without aerodynamic down force,
high-performance racing cars have sufficient power to produce wheel spin and
loss of control at 160 kph. They usually race at over 300 kph.
à In a street course race like the
à The refuelers used in F1 can
supply 12 liters of fuel per second. This means it would take just 4 seconds to
fill the tank of an average 50 liter family car. They use the same refueling
rigs used on US military helicopters today.
à TOP F1 pit crews can refuel and
change tyres in around 3 seconds. It took me 8 sec to read above point
à During the race the tyres lose
weight! Each tyre loses about 0.5 kg in weight due to wear.
à
à A dry-weather F1 tyre reaches
peak operating performance (best grip) when tread temperature is between 900C
and 1200C.(Water boils boils at 100C remember) At top speed, F1 tyres rotate 50
times a second.
And that's not Magic.... Its only the
Power of Human Imagination...