formula 1

  • Here’s What Happens When You Build A Home-Made F1 Car

    Building your own race car isn’t quite as simple as welding together a tube frame, bolting in an engine and hitting the racetrack. There’s a lot of work that goes into calculating spring rates and suspension travel, and that’s before you get complicated steering and gearbox linkages worked out. Oh, and tyre pressures.


  • What Goes Into Training A Formula One Driver?

    Any form of racing necessitates being fit, with great reaction times and enough muscle mass to handle the regular and sustained punishment that comes from throwing yourself around a race track. But when you’re a Formula 1 driver, pushing a 450kW-plus, sub-750kg purpose-built cornering machine around a track at speeds topping 300km/h, you have to…