formula 1
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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.
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Hear This Year’s F1 Cars Roar Into Life
Video: 2016 is the year of louder, meaner Formula 1 cars. And it sounds like Mercedes’ W07 Hybrid might just be the meanest of them all.
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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…
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Daniel Ricciardo Still Disqualified From Melbourne Grand Prix After Failed Appeal
After six hours of deliberations before an appeals court, poor Red Bull team racer Daniel Ricciardo is still disqualified from the Melbourne Grand Prix after the court upheld the FIA’s decision following a breach of the fuel flow rules for the new F1 season.