Cleo Abram | The Insane Process of Building a Formula 1 Car @CleoAbram | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 5 minutes ago.
Here’s how a Formula 1 car gets built, explained in less than 60 seconds:
The team starts by getting the regulations. They design and narrow down concepts using tons of computer simulations. They test hundreds of parts for weight, aerodynamics, and strength. They build a 60% scale model version of the car to test that in a wind tunnel! They manufacture patterns for carbon fiber, which is what most of the car is made of, then lay down carbon fiber cloth on those patterns, sometimes in 100 layers, then suck the air out and cook ‘em all together with resin, cut and measure metal and carbon fiber parts with huge programmable machines, paint the outside parts with special paint, fit it all together with some Pirelli tires, and take it to the track to test it. PHEW! Then throughout the season, they repeat the process over and over again with thousands of design changes.
On every F1 team, there are hundreds of people, spending millions of dollars, all working together to push these cars and technology to their limits. And we got to go see it...
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Here’s how a Formula 1 car gets built, explained in less than 60 seconds:
The team starts by getting the regulations. They design and narrow down concepts using tons of computer simulations. They test hundreds of parts for weight, aerodynamics, and strength. They build a 60% scale model version of the car to test that in a wind tunnel! They manufacture patterns for carbon fiber, which is what most of the car is made of, then lay down carbon fiber cloth on those patterns, sometimes in 100 layers, then suck the air out and cook ‘em all together with resin, cut and measure metal and carbon fiber parts with huge programmable machines, paint the outside parts with special paint, fit it all together with some Pirelli tires, and take it to the track to test it. PHEW! Then throughout the season, they repeat the process over and over again with thousands of design changes.
On every F1 team, there are hundreds of people, spending millions of dollars, all working together to push these cars and technology to their limits. And we got to go see it...
Subscribe to see our next episode "Formula 1 cars, explained"... with Max Verstappen!
#shorts #f1 #formula1 #bahraingp #redbull #tech #car #stem #animation #maxverstappen
