Why does F1 run so fast? Why do F1 cars run so fast?

What is the displacement of the fastest F1 car on the surface?

Actually, only!

The engine is a problem, the output of the racing engine is much more than that of the average car, and the reason for cutting the body and other aspects, what fixed wing, front nose wing, and his aerodynamic system is quite advanced.

Because it's expensive, it's fast. A unit costs hundreds of millions of dollars, you think it's a joke?

The engine and the engine are good, and after a race, this is left behind, and the other parts of the car are basically gone.

Each F1 car is hand-assembled and debugged by the world's best automotive engineers, which is the heart of the car, the engine and some electronic equipment, almost by the engineers themselves, including the tires that we think are the easiest industrial mass production, are all processed by professional companies, according to the different materials of each track, so F1 is the world's most expensive sport. The cost of a single Ferrari car is about 8 million 10 million US dollars, a tire is about 50,000 US dollars, each bicycle race uses about 12 14 tires, and the engine uses about 2 or 3 stops, which are adjusted every year according to the rules.

Specially made.

The chassis is low, compact and lightweight.

There is another aspect of performance that is too good!!

F1 teams (Ferrari, Mercedes, Red Bull, McLaren) spend nearly $400 million a year to develop the best cars for the season, including the cost of employees, mechanics, engineers and drivers, but not all team budgets are the same, allocated from (100 million- $100 million) each year. #f1#

Approximate cost estimate for a 2018 F1 car:

Power unit ($7.7 million to $10 million).

Carbon fiber body ($65-$1.2 million).

Front wing & nose cone ($300,000).

Rear wing & DRS ($80-$1.5 million).

Steering wheel ($70,000).

Fuel tank ($140,000).

Hydraulics ($200,000).

Gearbox ($600,000).

Cooling system ($220,000).

Transmission ($250,000).

Tires ($1714).

In fact, the speed is indeed decreasing.

If you look at the lap meter for each track, you'll see that the one that appears the most is:

Michael Schumacher x minutes and seconds Ferrari 2004.

And then there is. Juan Pablo Montoya x minutes and seconds Williams 2004.

In fact, the fastest car for almost a decade was in 2004. The only car that could compete with 2004 was in 2007, so you can see something like this

Lewis Hamilton x-minutes and seconds McLaren 2007.

Jimmy Raikkonen x minutes and seconds Ferrari 2007.

But nowhere near as terrible as F2004.

You may see that the difference in speed is only seconds, but you have to be clear about what the difference in lap time is in F1, and it is a very difficult gap to overcome.

It's true that the road is one foot high, for example, the 09 race car, in fact, is the slowest longitudinal comparison in ten years, but some teams use double-layer diffusers, in fact, there is a suspicion of using the ground effect, and there are also development kers, in short, the speed brought by the technical limitations of racing can be made up as much as possible.

But the limitations of the engine and the limitations of the aerodynamics, that's hard to compensate, so what we're seeing is that after '04, the speed of the car is actually decreasing. It's just that we're not racers, and we only see that second to one second is nothing in our daily lives, but in the eyes of the racers and team staff, it's been a long time.

Why are F1 cars of big teams so fast? Just look at the funding gap for the fleet and you'll understand.

V8, V10, is a different technology, F1's rapid speed is said to be 360 can also run high, and go to the fixed wind wing, it can fly without double downforce.

That's all answered, but add that last season, led by Brown GP, pioneered the development and use of the double-layer hair tail diffuser, which was unmatched in its speed, successfully exploited a loophole in the rules, and was the key to last season's Drivers' Championship.

It's not fast, it's theoretically fast, but in fact, each track is now more than 1s slower than before.

Upstairs, s, b, do you know what Bugatti else knows, his fast acceleration does not mean that he has superior comprehensive performance, go and see the results of the Nürburgring Nordschleife.

The aerodynamics package on the car is constantly being improved and refined, and all the teams are now working on aerodynamics, such as the BGP in '09, which was almost 1 second ahead of other teams by a lap because of its success in aerodynamic applications. Although engine speed is limited, F1 mechanics always try to increase speed in other ways. Aerodynamics are improving every year, so to a certain extent, they are effective in helping the car to speed up.

Of course, the speed of the car is still slower than in 04 and 05, after all, the limitation of the engine has a greater impact on the speed of the car than on the aerodynamics.

Upstairs is right, the annual system reform is nothing more than to reduce the distance between large and small convoys; However, for large teams, their technology is mature, especially the study of aerodynamics, so that the drag of F1 is minimized, in 2009, McLaren and BMW Sauber Racing teams adopted the "energy ** system", entering the corner to collect energy, out of the corner energy, the speed naturally rises to the fastest.

To put it simply, if there is no limit, F1 will be faster now

Aerodynamic components are constantly improving!

Is there a policy and a countermeasure?

There is no such thing as a speed limit every year, but some technical restrictions will be withdrawn, such as limiting the number of tire changes per race, limiting the number of refueling, limiting the number of engine changes per year, limiting the number of engine changes, lowering the engine specifications (simply put, the original V10 engine to the current V8), eliminating the traction control system, and so on.

But at the same time, major teams will change the pneumatic device of the body to reduce the body drag, reduce the weight of the body, and introduce advanced technology (such as crose) and other killer features to improve performance, which is normal to say speed fretting.

The road is one foot high, and the magic is one foot high.

High horsepower, low vehicle weight and aerodynamic design contribute to the high speed of the F1.

I love Ferrari.

It's a Ferrari F60

Compare with ordinary cars, revealing the four "speed magic weapons" of F1 cars

acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h can be achieved in seconds; The maximum speed of the engine can exceed 19,000 rpm; With just a little longer distance than a tennis court, it can reduce the speed from 300 kilometers per hour to 60 kilometers per hour ......And these jaw-dropping stats are just a test of Formula 1 racing.

Super engine.

Every car in Formula 1 has a super engine. At present, the FIA stipulates that the displacement of Formula 1 car engines is capped at 3000cc, so teams set the displacement of racing engines at 3000cc.

The engine of an Formula 1 car has about 900 moving parts and can rev at a top speed of 19,000 rpm, while the top speed of a normal car engine usually does not exceed 8,000 rpm. When the engine of an Formula 1 car is running at maximum speed, the spark plugs are ignited 150 times per second, the pistons reciprocate 300 times, and the acceleration is up to 8,500g. Today, the most powerful engine in F1 has exceeded 900 horsepower, which is about 10 times the power of a civilian 1600cc engine and 4 times that of a civilian 3000cc engine.

Its mass does not exceed 100kg, while the mass of a normal 1600cc engine exceeds 120kg.

The engine of an Formula 1 car is not only lightweight, but also compact in size, so it is hard to believe that the power of the car is the best for such a "thin body", and the small engine will undoubtedly be very beneficial to improve the aerodynamics of the whole car. Formula 1 engines generally use the V10 structure, with a 4-valve structure per cylinder, and this structure is also widely used in ordinary engines today. The F1 engine is a short-stroke engine, and the diameter of its pistons is larger than its stroke.

In addition, the engine of an Formula 1 car also uses many technologies and configurations that cannot be seen in ordinary engines, such as pneumatic valves, that is, compressor air instead of metal valve springs on ordinary engines. Because only such a design can ensure that the valve will not fall off at the ultra-high speed of the engine.

The Formula 1 engine has an astonishing horsepower and an equally impressive appetite, with a fuel consumption of around 70 litres per 100 kilometres, almost seven times that of a regular car, but its lifespan is very short, with only a few hours to race in one race.

Lightweight racing cars.

The ultra-high-speed performance of an Formula 1 car is not only determined by its power, but also by its lightweight construction. In 2004, F1 rules stipulated that the car must weigh 605kg, and this weight also includes the driver, fuel, cameras and the car's counterweight. According to this calculation, the weight of the F1 car itself is only about 500kg, while the weight of the average family car is almost always more than 1000kg.

With such a light body, driven by an engine with more than 900 horsepower, the result should be predictable.

"MotoGP is faster than F1" – MotoGP seems to have a slight advantage at the start of the straights, but F1 is still invincible in the corners. In terms of lap times, the gap between MotoGP and F1 is not a little bit, just look at the lap times of the annual race at the Circuit de Catalunya.

A large number of carbon fiber materials are used, and the whole car weighs only 1 ton plus the fuel tank driver" - according to the 2013 rules, the weight of the car after the F1 race, that is, the car + remaining fuel + the driver must not be less than 650kg (the previous standard was lower). Cars generally do not carry more than 150kg of fuel at each race. Therefore, even on the starting line, the maximum will not exceed 800kg, and there is still a lot of distance from 1 ton.

And you don't want a rider over 180cm, that would make the total weight bigger" - again. Choosing a driver who weighs a little more doesn't really make the car overweight. Because there is a minimum weight standard for racing cars (see the previous article).

In fact, the cars built by each team will not reach the upper lower weight limit at all, and there will generally be a margin of tens of kilograms. This weight is eventually compensated for by ballast, usually a lead block placed at the bottom of the chassis or nose cone. These ballast cabins are not only used to make up for the weight of the car, but also play a very important role in adjusting the center of gravity of the body.

For example, depending on the driver's driving habits, oversteer or understeer) to decide whether to move the center of gravity forward or backward. If it's really the driver who is heavier, the total weight of the car increases, then the big driver is too much of a loss!! Webb, Hulkenberg, Suthier, they can be laid off directly, you must know that for F1, a few kilograms of weight can reflect the difference in seconds in the lap time!

Of course, under all things being equal, the team will still try to hire underweight drivers. Because if the rider is too heavy, the ballast will be reduced, and the freedom of the counterweight will be reduced. At the same time, when the driver is heavier, the overall center of gravity of the car will also shift slightly upward, which is not conducive to the balance of the car.

But in general, the impact of a driver's height and weight on performance is not particularly significant, and even if there is an effect, it is not due to an increase in total weight.

Don't let the tail diffuser, all kinds of don't let it" - the FIA only limits the size of the tail diffuser, but the F1 definitely has a diffuser, and it's not small. The diffuser is still the most central component of current Formula 1 cars to generate downforce.