F1 Fever Sweeps Through

So here are some fun facts I found out about the F1 while I was at the Singapore Changi Airport for the F1 promotion event. Check out

http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~rekharao/F1.pdf for the full low down!

Had so much fun, jumping around an acting silly and snapping pictures


Here's the dish

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

At 550kg a F1 car is less than half the weight of a Mini

An 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!



F1 cars have over a kilometer of cable linked to about 100 sensors and actuators which monitor and control many parts of the car.

An F1 car can go from 0 to 160 kph AND back to 0 in FOUR seconds!



TOP F1 pit crews can refuel and change tyres in around 3 seconds.

Race car tyres don't have air in them like normal car tyres. Most racing tyres have nitrogen in the tyres because nitrogen has a more consistent pressure compared to normal air. Air typically contains varying amounts of water vapor in it, which affects its expansion and contraction as a function of temperature, making the tyre pressure unpredictable.

During the race the tyres lose weight! Each tyre loses about 0.5kg in weight due to wear.

Normal tyres last 60 000 - 100 000 km. Racing tyres are designed to last 90 - 120 km (That's Khandala and back).

A dry-weather F1 tyre reaches peak operating performance (best grip) when tread temperature is between 900C and 1200C. (Water boils at > 100C) At top speed, F1 tyres rotate 50 times a second.