![]() AdvertisementĪ lot of changes were made to F1 cars following Senna's death, including the mandatory wooden plank (skid block) which shows if a car is running too low to the ground (and thus breaking regulations).įor the first thirty years of Formula 1's history, the cars were mostly dumb mechanical beasts not much mattered beyond the driver, tyres, and power train. But I can tell you how they built that car-or more accurately, how they built and scrapped thousands of possible, prototype cars in their search for one championship-winning design. How will they fare? I don't know I'm a tech journalist, not a motorsports correspondent. ![]() And F1 legend Alain Prost is on board to advise drivers Nico Hülkenberg and Jolyon Palmer. Planning, design, and international collaboration and communications have been bolstered with a renewed partnership with Microsoft Cloud. The engineering teams have been reinforced with new recruits and the acquisition of state-of-the-art tooling and machines. They're back with a new chassis and a new, fully integrated Renault power unit. As I write this, I can hear this year's cars being tested around Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya a Mercedes car has just set the fastest lap time, and we're all silently wondering if they will dominate once again.Īfter a difficult 2016, things are looking up for Renault Sport Formula One Team in 2017. The only way to pole position is to try to find an edge that no one else has thought of yet and then to keep finding new edges when everyone inevitably catches up.Īs you've probably guessed, materials science, engineering, bleeding-edge software, and recently the cloud are a major part of F1 innovation-and indeed, those fair topics are where we lay our scene.įor this story I embedded with Renault Sport Formula One Team as they made their final preparations for the 2017 season. These teams-there are only about 10 of them, and most are based in England-have been challenging each other to make a new best-car-in-the-world every year for 60 years. An almost unending list of superlatives can be ladled onto F1 cars: they can accelerate from 0 to 190mph in about 10 seconds, fling around a corner at such speeds that the driver experiences g-force close to that of an Apollo astronaut during Earth re-entry, and then decelerate by 60mph in just 0.7 seconds thanks to strong brakes and massive downforce-the same downforce that stopped the car from spinning out around that corner.īut the bit that's really impressive is that these machines are designed and built from scratch every year. That's what makes F1 so competitive and why the rate of improvement is so rapid. Formula 1: A technical deep dive into building the world’s fastest carsįor over 60 years, Formula 1 teams have developed, tested, and built the fastest and most technologically impressive cars the world has ever seen.Football: A deep dive into the tech and data behind the best players in the world.Evolution can only take us so far: In sports, technology is the future.Christoffer Rudquist reader comments 74 with Sport Optimised
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