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Tech Draft: The Formula 1 weight problem and solution
Formula 1 in 2022, at the dawn of its new era of technical regulations, is grappling with a new problem, the ever increasing weight of the F1 cars. Tech Draft analyses. Throughout the history of Formula 1 those racing machines have inspired the masses based on a simple yet romantic set of aspects: the speed, the noise, the beauty, and the nimbleness. It evokes images such as that of the small, light, and nimble Lotus 49B in which Graham Hill won the 1968 World Drives Championship. What is the size of an F1 car? How has it changed over the years? At the start of my career in the earlier to mid-1990’s the F1 car was about 1800mm wide, 4500mm long and weighed 505kg including the driver and...
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