Jake Davis
Period 3
5/14/14
F1 Technology and Engineering Explained
In the sport of F1 there are many different feats of engineering to get the cars to go as fast as they do. Some of the technology and modern parts of an F1 car are, the suspension, energy recovery, tires and brakes, aerodynamics and gearboxes. These are just some of the components of an F1 car that will be explained in this paper.
While technology advancing there is still only four parts of an F1 car touching the ground and what keep those four tires touching the ground is the suspension. The types of suspension that you will see in F1 are pull-rod suspension, and push-rod suspension. The main differences the two types of suspension are that one pulls and one pushes as the reactionary force to the wheel moving up. Each one of these suspension types have advantages and disadvantages, some of the advantages of the pull-rod suspension is that it has a lower center of gravity. The pull-rod may have a lower center of gravity but it may get in the way of something else in the fuselage. So the F1 team would have to go for a push-rod suspension instead. So with a push-rod suspension there are many parts that must be high quality to with stand the amount of force the suspension receives. Some of the components of a push rod suspension are the push rod, a rocker arm, torsion bar, dampers, and anti-roll linkage. The push rod is made out of a carbon composite, which takes majority of the force, while the rocker arm and torsion bar are made of a high strength alloy. The torsion bar is only a small piece of alloy that must with stand immense forces of the car as it is the main source of sprung mass in the suspension. While the other components help the operation ...
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...parts, a fully dressed transmission weighs 43Kg. Some more parts of the F1 car is the body and rear and front wings, which will keep the car on the ground, they wings also can produce over a ton of down force. The aerodynamics of an F1 car may be the most important part, because they need to be adjusted for different tracks. If you have a fairly straight gradual turns you don’t need a very aggressive wing, but if you are on a lower speed track where it is tighter you will need a more aggressive wing to give you enough down force to keep the car to the track.
So as you can see F1 has achieved great feats of engineering and technology. The sport keeps evolving every year as technology gets more advanced. While all the rules and regulations keep the race competitive and challenging to driver and a great sport to watch. The sound of an F1 car is one to remember.
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