Formula 1 Car is made up of round about 80,000 components, if it were assembled 99.90% correctly. It would still start the race with 80 things wrongs.
When an F1 Driver hits brakes on his car, he experience retardation OR deceleration comparable to a regular car driving through a BRICK wall at 300 KMPH.
Formula 1 Car can go from 0 to 160 KPH and back to 0 in again 4 seconds.
Formula 1 Car engines last only for about 2 hours of racing mostly before blowing up on the other hand we expect our engines to last us for a decent 20 years on an average and they quite faithfully do. That's the extent to which the engines are pushed to perform.
An average Formula 1 Car driver looses about 4 KGs of weight after just one race due to the prolonged exposure to high G force and temperature for little over an hour.
At 550 KG a Formula 1 Car is less than half the weight of a Mini.
Give you an idea of just how important aerodynamic design and added down force can be, small planes can take off at slower speeds than Formula 1 Cars travel on the track.
Without aerodynamic down force, high-performance racing cars have sufficient power to produce wheel spin and loss of control at 160 KPH. They usually race at over 300 KPH.
In a street course race like the Monaco grand pix, the down force provides enough suction to lift manhole covers. Before the race all of the manhole covers on the streets havr to be welded down to prevent rhis from happening.
This refuelers used in Formula 1 can supply 12 litres of fuel per second. This means it would take just 4 seconds to fill the tank of an average 50 liter family car. They use the same refueling rings used on us military helicopters today.
Formula 1 Car crews can refules and change tyres in around 3 seconds.
During the race the tyres lose weight. Each tyre loses about 0.5 KG in weight due to wear.
Normal tyres last 60,000-1,00,000 KM. Racing tyres are designed to last 90-120 KM.
A dry-weather Formula 1 tyre reaches peak operating performance (best grip) when tread temperature is between 900C and 1200C. Let me you know Water boils at 100C temperature, At top speed , Formula 1 tyres rotate 50 times a second.
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