Smått & gott ur Formel 1-historien

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Smått & gott ur Formel 1-historien

Inläggav Ravajack 27 apr 2013, 23:06

-F1 drivers have prolonged exposure to high G forces and temperatures for little over an hour. This results in an average driver losing about 4kgs of weight after just one race.

-Numbers are assigned to all F1 drivers. The previous season's champion is given number 1, and his team-mate is designated number 2.

-Until 1953 helmets were optional for F1 drivers.

-Formula 1 cockpit's are installed with drinking water and mineral salts containers and are fitted with pipes for drivers to drink. Within a short while after the race start, the water can start boiling.

-Ferrari are the only team to have competed in every modern F1 season.

-Formula 1 cars have around 800bhp but only weigh 640kgs including the driver. That means they have similar power to a Bugatti Veyron in a car that has around half the weight of a new Mini.

-There hasn't been a number 13 F1 car since 1976 due to the belief it is an unlucky number.

-Formula 1 driver's are very superstitious and they perform certain rituals before every race. David Coulthard used to wear his old lucky underwear during a majority of his races. Fernando Alonso sings before every race as revealed by his mechanics. On the other hand, Michael Schumacher had a lucky pendant without which he never drove.

-Normal car tyres can last for 60,000 to 100,000km's. F1 tyres are designed to last 90 to 120km.

-A driver's steering wheel isn't like the one in your average road car: it costs around £20,000 [USD $30k] alone and has a multitude of buttons to control absolutely everything.

-Drivers change gears around 2800 times in a GP, at tight circuits like Monaco this can increase to as much as 4000 times.

-Kimi Raikkonen's favourite sports are hockey and car racing and according to him the reason he chose the latter over hockey is that he did not have to get up early in the morning. Kimi actually fell asleep at the grid during his first race for Sauber. He actually dreamt of something, but can't remember what it was.

-About 1 megabyte of data is sent from the car to the pits every second.

-On a street course like Monaco the cars down force creates enough suction to lift drain hole covers. Before the race manhole covers on the course are welded down to prevent this from happening. It's said that at upwards of 150mph, a Formula 1 car will create so much downforce that it could be driven upside down on the ceiling of a tunnel.

-Last year's Australian GP was the first to feature an Italian driver since 1973 in Germany.

-As a test driver in 2002, Fernando Alonso used to entertain his mechanics and engineers by performing card tricks and magic tricks. He also used to cook for them.

-When an F1 driver hits the brakes hard they experience deceleration forces comparable to driving a normal car through a brick wall, drivers have said that heavy braking has pushed their lungs against their rib cages forcing them to involuntarily breathe out.

-F1 helmets are among the toughest things in the world. Some of the tests they have to pass to be deemed legal to race in are being subjected to an 800 degrees Celsius flame for 45 seconds (without the heat inside the helmet exceeding 70 degrees Celsius) and a visor that has projectiles fired at it at around 300mph. If any of these make dents deeper than 2.5mm, the helmet fails.

-Mechanics refuel the cars at a rate of 12 litres of fuel per second, this means it would take just four seconds to fill a 50 litre tank in a large sedan car.

-During one of the racing incidents Coulthard out-braked Schumacher and the German crashed into him. After the race both had a huge fight and Schumacher went after Coulthard with a fire extinguisher.

-The cars hydraulic system operates at 3000 psi about the same pressure one would experience at a depth of about 2 kilometres.

-The front suspension of a Formula 1 car is so strong that it can withstand two tonnes of pressure. That means that those carbon fibre rods that connect the wheels to the main body could have an adult bull on top of them without breaking.

-On a street course like Monaco the cars down force creates enough suction to lift drain hole covers, before the race manhole covers on the course are welded down to prevent this from happening.

-At the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix, Christian Klien's Jaguar had a very expensive diamond embedded on its nose as the team were promoting the release of the Hollywood film 'Oceans Twelve'. Klien crashed his car and the diamond was never recovered.

-F1 are made of approximately 80,000 components, if they were assembled 99.9% correctly, they would still start a race with approximately 80 things wrong?

-When a driver has his foot to the floor and the engine is revving at 18,000rpm, the pistons will be travelling down the bore and back in three thousandths of a second.

-F1 engines have to be preheated before they can be started, they can't even turn over when they are cold due to extremely fine tolerances.

-When asked why Rubens Barrichello named his son Alonso, he said it was to piss of Michael Schumacher.

-Count to four... in that time a 2013 specification F1 machine can accelerate from 0 - 160km, then brake back to a complete standstill.

-When a car is driving in the wet, the tyres displace up to 250 litres of water per second - enough to fill a large bath.

-Jenson Button once admitted that he was scared to drive the streets of Manila when he visited the Philippines in 2002.

-The chassis is incredibly strong, being made from over a thousand different parts of Kevlar, carbon fibre, metal and various honeycomb structures.

-The safety of modern F1 cars means drivers can withstand huge crash impacts. The biggest crash impact on record was suffered by David Purley at the British Grand Prix in 1977, where he had an impact that was estimated as 197.8g – meaning his car went from 108mph to a standstill in two seconds. He recovered and went on to race again.

-Formula 1 drivers are subjected to forces of up to 5G when racing - meaning that in a very high-speed corner, their body will experience pressure five times greater than their body weight. Compare this to a jet fighter which experiences 5G's in a dogfight for about 1.5 seconds. A Formula One driver experiences over 5G's for about an hour in a race.

-Monza in Italy is renowned as the hardest track on brakes. When drivers brake for the first corner they go from 200mph down to 60mph in just over two seconds.

-Under extreme braking, some drivers have said that this force is so great that their tear ducts squirt water into their visors.

-Formula 1 brake discs are made from a special, indestructible form of carbon fibre. A set costs several thousand pounds and takes a month to make, but the most impressive thing about them is that when a driver stamps on the brakes the discs heat up to around 1,200 degrees Celsius - typically the average temperature of molten lava.

-Even after a race has been completed, a car's tyres will be about 120 degrees Celsius - hot enough to fry an egg.
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