2023-09-21 00:15:38
He Formula 1 World Championship It is the most important and richest motor category on the planet, being year after year one of the most watched sports in each of the various events that take place around the world.
Currently, Red Bull has dominated the season with 14 of the 15 dates that have been played, the last being in Singapore the first one Ferrari obtains throughout 2023, with the brilliant performance of Carlos Sainz on the Marina Bay street circuit.
The luxurious car of the Italian team won a close race at Lando Norris’s McLarenwho took second place and Mercedes of the multi-champion, Lewis Hamiltonwho closed the podium after his partner, George Russell He crashed his vehicle in the last corner of the 62 laps.
But have you asked yourself: How do you put together a vehicle that reaches more than 300 km/h? What components allowed the ‘Prancing Horse’ to win the GP on Asian soil?
In BioBioChile We will tell you how to build a single-seater car. Formula 1.
First, it must be understood that the process to build a vehicle that is suitable to compete at a higher level of demand in the ‘Great Circus’is exhausting, exhausting, multi-part and complex, but the result that is achieved allows the emotion that can be seen in each of the GPs that are held in the F1.
It should be noted that the cars that compete in this discipline are continually develop and are modified for each of the events, while those that are driven with roads and streets do not have such a level of variation.
It all starts with a series of meetings where the engine crew chiefs They come together to define what the general approach will be, the changes that will be made to the vehicle depending on the comments that the team’s drivers constantly make.
Some may take months or even a season, depending on the conditions. variations and modifications that is planned to be carried out.
Design and development
Subsequently, after clarifying concepts and ideas, we move on to the design and development stage where the CAD (computer aided design)to be able to bring to the graphics all the changes that the vehicle will have.
In this phase, complex drawings are produced in 3D of the new parts, which, at a peak, can number in the hundreds each day. Among the most complicated areas to work on are transmission, electronics, mechanical design and aerodynamics, as well as composite design.
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One of the sections on which the most emphasis is placed is aerodynamics, where designs are created that are tested in CFD (computational fluid dynamics) to decide which ones pass the wind tunnel tests.
Manufacturing
To understand this stage, it must be understood that more than 80% of the car is manufactured with carbon fiber, which allows it to provide lightness and the possibility of better modification to each of the parts that make up a car. Formula 1.
Here, the use of CAD to obtain data and be able to accurately cut the pieces and fragments that will be used.
Accompanied by this, the metals that will be used in the assembly of the car components are also manufactured in large quantities.
Parts test
It is estimated that a single-seater is built with around 14,500 pieceswhich must be inspected and taken to quality processes so that they can be part of one of the cars that sees action in the events of F1.
This is why the materials go through various types of tests such as x-ray or ultrasound to evaluate the bonding of the joints and the condition of the laminates, firmness checks, visual controls and thorough cleaning.
Furthermore, in this phase assemble each of the pieces designed and built into a vehicle section by section.
Also, crash tests required by the FIA those that must be passed before the vehicle is certified. These include front, rear, side impact and rollover tests, and are extremely destructive.
First start-up
Then comes one of the most anticipated moments for all those who have been part of the construction of the new Formula 1 car, the ‘First start-up’a situation where the entire design and project becomes reality.
This is the process where the subsets such as power unit, fuel system, hydraulic system, transmission and cooling system are fixed to the chassis and connected for testing.
It is here where the vehicle It is halfway there, since it only has the parts ready and tested, but the body is missing, which generally takes several weeks to install, since a large part of the parts are assembled, screwed and installed by hand in order to have a greater process verification.
Testing
Now, the time has come shakedown y testingan instance in which the car leaves the garage for the first time to make sure that everything has been screwed together and is working in perfect condition.
Teams usually call this as ‘Filming day’ where the car is tested on routes that reach 100 km. Limited strokes to check that the vehicle works well from the start, goes through the warm-up stage and continues with its ideal performance just like in an F1 event.
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As mentioned at the beginning of the note, the Formula 1 World Championship It is one of the richest motor events on the planet and the values of each of the 20 vehicles currently competing reach, on average, a value between 135 and 102 million dollars, something like between 90 and 120 million Chilean pesos.
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