Fwd: [nidokidos] F1 facts you may not know

[Venugopal Durairajan]

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Date: 2010/1/7
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F1 facts you may not know               à  An F1 car is made up of 80,000 components, if it were  assembled 99.9% correctly, it would still start the race  with 80 things wrong!   à  When an F1 driver hits the brakes on his car he experiences  retardation or deceleration comparable to a regular car  driving through a BRICK wall at 300kmph!!!   à  F1 car can go from 0 to 160 kph AND back to 0 in FOUR  seconds!!!!!!! à  F1 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 yrs on an average and they quite faithfully DO....that's the extent to which the engineers pushed it to perform.. à  An average F1 driver loses about 4kgs of weight after just  one race due to the prolonged exposure to high G forces and  temperatures for little over an hour (Yeah that's right!!!)   à  At 550kg a F1 car is less than half the weight of a  Mini.   à  To 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 F1 cars travel on the track.   à  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.   à  In a street course race like the Monaco grand prix, the down  force provides enough suction to lift manhole covers. Before  the race all of the manhole covers on the streets have to be welded down to  prevent this from happening!   à  The refuelers used in F1 can supply 12 liters 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 rigs used on US military helicopters today.   à  TOP F1 pit crews can refuel and change tyres in around 3  seconds. It took me 8 sec to read above point.   à  During the race the tyres lose weight! Each tyre loses about  0.5 kg in weight due to wear.   à   Normal tyres last 60 000 -  100 000 km. Racing tyres are designed to last 90 - 120 km.   à  A dry-weather F1 tyre reaches peak operating performance  (best grip) when tread temperature is between 900C and 1200C.(Water boils at 100C remember).  At top speed, F1 tyres  rotate 50 times a second.   --    Remember that when forwarding emails, please have the courtesy to respect the privacy and confidentiality of the sender by deleting all previous email trails and addresses before you proceed to forward the email to others. Thanks.

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