Formula One is the fastest show on the planet, and each year the best engineering minds work to improve car performance, safety, and speed. To see how far the cars have come since 1948 will surprise you.
Formula One has been responsible for numerous technology breakthroughs applied to average road cars, including ABS braking systems and disc brakes, carbon fibre parts, and automatic and clutchless shift systems.
Even as recently as 2014, Formula One has been tasked with reducing fuel consumption and a range of kinetic energy recovery systems have made their way into road cars.
This fantastic (if slightly wobbly) look at how far Formula One cars have come was shot at Silverstone, home of the British Formula One Grand Prix.
Careful viewers will spot a few missing cars. You’ll also hear the evolution of F1 engines – growing in size with more and more cylinders, before regulations designed to slow the races forced a gradual reduction in cylinders – V12s in the 1980s and into the 1990s, down to turbocharged V6s for the current season.
It’s generally acknowledged that the fastest year of F1 was 2004, where 10 of 19 tracks had fastest lap records set.
It reminds us of this great ad from Shell a couple of years ago, shot in partnership with Ferrari. One for the headphones – get set for shivers!
As has been written on The Roar many times, one of the major complaints about the new 2014 season of Formula One is that lack of roaring exhausts, with the V6 engines capped at a relatively low RPM, making for reduced volume of noise. And that’s one thing racegoers aren’t enjoying.
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