F1 Grand Prix Teams and Constructors
Wings designed to stay on the ground
Wings would in most cases be associated with flight, but in the case of those seen on racing cars, the opposite is intended to be the effect. For many years the effect of aerodynamics on car bodywork has been experimented with, the aim being to reduce the drag factor. As the years rolled by, and cars became faster, the question of aerodynamics became more and more important.New Red Bull Racing 1 race game simulator
Racing simulation cockpit
Playseats has signed a licensing agreement with Red Bull Racing. The Austrian firm will be using and promoting the Playseat RBR 1 game seat, designed and developed by Playseats, to take motorsport and the Red Bull Racing brand a step closer to the consumer.
The new Playseat Formula takes virtual racing to a completely new level. The interaction with the racing game is unrivalled. The user feels every bump in the road surface. People will experience the race as if they are real racing drivers.
While the Playseat RBR 1 game seat will only be available, the interest in it has already reached unprecedented proportions.
Colin Chapman - The Innovator
Chapman challenged daily twenty new ideas. Ten of them could be put right aside, five were unachievable, three were very interesting, one was completely crazy, however the last one was brilliant. Can you think of anyone who comes up with a brilliant idea every day.Constructors abortions
The Grand Prix world has many faces. Alongside the blissful moments of the winners, it knows also moments of failures and losses. Constructors always tryied to build a car that would win through the championship. Although some of them missed the technical sense, a spirit of organizers or even both, still they tried hard with the passion of a gamster. Creating thus a colorouring of Formula 1 racing scene, that did not consist solely of successes, but of the ridiculous constructors abortions, too.Small teams from fifties
The company of Geoffrey Taylor built sports and racing cars in the 30s. Formula 2 car was also undistinguished, its engine gave to 150hp and was used by the HWM team.The man who had vowed to beat Ferrari
Vanderwell had originally been part of the BRM trust, but left in frustration of that team in its early days. Instead, he persuaded Enzo Ferrari to sell him a series of Formula 1 cars that were then modified and races as Thinwall Specials.Two teams, one name
The small italian team Automobili Turismo e Sport was set up by a group of Ferrari defectors late in 1961, headed by designer Carlo Chiti and team manager Romolo Tavoni.Not only kit cars
Peter Connew displayed outstanding optimism in undertaking this project, for when the age of one-off specials in Grand Prix racing had passed this Briton built a straightforward Cosworth engined kit car in a private garage with the help of friends, and there was even a Connew-Ford.Racing for Britain
The British Lord, Alexander Hesketh, brightened up the Formula 1 scene in the mid-1970s with his eccentric but successful team that was built around the talents of designer Harvey Postlethwaite and driver James Hunt. Hesketh himself projected the image an of an aristocratic dilettante and his team remains the only one to have included a grand piano as part of its race weekend cargo.Brazilian dream
Wilson Fittipaldi set up as a constructor to build an Formula 1 car to race in 1975, with backing from the Brazilian national sugar marketing board Copersucar, after which the car was named. It turned out to be a Cosworth kit car on conventionals lines penned by designer Richard Divila, with notably sleek bodywork.Excellent weekend
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