Indy Gill

1 Explained · 7 Sep 2026 The F1 steering wheel, explained It costs more than a family car, carries no airbag, and a driver can win or lose a race with his thumbs alone. 2 Explained · 7 Sep 2026 Brake bias in F1: how drivers shift stopping power, explained A single dial on the steering wheel decides whether a driver trusts the front axle or the rear one, and getting it wrong costs a spin or a straight line into the gravel. 3 Explained · 7 Sep 2026 F1 brakes explained: the heat window and brake-by-wire *Carbon brakes only work in a narrow band of heat, and on the rear axle the pedal isn't talking to the discs at all, it's talking to a computer.* 4 Explained · 7 Sep 2026 Porpoising in F1, explained The 2022 ground-effect cars found a way to make downforce and discomfort arrive in the same violent rhythm, and it took a season of regulation to beat it out of them. 5 Explained · 7 Sep 2026 F1 ground effect, explained: the floor that steals the wing's job The fastest cars on the grid don't suck grip from their wings anymore, they suck it from the road itself, and that idea nearly killed the sport twice. 6 Explained · 7 Sep 2026 The F1 floor and diffuser, explained How a flat piece of carbon fibre under the car generates more downforce than the wings, and why a few millimetres of ride height decide whether it works or bites back. 7 Explained · 7 Sep 2026 The F1 rear wing, explained One flap decides whether a car is built for Monaco's hairpins or Monza's straights, and in 2026 that flap does more of the talking than ever. 8 Explained · 7 Sep 2026 The F1 front wing, explained: downforce, wake control and repairs It's the first thing the air meets and often the first thing to break, so here's what the front wing actually does and what a crew can touch without breaking parc fermé. 9 Explained · 7 Sep 2026 The F1 turbocharger, explained One turbo, two jobs: force air into a tiny engine and, until 2026, erase the lag that used to define turbo racing. 10 Explained · 7 Sep 2026 The F1 energy store (battery), explained It weighs about as much as a checked suitcase, sits inside the safest part of the car, and decides how hard a driver can lean on the electric boost lap after lap. 11 Explained · 7 Sep 2026 MGU-H in F1, explained (and why it's gone for 2026) It was the cleverest part of the modern F1 engine, and 2026 killed it, bringing back a problem the sport thought it had solved a decade ago. 12 Explained · 7 Sep 2026 The MGU-K in F1: what it is and how 2026 changed it The crankshaft-mounted motor that turns braking into boost, and why its 2026 power hike rewired how F1 cars slow down.