Archive
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The F1 summer shutdown: 14 days, explained
For two weeks every August the wind tunnels stop spinning and the laptops stay shut, and the FIA checks its work.
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F1 pre-season testing, explained
Three days, one circuit, and lap times that mean almost nothing on their own; here's how to actually read a pre-season test.
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F1 suspension, explained: pushrods, torsion bars and ride height
It looks like plumbing hidden behind carbon fibre, but F1 suspension is the mechanical system holding the aerodynamic platform together, and in the ground-effect era it decides whether the floor works at all.
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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.
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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.
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DRS in F1, explained
The rear wing flap that decided a decade of overtakes, and the one-second rule that governed when a driver was allowed to open it.