IT'S HERE!

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Thanks, i just had to do it one day. that is actually version 1.2, 1.1 was written right after Canada for my aunt and uncle to see what f1 was like while i was at the USGP...

[nojvnof1 0]

good stuff mate!!

[AutoRacer5 0]

thanks. I think that everyone should have a small guide to F1...It's quite interesting to say so myself.

[Shadow 0]

thanks. I think that everyone should have a small guide to F1.

Very true indeed. Espcially in the techinical area.

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Some terms of interest:

Aerodynamics The study of airflow over and around an object and thus an intrinsic part of Formula One™ car design.

Apex The middle point of the inside line around a corner at which drivers aim their cars.

Appeal Something that a team does on its drivers' behalf if it feels that they have been unfairly penalised by the race officials.

Ballast Weights fixed around the car to maximise its balance and bring it up to the minimum weight limit.

Bargeboard The piece of bodywork mounted vertically between the front wheels and the start of the sidepods to help smooth the airflow around the sides of the car.

Blistering This is what happens to a tyre, or part of a tyre, when it overheats. Excess heat can cause rubber to soften and break away in chunks from the body of the tyre.

Bodywork The carbon fibre sections fitted onto the monocoque before the cars leave the pits, such as the engine cover, the c##Kpit top and the nosecone.

Bottoming When a car's chassis hits the track surface as it runs through a sharp compression and reaches the bottom of its suspension travel.

Brake balance A switch in the c##Kpit to alter the split of the car's braking between the front and the rear according to a driver's wishes.

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Some more:Chassis The main part of a racing car to which the engine and suspension are attached.

Chicane A tight sequence of corners in alternate directions. Usually inserted into a circuit to slow the cars, often just before what had been a high-speed corner.

Clean air Air that isn't turbulent, and thus offers optimum aerodynamic conditions, as experienced by a car at the head of the field.

c##Kpit The section of the chassis in which the driver sits.

Downforce The aerodynamic force that is applied in a downwards direction as a car travels forwards. This is harnessed to improve a car's traction and thus its handling through corners.

Drag The aerodynamic resistance experienced as a car travels forwards.

Flat spot What happens when a tyre is worn through on one spot after a moment of extreme braking or in the course of a spin. This ruins its handling, often causing severe vibration, and forces a driver to pit for a replacement set of tyres.

G-force A physical force equivalent to one unit of gravity that is multiplied during rapid changes of direction or elevation.

Marbles Loose balls of track surface that have been pulled up at the corners by the grippiness of the cars' tyres. These can then catch out those drivers drifting off the racing line.

Monocoque The single-piece tub in which the c##Kpit is located, with the engine fixed behind it and the front suspension on either side at the front.

Oversteer When a car's rear end doesn't want to go around a corner and tries to overtake the front end as the driver turns in towards the apex. This often requires opposite-lock to correct, whereby the driver turns the front wheels into the skid.

Telemetry A system that beams data related to the engine and chassis to computers in the pit garage so that engineers can monitor that car's behaviour.

Traction The degree to which a car is able to transfer its power onto the track surface for forward progress.

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well done "Autoracer5"

SHAME all those rules will be NULL & VOID the coming year unless they can get 10 teams on the starting line.

then the rules will be :-

some teams have 3 cars - 2 of which can score points/podium positions, the other becomes a bloody mobile chicane making sure his other team mates win ????

SEEMS to me to be somewhat of a FARCE !!!!

BUT BERNIE did it (WHY only Bernie will ever know )

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great work AR5 but u said that trulli won because of M4 crashing but trulli still whould have won if M4 did not crash.

ans shadow lets not forget that drag is caused by down force. and down force is made because the wings make a low air pressure under them and high above (and this will push the car into the ground) by making the air under the wing travle a larger distance that that of the wind about the wing.

i think u guys know that but still for the people that did not know.

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One of the reasons it's "For dummies"