Thursday, August 23, 2007

Interesting Facts About A Formula 1 Car

If you have even a passing interest in Formula One cars you must take a look at this great list of interesting facts about F1 cars - click here.

Some tid-bits to whet your appetite :

- To give you an idea of just how important aerodynamic design and added downforce can be, small planes can take off at slower speeds than F1 cars travel on the track

- An F1 car is made up of 80,000 components, if it were assembled 99.9% correctly, it would still start the race with 80 things wrong!

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