Why F1 Cars Use These Weird Springs
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Why do F1 cars have 4 wheels but use 8 springs to control them?
Well, F1 cars produce literal tonnes of downforce, and that enables them to stick in the corners - but it does give the car’s suspension a tough job.
Not only do they need to hold the 798kg of a Formula 1 car - but also the 1-2 TONNES of downforce on top of that. But on top of THAT, the suspension needs to keep the tyres as evenly loaded as possible so the car’s a bit easier to drive.
Rules were simplified in 2022 to outlaw all the fancy tools that F1 teams used to use in the suspension such as remote springs, remote hydraulics and one-way damping - which deserves another video entirely.
These tools were made famous by the ‘collapsing rear wings’ (in case you don’t know what I mean. The rear suspension on some cars last year would collapse mid-way down the straight to save on drag. It was genius) It was allowed in 2021, but is banned now.
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