r/F1Technical Feb 03 '22

Historic F1/Analysis Why did the 80s cars have such a long back? Makes it look like a boat

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827 Upvotes

r/F1Technical May 08 '22

Historic F1/Analysis Overtakes in f1 by season-pretty likely repost

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1.1k Upvotes

r/F1Technical Jul 08 '21

Historic F1/Analysis HRT In 2012 couldn't change the brake balance while driving.

714 Upvotes

r/F1Technical Feb 19 '21

Historic F1/Analysis A close-up shot of the incredibly complex Williams FW15C active suspension system

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812 Upvotes

r/F1Technical Dec 24 '20

Historic F1/Analysis I see your Ferrari V10, I raise you this (BMW Museum)

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668 Upvotes

r/F1Technical Nov 19 '20

Historic F1/Analysis I have a Formula 1 brake disc from A Fernando Alonso era Renault car. Ive had it since I was a child and would love to know any information about it. Any feedback would be awesome

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346 Upvotes

r/F1Technical Dec 19 '20

Historic F1/Analysis Honda F1 V10 Engine

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621 Upvotes

r/F1Technical Jul 15 '22

Historic F1/Analysis Did Barrichello and Schumacher have different steering wheels/software in the steering wheel?

202 Upvotes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHD4_esvPiQ&t

In this vid the steering wheel changes i think mid season, but the thing is the RPM/shifting LEDs are very different on both Ferraris. Do you guys this this is straight up preference on the driver's side. And why don't we see that more often now?

r/F1Technical May 20 '21

Historic F1/Analysis Evolution of an F1 car

588 Upvotes

r/F1Technical Aug 02 '22

Historic F1/Analysis Strategy in the 1960s

195 Upvotes

How much of a factor was tyre degradation/ strategy in 60s f1 racing ? Where the drivers able to finish a race on one set of tyres? Were there specific circuits where you kind of had to change tyres for pace/safety (fe. The monza banking) reasons? Did they have acess to different compounds?

r/F1Technical Sep 19 '21

Historic F1/Analysis I'm trying to help my sister out. Can anyone date this McClaren jacket based on the sponsors? All we know so far is hugo boss ended sponsorship in 2014

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262 Upvotes

r/F1Technical Dec 27 '21

Historic F1/Analysis Brabham BT46B: Designed by Gordon Murray who found a loophole in the regulations and attached a massive fan to create a vacuum under the car and increase downforce. Driven by Niki Lauda at the '78 Swedish Grand Prix, it won the only race it ever competed in as it got withdrawn immediately after.

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486 Upvotes

r/F1Technical Mar 18 '21

Historic F1/Analysis It's #ThrowbackThursday this week we see some of the boldest airbox designs in #F1 history. Have you got a favourite?

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388 Upvotes

r/F1Technical Apr 19 '21

Historic F1/Analysis A study of Adrian Newey's first formula one car, the March 881. Now with audio because I'm a muppet. This video gives an interesting comparison to the McLaren MP4/4 that was dominating the 1988 season. As expected from Newey it was creative and fast.

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291 Upvotes

r/F1Technical Jul 22 '21

Historic F1/Analysis Was the Renault R25 that Fernando Alonso drove in Abu Dhabi last year the same one that Richard Hammond drove on Top Gear a few years ago?

174 Upvotes

Video links for reference

Alonso in Abu Dhabi: https://youtu.be/fpgv1iN9HR8

Richard Hammond: https://youtu.be/EGUZJVY-sHo

r/F1Technical Feb 07 '21

Historic F1/Analysis Hey everyone! I made a video analysing the performance of the Mass Damper used in the Renault R25. The mass dampers used in buildings were brought over to Formula 1 by Renault, giving them quite an advantage until it was banned. I hope you enjoy the video and forgive the amateur production quality!

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229 Upvotes

r/F1Technical Jul 30 '21

Historic F1/Analysis 2006 Hungarian GP, Schumacher tried to run worn wet tires as slicks to finish last 5 laps as the track dried.

138 Upvotes

It did not go well for him. He held his own for a while, but eventually was losing 3 seconds on everyone.
It made me wonder though, was there ever a time in F1 when tires were thick enough that you could pull this off? IE: run wets in the rain and wear them flat as it got dry and had decent lap times as slicks?

Link to the 2006 Hungarian GP in comments. It was a great race, one of the only ones there in the rain I can remember.

r/F1Technical Dec 23 '20

Historic F1/Analysis Ferrari V10 Engine (F1 2000-2005) displayed in Milan

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349 Upvotes

r/F1Technical Dec 26 '21

Historic F1/Analysis Why are grand slams less common than they used to be?

114 Upvotes

For anyone unaware, a grand slam is when a single driver takes pole position, leads every lap, sets the fastest lap, and wins the race.

This is the stats page I'm using: https://f1stats.fandom.com/wiki/Grand_Slam

626 Grand Prix out 1057 ever held took place before 1995 - about 59%.

Of the total 59 F1 grand slams, 42 occured before 1995 - roughly 71%. Jim Clark, who only entered 73 races, still holds the record with 8 grand slams. By contrast, Hamilton, who has been an incredibly dominant driver be any statistic over the 288 races he has contested, has 6. Ascari achieved the feat 5 times over his 33 entries, and Jackie Stewart 4, over 100 entries.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting the statistics but it seems like grand slams used to be more common than they are currently. That seems unintuitive in my mind just because put stops used to take a lot longer. It seems like it should be easier to lead every lap of a Grand Prix now than it has been previous. Is there some detail that I'm missing that explains this?

r/F1Technical Mar 10 '22

Historic F1/Analysis My first thought after seeing the new Mercedes .. Jordan 196 from 1996

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165 Upvotes

r/F1Technical Mar 07 '21

Historic F1/Analysis Did something happen around the 1983 season that made F1 less competitive?

99 Upvotes

Here's a chart I made which overlaps the number of races each season, with the number of individual winners:

https://public.tableau.com/profile/warren.davies#!/vizhome/F1_16129900975970/Winnersbyyearwithraces

As you can see they track each other very well, right up until around 1983 (maybe 1985, since they were close that year too).

After this the number of races keeps increasing, but the number of winners drops, and oscillates around 4 or 5 per year after that.

What might account for this? Was there some technical or regulations change that happened in the mid '80s perhaps?

Another way of looking at it, is you also see the 4 or 5 winners per year up until the mid 1960s, so maybe the period from '65 to '85 is the anomaly.

Any thoughts spring to mind? Or is this most likely just spurious/random noise in the data, nothing to see here?

r/F1Technical Dec 04 '20

Historic F1/Analysis Cutaway of the 1957 Maserati 250F car with the V12 engine

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169 Upvotes

r/F1Technical Apr 21 '22

Historic F1/Analysis F1 TV old races - limited archive

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I consider this technical - hopefully mods agree! It’s not about cars, it’s about historical media rights to full races.

Why is the F1 TV archive of races so patchy in terms of what races they have?

It can’t just be lost footage. Many races are missing, yet I’ve seen highlight clips of them elsewhere on the Internet.

And it appears around 2003 or so, all the races are there. Was there a change in media rights holders that would give F1 TV their full library?

For instance, 1996 has just Spain and Monaco. There has to be a reason, no? Did each country negotiate their own media licenses and those can’t carry over to F1 TV?

Sure, I’d love more races in the library but I’m actually more curious for the technical answer as to why there isn’t.

Thanks!

r/F1Technical Feb 02 '21

Historic F1/Analysis Remembering The McLaren MP4/4: F1’s Most Dominant Car

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r/F1Technical Jul 18 '22

Historic F1/Analysis Why did cars need more grip while starting off a formation lap (20006)

6 Upvotes

“They’ve pushed the car back a bit, turned off the traction control and laid down a line of rubber so that the cars get better grip right off the starting line. That’s why you see the cars are a little behind their grid lines.”

This is from a race in 2006, curious to know why would this be an issue with (slightly less) warm tyres starting off a formation lap?

I know I’m missing something here!

EDIT : Thanks everyone. One follow up, is this still relevant today?

If not, would somebody have a rough idea when teams started phasing this out?

Thanks again!