Team FNT – F1 Steering Wheels V10 and V8 Era

foreigner, as you can see, you have a collection of seven formula one

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wheels

and a GT3

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wheel of the seven F1 steering wheel, the first one from 2001 is from Aroska, Enrique Bernardi and Jose Verstappen drove me, this one is yours, foreign foreigner, and then the other six are from Toyota. from 2002 until 2008 for the one on the right side, as you can see, the design has changed over the years, obviously, if we compare the GT3, which is very heavy. You will notice that this steering wheel more than 20 years ago was already much smaller, much lighter and with many functions of all of them on the back of the steering wheel we find the same functions in the two lower pedals for the clutch. to open and close the clutch and the ECU software will take the maximum of the two so the driver can use whichever side they want depending on whether they are driving right or left when leaving the garage for example, and then you have the upper pedals therefore the upshift and for the downshift thanks to the second one which is the first from Toyota First year of racing 2002 and you see that there are already more buttons for the driver and there are also some switches directed directly to the traction control differential also traction control which takes into account tire wear, so the more you drive and the more grip the tire has, you can lower the traction control a little so that you don't need to cut as much, but here there is a new feature that It came this year that it's called a multifunctional teleswitch, so it's a rotary switch that allows you to access more than one function in the system so you can select whether you want to change, for example, a gear. shift setting you go to the shift position and with the plus and minus button you have a menu where you can select different modes, so this switch means that with one switch you can address 10 functions when with this one you can address in the only year after, what you can see on the steering wheel is always the same function, you have some screens.

I will explain why later you have some buttons here, it depends on the steering wheel, but you can have between 10 and 12 buttons and you have a rotary switch that can address different settings for the engine and other systems of the cars, so let's start with the lights with the LEDs here, the LEDs will have the first function is to indicate the speed of the engine to the driver so that it can always change at the same revolutions and this was very important for this engine at that time, but from time to time other LEDs are used for other indications , like the three here that are for the Marshall lights when, for example, there is a safety car on the track.

There are few buttons and the driver has to learn them because they need to use them and over the years we found almost the same function at least the basic one, some came later, but for the basic you will see the neutral one which is when you are in gear, if you want to disconnect the gear and go into neutral, press this. You have the pit limiter to regulate the speed of the car in the pit lane to avoid overspeeding for safety. You have maximum confirmation when the driver If you are called to come in the box then you can confirm and the engineer will sit with the data and know that even if there is a radio problem the driver understood it and of course he will come in , the radio, which is very important in F1, is used a lot.

Even from time to time you see the overtaking which was an impulse at that time the steering wheel was with the V10 engine and that was to increase the rev limiter to be able to overtake a car in front and then another that was drinking in some In the races , the driver does not always need to drink, but when he presses this button, a little water enters the pipe. The bite is a very interesting function which is a function to find the bite point of the clutch and this is very important to adjust the position of the clutch when the driver opens and releases it, this is particularly important for launching but also for the garbage exit or when turning on the foreign track.

Then, starting in 2005, at Toyota we decided to make the display a little simpler so that we no longer have the satellite screen like this and everything is grouped in the largest central screen and here you can see that in this case the button and rotary switch location; There is now a 12-position multi-function switch. still with the button to change settings internally and then the usual button here to change engine settings, traction control settings, differential and RPM as well as maximum rpm, maybe something with this we haven't discussed It is still the launch and wear function. It became very important at that time and the burn-in function was to remove any RPM limitations or draw control limitations to help the driver warm up the rear tires on the grid just before launch and then to launch the car.

You had to put the clutch pedal in first gear, put it in first gear, press launch and then you could put your foot down and the car's software would control a perfect sleep and a perfect engine speed. A foreign form of our collection is 2008 where you see. That marketing is playing a different role that year with the Toyota logo for the onboard camera and then you also see the location of the switch that was moved up to help the driver better see what is changing and also seen here with the colors that For each switch there is a type of multifunction assigned behind so that the driver can adjust here, for example, the launch LC is designed for the launch, you can also adjust the wear and then it has different functions in the launch where you can change internally each configuration.

This steering wheel is a little special because you can notice the CC which is intended for cruise control and this was a position that was not used in the race but was used during the test to perform a constant vehicle speed to test or confirm the data. from the Aero tunnel and that was the meaning so it was like a crossover function like you have in your car which meant again validating the wind tunnel data so thank you very much for watching this video and if you have any questions feel free to ask would be a pleasure to give you any answer until next time