Top 10 Cheeky F1 Innovations

There's nothing like adversity to increase your ingenuity Terral proves this several times, including in 1997 when they recycled old wings into mini wings in a desperate attempt to get more grip on high downforce tracks. They were ugly but effective even through random Rory, but not everyone fell. under the spell and an impeccable designer like Adrian Newey did not accept any of that because of its elegance and clarion, finally the FIA ​​considered them illegal for being unsafe after the 1998 season, when the efforts made by a team are taken into consideration, for Of course, it's disappointing, but we were one of the people that had a real advantage with these side spoilers.

I think, to be honest, it impaired vision from the driver's point of view in terms of what he could actually see and whether there is a Have you ever decided on the safety aspect? In late 2005, Renault developed a simple mechanical device installed at the front of the car consisting of a weight mounted on a spring, they called it a tuned mass damper and it improved the performance of the car. dampening tire rebound frequencies when cornering and therefore maintaining more consistent grip levels. Look at how much the Ferrari vibrates in the corner and here is the Renault completely leaving the track, as you can see the car itself would go almost flat as the suspension absorbed the rebound from the tires.

For 2006 and with FIA approval, the French team also installed the system in the rear of the car. Of course, other teams tried to copy it, but didn't get as much benefit from using increasing mass dampers, however, the FIA ​​stepped up. F1 engineers introduced them and banned them completely after the summer holidays. They hate on-board cameras, they add weight to cars and affect their aerodynamic efficiency because in 2014 Redbull hid the camera in the nose of the car instead of using the manometric camera mounts, but how can you actually look, since Can't you see, the change was far from perfect, the rules say that the mount must not be located inside the carbon structure itself, but one loophole in the use of the dream was that the camera was in fact inside the vanity panel non-structural, the trick didn't work.

But it didn't work and they had to go back to the traditional solution after five races. McLaren were the adventurers in 2010 when they pioneered this snorkel, dubbed f-duct, which channeled airflow and allowed their car to go up to 6 miles faster on straights. The system worked was rudimentary and clever, a mobile aerodynamic device would not have passed FIA regulations, but the driver found the rules, it was up to the driver to activate the device that covered a hole in the cockpit with his left. Soon many teams copied the idea but some went too far Ferrari opened Pandora's box when everyone saw Fernando Alonso driving with one hand at the Spanish Grand Prix when he operates his f duct with his left hand he changes the balance of the brake with his right hand how he is driving I don't think we are there we were the feet that but they should drive with the hand that is available but he doesn't have an available hand I don't know maybe the carry is too good for that I don't know, but I can drive it like this and now I would love to be one, no let's say it's very good to drive, nothing to say, it turned out that their system required the driver to cover a hole with their hand and Ferrari was not the only one and therefore the teams agreed to address the problems of safety and costs ahead of the 2011 season.

This journey through the cunning of Formula One couldn't overlook MacLaren's famous rear brake pedal; It was F1 photographer Darren Heath, who cleverly discovered MacLaren's trick having a hunch of what he might find, stuck his camera inside manufacturer Hawkins' retired car at the 1997 ROM Luxembourg Prix, revealing his hidden innovation, the The third pedal allowed the driver to control the car's rear braking independently and substantially improved performance by reducing understeer or wheel spin, stewards initially considered the system legal, but after complaints from Ferrari early in 1998, it was finally banned. We were fortunate to be the first of three teams using the system to find a performance advantage within the regulations and that is the only answer.

What a rival team has to do is try to find a way to ban him instead of facing the technical challenge. Ground effect made incredible speed and downforce possible by sucking cars into the ground. Adam's body skirts were one way to achieve this. so that the airflow would be trapped under the car and absorbed into the asphalt, the benefits of ground effect were so enormous that each attempt to ban it required greater effort on the part of the teams to find a way to avoid it, especially the one made by the genius Lotus designer, Colin. Chapman, who brought ground effect to Formula One in the first place, the effect that air has when it flows over the car and we've been trying to do the best we can to stop the flow under it, what we're really trying to do is do is promote airflow under the car in order to contour the bottom of the car so that it produces negative lift;

In other words, the air passing under the car helps keep it on the road, the risk of the cars taking off was high, so the skirts were banned for the 1981 season. The teams reacted quickly and Llosa's solution was the Lotus 88, a car with two chassis, the upper one was capable of adapting its height by taking advantage of the ground effect at high speeds but respecting the ground clearance rule when the car was stationary. While the lower chassis stood still and protected the driver against the ferocious forces of conventional ground-effect cars, teams quickly protested against it, arguing that while it shouldn't be illegal, everyone would have to implement one and the costs would be enormous, according to the governing body.

I listened and the Lotus 88 died despite all of Colin Chapman's efforts in court in 2009. Massive rule changes reduced downforce by 50 percent, so teams had to be more creative to get some back. of that and it was GP who took full advantage of this. a traditional diffuser and this is the one Braun used. The dual diffusers had a different central channel using its shape to create a two-story design. The controversial aspect was the hole in the rear that increased the speed of the airflow and consequently generated more downforce. The double diffuser was still legal and was a key part of the car that would win both 2009 championships before being banned in 1982.

Three British teams, Lotus Williams and Brabham, were unable to keep up with the turbo cars at the front, So they found an ingenious way to race their cars below the minimum weight limit, they did so by emptying their reserved water tanks, used primarily for brake cooler, before the race started and making sure they were filled back up. before scrutineers later inspected them, as a result Nelson Piquet won his home race. but both he and second-place finisher Kok Rosberg were disqualified and the tactic, although technically legal, was immediately banned. Two years later, it was Terrell who used an even more egregious trick: not only did they race low-weight cars by emptying their water tanks, but they refilled them before the end of the race with two additional gallons of water mixed with 140 pounds of lead shot When the stewards discovered this, the team was disqualified from the entire 1984 championship, first introduced in 1976.

Turrell's six-wheeled p34 immediately showed potential by taking its only grand prix victory from Sweden in and after poor results in 1977, Tyrell discontinued the Essex Wheeler, but the concept did not die, three other teams developed it. The March design never made it to a Grand Prix and the same thing happened to the Ferrari 312 T six, the idea then went into hibernation. Until 1982, when Williams tested another promising six-wheeler, it not only provided more grip but also extracted more ground effect potential with longer skirts that extended the body closer to the ground. Unfortunately for Williams, both ground effect and four-wheel drive were prohibited. the 1983 season and all those promising designs went straight to fate, the same fate would befall the short-lived Brabham bt 46, better known as the fan car created by genius designer Gordon Murray in 1978, won the only Grand Prix in which had run In Sweden, with Niki Lauda at the wheel, amateur was a new way to make the most of ground effect and Colin Chapman, of course, was not very happy.

Rivals were shocked and outraged at the same time, questioning its legality immediately after just one race political pressure killed the amateur. A car for good Smart and daring solutions have come and gone over the years, but they will always be part of Formula One's identity.