FORMULA 1

Daniel Quiroga Rosales

III SEC RED

INDEX

1.The beginning of the F1 (page 1)

2.The Machine features (page 2)

3.The cost of F1 (page 2)

4.The races (page 3)

5.The pilot (page 3)

6.Pilot Training (page 3)

7.Cardio (page 4)

8.Strenght (page 4)

9.The diet of a pilot (page 4)

10.2022 Race (page 5)

11.2021 Race (page 5)

12.The dangerous side of F1 (page 6)

13.Worst Crashes (page 7)

14.Conclusion (page 8)
 FORMULA 1

The formula 1 is a beautiful competition, its one of the most physically and mentally
demanding sports on the planet.

A lot of people will think that they are just cars going around a track. but its not only that, its
the adrenaline, the velocity, the great driving of the drivers, how they use their strategies,
crashes, fans who watch the races at dawn and at night, the battles and duels that make
people get up from their seats that and a lot of emotions.

And if someone wants to be a F1 driver, they have to know how difficult this sport is, it needs
a lot of resistance due to the enormous temperature inside the vehicle and being there
almost 2 hours, have a physical and mental capacity all the time because the decision have
to be quickly. The drivers lose at least 3 or 5kg per race

1. The beginning of the F1

In 1945 after the second world war there were only 4 races

In 1949 the Federation International of Automobile (FIA) made the first official competition
using the F1 rules, the italian teams like Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and Maserati dominated the
first years
The teams that participated the first years were:

Alfa Romeo Bugatti Ferrari Maserati Mercedes- Benz Harry A. Miller Porsche

People need to understand the history and excitement of Formula 1, luckily this year
Formula 1 got a lot of popularity. For other people to understand Formula 1, you need to
know a lot of things like the rules and something important, teamwork. Every team needs
good teamwork, in strategies and pit stops, pit stops are too important, they need to do it as
quickly as possible.

2. The Machine features

The F1 decided to sacrifice the sound of the motors in favor of the latest drive technology,

This has been a challenge, not only for the cars and drivers, it had been difficult to
undestand for the fans, many of the dont understand how F1 cars work

A Formula 1 engine has 24 valves, 4 per cylinder: 2 intake and 2 output.

The piston goes up and down 2 times per cycle.

The cycle is 4 strokes: intake, compression, power and exhaust.

Only one of the four phases of the cycle is the one that provides the useful work: the
explosion of the fuel + air mixture.

The purpose of the movement of the pistons is to transmit torque (rotational force) to the
crankshaft.

The top speed of an F1 car is about 378km/h

3. The cost of F1

All the teams had a limit to spend money to control the budgets and promote equal
conditions, the limit to spend money is about 145,6 millions of dollars only in one season of
the f1 championship. In the limit to spend money enters any expense related to the
performance of the car (but not the engines) is relevant to the limit.

This includes:

All car parts (from steering wheel to lug nuts)

All the necessary elements for the operation of the car

Most of the team's staff

The garage equipment

spare parts

Transportation expenses

Everything else

The biggest area of focus is car development costs, with teams having to weigh what gets
developed, how much is spent on each part being made, and how many of the parts are
needed and can be afforded without overspending.

4. The races
A race usually takes at 1h 20min and 1h 35min, there may be cases of races that, due to red
or yellow flag incidents, can last up to 2 hours.

5. The pilot

Shift points in particular are a constant focus of attention for drivers. They'll do roughly 25
upshifts and another 25 downshifts around the 2,000-mile circuit in the just over 70 seconds
it takes to complete a lap, and they'll be assisted by lights on the steering wheel and a beep
in their ear to help shift for each millisecond. Baku has the most gear changes of any track
on the F1 calendar, with 70, but this is due to the long straights and the much longer-lived
pattern.

With a top speed at Monaco of just 290km/h, compared to 350km/h at Monza, the 50 gear
changes a driver makes per lap will never involve eighth gear. They do use first gear though,
which is a rarity in F1.

In a current Formula 1 car, the driver has a multifunction steering wheel that allows a limited
range of setting changes to be made while on the track, from corner to corner. However,
most setup changes need to be done in the garage.

6. Pilot Training

Like any professional sport, Formula 1 demands very specific and hard training from the
drivers who participate in the category. Some of them, like the Spaniard Carlos Sainz Junior,
Pierre Gasly and Valtteri Bottas, have told how they prepare their bodies to achieve the best
performances on race days.

7. Cardio

Cardiovascular work is practically the axis of training, as the Frenchman Gasly expressed a
couple of years ago. These types of exercises provide the resistance that is needed to
endure so many minutes of continuous efforts in the cabin.

To comply with this part of the training, the F1 drivers do swimming, cycling, running routines
and, in the case of Sainz, even triathlon. The Spanish pilot said that this is the part that he
likes least and that is why he does it first thing in the morning, on an empty stomach.

8. Strenght
In addition to cardio, F1 driver training includes strength training. These are the ones that
allow the muscles to adapt to the great physical demands involved in commanding a single-
seater at more than 300 kilometers per hour.

For these athletes, training the shoulders, arms and core is essential. These muscles are the
most demanded when moving the car's steering wheel and maintaining a stable posture
when driving.

However, leg work is also essential. As Sainz explained, this is because both strength and
resistance are needed to step on the pedals for the required time without suffering cramps or
losing precision due to fatigue.

Finally, and as strange as it may seem, pilots exercise the neck area a lot. These muscle
groups suffer the pressure of the force of 5 G or up to 6 G (force of gravity), both forwards
and backwards as well as to the sides.

9. The diet of a pilot

The diets of F1 drivers are generally rich in fruits, vegetables and cereals which promote the
release of energy. Carbohydrates are consumed before and after exercise, and when
preparing for races which helps with performance.

10. 2022 Race

In this 2022 season of the f1 Ferrari had a great starting in the tournament with Leclerc and
Sainz in the 1st and 2nd place, but the strategies ruined the races, all the season Ferrari had
bad strategies and bad luck, now the 2022 season its ending, there only left 4 races to finish,
and Red Bull destroyed this season leading the last races with Max Verstappen and a lot of
help of his teammate Checo Perez, Red Bull is 1st with a lot of difference with the 2nd place
(Ferrari) and the 3rd (Mercedes-Benz)

11. 2021 Race

The 2021 finished with Max Verstappen being champion of the world, the season started
with the typical pre-season when the teams only had 3 days to test their single-seaters on
the track, the mercedes results for the first once in a long time seemed not to be comfortable
with a bad feedback of their pilots, a lot of mechanical failures and a few laps around the
circuit
That season was very controversial and the last bars of the Bahrain Grand Prix in the track
limits Verstappen passed Hamilton outside the asphhalt and that action finished costin him
the race

In the Imola (Emilia-Romagna) GP Verstappen won his first race in the season, but the most
importan thing about the GP was seeing Lewis Hamilton being defeated and making a lot of
mistakes, something that hadnt happened for a long time, at the end of the season the final
race was crazy, with the final lap, Hamilton vs Verstappen, side tos ide, after many season
Lewis Hamilton got defeated and Verstappen won his first Championship

Lewis Hamilton its a extraordinary f1 driver, he won the championship 7 times equaling
Schumacher, getting a place in the history of the f1, he equaled in the 2020 michael
Schumacher as the most successful of all time and he did it adding statistics that seemed
unattainable a few years ago

The combination that formed with Mercedes is unbeatable, Hamilton has already marked an
Era and the historical records he has broken in recent years are proof of that, in 2017 after
surpassing the 68 poles of Schumacher had achieved in his 19 seasons and since then
Hamilton raised it to almost 100, theres no one in the history who has won more different
circuits than him, this underlines the absolute dominance of the single-seater mercedes in all
types of layout and their perfect adaptation to the car

12. The dangerous side of F1

The  Nürburgring GP

By the number of fatalities, the Nürburgring in Germany. This is a very long track that makes
it difficult to place running quarterbacks all the way down the track. This also makes it
difficult to remove crashed cars and debris and get drivers out of vehicles in a timely
manner. Since its construction in 1927, the Nordschleife has earned a reputation as one of
the most feared and difficult circuits to drive. Formula 1 driver Jackie Stewart, after having
been world champion three times (1969, 1971 and 1973) was so impressed by the circuit
that he gave it the nickname by which it is currently known: Green Hell (Grüne Hölle) .

Another dangerous thing about f1 is that when the pilots are driving, they are driving at 50 ºC

"God kept his hand on Formula 1 for a long time. At the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix he
withdrew it." These words from the mouth of the great Niki Lauda only confirmed what had
undoubtedly been a sad weekend for Formula 1, marked by the serious accident suffered by
the Brazilian driver Rubens Barrichelo already on Friday in free practice and for the
subsequent death of Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger on Saturday during qualifying.

Then, in the race on Sunday, the great Ayrton Senna also lost his life in this fateful Grand
Prix. It is said that he did not want to run after what happened over the weekend, he had a
bad feeling that unfortunately came true. Finally, he took the start, and shortly after he lost
control of his car crashing in the fastest corner of the Imola Circuit ("Curva Tamburello")
whose only protection was a concrete wall. Other incidents also occurred during the
weekend, in which another of the drivers lost a tire that was thrown, hitting several people in
the pit lane.

That Grand Prix marked a before and after in terms of safety measures for motorsports.
Although security measures had evolved since the beginnings of Formula 1 in the 1950s,
without a doubt, that weekend in 1994 marked a milestone in terms of security. From then
on, greater awareness was raised and security was reinforced at different levels, security
that has shown advanced technology in order to protect the life of the pilot.

Increasingly, the FIA and the different teams are committed to investing in safety measures
at the track level, marshals, spectators, as well as in improving the driver's personal
protective equipment. With all this, although the risks of accidents in this category have been
considerably reduced thanks to technological advances in safety, the memory of the death of
the driver Jules Bianchien 2015 when he crashed into a crane during the Grand Prix of
Japan, which was carrying out maneuvers to remove another pilot's car from the sand. Also,
from this Grand Prix, the FIA prohibited the permanence in zones with danger of cranes for
the removal of vehicles and the figure of the Virtual Safety Car (VSC) was created, which
reduces the speed of all drivers when there is a possible danger on the track that does not
require the start of the safety car (SC) due to its brevity. Also from this date, the
implementation of the famous HALO for impact protection, which I will refer to later, was
accelerated. So, as we can see, safety is a permanent subject for Formula 1, betting on
improving safety.

13. Worst Crashes

One of the most terrible crashes is in the racing at the San Marino Grand Prix, reminiscent of
the deaths of two Formula One drivers. First, Roland Ratzenberger was racing at his second
qualifying session with a Simtek-Ford when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into
the barriers. The speed was estimated at around 195.7 mph and made the front wheel
penetrate the cockpit.

The 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was going to be the last racing competition for Michael
Schumacher. Vitantonio Liuzzi hit his car and Schumacher was very lucky to still have his
head on after the race. The Liuzzi's car passed very close to Schumacher's cockpit, and the
German racing driver was saved from a fatal accident. Both drivers were taken to the
medical center for a precautionary check

On 5 October 2014, during the Japanese Grand Prix, Bianchi lost control of his Marussia in
very wet conditions and collided with a recovery vehicle, suffering a diffuse axonal injury. He
underwent emergency surgery and was placed into an induced coma, and remained
comatose until his death on 17 July 2015.

14. Conclusion
Recapitulating, the F1 its a sport with pros and cons, and it could cost the life of the driver
due for the high velocity of the car and the high temperature, its a sport with a lot of history
and a very expensive tournament where only luxury brands race in the F1, because join in
the tournament costs a fortune, and the emotion of the F1 its in another level, the crashes,
the battles at high velocity, and a lot of good things that F1 have, its a beautiful sport, and if
someone wants to be a pilot, he needs to be informed about the risks of being one, and a lot
of exercise, more than a soccer player.

The good side about beeing an F1 driver is only if you like drive at high speeds, this would
be your dream job, but the opposite site its that there is a high level of death and a lot of
crashes in the F1 history, and the risk is high, but doing this job would give you a lot of fame
and luxury, only with a really hard work.

The good side about the F1 tournament its the emotion, the passion and a lot of other
emotions in the race, there is no bad things about F1 tournament when you are a spectator,
you only see the race and enjoy, except when you are from a one team in the F1,for
example, if you support Ferrari, most of the time you will be furious.

The formula 1 its not a team work at all, because all the people think that the driver its the
most important, and in my opinión i think the same, because without the driver there wouldnt
be the face that takes everyone's work to a place in the drawer. The pilots are selfish,
because they only got rewarded, and the trophy of constructors for the mechanics and the
staff dont have a recgonizment like the trophy of the drivers.