Inside F1: Life alongside legends

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Kylie Minogue and Terry Crews pose for a star-stunned selfie in the Red Bull garage before the race on Saturday night We're not going to produce an F1 champion potentially in season one. Because this is about creating role models. It's about investing in these drivers and giving them opportunity. And you can't overnight kind of just turn that into an F1 driver. The transmission is a semi-automatic sequential gearbox with eight forward gears and one reverse gear. Formula 1 cars are the fastest and most advanced racing cars in the world. Some of the most talented talented and innovative people in motorsport make them.The skills that you do take through is things like braking, your racing lines, and throttle application. They're the three kind of big things. And then also the racecraft, the racecraft is like nothing else in racing in a go-kart. And 1,000 per cent karting is key to getting more getting a female to Formula One, I think. THE SHARPE END: Jeremy Doku stars for Man City in 1-1 draw with Liverpool as the Belgian completes more dribbles than any other player under Pep Guardiola... but Trent Alexander-Arnold gets the last laugh! A turbocharger is a device that uses exhaust gases to spin a compressor that feeds more air and fuel into the engine’s cylinders. This increases the power and efficiency of the engine2. The height of F1 cars cannot exceed 95 cm as per the latest rules. This regulation was introduced by the FIA in 2022 and made cars lower than ever before.

Thankfully, though - for both the fans and those in charge - it was firmly uphill from there. Friday's practice session went without a hitch, and qualifying shortly after saw Max Verstappen put himself third on the grid. Formula 1 is a loud, thrilling battle between the world’s best drivers in the world’s most advanced racing cars — and good drivers win the races. As it was, even with its longer stroke and more conservative aspirations for revs, the V10 experienced cam torsional problems that taxed the team early in the engine’s life, resulting in, amongst other things, the need for additional ‘de-coupling’ devices for the camshafts to reduce the vibration amplitude. The specially designed tires supplied by Pirelli, which have different compounds and colors for different levels of grip and durability.

Motorsport isn't segregated. Women race against men. It's one of the three sports in the world which isn't segregated, alongside sailing, obviously involves quite a big boat; horseriding or jumping involves a big animal; and motorsport, which involves a big car. And I think Formula One, generally motorsport, has fundamentally always been seen as very male dominated. It is to a certain extent still very male dominated. Formula One cars use hybrid engines. These combine a 1.6 liter turbocharged V6 internal combustion engine (ICE) with two electric motor-generator units (MGU). Carey’s vision is to transform F1 from a motorsport company first and foremost to an entertainment brand. He talks of making each race a spectacle on a par with the Super Bowl or a heavyweight boxing match in Las Vegas – a multi-day celebration that takes over the host city and appeals to casual fans as well as committed supporters. He wants to simplify the cars, make racing more competitive and turn all drivers – not just household names like Hamilton, Vettel and Fernando Alonso - into superstars.

I'm Abbi Pulling. I'm an Alpine Academy driver racing for Rodin Carlin this year in the F1 Academy. I got into racing through my dad, actually. He raced long-circuit motorbikes, endurance. So a little bit different to what I'm doing, I'm on four wheels instead of two. Formula One, also known as F1, is a sport that has captivated motorsport enthusiasts around the world. With its high-speed action, cutting-edge technology, and incredible engineering feats, it is no wonder why F1 has gained such a dedicated following. So we're looking for lean muscle. But they have to have a core strength. They have to have strong arms. With these, and other more advanced developments, under its belt Cosworth set 20,000rpm as the number one target for its new V8 engine – the CA. Going to the largest permissible bore meant a shorter stroke, which would help achieve these revs, but it would also mean a larger and logically heavier piston. But this was an area where Cosworth had developed its understanding greatly in previous years. Cosworth’s last V10 engine was the TJ, introduced with Jaguar Racing in 2003. It replaced the LK, the engine that gave Giancarlo Fisichella his win at Brazil that year with Jordan Grand Prix. Following significant developments, the TJ (itself a 90-degree V10) included many of the elements that would have allowed Cosworth to simplify its transition to V8. However, the FIA had decreed other requirements too, including a minimum crank axis and centre of gravity height. With this in mind, and with progress it had made on combustion and piston design, Cosworth decided to take the opportunity of the rule change to produce a completely new engine. The TJ had not taken full advantage of the rules on bore diameter, falling short of the maximum at only 95mm. So, during its development, the company experimented with various bore sizes but, as the aspect ratio of the combustion chamber changed with increasing bore size, the combustion processes suffered. Since then, much work has been done on single-cylinder test engines to develop mixture preparation, combustion chamber and injector design to make the larger bore size effective.Biggin Hill might well be a name you have heard before, as the airport — perfect for private flights in the past — has long been the location of another F1 facility. But that facility has been evolving at some pace in the past 12 months. In a season that has so often been too predictable, the Red Bulls away from the front row was a welcome sight for most. Lewis Hamilton, meanwhile, was 11th, Lando Norris was down in 16th... and the sole American, Logan Sargeant, was a nosebleed-inducing seventh. Verstappen started the weekend slating the Vegas race, but later admitted he can't wait to return to Sin City next year Rorke ends with a “soft closer” – pans of the crowd, slow-motion shots of Hamilton crossing the line and the winners spraying champagne. With that, the live show is complete.

So they already have to withstand a lot of pressure. When you add to that a female driver is going to attract far more attention, potentially far more criticism, then that requires, again, another level of determination. And that's what I think our drivers have. And I see it in them. Once inside, though, you start to get the picture of the facility that was all rebuilt at remarkable speed following the end of last year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, to be ready for the new season. The safety car comes out and Rorke selects shots of Grosjean and Hulkenberg walking away from their cars before rolling with a replay of the incident with some team radio from Grosjean: “Oh mate, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” Rodin Carlin is quite a well-established team. It's one of the top junior teams in the world. We kind of pride ourselves on forming the ladder. Basically we're taking drivers from karting to the door of Formula One. A few noticeable names that have passed through our doors would be Sebastian Vettel, Daniel Ricciardo, Carlos Sainz Jr, more recently Lando Norris and Logan Sargeant. All F1 V8s use a flat-plane crank, which produces its own vibration signature, known to be more severe on components than a V10. With this in mind, special attention was given to stiffness throughout the engine and nowhere did it have a bigger influence on design than the cylinder heads.According to the book Britain’s Winning Formula, the term “Grand Prix” has been used for high-level motor-racing since 1901, and European racing used to be organised by a body called the AIACR. World War 2 stopped that, though, and a new organisation called the FIA was created to rebuild racing after the hostilities. By 1946, the FIA was planning a world championship —and by 1950, Formula 1 was ready to start, according to the book Formula 1: All The Races. Formula One cars use specially designed tires supplied by Pirelli, the sole tire manufacturer for the championship.