From an anatomist’s point of view, a Formula 1 car is made up of no less than 20 000 parts. Once assembled together, these embody a concept, a vision that was initiated very much upstream. “From the conceptual work to the finished product, making an F1 car takes more than a year, 14 months plus. It depends very much on how much you are changing the major concepts”, Renault’s chassis technical director Nick Chester told F1i. Before putting together all the pieces in the puzzle, F1 teams must define the main technical orientations that will drive the car’s design. In order to do so, engineers tend to use the current-spec machine as a starting point. “When you have a period with...
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