FORMULA ONE (F1)

For New Fans

The History of Formula One

The history of Formula One goes much deeper than the official start of the championship we know and love today to get a sense of what Formula one is that it route and makes the most sense to break down the name but to do that we have to go back in time single seater racing had been taking place throughout the 1900s and as technology was advancing so were the risks elit racing series and events began to spring up as automobiles got quicker and drivers wanted to go faster one of the original elite racing series was the European driver’s championship which held its first season in 1931.

The governing body that supervised some of the most popular racing events began to impose strict regulations on competitive events like the size of the car engine power and even the way the cars ensure safe race conditions but this was also a way to mitigate any unfair advantages that were being lever ged by those who could innovate significantly faster than the field for instance that first European drivers championship imposed many regulations like a minimum car weight of 900 kilograms.

These early regulations were in line with what was called Formula Libre regulations and its widely considered the oldest sanctioned formula recognized in Motorsports that’s where the named Formula comes from there lies the root of the entire series but just as things were picking up global Motorsport was interrupted by an armed conflict a second world war later and Europe was ready to race again but to distinguish the top level formula cars from the rest of the racing events for me the regulations were formed in 1946 by the official governing body the FIA.

The race beginning that same year that’s not the only set of regulation that were codified formula 2 regular were formed by the FIA in 1948 and was limited to two liter 750 CC supercharged engine just a couple of years after that and the even smaller engine was officially designated for Formula three by the FAA with 500cc engines powering.

This formula because of the advanced engineering required to complete in the top formula teams struggled to feel the car in the premier category and formula two rules were even used for a couple of seasons in the early days of the championship this dynamic exist still today but has morphed into the series under former the.

One acts as a feeder series where younger drivers can prove that they can be successful. Formula one but by the mid-1950s the championship was more steady and teams began to consistently compete in Formula One through to 1950s there was only one championship that recognizes the driver who placed the highest for each Grand Prix finished they were given an allotment of points that we conclude with the crowing of the driver with the most points as Formula One champion.

Now that teams could build race cars that could make it through the season, they could field more than one car it would take until the end of the 1950s but the FFA designated a second championship that was technically separated from the driver’s championship it was designed to reward the team with the most points as the winning team or the winning constructor this the constructor’s championship was born and the inaugural champion was Randall crowned in 1958.

so now that we’ve talked about the history of Formula One and how it began let’s fast forward to the modern-day for me the 1 f1 is big business the FFA is much larger than just simply the Formula One world championships that have always been true and remain true today for instance here’s a list of other sanction world championship events under the FIA umbrella and while the FFA is the governing body F1 is owned by the Formula One Group just recently in 2006.

Liberty Media bought the controlling interest for billions of dollars so if you hear the name Liberty they are the American company that owns the underlying rights you can even go and buy yourself a piece of it at the Nasdaq under the ticker F wall like I said big business alongside Formula One in the group’s business portfolio is the Atlanta Braves baseball teams and Sirius XM oftentimes major changes to the sport are a reflection of the larger picture shifting this is all relevant to new fans or a long team fans not privy to the shifting business side of F1 if you ever feel like there’s an invisible hand.

 There are inter names liberty media teams tech drivers and cars of the see2020 season the grid will be made up of ten teams over e years there’s been an ebb and flow of the number of teams on the grid each team or constructor field two cars according to the rules each constructor must produce a chassis to which they own the underlying IP and develop themselves just a kind of alluded way today they built it just as we discussed the history of Formula One and that liber Formula One regulation there still exist limitations on power now more than even many of the technical advancements are being mentioned and while of course we’re not going to go over every single rule that the FFA has put forth full Formula one racing.

I will link to it down in the description below feel to head to that link grab it download it to use it throughout the season because these regulations do change and they do matter something that is understood widely but never actually mentioned is some of the best innovations truly come from finding gaps.

In these regulations that have not been covered yet to put ascetically finding loopholes is the job of the technical directors of F1 teams a great example of this played out recently with the Mercedesdual access steering mechanism or simply as the FIA deemed it would be allowed for this season and the loophole was closed making dual access steering is unavailable beyond 2020 but let’s go back to the chassis while each team must produce one the rules do allow for each team to purchase an engine technically these are referred to as power units.

Due to the multiple sources of power flow that release an incredibly high amount of rake horsepower over the years, there have been major changes to technical rules that go as far as to change the type of engine used by each team in the final year of what is called the turbo hybrid era and there are many eras.

That represents the type of engine being used mostly and while these names aren’t technically designated officially they’ve become known as such this era began in 2014 due to the introduction of the 1.6 Liter turbocharged v6 was accompanied by the energy recovery system or simple y era which supplies extra BPH through electric motors because the Internet combustion engine is supplying power to the car in conjunction with the ers supply.

This is now why you’ll hear power units being used instead of engines in terms of power and tech we are going to stop there if you’re sitting there thinking oh that sounded confusing well that’s because it is you’re not crazy and it’s wildly expensive to be able to successfully develop these power units it takes experience resources and heaps of cash but if you get it right it’s precisely the kind of advantage that leads to teams dominating these quote-unquote eras.

If you’ve looked through the record books you’ll notice that a driver or team will go through spells where they are dominant and then sometimes out of nowhere they fall off to put simply this isn’t always true but more times than not they didn’t adapt well to the new regulations in the last decade.

Only two teams one that constructors championship and just three different drivers won the driver’s championship Red Bull Sebastian Vettel dominated from 2010 to 2013 with their design then the regulations change in 2014 and Mercedes unleashed their powerhouse row unit overall