Understanding Formula 1: a series of videos by the BMW Sauber F1 Team

BMW Sauber F1

Formula One is a seriously expensive sport but it’s really hard to visualize how expensive it really is by just looking at the race cars battling it out on the circuits. There’s a tremendous amount of hard work, time and money put into the development of Formula One cars, and to even begin to grasp the idea of how much equipment and etc it takes, you will have to take a stroll behind the scenes to check out the development and manufacturing of the car. Look after the jump for a series of videos released by the BMW Sauber F1 Team called “Understanding Formula 1”. It looks like there are plenty more to come but these are the few released so far, so please enjoy!

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Paul Tan

After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history.

 

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  • 1st~~~~!

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  • bLo0d on Mar 03, 2009 at 10:35 am

    owh nice n very informative~ (first~!!!)

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  • wah

    too many videos

    n i have no time to watch them

    now i really believe how expensive n how hard to engineered the F1 by the amount of the video shown here

    hah

    malas gle nk tgk satu persatu, adoi!~

    :p

    btw nice commitment here paul

    :D

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  • Mojave on Mar 03, 2009 at 11:20 am

    It's hard to imagine that these people spent millions to develop/maintain car just for racing. Just imagine how F1 engines can only last for three race weekend (about 2,500km) and remember the price of these engines are more expensive than most car on the road. Also, they have 700 engineers to maintain just two cars.

    F1 is awesome. High-tech, incredible speed, lot of fun stuff to watch and to learn.

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  • dr_farnz on Mar 03, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    Let those who always ask why F1 tickets is do damned expensive know the answer.

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  • driven the current polo for three yrs when i was in china. consider "solid" for budget car like this (it cost just RM55k there but double over here). agree what paul said, this new polo look much better as it gives "man" taste than the previous one.

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  • bmpower on Mar 03, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    for me.. all the restriction & regulation is just to make ferrari win …

    :P

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  • layman on Mar 03, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    [quote comment="216897"]for me.. all the restriction & regulation is just to make ferrari win …

    :P[/quote]

    Could not agree with you more, that is why I support all the teams except ferrari.

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  • Mojave on Mar 03, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    [quote comment="216901"][quote comment="216897"]for me.. all the restriction & regulation is just to make ferrari win …

    :P[/quote]

    Could not agree with you more, that is why I support all the teams except ferrari.[/quote]

    Nonsense. There are some cases which stewards were bias toward ferrari but none of the regulation made to help Ferrari win.

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  • osh_kosh on Mar 03, 2009 at 9:16 pm

    [quote comment="216918"][quote comment="216901"][quote comment="216897"]for me.. all the restriction & regulation is just to make ferrari win …

    :P[/quote]

    Could not agree with you more, that is why I support all the teams except ferrari.[/quote]

    Nonsense. There are some cases which stewards were bias toward ferrari but none of the regulation made to help Ferrari win.[/quote]

    agreed… at least Ferrari don't need Toyota's driver to win championship.. LOL

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  • shan0025 on Mar 04, 2009 at 2:25 am

    proton…high time for you to enter f1 as well…show us what you have.

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  • Benjo on Mar 04, 2009 at 3:41 am

    [quote comment="216972"]proton…high time for you to enter f1 as well…show us what you have.[/quote]

    hhaha..proton can't even produce thier "own" engine,not even their so called campro is malaysian R&D'ed ..,you are talkin about F1???!!do you thik they are capable??

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  • Of course Campro engines in Proton are engineered by Proton Engineers. The Satria Neo is a pace car in one race in Australia. Soon a Satria Neo S2000 will feature in rallies in Euope… that is the way to go for proton.. just like Subaru and Mitsu.

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  • James on Mar 04, 2009 at 5:45 pm

    What a fantastic place to work! clean workshop, all the best gear, nice spacious rooms. Oh is great!

    If you put economy factor into F1, then it is always a loss. However, the R&D done by these people translate to performance machines like the BMW M-series. Moreover, the passion of winning is one that has more meaning than $$$ of profit in your pocket.

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  • micheal on Mar 04, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    i hope this year bmw can win… they start to excel better in every season they entered since bmw joined sauber petronas…

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  • osh_kosh on Mar 05, 2009 at 10:30 am

    bmw can win races this season, no doubt… but win championship I'm not so sure… still need to see how's everyone sort out in the grid & that can take up to 1/2 of the season races to get the true picture… so still a gamble… & that if u rule out the "all the restriction & regulation is just to make ferrari win" talk.. LOL

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