If you’ve ever wondered what a Formula 1 car will look like in 10 years or so, well, here’s a hypothetical take on things, courtesy of the folks at F1 Racing magazine.
The mag teamed up with Renault F1 chief designer Pat Symonds and came up with an artistic take on what a F1 car of 2020 will look like and how it will perform, in an article in Issue 179. According to Symonds, low-profile tyres on bigger wheels, the return of ground effects aerodynamics, Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) that produce 250 hp and a standard, non-downforce rear wing will all be standard components.
“Taking into consideration all the variant motivators that drive regulations, I expect that the F1 car of 2020 will demonstrate much more change than has been seen over the past 10 years,” Symonds said, adding that “the illustrations we’ve produced are certainly an artistic impression, but they capture the essential characteristics of a car that will be contesting the Formula 1 World Championship in 2020.”
“A few simple assumptions can determine the basic architecture of the car,” he explained. “By the time we add a few changes, such as larger wheels and low-profile tyres, we start to get a fairly clear picture of what the car might look like.” The results take into account the likelihood of future rules on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, but assume that F1 will remain an open-wheel, open-cockpit formula.
F1 teams have already been instructed to reduce their fuel consumption by 35% in future generations of racing cars, while a more environmentally-friendly 1.6 litre turbo engine will be introduced for the 2013 season.
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still on wheels ? ? i thought it can fly.. @.@”
Remember back to the future 2?
The year they went is 2015…and there’s a lot of flying cars…air highway and so on…
but now we are already 2011…4 years left… haha.. still no flying car
Remember back to the future 2?
The year they went is 2015
But now is 2011…still no flying cars yet hehehe
It should go with No carbon fuel…
that good..electric from solar maybe..
A new “F1” racing tornament should be formed. The rules will be that there is no limitation or constraint. The only rule is, design the best & fastest car. No silly “non-downforce rear wing or front wing & etc…)
Go back to the original spirit of F1, the best team with the fastest car win!!
Who want to watch this???? I certainly will !!!
The current F1 format is too boring lol
last year season not boring at all
welcome to electric F1 car in 2020 :D
silence race..
wanna BET?
a bet they will use methanol or ethanol like Indycar in 2020
2020 should not have driver!
Theophilus Chin idea?
I always dream to drive a F1 car since I was a child, and made my country proud, I guess my dream will never come true at all :-(
can.. go buy Lotus T125 and bring it to weekend track day at Sepang Circuit.
Fantastic idea, mate. I’ll buy, but your wallet will get the pain of the life time, how’s that? Anyway, I dunno about you, but I don’t think millions of RM can fit in your wallet, so it must be another way, and that is, NO WAY
I wish the premier car racing format is something like the WTCC. I want to see racing cars resembling every day real cars instead of this airplanes. That will be more fun to see racing cars which sort of resemble what you could buy on the road.
Win on Sunday, Sells on Monday!
u just mention it…WTCC is premier of touring car, F1 is premier open wheel racing n WRC is premier for rallying…F1 regard as premier racing level bcoz of exposure(popularity, promotion, tv coverage), cost n physical demand that what i think
if you want “something like WTCC”, go watch WTCC lar. If you want something like rally, go watch rally. Every racing series want to be unique and special, if “something” is just like everything else, then it’s not special anymore. F1 race race cars is an open wheel car and it will and should always be.
It should only be powered by deep-fried cooking oil and use a 1.2L turbocharge and supercharge engine
what’s up with “non-downforce” rear wing? why bother having wing if it’s not for downforce?
to the untrained eye like mine, there is almost no difference from the current car… wth..
F1 in future will have high-line and base-line variant.. base-line no rear spoiler, since it doesnt serve aero benefit, just purely cosmetic.. heh heh..
Looks like the current GP2 cars. Too basic and simple.