What are the differences between a normal car and a Formula One car?

Answer 1

Essentially F1 car brakes are the same as on your road car, they are discs clamped hydraulically by calipers which squeeze brake pads onto the rotating disc surface. The driver pushes the brake pedal which forces a piston in and pushes brake fluid down the brake pipes to the caliper where the larger surface area of the pistons there creates a hydraulic leverage effect whereby a large movement by the driver is converted to a small but powerful movement in the brake calipers. The main difference with F1 brakes is the materials used for the friction material and calipers. The discs and pads are made of carbon reinforced carbon which can cope with massive temperatures without fading and produce huge amounts of friction to slow the car down. The pistons in the caliper are made from titanium because its strong and resists heat well as well as having low heat conduction properties that stop the heat boiling the brake fluid. Modern F1 cars use 4 or 6 piston calipers at the front, the discs are suprisingly small at 278mm diameter, which is smaller than many road cars. This is not suprising though when you consider they are made from cheaper materials and have to stop 4 or 5 times the weight, albeit from slower speeds less frequently. Interestingly F1 brakes take some time to bite after the pedal is pressed. This is because the carbon needs to heat up before it displays good friction properties. This takes 1/10th of a second where the driver feels little retardation while the brakes heat up, once they do its like hitting a wall as the brakes reach 1000's degrees and stop the 500kg cars with 4g or more of deceleration.

Answer 2

Formula 1 cars use tires called slicks. Likewise, Drag racing cars use slicks, and NASCAR uses slicks as well, the tires are just of different sizes. The difference between slicks and normal tires is vast. Slicks are soft rubber tires, with no tread. At first, this can be dangerous, as your tires have no traction, or they are "Slick". However after a few laps around the track, or after a long burnout (Drag racing) the slicks heat up, and become sticky, they stick to the track in hot conditions far better than conventional tires. Slicks stay warm all race long after that. Conventional tires are composed of many different layers of rubber and metal mesh, these layers are considered a "ply". If you have a truck with 8 ply tires, they have 8 layers of rubber and metal mesh in the tread. The higher ply, the better for hauling a load. The issue with using normal tires for racing is: One, normal tread tires are designed to grip the road to a point, but they will easily lose traction under a lot of power, especially with the amount of torque and horsepower a race car puts out. Two, normal tires aren't meant for high speeds. Slicks are meant for high speed, based on the speed rating. So at high speeds, normal tires can disintegrate.

Answer 3

A Normal Car engine is built to last for years whereas the F1 car engine is built only to last 2 races. Almost all the parts of a F1 car engine are replaced at the end of the 2 races excepting the engine casing/frame whereas a normal car engine remains the same for years. A normal car engine revs at around 6000 or at max around 10000 rpm whereas Formula One car engines have been known to rev around over 19000 rpm.

Answer 4

You can drive F1 cars in approved f1 race tracks and circuits only. These cars are not designed to be driven in normal roads. You can try participating in driver development programs or road shows organized by F1 racing teams and if you are lucky you may get to drive one.

Answer 5

formula one brakes are more sharp as they are made for srtopping quck and slow in case.

Answer 6

the racing car tires is better then the car tires

Answer 7

Carbon Ceramic Disk brakes