If you've ever seen a steering wheel from a Formula 1 car before, you'll just how wildly complex they are. Covered in buttons, rotary dials, switches, paddles, lights, and often, a big screen, it's a ...
One would think that driving a Formula One car is both fun and thrilling – among a multitude of attributes, of course. And it's not like we're going to argue that, as we feel the same way. It's just ...
Modern Formula 1 steering wheels are more complicated than the U.S. tax code. Operating all the buttons and switches while navigating a race course is like conducting an orchestra, except that ...
If you are a fan of Formula One racing who has watched for a long time, you have seen the evolution of an unlikely bit of racing tech—the steering wheel. Long gone are the days where the steering ...
Before you can even think about getting behind the wheel of an F1 car, you’ve got to know how it works. The wheel, that is. And it’s far more complicated than it seems. There are different buttons for ...
The modern Formula 1 car is among the most amazing machines ever made. And when you're going wheel-to-wheel with someone like four-time world champ Sebastian Vettel at 180 mph, you can't take a hand ...
Looking more like a games console controller than a traditional steering wheel, it now controls so much more than just the direction in which the tyres point. The introduction of the V6 hybrid engines ...
In the preceding post, The Drive’s Guides & Gear team broke down a lot of what a Formula One steering wheel does. We talked about every button, knob, rotary, paddle, light, and screen, what they do, ...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aphrHIAI1JY&w=640&h=390] F1 racing has long been a technology battle, and while the driver is an important component, his role ...